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The Thesis WordPress Theme – Perfect For Beginners and Experts Alike

By Randy R on November 6, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

The Thesis WordPress Theme – Perfect For Beginners and Experts Alike

Almost anyone who has ever set up a blog or tried to design a website will probably have used WordPress at some time or other. It’s one of the most powerful, and popular, pieces of software to be found on the internet today.

Most people think that it’s just useful for blogs and they do little more than install a copy and add some content. However, if you search around the internet you will soon discover that WordPress can do much more than just act as a blogging platform. Its great popularity comes from its customizability thanks to the huge number of plug-ins and widgets that you can download for free. These add-ons enable you to configure WordPress for almost any kind of website from simple sales pages to complete e-commerce stores complete with payment gateways and so on.

Its other great feature is the ability to change the look of your website at the touch of a button using templates, or as they are referred to in WordPress circles, themes. Some themes offer little more than a change of colour or some extra graphics, but the better ones enable complete customisation of your website, right down to individual page level. Using such a template can really make your website seem individual and make it stick out from the crowd.

One of the best themes in terms of the level of customisation it offers is the Thesis WordPress Theme by DIYThemes.com. This amazing template enables people with little or no web coding skills to completely customise the look and feel of their WordPress installation. Non-techies can adjust a whole range of parameters from right inside the WordPress control panel itself without ever changing a line of code.

There are 3 different ways to alter the look and feel of the Thesis them. These are listed under 3 menu options named Thesis Options, Design options and Custom File Editor from inside the control panel. The Thesis Options menu allow you to change things such as the layout of your navigation menus, add analytics and stats tracking code and gives you a fine degree of control over the display by tuning the headers, the posts, comments, sidebars and even tags that are used. The next menu option covers the design aspects of the Thesis theme. Here you have a bewildering range of choices that allow you to change the colours and fonts of every part of the site individually. You can have a feature box, a multimedia box for displaying video and even drop in a custom stylesheet if you have one.

Finally, you have the custom file editor. This utility allows even the most hardcore technical wizard full control over every aspect of the themes design. There is literally nothing that you cannot customise as long as you are familiar with WordPress and PHP.

The Thesis Theme is amazingly versatile, as can be seen by some of the showcase blogs that are demonstrated on its homepage. If you are en expert you can play about with it to your hearts desire but if, like most of us, you never want to see a line of code, then you can still change almost every aspect of the design. You can really allow your creative juices to flow without your getting your hands dirty, making the Thesis WordPress Theme one of the best available on the market.

Three Things That Separate Successful Blogs from Unsuccessful Blogs

By Randy R on September 26, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Three Things That Separate Successful Blogs from Unsuccessful Blogs

With thousands of blogs being started each and everyday you can bet that there are lots of successful blogs and then even more unsuccessful blogs. If you want to stand out from the crowd and have a chance at becoming the next successful blogger then you’ll need to make sure you follow the below tips. All bloggers that are successful share many common traits and if you want to be like them then you need to start acting like them when it comes to blogging. I will now discuss how you can work on separating yourself from the unsuccessful blogs and working your way up to becoming successful.

In order to achieve rank of successful blogger you will need to be able to display the ability to constantly post useful informative posts on a regular basis. Typically you’ll need to post once a day and you need to make sure that the post has value in order to become a successful blogger. Many bloggers fall in the content department and it’s a shame because content is the absolute most important thing to make sure is up to par. Without solid informative content you want have many return visitors as they will not need to return to your blog if there isn’t good information. Ideally you should at least thirty minutes writing a nice blog post each day that will not only be educational but also make for conversation with your readers. The more you can interact with your readers in your blog posts, the most comments you’ll notice which is great for a blog.

Apart from content successful bloggers also always have a nice custom theme that sets them apart from the rest of the bloggers. A unique theme can stick in people’s minds and therefore make them remember your site easier. WordPress themes can be bought for roughly $100-$200 and you can basically get any type of theme for that price which is an amazing deal considering you’ll now have a unique presence on your blog and people will be able to remember you more.

The final thing successful bloggers have over the rest of the crowd is the fact that they have the motivation to work and make their blogs better. It takes hours upon hours of work to make a blog even close to successful and if you don’t put in the labour then you’ll never end up with a successful blog. You need to be willing to write everyday, build links and do a lot more throughout being an owner of a blog. IF you thought becoming a successful blogger would be simple then you should definitely rethink your decision because it’s one of the hardest things to do. There are many other things that will determine a successful blog over an unsuccessful blog but if you don’t meet the above then you still have work to do before considering how else to become better.

Why You Should Start a Membership Website

By Randy Roedl on July 24, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, affiliate marketing, article directory, article plugin, article themes, Blog Business, Blog Platform, Blog Posting, blogging, Blogs, Conversion, Domains, Free Reports, Google Adsense, Membership sites, Mobil Blogging, New Blogging, SEO, Themes, Traffic, Web Design, Websites, widgets, wordpress, World Internet Summit, Wp Headers, Wp Themes, Youtube Video

Why You Should Start a Membership Website

Membership websites have been around since the internet began and they’ve always been very popular forms of revenue for webmasters. There are many reasons why you would benefit from starting your own membership website and we’re going to look at some of those reasons today. Membership websites are now more popular then ever due to software programs coming out that makes setting up a membership website a breeze. There are also over a dozen payment processors to choose from to process your member’s payments which help make things easy.

Basically you’ll be required to set-up your website and then from there you’ll only need to promote it and add updates. There are many choices you need to make when you’re setting up the website in the early stages. You’ll need to decide what you want to offer in the member’s area, and you should be using more then one type of content in your member’s area. For instance if you have a webmaster membership website you should have articles, reports, eBook, software, templates and anything else you can think of. People like seeing lots of options in the member’s area, even though they won’t use most of it they like knowing that you offer enough value for the money. Once you’ve chosen what’s going to be in your member’s area you need to get it done and add it in. You also need to set-up your payment processor and decide whether it will be monthly, yearly or one-off payment. This is strictly preference and you can choose what you want, but generally you should choose monthly.

With monthly recurring payments you’ll be making a stable income from your membership website and this is the goal. There is no point marketing your membership website and then selling one-off payments because then once the crowd joins you won’t make anymore money and you’ll still need to update it. I would go with monthly recurring payments and make sure you offer enough weekly updates so that your clients want to stay a member.

Once you have a membership website with members and recurring payments rolling in you’ll only need to work on updates for the website. This could be outsourced at this point in time since you’ll be making good money and then it’s on complete auto-pilot. You won’t need to do anything except whatever promotions you want to do, and whatever communication you want to make with the members. You should play a role in the communication because people like to talk with the owner and many people will also have questions. You should just make a forum and that will make it very easy for everyone to communicate.

Become an Active Member in the Blogosphere

By Randy R on February 19, 2011 in !Randy Roedl Internet Marketing, Blog Business, wordpress, Wp Headers, Wp Themes

Become an Active Member in the Blogosphere

You’d actually probably be surprised but if you’re an active member in the blogosphere then it will bring you countless amounts of free traffic, and can make your blog more mainstream. There are tons of blogs created and many more created on a daily basis and you need to make sure that if you plan on blogging that you make yourself stand out from the crowd. There are tons of social networking sites for bloggers that can help create a name for yourself and your blog, and the more time you spend on working on networking the better results you’ll see.

Don’t expect to get thousands of visitors overnight from a couple conversations, but over time if you consistently use the social networking sites for bloggers then you can gain a following of people, especially if your blog is half-decent. Twitter is probably the most popular network for bloggers right now and it allows bloggers to follow the daily internet lives of other bloggers. Anyone can use the site though and you don’t need to be a blogger which means that many blog readers also use the site to follow the popular bloggers. If you make yourself noticeable on Twitter then chances are more and more people will begin to follow you which simply means they can see whenever you post something new to Twitter.

This means you can post a new blog post and then notify everyone on your Twitter about it within seconds which will help gain you a readership. If your knowledge is useful and not just regurgitated nonsense then you will stand a much better shot at retaining the readers that come from the social networking sites.

Another way to become active in the blogosphere to benefit your blog is by commenting regularly on different blogs. I always make sure I comment on certain blogs, as then you begin to gain a friendship with the other blogger which can be great for your blog. This can lead into link exchanges, blog post exchanges and even traffic exchanges through numerous methods. The possibilities are endless and the fact is most bloggers like networking with other bloggers to help each other out. All you need to do is make yourself noticeable by commenting on blogs, and obviously you might not be noticed on a blog with hundreds of comments a day but if you comment on semi popular blogs you can become noticed quickly.

You can also link to other blogs in your blog posts and they will then notice that they’ve been linked to from your blog. This could end up getting you a link in return and depending on which blog links you back it could bring in huge amounts of traffic.

Your best friends are other bloggers when you’re a blogger yourself so make sure you remember that and always be network with other bloggers. Also if you’re asked for help from a fellow blogger you should help them out because you never know what it could lead too. You may end up getting a link from them or even a review from them and it could lead to more traffic. If it’s a service you offer on your blog then you may even get more business from it. Sometimes doing free work leads to higher paying jobs which mean you should always consider doing freebies for some people. If it gets you advertising out of the deal then it’s not working for free anyways, so you need to think of it like this.

There is nothing more important I find then becoming friends with other bloggers in your niche, because although there sort of your competition you can still benefit from helping them out. Blog commenting also builds your backlinks so this is the most important thing to do, because even if it leads nowhere you’ll at least be getting some backlinks. The do-follow backlinks help your search engine placements as well, but most bloggers don’t use do-follow. If you find a do-follow blog then you should bookmark it and comment there at least once a day because then you’re guaranteed to be increasing your backlinks everyday which is something that Google and the other search engines love to see.

TinyMCE Advanced WordPress PlugIn

By Randy Roedl on February 9, 2011 in Randy Roedl

“WordPress Text Editor” TinyMCE Advanced Plugin A picture can be worth a thousand words (please forgive the cliché). The following short video is a combination of both. It provides a significant yet simple upgrade to your WordPress Text Editing, thus enabling your post to stand out from the crowd. For For additional tips and tricks for your internet network marketing business please C1ick bit.ly

Benefit-of-hiring-a-designer

By Randy R on June 19, 2010 in Blog Beginning, Blog Business, Randy Roedl, Web Design, Websites, wordpress

Benefits of hiring a designer

Are you bored using those free themes for your wordpress blogs? If so, its time for your to hire a WP designer who would be designing a unique WP theme based on your requirements. This will make your blog stand out from the crowd. Not just that, it’ll even increase the number of visitors to your site.

Getting a brand new theme for your blog can do a lot to your online business. This may even make others contact you for getting more information regarding the theme. If you are planning to give them your unique theme, then you may ask them a fee for the same. This way, by hiring a good designer you won’t be at lose.

But before you hire a designer you should be discussing certain things with him. You should be asking him to show demos of the themes that he have created in the past. This will make you know more about the skills of that particular designer. You should also ask, the time frame for getting the whole theme designed for you. Then you can start telling more about your project like what all features you would be needing etc. You can even ask his own views on the same. Sometimes, he would be having some better ideas for testing in your blog. Since, they would have designed themes for many, they’ll having an edge over us. So, it’s always a good idea to ask their views regarding the theme that has to be designed.

Depending on the niche of your blog, a good designer may come up with some cool designs for you to choose from. And if you don’t like the samples that he have designed, you may ask him to come up with a new one. There is nothing wrong in that. It’s your right to ask for it – there is no use to pay for something that you don’t like. A good designer will be patient and will be cooperative. So, these are some of the things that you should be keeping in your mind, if you are planning to hire someone to design your favorite blog.

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