If you are looking for WordPress theme or theme idea, you should try to use this alternative, by using Google Image Search. You (of course) will find a lot of theme screenshots from which you get theme that fit with your need or get a new theme design idea.

Just try it and do not forget to tell me what you think about it.

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On Hamasaki Themes, I make it more easy to be widgetized and theme options. You can change 468 x 60 ads and 120 x 600 ads with widget as well as another sidebar widget. Need a demo? Go to Hamasaki Theme demo and enjoy it. If you still have any question or willing to give it a try, go to to my Hamasaki Theme Page. Do you love and enjoy this theme? Help me spread this theme to the world

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We have got to admit to ourselves. Most of us are into it for the money. We are not going to waste our time and effort just for the fun of it. Many sites would not wait until hell freezes over just to see their profits. While there are some who takes things lightly there are always those who would rather see profit any given day.

It is common knowledge that without traffic we have no business. Like any business, without any customers you don’t get sales. Traffic represents all the people that gets a chance to see what you have to offer. The more people who see your products the more people there would be to buy them.

Nobody puts up an E-commerce site that doesn’t expect profit. We have a startup capital that needs to be regained. With a consistent traffic, we at least have a fighting chance to achieve that probability. Monetizing your traffic would optimize your chances of making the best out of it.

Making Money out of your Traffic

The best and most proven method of making a profit out of your traffic is using advertising. The internet generates hundreds of thousands upon hundred of thousands of traffic everyday. Most of them are searching for something. While some are just looking for information there is also a good percentage that is looking for something that they need.

The internet has proven to be a very reliable source in finding what was deemed to be a very unsearchable product. The internet has made the world a smaller place; you can advertise a product from the depths of Istanbul and still find a buyer from the center of Philadelphia.

Generating traffic is not an easy task. You have to contend with a great number of sites to generate a good number of traffic flow. But if done successfully this could open up a Pandoras Box of possibilities. One of the benefits is monetizing your traffic flow.

So, to get to the core of it the more traffic you generate the more likely you are considered as a desirable, desirable, in a sense that a good traffic flowing site is easily convertible to profit. Basically traffic equals profit. Advertising is the name of the game; with the good advertising scheme you can use your traffic flow to your advantage.

When you have good traffic you have a good number of potential customers, customers that are willing to pour money into your coffers. Other than that these are also traffic that can be redirected to sponsored links that are willing to pay you for a size able portion of the traffic that you have generated.

This scheme is called ìpay-per-clickî. With every click a visitor of your site makes on an advertised link you will be paid. The more traffic you generate and the more clicks that happens would spell to more profits.

Affiliate Programs

Another method of monetizing your traffic are affiliate programs. You can link up with other tried and tested sites and online companies and monetize your traffic by having a percentage of sales generated by traffic coming from your site.

The basic idea is, traffic generated from your site will go to another site that can offer a product that you do not carry. Many programs can keep track and make records of transactions that was made possible because of site linkage.

When purchases are made by customers that was led by your site to their site you get a percentage of that sale. Affiliate programs would give you the benefit of monetizing your traffic without the actual need of carrying or promoting a certain product.

There are so many ways and methods to monetize your traffic. All it takes is a bit of hard work and the desire to successfully launch a profit-earning site. The internet is a veritable source of information, many tips and guides are offered everywhere in how to monetize your traffic and make your site a good profit earner.

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I think you already know about Writer’s block, the time when bloggers do not have any idea to write blog post. There is a list to help you to find post ideas and it worked all time. What about if you have something is “whispering” in your mind and you think you can make it as a blog post but then it is dissapear quickly right just before you write it? Several time it happeed to me. I lost the idea. It’s gone with the wind.

To avoid that it happens again, I have to write it somewhere quickly. My choice is to buy a notebook and have it with me always. It works. This post was noted on it and other post ideas is waiting to be published.

Another tool to keep your post ideas is by record it in a voice recorder. I am considering to use it.

So, where do you keep your post ideas?

I keep it in my mind and these tools.

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Printers are cheap today but after you bought them you will realize that printer’s ink cartridge is cost you much, as what I faced. I think ink cartridges are “money maker” for printer manufacturer. They sell printer at low price so customers can buy it in affordable price. In order to work, printer needs ink cartridges. Printer manufacturer of course also produce ink cartridges. If there are a lot of printers need new ink cartridges, then printer manufacturers start to gain profit from them. Now what you need is how to find ink cartridges with low price but same quality for your printer.

Lucky for you who live in UK, there is a company which provides cheaper alternatives up to 75% less for ink cartridges, in the same quality. Inkshop.co.uk sells ink cartridges which are compatible to HP, Epson, Canon and other printer brands. You can order it online from their website; www.inkshop.co.uk. A free delivery for UK customers is another advantage you should consider.

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Because of this, blogs are also being used as internet marketing media.  Before, internet marketing is done by placing banners and links on popular websites, such as news and information sites.  Links were also included on newsletters and marketing letters sent to the members of their mailing lists.

Many people spend time reading blogs.  People read their friend’s blogs, their favorite author’s blogs, blogs on topics that they are interested in, and blogs on product reviews.  With the increasing popularity of blogging, it is even feared that people rely on blogs to get the latest news.

While getting news reports from blogs isn’t reliable, some people look for product reviews through blogs.  In some cases, this is more dependable.  While it is true that some media persons are being paid to write good reviews about a certain product, blog writers write about their actual experiences on products and services from a company.

Since there are many people who read and start their own blogs, blogs are a good medium to market a product.  With the increasing blog traffic means increase in product sales.

Blog traffic can be increased by joining affiliate programs and sites, which will list your blog under a certain search category or name.  You can also have your blog advertised in popular websites.  This, however, will cost some money and is not advisable if you have just started blogging.

A writer who has just launched his/her blog will want as much traffic as possible to increase advertisements on the site.  Also, some advertisers pay every time their link is clicked or the page that has their link is viewed.

When you have increased traffic on your blog, you should try to keep you visitors coming back and recommending your blog to friends and colleagues.

This can be done by having informative or amusing content and good blog layout and design.  You may develop your blog’s content or you can also acquire the services of a web content writer to provide you with the blog articles.

The blog’s layout and design also plays a big role.  While most of the companies offering free blog hosting offer pre-selected templates, there are also some that allows customization that if you utilize this feature correctly can increase your blog’s traffic.

Here are a few tips to make your blog stand out from the millions of blogs out there that have standard designs.

Customize the banner

The banner usually has the most generic designs that are common to the blogs from a blogging company or service.

You can personalize this banner by having a graphic with the dimensions of the banner.  You can also edit the graphic so that it will also include the title of your blog.

In this case, you can create your own graphic or you can purchase professional looking graphics online for less than $25 or your can contact me for more details

Personalizing photos

Of course, most of the photos that you will be posting will be your own.  However, if you don’t customize the photos before posting them, you may miss maximizing the enhancing benefits graphics can add to the page.  Adding photo borders can help the photo stand out from the page.

It can also add to the design of your blog.  You can choose a standard border or you can also create your own border which can be associated with your blog’s templates.

Add a favicon

Don’t you think sites with icons on the address bar before the website’s URL are cool?  Many people do.  These favicons add a professional look to the URL.  These easy to do using photo or graphic editing softwares. Or try to use online tools favicon generator on such as Dynamic Drive Favicon Generator

Check out blog templates, layouts, backgrounds, textures and skins from sites

There are sites that offer free blog templates, layouts, backgrounds, textures and skins.  You can make use of these so your blog will not look generic like most of the blogs hosted by the service provider.

Include RSS feeds

This is a cool way to inform people with newsreaders about your blog headlines.  Tutorials on RSS feeds are available on the internet.

Audio makes your blog more personal

Not only does audio personalizes the blog; it can also keep your visitors coming back.  You can try having streaming radio stations, mp3 file or playlists loading with your blog.

Advertisements

If you have signed-up with Google Ad-Sense, which I am sure you would like to do, make sure that the ads are conveniently placed that these will not hinder your readers’ ease in accessing the information on your blog.

Try using these tips and you can definitely increase and retain traffic on your blog.

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Jauhari’s free Wordpress themes have been downloaded thousand times and counting. The landing page triggered page view to any single theme page, that is increase the whole site page views.  I watched the blog stat and most people came here to look for Wordpress themes.

If you are good in design and CSS then you should try to share your free Wordpress theme to your site. Create theme that good in design, valid XHTML, Search Engine Optimized, widget ready and support for all major web browsers. If your theme is being used by someone, you will have a free backlink to your website (as long as your theme user is not deleting your theme credit). Backlink from another website is good for pagerank and traffic.

After creating theme, you can promote your theme at Wordpress Theme Directory. Make sure to check your download stat and say thank you to anyone who use your theme.

That’s all. Your homework now is to create Wordpress theme.

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BUT, it doesn’t take a whole caboodle of cash to generate website traffic for your site.

Ever wonder how does big hit sites drive traffic top their site? Most of them are spending tons of money to drive the traffic to their sites, investing in many advertising campaigns and different forms of marketing schemes and gimmicks. This is all worthwhile because, well, they are what they are now, high earning, big hitting websites.

You don’t have to do this if you don’t really have their resources. There are many ways to generate low cost website traffic without having to spend what you don’t have or can’t afford. Many people have banked on high cost methods and have ended up losing their shirt over it.

Here I present to you the Top five ways to generate low cost website traffic that could help your site a whole lot. Even if you only get a small percentage of successful visitors in to client ratio it still works especially if you get a high number of website traffic.

Exchange Links

This is a sure and proven method. Rarely would you see a site where there is no link to another site. Many webmasters are willing to exchange links with one another so that they could produce more public awareness about their sites. You’ll soon see and feel the sudden upsurge of the traffic coming in to your site from other sites.

A major prerequisite in exchanging links with other sites is having the same niche or content as the other site. They should share a common subject so that there is continuity in the providing of service and information to what interests your target traffic.

Exchanging links also boosts your chances of getting a high ranking in search engine results. It is common knowledge that search engines ranks high sites that have inbound and outbound theme-related links. With a good ranking position in the search engines, you will generate more traffic in your website without the high costs.

Traffic Exchange

This is like exchanging links but on a different higher level. This may cost a bit more than exchanging or trading links but could be made cheaper because you get to earn credits. You can use those credits when viewing others traffic, while you earn credits when someone views yours.

Traffic exchange services are the viewing of another site or page. This is done vice versa where a site can use your sites contents and so can you to his or her site. You both benefit from each others efforts to generate traffic. The other sites visitors can go to your pages and know more about your site as well as theirs. Once again the public awareness of your sites existence is boosted.

Write and Submit Articles

There are many e-zines and online encyclopedias in the internet which provides free space for articles to be submitted. If you want to save costs, you can do the articles yourself. There are many freelance writers who are willing to write for you for a small fee, but to save money, it is wise to do those articles yourself.

Write articles that are themed along with the niche of your site. Write something that you have expertise on so that when they read it, they can feel your knowledge about the subject and will be eager to go to your site. Write articles that produce tips and guidelines to the subject or niche your site has.

Include a resource box at the end of your article that can link them to your site. Write a little about yourself and your site. If you provide a light, information-laden and interesting article, they will go to your site for more.

Make a Newsletter

This may sound like hard work because of all the articles you may need to use to build a newsletter but on the contrary, this is not so. There are many writers and sites that are willing to provide free articles as long as they can get their name in on your newsletter. This will also provide free advertising for them as well.

As your newsletter gets pass around, you can widen your public awareness and build an opt-in list that can regularly visit your site.

Join Online Communities and Forums

This only requires your time and nothing else. You can share your knowledge and expertise with many online communities as well as your website. You can get free advertising when you go to forums that have the same subject or niche with your site.

Share your two cents and let them see how knowledgeable you are with the subject. As you build your reputation, you also build the reputation of your site, making it a reputable and honest business that could be frequented and trusted by many people.

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The answer is of course: Start Blogging.

Why you have to blog in your company website?

By having a blog (and updated content), you can join many social networking and start fishing for customers from the community. You can leave comments from others blogs and maybe you will receive traffic from them or their visitors. If you have good contents, then your contents are bait to get linked-back from other bloggers. You can also interact directly with your readers who comment on your blog post.

I am now doing research (maybe a long research) to find whether or not company website is live from blogging platform. I did this before by creating a theme for client’s website. A little bit hard in the administration panel, but the results are good. Using blog platform for the company website, you can manage the content for your company website and writing blog content from one single administration panel.

Blogging not only for fun, but if you have a great content, then it will be your best marketing tool.

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When I realize that my client’s website are not indexed by Google for almost two weeks, I started to find what caused the problem, because the web stat said that Google robots visited the web. In the end I realize that the problem is caused by the default page for my web hosting. I look at the HTML code and notice that sometime AOSP create meta tag description without any value in it.

Even if it created a description, it was not reflecting the content because it only took for some words from the first paragraph. Therefore I am planning to do a hard coded meta tag in the template tag, while looking for another alternative for SEO plugin for WordPress.

If you folks want to share your experience using any kind of SEO plugin, please share it with us here.

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