Selling WordPress themes is all about producing a large amount of quality WordPress themes and selling large quantities of them. Since most WordPress themes across the popular marketplaces cost between $30 and $40, and theme authors only see 50% to 70% of each sale, resulting in between $15 and $28 per sale, theme authors have to sell a lot of WordPress themes to make a living. This requires a lot of investment, time, skill, and a bit of luck. As marketplaces mature, it becomes harder for new and less popular theme authors to get a break.

At wpLifeGuard, we want to help WordPress theme authors make money, which is why we have our Affiliate program.

You Can Make an Extra $8.70 from Each Theme

Our affiliate program grants a 30% referral bonus, that’s $8.70 per referral, paid every month – no minimum balance required. All you need to do is add the our wpLifeGuard Plugin for developers to your WordPress Theme – that’ll add wpLifeGuard video tutorials and your affiliate link to your customer’s WordPress dashboard.

Install our Plugin – That’s It – It’s Free!

Our plugin adds a “Help” link to the user’s WordPress Dashboard navigation along with wpLifeGuard’s free videos and your affilate link. Your customers go to the Help link when they’re in need of it, watch a few videos, and visit wpLifeGuard through your affiliate link. This way there isn’t any intrusive, annoying, unsolicited sales pitches – let them find out about wpLifeGuard on their own and you still get credit for the referral.

Get a 58% Increase in Profit from Each Theme

Let’s say you’re among the top WordPress theme authors on Theme Forest – so you’re selling your WordPress themes for $40 each and making 70% per sale – that’s $28 a sale. Adding $8.70 to a sale is a 30% increase in profit for no extra work. That is a good deal.

Now let’s say you’re just starting out as a WordPress theme author on Theme Forest. You’re likely selling themes for $30 each and making 50% a sale – that’s $15 a sale. Adding $8.70 to a sale is a 58% increase in profit for no extra work. That is a very good deal.

Giving away your WordPress theme for free? Well, this would be an extra $8.70 that you’d get while keeping your WordPress theme free!

Become an Affiliate Today – It’s Free!

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We’ve had the LifeGuard Assistant for Developers available as a way for WordPress developers and WordPress theme authors to make some extra money on their work. This tool is especially handy for WordPress theme developers – an extra $8.70 off each theme would be a welcome income increase for any theme author.

In an effort to make it even easier for theme developers to make money and even easier for anyone to learn how to use WordPress, our LifeGuard Assistant is now available as a prepackaged WordPress plugin.

The LifeGuard Assistant is now available on WordPress.org.

LifeGuard Assistant WordPress Plugin featuring our free WordPress video tutorials.

The LifeGuard Assistant settings page for your Affiliate ID

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Google+ Add to Circles lets you easily add the Google+ Badge to your website through a WordPress plugin with just a widget.

Google+ Add to Circles also adds Google+ Direct Connect to your WordPress site, allowing Google+ users to add you to their circles from within Google Search Results.

Disclaimer: This Google+ Badge only works with Google+ Pages, *not* Google+ Profiles. Google+ Add to Circles has a validator to check if your Google+ ID is a valid page.

Installation

1. Download Google+ Add to Circles WordPress Plugin
2. Upload ‘add-to-circles’ to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory
3. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
4. Visit the “Add to Circles Settings” under the settings menu and add your Google+ IDPlace the widget in the desired widget area.

Don’t know how to install WordPress plugins? Check out our WordPress video tutorial showing how to use WordPress plugins.

Don’t know how to use WordPress Widgets? Check out our video tutorial showing how to use WordPress widgets.

Frequently Asked Questions

Why is this plugin for Google+ Pages only?

Currently Google only allows Google+ Pages to use this Add to Circles Badge.

What is the difference between a Google+ Page and a Google+ Profile?

Google+ Profiles are for humans – Google+ Pages are for corporations, websites, products, etc. The plugin settings page has a way to verify if your Google+ Page really is a page.

Screenshots

The Google+ Add to Circles settings page

The Google+ Add to Circles Badge

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WPMU is a fantastic WordPress focused website with a WordPress blog, WordPress forum, WordPress themes, and WordPress plugins. While WPMU offers a lot for WordPress users, we’re gonna focus on their WordPress plugins. WPMU’s WordPress plugins can greatly improve any WordPress website. It doesn’t matter if you want to make minor improvements to your WordPress website or a complete overhaul turning it into a Community blog, Wiki, or online store. In fact, at wpLifeGuard we use several WordPress plugins – WPMU’s plugins give wpLifeGuard its core functionality.

WPMU has 30+ free WordPress plugins and WordPress themes and over 300+ premium WordPress plugins and WordPress themes. Here’s a few of their WordPress plugins.

Floating Social

Floating Social WordPress Plugin

Floating Social adds social network icons to the left of your content area. It’ll add Google+, Facebook, Twitter, and StumbleUpon.

Post Voting Plugin

The Post Voting Plugin allows visitors to give posts a thumbs up or thumbs down – you don’t even have to display the results of the voting. This can provide great insight into what kinds of posts your visitors like.

Google Maps

Google Maps WordPress Plugin

For websites that have corresponding a brick and mortar location, the Google Maps WordPress plugin is a quick and easy way to ad a map to your website via a widget or button.

Don’t know how to use WordPress Widgets? Check out our video tutorial showing how to use WordPress widgets.

A/B Theme Testing Plugin

A/B Testing is a very helpful process that can help improve your website. The A/B Theme Testing Plugin lets you quickly and easily A/B test content to increase the conversion of your website. It even integrates with Google Analytics!

MarketPress

MarketPress – WordPress eCommerce Plugin

WPMU’s MarketPress eCommerce WordPress plugin is a great way to start your own online store. With features like a fully functioning Shopping Cart, product categories, popular products, shortcodes, advanced API, and much more. Check out the MarketPress demo to see it in action!

Wiki

Interested in starting your own Wiki? Look no further, the Wiki WordPress plugin has ya covered. With features like full revision history, public or members only editing, breadcrumbs, notification system, and much more this thing WordPress plugin is all you need.

Q&A

The Q&A Forum WordPress plugin

If you’ve ever spent time searching Google for anything code related, then you’ve probably seen Stack Overflow. With the Q&A plugin you can create your own Q&A site – to see it in action, check out the Q&A demo.

Membership and Affiliate

The two core plugins that powers wpLifeGuard is Membership and Affiliates. These two plugins are great for providing an online service to your visitors. They allow visitors to sign up and pay to get certain levels of access to your site and limit content/pages of your site to users with the correct level of access. The affiliate plugin is a great plugin that provides users with an affiliate account, and excellent stats on the clicks and signups they refer.

Pricing

Monthly: $79.00
Every 3 Months: $159.00 – about $53 a month
Yearly: $419.00 – about $35 a month

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A stale blog is a dead blog. Google likes fresh content, and so do your users. If they somehow find an old article with incorrect information due to its age, they won’t be happy and won’t likely stay.

There is always room for improvement. Have a good page? You can make it great. Taking time to improve popular pages increases your chances of turning a visitor into a subscriber/buyer/etc.

Re-Evaluate the pages on your site

Take time to improve old pages, popular or unpopular, good or bad, and you can attract and convert more users than ever before. But before you start improving pages, you need to figure out what pages would benefit from improving and what improvements would be most beneficial.

What makes your popular pages popular?

Before you can improve a popular page, you need to figure out what makes it popular. Is it because it’s in the primary navigation? Because is has a link from a popular site? Ranked highly in the search engines? Lots of social sharing?

Why aren’t people visiting your unpopular pages?

Take a look at your unpopular pages, particularly the ones you want to be popular. In contrast to the popular pages, what are the unpopular pages missing? What can you add or change to make them popular? Give them higher visibility? Publicize them? Redesign?

Why do people leave your high bounce rate pages?

Sometimes pages with a high bounce rate can be the most popular pages on your blog. While high bounce rate pages are bringing in visitors, they do you little good aside from total number of visitors to your site. It’s critical to get visitors to visit more pages on your site. To do this you have to figure out what kind of visitor is ending up on that page and where they came from. Are they looking for a laugh, or a free download? Did they find you through Google, or a friend sharing on Facebook? The more you know about who is visiting the page and why, the better you can custom tailor that page to get them to visit more pages.

Ways to improve your pages

Examine the popular pages or posts on your blog, what can you do to make them better? What about the high bounce pages, how can you encourage visitors to visit another page? Based on what you know about the popular pages, what can you do to make the unpopular pages more popular?

Redesign Pages

Giving a page a major or minor redesign can do wonders to help conversion. It can be as simple as adding a header image or a sidebar widget, or as complex as a complete page redesign. Depending on what page it is and why it needs to be improved, either one could be equally effective. Something as simple as a header image could make the page more visually interesting to get a visitor to start reading. Or a new popular posts sidebar widget to get visitors to check out other pages. There are infinite possibilities here – figure out what a page’s greatest shortcoming is and add something to counteract it.

Add or Update Content

Have a popular page with incorrect content due to its age? Fix it! Write a new article and add a prominent link saying “this page is dated, go here for the correct technique/stats/whatever.” Or if only part of the content is incorrect, strikethrough the incorrect info and provide the correct info.

Even if the article is 100% correct, adding content can be great for relevancy or search engine rankings. Something as simple as a sentence, a paragraph, or several paragraphs can make a huge difference. Maybe add or update headers or bold some text to increase the scannability of the page.

Interlink Pages

Out of all the ways to improve your pages mentioned in this article, this is probably the simplest and best improvement you cane make. Having pages and posts reference other pages and posts on your website is a simple and great way to increase the click through rate and search engine rankings of your website. If a topic on a post you’re writing references something you’ve already written about, simply link to the old post. Or, if you write a new article talking about something you have mentioned previously, find the old article and link it to the new one. Doing so takes little time and will help out your site a lot.

Improve Keyword Density

Have a page that does well in the search engines? Make it do better! Pay attention to what keywords people are using to find your site and where they’re ending up. If a certain article is doing well for certain keywords, find ways to add more iterations of that keyword or keyphrase to the page. If your home page is doing well for certain keywords, find ways to add that keyword or keyphrase throughout the entire site.

Create a Table of Content

If you keep on writing articles covering one particular topic and they tend to be very popular to visitors and/or the search engines, create a new page and have it be a table of contents of all of the best articles you’ve written on the topic. Have that page link to all of those articles and have all of those articles link to your new table of contents page. A great example of this practice is SEOmoz’s Link Building page. Pages like this do well in the search engines and is a great way for visitors to read a lot of articles on your site. If you have enough content to create one of these, do it.

Conclusion

Any website can always be improved. A great way to improve clickthrough, increase subscribers, buyers, regular visitors, or whatever your website wants, is to improve old pages and articles. There are many ways to do this and there isn’t one set formula that works for every page. But if you can figure out what kind of visitors and what those visitors want for each of your pages, you can drastically improve those pages for their visitors greatly improving every area of your website.

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There are untold thousands of free and premium WordPress themes out there. The easy part is finding WordPress themes, the hard part is finding good WordPress themes that aren’t overpriced or won’t steal your WordPress login info (yes, bad WordPress themes can run hidden malicious code). Thankfully there are many excellent trusted WordPress theme marketplaces out there to choose from.

Free vs Premium WordPress Themes

At wpLifeGuard, we strongly believe how well designed a website is will make or break a website. While we believe a full on custom design to be the most effective and will provide the greatest chance of success, not everyone can afford to put a few thousand dollars on a website. For those who can’t, a quality WordPress theme is the next best thing. Which is why we strongly recommend paying a few extra bucks for a good WordPress theme. And by a few extra bucks, I mean anywhere from $10 to $200, give or take — while most will be from $35 to $70.

4 Quality WordPress Theme Marketplaces

Theme Forest is probably currently the most popular premium WordPress theme marketplace. Created by the great team over at Envato, they have over 5,000 WordPress themes that cover a wide variety of styles and features. Here you’ll likely spend $35.

Our favorite WordPress theme author, Orman Clark, can be found on Theme Forest. You can find his WordPress themes on Premium Pixels.

wpBundle offers 12 excellent WordPress themes with an incredible attention to detail. All of wpBundle’s WordPress themes come with free updates and support – a pretty good deal. Here you’ll spend $50 for one, or $200 for all 12.

Mojo Themes puts a little more emphasis on quality than Theme Forest – the average theme at Mojo Themes tends to be better than the average theme at Theme Forest. While Mojo Themes only has about 500 marketplace items, you’d be hard pressed to find something that wouldn’t fit your needs. Here you’ll likely spend $35.

Woo Themes is even more exclusive than Mojo Themes. With a little over a hundred themes on the marketplace, they have a huge emphasis on quality. But with nearly 140,000 users, it’s obvious they should not be overlooked for having less themes than their competitors. Woo Themes WordPress themes are high quality and often include advanced functionality, like Woo Commerce. Here you’ll likely spend $70 or a monthly subscription.

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Conclusion

Having a good looking, easy to use, high converting website relies on the design. For website owners on a budget, premium WordPress themes is a great way to accomplish this. Not drinking 7 Starbucks drinks is well worth it to improve the success of your WordPress website.

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Google Webfonts is a fantastic free web font directory. While they constantly are adding more and more webfonts, at the time of the posting there are 436 free webfonts available to improve your WordPress website. In fact, wpLifeGuard uses Quattrocento Sans for the body copy.

WP Google Fonts allows you to easily add Google Web fonts to your WordPress website. This WordPress plugin lets you add six different Google web fonts to your WordPress website and assign them to header tags, blockquotes, paragraphs, lists, or even your own CSS.

Adding some varying fonts to your WordPress website can be a great way to give it a little more visual appeal. Just be careful to not go overboard – too many fonts can create a design disaster.

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Jetpack is a official Automattic WordPress Plugin. It includes several very handy features to improve your WordPress website – all of which are already found on WordPress.com websites. Jetpack adds several WordPress widgets to your WordPress website, many social sharing features, subscription options, stats, and SEO value.

Feature list

• Subscription options
• Traffic statistics
• Social sharing options
• VaultPress security
• Gravatar “hovercards” for commenters
• WP.me Shortlinks
• Embed videos via shortcode
• RSS Links Widget
• Twitter Widget
• Image Widget
• Spelling and Grammar
• and more

But hey, you can find all that out and more on the Jetpack website, so go check it out for yourself.

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Conclusion

The Jetpack WordPress Plugin adds a great deal of features handy for just about any site. Thanks to the “Enhanced Distribution” feature to help notify search engines of new comment, there isn’t really a reason to not use Jetpack.

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While WordPress’ autosave and drafts feature is a very useful feature, it can bloat your WordPress’ mySQL database. Spam comments can also bloat your mySQL database to epic proportions. While a large mySQL database doesn’t slow down your website (Source), it does increase the chances of mySQL errors. Besides, no one likes overly bloated files or databases.

WP-Optimize will clean up and shrink your mySQL database by removing WordPress post revisions, WordPress autosaves, comments in the spam que, un-approved comments, and more. WP-Optimize will even give you statistics on how much space on the mySQL database can be optimized and how much space has cleared.

WP-Optimize cleaning and optimizing your mySQL database

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Everyone hates spam. Even spammers hate spam. Fighting comment spam on your WordPress site can be a difficult process if you don’t know what you’re doing. Thankfully there are WordPress plugins that make fighting comment spam on your WordPress website super easy to manage.

The Spam Champion – Akismet

Akismet is without a doubt the most powerful WordPress plugin out there for fighting comment spam. Not only is it the most powerful, but it is the easiest and non-intrusive way to fight spam. Simply install Akismet, enter in your API key, and let Akismet do all the work.

While Akismet has a free option, paying provides priority filtering, faster and more reliable filtering, and no traffic limits or throttles. You can even pick your own yearly price or choose a monthly plan.

The Nuclear Option to fight Spam – Captcha

For most websites a Captcha is not necessary. But for those who are absolutely swamped with spam, using a Captcha could be the only way to retain sanity. That’s where SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam comes in. This WordPress plugin will add a Captcha to your comment form, allows trackbacks and pingbacks, and has several Captcha choices.

Conclusion

Spam is a pain – but is very manageable. Between Akismet and SI CAPTCHA Anti-Spam, there is no need to deal with WordPress comment spam ever again.

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