It’s the best thing since sliced bread!! WordPress appeared when blogging began replacing conversation. And active bloggers wanted more and more, all the better to express themselves. Typical features maybe, like a bouncing smiley or a worried –looking clock face were needed by those wanting to press home a point, but did not have the time or skill to write the source code for such eye-catching electronic gimmickry. Thus was born the hugely popular idea of templates and themes, widgets and plugins and personalizing of WordPress themes has never looked back since.
For starters, the 39-page theme directory spoils you for choice. There are bold-as-brass themes, cutesy-pie themes, the serious and the fun themes. At least one is bound to be ‘your kind of theme’, all with some in-built options for color and font, or the presence or absence of tools on the toolbar. However, one could not change the number of columns, or the width or the functions of the sidebar. Thus came the newer themes which are widget-friendly and SEO compatible. The plug-in architecture of the templates allows wide scope for personalization. Simply download the free widgets of your choice and start displaying the subsequent modifications. Widgets could be on-screen tools that provide streaming information or improve navigability. Any website can use widgets created by someone else. An auction site might use a ticker or you may use a pop-up on your blog. You get to personalize the WordPress theme, with the aid of plugins and widgets, without having to rewrite HTMLs and PHPs, until your blog screen is completely you. When tired of a particular widget, simply move on to a new one. Business blogs can exploit widgets to broadcast a change in image or announce a new product.
Geeks, however, may redo the source code using HTML or PHP and totally make it their own, thanks to the multiple author capability of WordPress. For instance, take the all-important side bar. Ideally it should be dynamic. But if your chosen theme does not support a dynamic side bar, and you happen to know something of PHP, then a two-line addition to the source code is all it takes to make the static dynamic and voila! your side bar is widget-friendly. The WordPress user interaction page takes you through a couple of easy examples of side bar activation. If you want your old look again, simply de-activate the side bar. What this means is that you retain the theme that reflects your business but tweak it for superior expression and ease of use. Of course, some themes look stubbornly unhelpful after ‘widgetization’, in which case the author of the theme has to rewrite the code for a sleeker look.
A further advantage with these plugins is that the content is automatically updated from the original site, your WordPress software helps manage the plugin, of course. Bloggers looking for personalized WordPress themes never had it so easy. You get to pick and choose and give your blog the personality you desire.
Every internet marketing expert agrees that today, blogs are one of the most popular methods of driving traffic and generating income online. However not everyone is able to set up a money spinning blog from the word ‘go’.
Before you even contemplate setting up your personal WordPress blog, you need to ask yourself a few questions. First of all, ask yourself if the niche you will be focusing on in your blog is profitable enough. Unless you like writing and you want to spend your time on that, there is no point in setting up a WordPress blog that won’t prove to be lucrative enough. You definitely want to start writing about something that is both profitable and interesting for you and for your readers. You cannot make yourself write and produce quality material unless you are intrigued by the topic. Keep in mind that your blog is a very useful and powerful tool, especially when utilized properly. The best idea is to consider how you are going to handle the whole package, meaning the niche and the blog.
You need to create one blog and make the most out of it, because this will bring you some money and will also give you the necessary experience. This will prove useful for your blogging career in general. Choose the topic that interests you the most, concerning a sport, a hobby, an interest, or even yourself and dive into the WordPress world. There are many ways to generate more traffic to your blog, but before doing so you need to make sure that your content is gripping and intriguing enough, otherwise you won’t be able to attract many people. Traffic is one part of the money making process, but you need to make sure that there are a few more elements as well. The best method you can use is to add the Google AdSense application to your blog. It is one of the most common money making methods available today. How does it work? Google serves ads that are relevant to the blog. Once someone clicks on them you will earn a percentage of the Google earnings. In any case once you integrate AdSense into your blog, you will start earning money as a passive income.
If you are running an e-commerce website, you can drive visitors to your business through your blog and convert more visitor’s to customers. More business means more money. Furthermore, you can directly sell advertising to merchants and vendors. This means that if you blog about traveling and tourism, you can contact vendors related to tourism and invite them to post ads, or small banners to your blog. When negotiating with merchants you can decide either on a monthly rate or on a pay per click advertising method. Make sure though that the blog doesn’t become visually painful and hard to read because of too many ads flashing all over. There are many nice and easy to navigate through templates available. So try to use the one that is the most user friendly.
Always remember that you need to blog regularly, keep your content unique and interesting and your WordPress blog clean of clutter.
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