3 Column: Downtown Java
Of the best WordPress themes — suitable for income-generating blogs — available free for cost, the 3-column Downtown Java is my all-time favorite.
This is a simple 3-column theme. There are no bells and whistles, yet it looks aesthetically very pleasing because of the single graphics on right top plus the very pleasing color combination.
The theme is widget-enabled and is very easy to set up. What is more, you can customize it with a little bit of tweaking the code — as has been done on www.Guide4Income.com blog.
The simple theme does not distract your reader from the advertisements that can be placed in the left as well as in the right columns. Click-through rates tend to be high, and that is why we use this theme.
Click on the picture above to be taken to the home site of this theme.
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Keep Posting, Promoting, Polishing Your Blog!
Net-based Income-generation Course 5, Lesson 5
Once your blog is in place you should start posting immediately. Once there are two or more posts, you should immediately submit them to the major search engines. Once there are five or more posts, you should also submit it to the major directories. However, it is not time yet to relax.
One does not quit the job to relax after establishing a business. He keeps working, and relaxes only during well-deserving holidays. The same is true of jobs. One keeps working every day and relaxes only when he earns enough leave and money to do so. The same is true in the world of blogging for income.
Keep blogging at least 5 days a week. A mere 200 words per post, but relevant to your theme, would suffice. This means just 1000 to 1200 words, which is equal to one full-length article, would keep your blog moving. This is not much to ask (or to invest) if you are serious about net-based income.
On the other hand, if you believe all those ads that say that someone made $5000 from a stupid blog with a mere 10 article, it is time for you to quit because it is naive people who are stupid in the blog-world. In the real world you need to make 3 to 5 (preferably 5) till you are established. After that you can manage with 2 to 3 per week. However, those who post less than 3 per week will not be able to survive competition. You also need to keep promoting the blog.
Upkeep of Your Blog: Once posting and promoting are on schedule, you need to work on the theme of your blog. The word "theme" here means the appearance of your blog. If you are using a WordPress based blog (which I strongly recommend), then thousands of free themes are available. They range from the very simple to the very complex, and from the very plain to the very flashy.
New bloggers often choose flashy themes without realizing that such themes distract readers, make the blog slow, and result in less click-throughs. Thus you should choose a relatively simple and plain theme where the emphasis is on the material posted and not on the appearance. Since themes can be changed easily, you can always change it if you find something that is more suitable. The first choice need not be the last, thus it is always better to begin simple.
Add-on Or Plug-ins: As readers increase, you will face different needs. The first one would be to fight spam. Spam refers to unwanted comments, posted automatically by spam bots, mostly to advertise their wares. Many of these spam comments are related to illegal medicines or pornography. These are not only a distraction to the readers, but also a nuisance to you. Worse, many readers are so naive that they feel ill against you for these comments without ever realizing that these are spam-posts.
Many such problems can be solved with the help of plug-ins. Thousands of free plug-ins are available and a net-search will bring up many of them. Akismet is the most powerful anti-spam add-on and it comes to you as part of the WordPress software. You should enable it after you log into your control panel.
Keep polishing your blog with the help of themes, add-ons, and plug-ins. Make it an attractive place where people can find authentic and useful information, and you are on your way to blogging for a regular net-income.
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Promoting Your Income-generating Blog
Net-based Income-generation Course 5, Lesson 4
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Once you start blogging, which should be as soon as the blog is set up, you should start promoting your blog.
Most bloggers do not realize that while their blog is very much visible to them, it is practically invisible to everyone else. That is because it is only another one among millions upon millions of blogs. To be exact, just a newcomer among tens of millions of blog.
Obviously, only those websites and blogs that stand out for some reason or other will be noticed. The rest will remain part of the crowd. Thus your next goal should be to make your blog visible — to make it stand out among the millions. This is to be done with the help of the search engines.
Publishing On Your New Blog
Net-based Income-generation Course 5, Lesson 3
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There is plenty of income in Blogging if it is done properly. Thus you should start blogging as soon as your blog is set up. There is a reason for this.
Start Posting Immediately: It takes some time (from a few weeks to a few months, depending upon the niche you have chosen) for your blog to become highly visible in the major search engines. Content on your blog plays a role in becoming visible.
Content is king for search engines. In other words, the more the content, and the more it is related to your overall theme, the more the websites will give importance to the content. This does not mean that if you dump 100 articles today they will have the same effect as posting two articles a day for the next 50 days. Search engines always give importance to websites that are populated on a regular basis.
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