- Author:
admin
- Date:
Feb 12,2008
- In:
Wordpress
At the moment I am working on a new wordpress theme for a blog called Blog of Romania (project by Bobby Voicu; this blog is a place where bloggers from my country post their articles so that we can give you an impression of how beautiful Romania is) and I would like to announce that in the near future I will release two more free wordpress themes, one for tech blogs and one that is based on simplicity.
I am not so good at logo design at the moment, but here is a sneak preview (beta 
)
- Author:
admin
- Date:
Jan 27,2008
- In:
Wordpress
Well I received a few complains about my latest wordpress theme, Acosmin v3, because it’s not centered and on wide screen monitors in the right part, there is a lot of empty space. So I managed to remake it and fix a few bugs, added an hover statement to the li elements in the sidebar, smiles don’t have that border and padding anymore, it works on Firefox, IE7 and Opera etc… Here is a print screen of this wp theme or you can see it live on this blog:
You can download acosmin v3 centered from bellow and please, if you want of course, digg here or stumble
Acosmin v3 centered (431.2 KB, 1,365 hits)
IMPORTANT UPDATE for this wordpress theme + NEW COLOR SCHEME
Acosmin v3.1 normal (435.4 KB, 567 hits)
Acosmin v3.1 orange (435.7 KB, 361 hits)
Hope you like, for feedback use the contact form or leave comments for this post.
As you all know I am giving away wordpress themes for free and today I want to show you the power of this method. Well a month ago, I managed to finish the wordpress theme acosmin v2 that was specially created for one of my blogs TMZ.ro (I know the domain name is lame, but …) and the main reason I released this theme was to increase my SERPs for the keyword tmz. Now because this theme is used by a lot of bloggers, about 250 blogs in which I have links in the footer for both my blogs, I am ranked second for the keyword TMZ on google.com with about six million results, first on .ro and of course second-third on other google extensions. You’ll say what’s the point?
Well if you look in google trends and compare the keyword tmz with one keyword whose traffic you know, you’ll see that this keyword brings a lot of traffic and now, to give you an example, here is a print screen from my google analytics panel (I should remember you that my last activity on that blog was 20 December 2007):
As you can see yesterday I had about 1000 unique visitors from google only for this keyword and the traffic is growing day by day. This is a good way to make money online as well, because you can drive targeted traffic to your websites for certain keywords. Here are a few tips before starting to use this system with wordpress themes:
1. The making off
Well many of you don’t have a clue how to design or code wordpress themes. The only solution for you guys is to hire someone to do the job for you. Let’s say you have 200$ to pay the guy, well for that amount of money you’ll get a nice wp theme. This theme will bring 300-400 backlinks in a month or two and in time it will bring you more. This means a higher pagerank at the next update, more traffic and better SERPs. As we all know higher and targeted traffic results in making more money from your blog/website so you can recover the initial amount of money (200$) in the first month. The only thing is you should research well for keywords before adding the links in the footer/siderbar. For this you can use the free tool from wordtraker and for hiring a designer/coder, the only website I know is rentacoder.com.
2. Promoting your wordpress theme
Let’s say you have the wp theme. Now it’s time to promote it and for this you have unlimited options. My favorite method is submitting it to wordpress themes directories, this brings the best results. Here is a little list of directories:
- Wpthemesfree is one of the best ones. This dir sends you traffic and a lot “clients” in the same time. All my submitted wp themes, have here around 2000 views and 500 downloads, this means about 200-300 backlinks from each theme.
- Freewordpressthemes.com another great directory the only thing is they only accept quality wordpress themes.
- The official themes directory from wordpress. Well here you need an account to upload them and it takes a lot of time to get accepted.
- For a larger list just search on google
You can promote it on forums, on digitalpoint.com you can ask for a review in the html and website design section or on sitepoint.com; they have a dedicated section for this: Reviews and Critiques.
Another way is to contact other bloggers to post an article or include your wp theme in a post. An example is to contact smashingmagazine or performancing, because they often post articles about top 100, top 10 wordpress themes and this is a good way to get to be known.
3. Make money with the backlinks you gain
Once you gain a lot of backlinks your serps will grow and your traffic as well. In the footer of the wordpress theme you should add your links to your products or blog, a single tip I have here: don’t add more than two links because you risk getting them deleted. As well you should optimize your website depending on the keywords you added in the links and work with PPC campaigns for better results and monetization. That is all!
I hope this article was useful and of course I hope you succeed in what you’re doing!
- Author:
admin
- Date:
Jan 21,2008
- In:
Wordpress
As I promised you in this post, well here is v3 of acosmin wordpress theme. It’s free and you can download and use it right now, because the all structure is easy to edit, the only thing I request from you is not to delete the links from the footer.
A preview of this wordpress theme you can see right on this blog or in the image bellow with all the ad spaces and other thingies.
Features
Well as you can see it has three columns, because I like to have a lot of space and options. In the right sidebar you can add a lot of things and plugins like related posts, random post etc and in the left one you can add 125×125px ads or a 120×160px skyscraper, also in the header you have a 468×60px ad spot.
A new feature for me is sIFR, it’s my first time with this method and if you see some bugs please send me some feedback.
For the “logo” I included in the pack the PSD file and the font so you can edit it with Adobe Photoshop.
Download
Acosmin v3 (418.1 KB, 436 hits)
Acosmin v3 centered (431.2 KB, 1,365 hits)
IMPORTANT UPDATE for this wordpress theme + NEW COLOR SCHEME
Acosmin v3.1 normal (435.4 KB, 567 hits)
Acosmin v3.1 orange (435.7 KB, 361 hits)
Hope you enjoy blogging using my theme on your blog and if you really like it please digg here or stumble.
PS: In a week or two I’ll try to make all my wordpress themes widgets ready, because I had some complains about this issue! Fore more help post a comment here
