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Two Blog Resources, A Competition and I’m Off To Sydney

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Sarah Lewis, a Blog Mastermind student who blogs at Blogging Expertise, sent me an email yesterday about a website she’s just released.

It’s called WordPress Theme Review and here’s how Sarah described it to me -

Because SEO can have a significant impact on overall traffic, I always encourage clients to get a blog theme design that’s optimized for search engines, even if they go with a free theme. The difficulty, of course, is for them to find a theme that’s optimized without knowing code.

For my own clients, I help with this, but I know many people don’t have the resources/willingness to hire help, and they really don’t know what to look for. Last year, I published a couple of posts highlighting themes that were optimized out-of-the-box, and they turned out to be some of my most popular themes. Since there was obvious interest, I sat down and figured out exactly what makes a theme search-engine-friendly, and WordPress Theme Review is the result.

The site offers thumbnail images of the theme in use, as well as info on whether or not it supports tags and widgets, if there’s a cost, etc., but the main feature is that each theme is assigned an SEO score (out of 100) that helps the average user know how optimized the theme is.

Continuing the blogging theme…

Blog Monetization Report

Matt from Blogging Fingers let me know he’s just released a free report titled Blog Monetization Strategies - Make More Money From Your Blog Without Increasing Traffic.

It’s a short and sweet read of 16 pages that cuts straight to the point about monetization tactics for blogs. If you are a veteran there’s nothing that new here, but it’s a good read and well worth investigating if you need ideas for how to best monetize your blog.

You can grab a copy of it here - Download The Blog Monetization Strategies E-book

A Crazy Competition

Gyutae from Winning The Web has put together what he calls the Craziest Internet Marketing Contest You’ve Ever Seen.

There’s over $7,000 up for grabs, including a nice chunk of cash, so you might want to check this one out.

I’m Off To Sydney

I’m heading down to Sydney tomorrow through to Friday and I’ll be popping in to the World Internet Summit, so if you are attending, say hello if you see me.


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