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lexpertztechblog · 3 years ago

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How to use blogs to bridge to your website and increase traffic

The Importance Of A Bridge Site

If you are like most Internet entrepreneurs, you start to collect different websites or web presences that are useful for generating traffic back to your site. Some of these places, like Digg, Facebook, or article archives can be a great resource in advertising your sales website on the Internet to specific demographics. However, many third-party sites have specific rules about the types of pages that people can use in their comments, their articles, and/or biographical information. Ezinearticles, for instance, won't allow you to link back to a sales page, and yet, this is at the heart of Internet marketing. You wouldn't be out there, if you weren't trying to get someone to buy something from you. So, what do you do? That's where you start to realize that there are ways to get around the rules that others put in place to limit your Internet marketing activities, and bridge sites are an important strategy to exploit. Even when a third-party doesn't ban you for linking to a sales page, there are also other times when it's just jarring to go from a link, say like in Facebook, to a sales page. In some ways, social networkers will judge such a move as “too commercial” and you can lose credibility in your authenticity that way. So, again, you want to implement a bridge site to smooth the way.

Why Blogs Are Ideal Bridge Sites

Web logs, a.k.a. “blogs,” are an excellent way to bridge from a site like a user-interactive social networking site to a commercial sales page. That's because they tend to be a mix of both. You have your daily blogs that you post, that are typically informal, casual in tone, and friendly, and you have links that are put on a blog that are expected to link to more commercial endeavors. The casual style is much in keeping with the style of social networking, and so it is less jarring to people who can be harvested from these sites and do not realize that they have begun to be marketed. This gives you an edge because there is less buyer's resistance on this format. Also, as long as you own the blog, you can link to anything that you want to link to, so that makes it ideal as a bridge site. And, the major search engines love to crawl blogs frequently because of the way content is updated more regularly, so you get a wider audience. In addition, you can put links in your blog posts that send people to different sales pages. You can set up a blog anonymously or with a pseudonym, and thus, no one has to know that the links you promote are from your own website. Once someone visits your blog, they should have an easy to remember URL that is all yours. Blogs can be addictive because the information should be updated once daily, if not more. As long as the information is informative and entertaining, you can get people to subscribe to your blog. This converts them from an anonymous viewer to someone who is now basically entering your sales funnel. You can then begin to offer them some deals or introduce them to the product lineups on other websites you own, that can convert them from subscriber to customer.

WordPress Is The Gold Standard

So, now you see the value in having a blog as an intermediary from third- party sites with massive traffic streams, to get potential customers into your sales pipeline. But, where do you start? WordPress is the gold standard of easy to implement blogs, and there are even some hosts that will put a site for you, which you end up customizing. However, there is a bit of confusion with WordPress that is important to clarify. The WordPress.org is a shareware software package that anyone can use for free. Some commercial people took that software and built WordPress.com, the .com extension signifying it is a commercial endeavor. That's a community of bloggers with WordPress blogs with limited features and heavy-handed guidelines. Some of the guidelines on WordPress.com don't allow you advertise the way you would want to do on a Internet marketing blog. In particular, you can't make any money off Google ads from your blog using WordPress.com. So, you want to make sure that you are using WordPress.org hosted on a site where the rights to add Google ads to the blog is not banned. That way you can make money through advertising too and you get all the features that are important to develop your Internet marketing blog.

Some Plug-Ins You Want To Use

WordPress features can be added through the installation of third-party software called “plug-ins.” There are many different plug-ins that are beneficial to the Internet marketer as there are numerous developers who are interested in pushing this market forward. The following list is far from comprehensive, but it gives you a good idea of some plug-ins you definitely want to get and install: - Akismet This plug-in is a spam filter and can save you loads of time moderating comments. It follows a database that is regularly updated of known spammers, so you don't have to read every single comment that comes to your blog. It will automatically filter the spam out and put it in a spam folder where you can look at it at your leisure. - Adsense Deluxe This plug-in lets you even add Adsense code directly into your blog posts, not just the sidebar. - DoFollow If you have a “do follow” blog you are more likely to attract visitors and blog commentators. That's because no follow blogs do not give credit for a backlink, which is why many people post in the first place. - Email Users If you are going to use your subscription list as an email contact list for your Internet marketing activities, you will need to add this plug-in. It lets you send email to your registered users. - Gregarious This helps you to connect to other site by giving the option for social bookmarking posts to places like Digg, Reddit, Facebook, and more. - WordPress e-commerce You can add a shopping cart to your blog with this particular plug- in. - All In One SEO Pack A “must have” plug-in for Internet marketers as it optimizes your pages to get great search engine page results. It's a great way to attract a lot of attention from search engines with minimal time investment. - Subscribe To Comments This plug-in helps people to track a comment stream on a particular post and keeps them coming back to your blog.

Grabbing Traffic From Third Party Sites

Once you've set up the blog and understand how you will take people from there to your website pages, either via links in your blog posts or sidebar, you still need to get people to visit your blog from other third-party sites. And, which third-party sites should you try to get a web presence on? Let's go over a few of the different places you can begin to cultivate a web presence for the purpose of grabbing traffic, and how to use each one with your blog to lead people from that area to your own. Other Blogs Once you've set up a blog, the natural place to start looking for traffic is other more high profile blogs in your market niche. If you don't know who these people are, you need to visit Technorati.com and put in a few keywords that are in your market niche to determine who the big players are. You should make it a point to build a list of blogs that you can add to your blog roll and see if by doing so, they add you to their blog roll. The blog roll is a list of blogs that other bloggers recommend and by getting added to a blog roll on a popular blog, you'll automatically get more traffic from the target niche that you've selected. Another way to get more traffic from blogs is to comment on the top profile blogs and leave a link to a blog post that addresses some aspect of the post. This way you play off on an already popular topic and you contribute to the conversation too. It's not considered spam to put your URL in a comment if it points to something that contributes to the conversation, not just a sales page. Again, you are using the bridge of your website to grab eyeballs and then once they get to your blog, you can market them there. Finally, you can also go to blog communities like WordPress.com and look on their featured stories and categories. Find one or two blog postings that you can reply to and contribute to the conversation. Once these blog posts are put on their featured page, you will get a lot of traffic if you post something interesting with a link back to your own blog. Since you're dealing with people who already to subscribe to blogs, it's a natural for increasing your blog subscribers too. Digg.com Digg is a social news site where people submit stories and other people vote on them. The more popular the news story becomes, the more it is highly ranked by Digg. It can even land on the front page of Digg, which will provide a megaboost of traffic for anyone who happens to land there. You can submit your story to Digg and get your friends and associates to vote for it. It can be a story you put on your blog on a popular subject. It doesn't matter than you're not an expert, as long as you can talk about the subject intelligently and make the story entertaining. If you know what subjects are generating controversy on the web, those are always a good subject to try to get into Digg, just be careful not to draw negative attention to your blog instead of positive attention. Social Bookmarking Sites Delicious.com is social bookmarking site that allows you to add different pages of your blog to a site where others can view it. Just be sure to use a permalink to a particular story, and not the entire blog URL. That way, you can tag each story with different tags and people will be able to zoom to them when they search the social bookmarking sites. There are many different social bookmarking sites, like Reddit too. They tend to have a large number of people and can be searched very easily. Social Networking Sites Facebook and MySpace are two examples of social networking sites. These sites tend to have strict rules about what you can post online on your profiles. Facebook, in particular, does not want people using their profiles to spam or soliciting other people on their business offerings and this activity can get you banned. However, there are ways to mine the rich vein of users that come to social networking sites to mingle online. First, you will have to set up a profile with your own name, not your business name. You can put up a Facebook page for your business, as a newer feature for those people who are trying to use Facebook to market. However, the Facebook profile should be all about you, not your business. There is an area in your profile where you can list your URLs of interest, and that's where you can add some of your business sites. The key to Facebook is to join in the casual atmosphere and network your way to more contacts. You can do this through groups, pages, friends, and networks. You should try to meet people who are in your market niche, but not to solicit them directly on Facebook. Instead, you can email and network through different commenting areas to get people interested in your blog. There are different applications that can help you insert your blog into your profile too. There is a Blog Network application, now formally called NetworkedBlogs, that allows you to post your blog, claim it, and get people to become a fan of it. You can network with other bloggers on Facebook too, by visiting their blogs and becoming a fan of them too, since it lists them too. It allows you to see blogs in your category fairly easily and to promote your blog to readers through the network. Send them a friend request to anyone that becomes a reader, to any other bloggers in your market niche, and now you have access to some of the audience that is in your market niche. When you comment on the wall of people you have friended, all of their friend's will see your comment and it can lead them to your blog. Just be careful not to spam their wall and make any comments relevant and not a solicitation. The blog network will take them directly outside Facebook to your blog and provide a steady stream of new people looking at your blog who are involved in your market niche. It's actually pretty simple when you know what applications to use. Another great feature on Facebook is the ability to create a page for your business, a brand or product, or if you are a performer, you can create one as an artist, band, or public figure. The difference between a Facebook page and your profile page is that you are allowed to actively promote your business on the page, but not the profile. And, your profile is limited to 5,000 friends, whereas the Facebook page is not. Some people even create a page for themselves when they hit the 5,000 friend limit, so they can continue to network on Facebook and add fans, if not friends. Another feature is groups, where you can add a group on any topic and get people to sign up. Like the Facebook page, people will become a fan and then you have a captive audience there. You may not have their email address, but it's the perfect place (both on the page and in the group) to promote your blog and get many people to go from Facebook back to your bridge, so that you can start to collect their email addresses. The funny thing about Facebook is that they are super paranoid about having marketers harvest emails. So, they don't add the email contact information in as text, it's an image. You can write the email down for each friend that you have, if it is showing in their information tab, but even sometimes it's not there either. So, it takes a bit of work to collect an email list from Facebook and if they catch you spamming or soliciting people with it, you risk losing your account. The smart way to do this is to simply entice them off Facebook back to your web log, where you have an offer that gives them something for free for providing their email. And, since Facebook has a culture of non-commercialism, the blog is a perfect intermediary step from Facebook to your sales page eventually. If you were to link in to the sales page directly, you might end up being banned by Facebook or at least dropped by a few friends. No one really wants to be marketed harshly on Facebook, and it takes some finesse to get people to trust you enough to buy from you. So, don't spoil it by being overenthusiastic with your business on Facebook. Master the art of the soft sell, and use an intermediary space to set the stage for your marketing offer. Article Directories People all across the web are in search of quality content. Sometimes they go to article directories where anyone is allowed to post free content, as long as it meets the criteria of the article directory. EzineArticles is one such directory that you can sign up for and start creating content for other people to grab and post on their websites. While it may seem counterproductive to create free articles that people can add to their own sites, as long as they reference back to you or the original article, it is just because of this feature that it makes it a great way to get traffic from many different places, not just the article archive. If your article becomes very popular, you may have several different places on the web linking to it, excerpting it, and all pointing back to you or the original article. This is in addition to the tons of traffic article directories naturally get from their own readers and the high placement in search engine result pages. Now, every article directory gives you, the author, a resource box where you can link to your own enterprises. You probably won't be able to actively promote your links within the article, as there are strict rules forbidding linking from an article in an article directory to a sales page. However, you can post a link in your resource box pointing to your enterprises there and you are typically allowed at least two links. As your articles grow in popularity, they can generate third-party traffic to your sites for an extended period of time. At first, you will get an instant boost because the article will automatically go on the front page for a period of time. After that, it will depend on how well you optimized it for Google keywords and popularly searched topics, as to how often it is read or accessed. So, you do have to do a little extra work to get your articles to be highly searchable for a period of time. But, after that, once they're up, you can forget about them and let the article directories, the search engines, and the topic do the work for you. What's nice about submitting to article directories is that you can post multiple articles on different topics, related but not exact. So, if you have many different websites, you can post on different topics without creating a new account. Readers who like one story, will see other stories you have written and might be tempted to go further to look you up. Always give them a reason in your resource box to click on the link you provide to your blog where they can find even more material that is relevant to that article. Social Search Engines A great way to grab traffic is to go to a social search engine like StumbleUpon. This search engine doesn't use keywords to assign relevancy. All the pages are submitted by users of the search engine who categorize them and they can even give them a “thumbs up.” Even if you don't get that many thumbs up, just submitting different posts from your blog can help to drive traffic there because the pages are randomly “stumbled” when people search for different topics. So, you stand a pretty good chance of showing up on anyone's pc if they use StumbleUpon as their search engine. As with many other types of services that are social in nature, the less commercial you appear, the better it is for you. And, you want to keep submitting content to the search engine repeatedly to get more hits. That means your blog is ideal for submitting permalinks that go to different stories on your blog to attract attention there. Once people visit your blog, they can be lead to other areas of your web empire via links in the blog post, links in the sidebars, or promotional offers to subscribers of the blog. In order to use StumbleUpon, all you have to do is install the toolbar into your web browser. From there, it's a simple matter to use the thumbs up button to quickly add your submissions to the search engine. Just make sure you add the permalink and not the entire blog URL, or you will have multiple copies of the front page instead of multiple stories showing up. And, of course, the story on the front page of your blog changes when new content comes up, so the categories and tags change too. Read the full article

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virendrablog · 4 years ago

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How to make a website in WordPress(Beginners Guide)

Building your own website can help you preserve your profit margin as a small business owner.

If you've got longer than money, the great news is that lately , it's relatively easy to create your own site from scratch.

Nowadays, there are many platforms to assist you build an internet site yourself, but WordPress is among the first website creation platforms and remains among the foremost well respected.

In fact, it claims that 38 percent of all websites live today are run thereon.

In this article, we’re getting to show you ways to create an internet site with WordPress.org.

First, though, be aware of the difference between WordPress.com and WordPress.org; on WordPress.com, WordPress itself will host your site, whereas, on WordPress.org, you choose your own host.

WordPress.org allows for better customization options, including plugin installation and liberal customization of web themes, numerous businesses prefer it.

Hear what we've to mention and choose if the world’s hottest content management system is true for you.

Before you begin to build your website with WordPress, you must know the purpose and objectives of your site.

Decide exactly what quiet site you would like to make , for instance , whether you plan to be an e-commerce platform with a blog attached or a media platform with a small store.

Knowing the identity of your brand and therefore the nature of your product will make designing an appropriate WordPress site much easier.

Consider how your customer will use your site, whether or not they will go to complete forms, register for events, browse classes, or purchase products.

This will help you determine what tools and plugins you’ll need to use or purchase while creating your site.

Also, believe why your customer would use your site and what solutions they’re trying to find .

This will assist you design a site that frictionlessly satisfies the stress of your audience , ultimately getting you a far better conversion rate when the location launches.

What is the purpose of making a website?

Firstly Identify your purpose of creating your website. Are you going to make a blogging website in which you post content or you are going to create an ecommerce store on WordPress or it is a one page website or Q n A website?

Ask this question first.

What is WordPress?

WordPress is one among the world's hottest Content Management Systems (CMS), with over 445 million WordPress websites currently online.

But why is it so popular? And how do you use it? We've unpacked everything you would like to understand to line up your WordPress website.

Features of WordPress:-

WordPress is open-source software.

It’s flexible.

You can customize your site fully.

You’re able to build any type of website.

It’s easy to find help and support.

Steps to create website in WordPress

Step 1: Choose good Domain name

What is Domain?

A domain name is the name of the website which user search.

Search and buy domains with WordPress. WordPress has its own name registrar which allows you to get your name while you build your WordPress site.

Alternatively, you'll purchase a website name from another provider then integrate it together with your WordPress site.

Make sure your domain name represents your brand or the ambitions of your site, and that the extension you choose is appropriate to the region you’re in.

WordPress and other name registrars assist you choose a website name which will be good for your SEO by ranking them.

I recommend beginners to go with Godaddy which is one of the best Domain registrar in the world. Most of the Domain name are registered in Godaddy.

If you are looking for Domain at a cheap price you can go with Namecheap.

Step 2: Choose a host for your website

Why do you need hosting services?

Hosting is important As you need some space on the web to store your website information like images, video and graphics and media files.Choosing a good host is not difficult.

WordPress recommends three web hosts from the hundreds available.

Web hosting services allocate your website space on the web so it's ready to deal with the stress of a billboard website, like large numbers of tourists , and remain online.

If your site is intended as a personal project that you share with few people, you should use WordPress.com, instead of WordPress.org, as it has free plans available which allow small numbers of tourists to access your site freely.

However, if you intend to build a site for commercial purposes, you’ll need to choose a web hosting service.

Over 100 web hosting services are compatible with WordPress, but WordPress advises that you simply use BlueHost, DreamHost, or SiteGround because it considers these services the simplest .

I personally use Godaddy hosting services to host my websites but I am switching my host to site ground because of its unique feature and fast loading time.

If you have some more money to invest you can go with Cloudways which is costly but it will increase your website speed dramatically.

Comment Below which hosting services are you going to use for the wordpress.

Step 3: Installing WordPress on server

Manually install WordPress or use an automatic installation service. Many WordPress hosts automate the method of putting in WordPress.

All you’ll need to do is log in to your WordPress instrument panel or web host and click on a button. The entire process takes five minutes maximum.

Alternatively, you'll manually install WordPress by downloading the package then creating a database for it on your web server.

Step 4:General Setting in wordpress

Log into your wordpress account and then go to setting and then you can change the setting from there.

Step 5: Choosing a great theme.

WordPress has around 8,000 stylish themes to settle. WordPress sites are endlessly customizable. Themes allow novices to adapt elements like color or font with none technical skills.

However, if you would like to form deep design customizations, you’ll need CSS coding skills, or to rent a developer with these skills.

Because WordPress has an astonishing range of customizable themes in varied styles, though, you should be able to avoid this.

First, choose your WordPress theme. WordPress itself offers 8,000 themes designed with a spread of business and media niches in mind.

Some are free and others are paid. Navigate from your WordPress dashboard to Appearance, then Themes to browse.

When you’ve found the one you like, activate it.

If one of WordPress’s 8,000 themes doesn’t meet your requirements, you can find one on a third-party site, download it to your computer as a Zip file, and install it in the Themes tab by clicking Upload.

Then, activate your uploaded theme, as you'd one that's already integrated.

Choosing a good theme is important as it determines your website appearance and loading Time.

You can choose your theme based upon your business requirements like if you have to create a website you can go with genesis framework and if you want to start your own blog you can go with Generate press.

I am currently using Generate press premium theme on my website. It is super light and fully customizable. You can also use the Astra theme whose free version is quite good but does not provide better flexibility.

I recommend you to go with Generate press which is best for beginners and it is cheap when compared to other themes.

Step 6: Installing Essential plugins

Plugins enhance the capabilities of your site and protect it. Plugins are software additions that enhance the capabilities of your WordPress site. There is a wide variety available to meet the functional requirements of almost any business, including e-commerce inventory systems, SEO tools, and tools to enhance your site’s security.

List of Essential Plugins for WordPress

Site Kit by Google-For managing search console analytics and AdSense at one place

Anti Spam - Protect your website for spammers

Rank Math or Yoast SEO - For SEO Purpose

Short Pixel - compressing the size of image

contact Form 7 - Creating Contact form

For Customizing your website you need theme Editor Plugin like thrive Architect and Elementor to give your website a professional look.

I am currently using both of them but if you don't have money to invest you can go with any of them.Both are the best.

Thrive Architect- Best for customizing your Blog post and articles.

Elementor pro- Best for making Landing Pages.

Step 7: Create Content

Create content to offer your site authority . Content is what lends your site authority and is that the reason that sites rank on search engines.

First, add essential information content to your website, like the About Us, FAQ, and Contact Us pages, as well as legal information (Shipping/Returns, etc.).

From the WordPress dashboard, you'll easily navigate to the Pages tab and build content from there.

Once you've got your essential content, you'll create product pages or blogs. Installing a plugin that imparts SEO advice, like Yoast, as you create content will help your site rank better on search engines.

Step 8: Optimize your Website for user Experience.

Encourage a conversation by allowing comments. Once your site has the proper theme, domain, and plugins, you would like to make sure the purchasers or readers who visit your site enjoy the experience.

Decide what your audience is trying to find and optimize your site’s features to satisfy their requirements.

First, build a Menu bar which makes it easy for your website’s visitors to navigate exactly where they want to go.

Choose Appearance in the WordPress dashboard and click Menus to build or customize a menu bar.

Choose whether to enable or disable comments to encourage a conversation.

Head to Settings and then Discussion to decide whether you want comments enabled on all posts, or just on blogs.

Conclusion

Building a site with WordPress is slightly more complicated than it's with website building platforms like Wix or Weebly.

The extra effort pays off, because of the near infinite number of plugins available to enhance your site’s functional capabilities.

Do confirm you avoid these WordPress mistakes while building your site. Conduct a little research on WordPress for beginners before you start, so the process goes smoothly.

WordPress beats many of its competitors with its sheer variety of themes and plugins.

You can create any kind of site you want from your WordPress dashboard.

Despite of sites like Wix offering good customization options and a few ability to tinker with the CSS code, sites remain less and adaptive than those hosted on WordPress.

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tekoseo · 5 years ago

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Create a blog website on google blogger free 2020 complete course

All worlds are going to online through the website or app platform. But if you are not developing yourself at this time, you will not succeed. If you do something at this time, you can grow your future skills. But where are from do you start? Here are all the details that can help you. You don't need to pay anything else. All of the elements will be provided by Google. Yes, I am talking about blog website creation. You can earn huge amount of money by creating a blog. But you are thinking that to make a website, need coding knowledge. Does that mean you don't have any coding skills? That is not a problem today's time. Many bloggers are earning huge amounts of money for the last 20 years You could not believe that they earn money only from bloggers. But today is not late yet for you. Because all of the worlds are started developing themselves till now. So, you have a good Opportunity, however, you don't know the ways. But Teko SEO is now online to show you how you can build a website within 05 minutes. As a result, you will make your own website after reading this article.

Basic Knowledge:

Firstly, to build a blogger website, you need to know some technical details. If you know those details, you can skip to the next step. Otherwise, you can read this. What are Domain and Hosting? A domain is your main address that's through your user will come to your website. Did you not understand? Ok, let's see. If your friend doesn't know where you live. Then you need to share your home address. Like if your home address is New York, US. Then your domain is New York, US. Hosting is your land or home where you stay. So, the domain is an address and you need to establish your domain with your Hosting. And hosting is the place where your all data will be stored. Like post, file, image and all of your website data will be stored in your hosting. And this element is you or your family member. But who is your friend? Your friend is your website visitor or user who uses your website's service.

How to create a blog website?

Time needed: 5 minutes. Many online platforms offer to create a website on their site. But Google Blogger is the best than them. Even you can add your own domain later for free. SO, you can make a website without hosting in blogger. To make this website you don't need any tool. Just follow the following steps and last you will see all have done. Create a Google Account To create your free website on google, you need a google account that absolutely free for you. Just create an account and then follow the next step. And if you have then don't worry. Continue...

Go to Blogger website Now, you need to go to the blogger website. And need to log in with your Gmail account. If you are a chrome user. Then just go your desktop chrome app. And then you will see 9 dot option on top right side corner. Just click there. Then scroll the pop-up page, And you will see Blogger option. Now click on there you will be redirected to the blogger website.

Basic Instruments After going to the blogger website, click on the 'Create Blog' option to create your blog website. And you will be asked to log in to your google account. Just log in with your credentials details. And enter your name on the 'Display Name' section. Then click on the continue button to create your blog.

Log In Account You will be asked to log in to your Google account by clicking on the create your blog button. If you have signed in your browser, then just select your account. And then you will be redirected to the next step.

Set public profile After logging into your account, you need to set-up your public profile. There you need to type your public profile name. This name will be used as the admin name of your blog post.

Check Blog address availability Now click on the 'create blog' option to create your blog. A page will be pop-up in front of you. Type your website name in the Title section. And enter your address below. If your address is not available then try to check with other's names. If your address available then select the theme that you like. And after fill, all those details, click on the 'create blog' button. And now your blog has been created.

See your Blog website To see your blog website, just click on the view button on the top left side corner. And your website will be opened.

How to create a post and published it on Blogger?

To create a post you need to click on the New Post option on the top right side corner.

There you will get two options to write a post. One is 'compose' and the other is 'HTML'.

Click on compose as your beginner. You can add HTML code by using the HTML option.After writing your article, click on the publish button to publish your post.

Some Questions about blog website?

How to add a link in Blogger Post? If you want to add a link to your blogger post, go to blogger post. Just highlight the text that you convert to a link. And then click on the link button. And insert your link. If you want to open this link in a new window then check the box. If you want to make this link nofollow then check the second box.

How to add an image in Blogger Post? To add an image click on the image icon in the post features area in Blogger. Click on the insert image icon located on top. And insert your image. It will be automatically resized your picture.

How to add a video in Blogger Post? If you want to insert any video then click on the video icon. And then you will get three options. If you want to use your own video then you can upload it there. Or if you want to insert youtube video then you can also use YouTube videos from YouTube. Just copy the YouTube URL. Paste it on there. Or search the video title from there. And all relevant video will be shown there. Just select the video that you want to insert. That's it.

How to change the permalink in Blogger? The permalink is your post or page link. You must customize your permalink to optimize your SEO score. Change your permalink as your post title. To change the permalink in the blogger click the permalink option located on the right side. And the change automatic to custom permalink. And enter your custom permalink.

How to schedule a blogger post? This is an important thing to engage your website traffic. Sometimes you can create a post at a time when your user will not come. Then you need to schedule your post. So, you will get the most visitor at that time. To schedule your blog post, you need to click on the schedule. And change from automatic to set date and time. Then select your time and schedule your post.

How to connect Google Analytics with blogger? To track your website traffic, you need to connect your blog website with Google Analytics. Many other platforms than Analytics is available. But Google Analytics is best to get accurate reports. It is full of many features. Just add your blog as a property. And choose HTML as a verify method. Copy the HTML code and add it to your theme HTML under the head tag. How can I earn money from the Blogger website? If you are online now, then you have many ways to earn real money. But when we talk about website earning, then Google Adsense is the first that comes in our mind. Adsense is a publisher platform where publishers can earn money by showing Adsense ads. But your website should not be for the only Adsense. You need to be more creative to earn money with Adsense. As a result, you will have a passive income from Adsense. But however, on the other hand, you have many platforms to earn money like affiliate, promotion, etc.

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15 Free Blogging Platforms for Creating Free Blog Sites Really QuicklyWritten by

Anil Agarwal

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/ Updated on July 29, 2019

Are you looking for the list of free blog sites to launch a new personal blog?

Whether you know it or not, blogging is one of the best ways to make money online. I’m the live example of the one who makes money from online and I’ve been successfully making money from several blogs for the last 7 years now.

Generally blogs are available in two forms, one is free and the other is self-hosted blogs (Premium) where you have to pay money. Both of them have their own pros and cons. Free blogging platforms are free to use though you won’t have full control over your sites whereas in self-hosted sites you have to pay money for domain and hosting to run your sites (and you’ll have full control on your sites) .

If you are just starting out your blogging journey, you can start with a free personal blog. There can be lots of reasons why you want to try your hands on free blogging sites first. The most obvious reason could be the cost. With blog posting sites, you won’t be paying a single penny for your domain name and hosting space. Quick Note: Do you want to start a blog? Here’s a simple step by step tutorial on how to start a blog in 2019 within 10 minutes.

How Does Your Blog Address Look Like With Free Blogging Sites?

On free blogging websites, you will be getting a sub-domain as your personal blog address.

For example, if I try to registering bloggers passion as my blog URL on WordPress.com, my ultimate blog URL in that case will be bloggerspassion.wordpress.com (If it happens to be available). So WordPress.com will be added with each blog which is created for free on WordPress.com.

Here’s how it looks like;

The same thing applies when you went on to create blogs on other free blogging platforms like blogger.com, weebly.com and blog.com etc. So the general blog syntax for your blog address will be abc.blogspot.com or abc.wordpress.com where abc is your blog name.

Here are few pros and cons of using free domain names through various free blog writing sites.

Pros of a free domain name:

You will be getting a free domain name for lifetime (unless you violate rules)

Wide range of free domain names (you’ve to be creative to come up with memorable domain names)

Cons of a free domain name:

It looks odd with the .blogspot.com or .wordpress.com

Your audience might think you are not serious about blogging

You don’t know when it will disappear

Free blog writing platforms add cheap look to your sites often!

So enough about the importance of having free blogging platforms to star blogs. Here is the ultimate list of free blogging sites that you can use for creating free blogs of your own (the following list of blogging platforms are in no order, means, every blogging platform has its own pros and cons).

Top 15 Free Blog Sites List for Creating a Personal Blog

Table of Contents

Top 15 Free Blog Sites List for Creating a Personal Blog

1. Blogger.com

2. WordPress.com

3. LiveJournal.com

4. Tumblr.com

5. Webs.com

6. Weebly.com

7. Penzu.com

8. Squarespace.com

9. Yola.com

10. Edublogs.org

11. Wix.com

12. Medium.com

13. Ghost.org

14. Postach.io

15. Jimdo.com

Some Important Facts about the list of Free Blog Sites

FAQs About The List Of Free Blogging Sites In 2019

Final thoughts about the list of free blog creation sites

1. Blogger.com

One of the most preferred and widely used free blogging platforms is Blogger. When it comes to free blogging platforms, Blogger is the one you can’t miss out.

If you are searching for a free and reliable blogging platform, Blogger is the perfect choice for you. Blogger.com is not only one of the most popular blogging websites and it is owned by search engine giant Google.

Click this link to know more in detail about Blogger.com features.

Pros of Blogger:

You can use blogging platform from Blogger.com website on your custom domain even by mapping it.

Majority of the bloggers still use Blogger platform to start their own websites or blogs not only because its free but it gives you great functionality.

Getting AdSense approval is really faster when you use Blogger as both Blogger and AdSense are controlled and managed by Google.

The themes at Blogger platform look really beautiful, plain and simple.

You can create blog posts, add images and videos to them with ease and can even monetize your blog with most of monetization programs available on internet like Google Adsense and Amazon etc.

You can customize your blog design to great extent. There are thousands of free templates available on Blogger platform and you can design your blog anyway you like. You can create pages, multi user blogs, private blogs and Blogger.com is currently available in 41 languages.

Must Read: Blogger Vs WordPress: Why Self Hosted WordPress Blog is Better Than Blogger

Cons of Blogger:

The only limitation using Blogger blogging platform is that you will have no control over your site as Google own it and with free blog, you won’t get a unique domain name (besides just a sub-domain)

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2. WordPress.com

WordPress is also one of the most reliable and widely used free blogging platform. After Blogger.com, it’s WordPress which is the most used and most powerful content management system for bloggers. You can use WordPress for creating personal blog sites, professional and I would say blog of any type. You will get most of the features that you were enjoying on Blogger.com but you will have very few options when you think of monetizing your free blog (sub-domain) on WordPress.com.

Over 17% of the websites worldwide are hosted on WordPress content management system. This is indirectly telling the importance of using WordPress.com to create free blogs. If you want to start your blog on a self hosted CMS, you can do that too using WordPress.org. One of the widely used CMS in the world and almost every industry blogger uses WordPress.org to run their websites.

You can use WordPress blogging software on your custom domain by downloading it from WordPress.org website and uploading it on your purchased web space. It does not take much time in installing WordPress on WordPress friendly web hosts. If you don’t know how to do it, you can use Bloggers Passion free WordPress Installation service.

There are some limitations that should be in your mind if you are thinking of using WordPress for creating your first free blog site:

You will just get a sub-domain with them

You cannot install themes or plugins that are not in WordPress official directory. You can access WordPress free themes and plugins directory from here and here.

You cannot use Google Adsense, Amazon or any other monetization program that asks you add certain java Script or PHP code into your blog.

But you can get free from these and many more limitations if you went on to Start a blog from Scratch. By using a self hosted blog, it’s not only easy to manage your sites, but you can also make money blogging if you put some bucks on SEO, content writing or design.

Recommended: Best WordPress Alternatives Worth Trying in 2019

3. LiveJournal.com

Live Journal is available in free and paid version. You have to pay money if you want to keep your LiveJournal blog from their free advertising. You will be getting the features like multiple author blogs, polls and calendars, commenting and it has lots of social media features which differentiate it from other free blogging websites.

Over 16 million people are now using LiveJournal to create their free blogs. You can also blog in several languages including Dutch, French, German, English so if you are not good at English and want to try these languages, you will feel lucky using LiveJournal free blogging site.

Here are few notable features of free blogging site LiveJournal.

Video Uploading

Photo Uploading

Private Message Sending

Public Message Posting

Pros of LiveJournal

LiveJournal is considered as one of the best free list of blog sites because of its wide range of useful features

It has the biggest community of people where you can literally find information about any topic or ask questions

Wide range of languages to start a free blog

Offers you an easy to use user friendly interface, so if you’re looking for the best list of blog sites with easy access, LiveJournal is definitely a great choice for you.

The less known fact about using LiveJournal is that you can blog anonymously using this blogging platform. If you’re someone who wants to keep things in private or don’t want to share access to some of your stuff online, this is the best blog list site for you.

Cons of LiveJournal

Most people are not aware of the fact that LiveJournal is a Russian social networking service (In Russia LiveJournal makes up the MAJORITY share of the blogosphere, hosting over 80 of the top 100 Russian blogs, it’s as popular as WordPress but in Russia). Although it’s not a big con though but you’ll mostly find Russian related contents, communities, news and so on

You can know more in details about LiveJournal feature for free and paid account type from here.

4. Tumblr.com

Tumblr is a micro blogging website like Twitter and Facebook. Tumblr is one of the fastest glowing websites on the internet and it looks like a mixture of blogger, Facebook and Twitter. Use Tumblr to create free blogs if your site is more about the visuals. Tumblr gives you everything to make your images look visually appealing and you can show images, videos and music in anyway you want. They have lots of unique feature that makes them the unique choice of too many bloggers:

Hundreds of ready to use themes

You can post on your blog directly from your Email box

You can add pictures of even high-resolution here

10’s of ready to use third-party apps

Track your blog readers through Google Analytics

Publish updates to your Facebook account

No limit on how many people can contribute on your blog

You can schedule your blog posts

You can create a theme of your own

You can post almost anything on Tumblr

You can keep your posts public and private

You can convert your posts into audio posts

You can use your own custom domain

Automatic update on Twitter about your latest posts

Use this link to know more in detail about why you should choose Tumblr over other blogging platforms. You can repost, reshare, reblog anything that you find useful on Tumblr community this leads to get you more Tumblr followers without actually spending time in content creation.

Other people can also reblog your blog posts, images and videos leaving you with more followers and giving you much exposure to reach wider audience.

From the list of free blogging sites mentioned in this page, Tumblr is one of the finest platforms to create a site that is clutter free and mostly content oriented.

5. Webs.com

If you’re in a hunt for the best list of blog sites that provides professionally designed website templates, free web hosting along with an easy to use website builder, give Webs.com a try and you’ll be amazed with the tons of useful features you get with it.

Pros Of Webs.com

Provides you a simple yet elegant and easy to use drag and drop interface to easily create a free blog and customize it however you want

It also has an in-built mobile website builder to make your site mobile responsive

Includes your social networks with social icons, a Twitter feed, Facebook Like box and other social media icons to increase your social media following

Wide range of themes to create an appealing for your site

It’s search engine friendly

Webs also provides you local listings option that you can use to easily get your business listed everywhere online (without having to pay anything extra for premium local listing sites)

Do you want to find out where your website traffic comes from, how visitors behave on your site, what sites and campaigns sending you the most amount of traffic and so on? Then, Webs web analytics provide you access to all of that.

Cons Of Webs.com

Limited theme options with the free plan

Limited features with free plan and premium plans start at $6 per month where you’ll get features like unlimited pages, Webs branding removed, Password protected pages, 1GB Storage and so on

6. Weebly.com

Weebly is a California-based company which was started in 2006 and in 2007; it was named amongst Best 50 Websites by Times. Weebly is popular free blogging platform and used by many people to create their free blogs because of its versatility. They are currently hosting personal websites and blogs of over 12 million people.

You can publish your content on Weebly sub-domain or on your custom domain and you will not be charged anything for domain mapping unlike other web hosts in the industry. You can also drag and drop items to create menus, pages, categories etc. using Weebly to create free blogs is a fun and you won’t find it hard to maintain your blogs.

Pros Of Weebly

Speed and ease of use is the reason why most people go for Weebly. To put it simply, what you can do on WordPress in 5 hours, you can do on Weebly literally in 5 minutes.

From commerce, communication, marketing to social media, you can find a ton of useful apps almost for any topic you want

Weebly provides SSL certificates even with the free plan

It also provides you 500 MB of storage which is mostly enough for personal blogs

Cons Of Weebly

Limited storage space so you can’t really start a professional blog with their free plan and you’ll have to upgrade to their premium plans to get unlimited storage

It displays ads on free plans which can be annoying if you want to provide clutter-free experience to your website users

7. Penzu.com

Want to write your blogging/IM/Life or Personal thoughts privately online? Try Penzu. It is a free blogging site that allows you to post various journals on your blogs. You can upload unlimited images as it provides unlimited storage to its users. Here are few great features of Penzu.com

Smartphone Access

Multiple Journals

Auto saving feature

Easy to use navigation

Rich text formattiing

Search, tagging and military grade encryption to save your files

Auto logout

Unlimited storage

You can use 3 types of journals using Penzu blogging platform. Daily Diary (public can read your content), Expressive Journal (private), and Travel Journal (especially designed for travelers).

Pros Of Penzu

Penzu is used by over 2 million people worldwide and lets you write with peace and provides easy to use journals to store your writing using their apps for iPhone, iPad, and Android phones & tablets.

It is focused on giving you 100% privacy and all your entries are totally private by default

Offers you military grade 256-bit AES encryption so you can encrypt your data

Cons Of Penzu

The only limitation is the free plan doesn’t let you create multiple journals, added security, reminders and journal customization and so on which actually costs you pro plan at $19.99 per year

Here’s the link to start a free blogging site using Penzu.

8. Squarespace.com

Squarespace is one of the easiest ways to create a free website, Squarespace is a great website builder that has almost everything you are looking for. It is the most effective blogging platform for photographers, online retail store owners, bloggers and musicians. It will make your site not only look awesome but their templates make your site stand out from other blogs easily. Here are few features of Squarespace free blogging platform.

Built-in Mobile Websites

Style editor

Install multiple templates at once

Appealing templates

Free Typekit fonts

The ability to add custom CSS

Click this link to start building your free site on Squarespace.

Pros Of Squarespace

It gives you access to easy to use pre-built website templates to make your design look appealing

It has a drag and drop builder that you can use to easily create pages, make changes and customize your site’s look however you want

From websites to online stores to marketing tools, you can literally find everything on this amazing free blogging site to create any kind of site

One of the primary reasons to consider Squarespace blogging platform is that it allows you to install multiple templates onto a single website (which is often known as template switching, and is not possible in most of the other free blogging sites provided in the list)

Gives you free access to Google Fonts so you don’t have to use any additional plugins or code to use any type of font you want from Google Fonts section

Access to CDN (all the images you embed within your site will be hosted with a global content delivery network (CDN) that reduce load times of your site

Cons Of Squarespace

Its pricing plans start at $12 per month (billed annually)

9. Yola.com

There are over 12 million people using Yola which makes it one of the best free blogging platforms in the world which is also available in 6 languages including English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.

Pros of Yola

You’ll get access to extremely easy to use website builder where you can easily to add features, styling and content to your site using their drag-and-drop widgets that you can use to customize however you want

Access to a wide range of templates Password protection and you’ll also get access to a ton of social sharing icons

Yola is it’s completely search engine friendly so you can get better benefits out of the box in terms of getting more organic traffic from Google

Google map integration, Video backgrounds, Tumblr blog application, Site statistics

Yola is currently available in 6 languages

The biggest benefit of using Yola premium packages is that they provide web hosting with unlimited bandwidth (so you don’t have to worry about paying anything extra to hosting no matter how many visitors you get to your site)

Cons of Yola

The biggest limitation of using Yola free option to create a free blog is that you get only 3 Pages, 1 GB bandwidth, 1 GB storage and Yola subdomain

You don’t get any access to support and you can’t create unlimited pages on your with a free plan

Click on this link to start building your free site on Yola in 2019.

10. Edublogs.org

As the name suggests, Edublogs is the perfect blogging platform for education related blogs. If you are a college student or a professor, want to make a site on your own for free, this is the perfect choice to select from the above list of free sites.

You can create blogs as a student, as a teacher or as an institution on this free blogging site. Currently they are holding more than one million education blogs on their free blog hosting. You can know more in detail about why you should choose Edublogs for creating for your first education blog here.

Pros Of Edublogs

The biggest reason to use this blog site list is it gives you access to a ton of features, themes, and plugins that are meant just for education where you can write posts and create pages with ease

Access to plugins & advanced features including forms, social sharing, maps, fonts, tables and more

Full privacy options to choose who can see the site and password protect pages (you can protect your pages or content if you want to)

Files & media upload options where you can easily upload videos, photos, files, and podcasts

Ad free even with the free plan

You can customize the look of your site however you want (change themes, backgrounds, logos and more)

You’ll also get access to 250+ premium themes which are available for free with even free plan

Cons Of Edublogs

The biggest limitation of Edublogs (free plan) is that you can’t let search engines crawl your site. That means, you can only publish content and promote your blog links on social sites to get visitors (not from search engines). However with the Pro plan which costs $7.95 per month or $39.95 per year, you can get rid of that limitation.

Storage space is very much limited where you’ll get access to only 1 GB (with free plan)

11. Wix.com

Wix is one of the best free platforms that you can use to build gorgeous looking sites. Well, to build an interactive website, you don’t need to code. Wix is a good website builder where it creates beautiful and stunning websites. And you know, these websites are created by non-professional web designers.

One speciality about Wix is, they have built specific tools to help musicians and hotels grow their businesses that is not offered by other website builders. It reported that 103 million registered users with about 45,000 new users joining every day. This clearly says that Wix users are happy with the website builder and its services.

Pros:

It offers over 510 professional templates that are all updated to match today’s design trends.

It has an innovative drag & drop website builder that you can create websites very easily without knowing to code.

They have support buttons everywhere and phone support.

It offers a unique mobile editor, as they allow you to edit the mobile version of your site separately from the desktop version of your site.

With Wix app market, you can add functions to your website, such as live chat (for customer service), newsletter / email marketing, testimonials, reservation / booking / scheduling tools, contests, pricing tables, etc.

Wix covers all the basic SEO settings.

Cons:

One of the drawbacks is that once you’ve picked a template to use, you can’t switch to another template without re-inserting your content.

If you are using Wix’s free website builder, it includes advertisement logos on the side and at the bottom of the website after you publish. To remove the advertisements, you will need to upgrade to at least their “Combo” premium package.

It’s not designed to manage complex e-commerce needs.

Although it offers free blogging platform but it also has 5 different levels of premium packages that you can choose according to your website needs.

12. Medium.com

Medium.com is a fast growing free blogging platform that allows anyone to create stories and have their own personal space on the web. You can contribute your content by creating an account for free with either an e-mail address or a Twitter account.

Pros:

Your content is served by highly secure Medium servers. Your private information is kept secure using the industry standard security measures.

Your posts reach an entirely different audience than your typical target audience.

Cons:

You do not own Medium. It is owned by ‘A Medium Corporation’, and they can decide to shut it down, announce new pricing plans, or cancel your account at anytime.

Your publications appearance is limited to the choices available in Medium. You cannot choose your own design and layout for your website.

Setting up redirects from Medium to WordPress is nearly impossible.

You don’t have full control around the user experience

13. Ghost.org

Ghost.org is one of the simplest yet free blogging platforms that you can use to quickly build great looking blogs. If you are looking for a better version of WordPress where emphasis would be mainly on blogging and nothing else then Ghost is for you. It has beautiful and elegant template themes. Ghost does not power a wide array of websites but it is purely a blogging platform.

Pros:

It is very simple and flexible to use for beginners.

It provides very flexible user interface. There is a separate screen for your content creation and preview which means whatever you type on the content creation page that will reflect on the preview page of your blog.

Ghost dashboard has the most attractive and feature rich pages of the whole backend when compared to WordPress.

Cons:

You don’t get feedback from real users as Ghost is a newly launched blogging platform.

It is in its beta-testing phase and still needs some real users to try their platform.

It doesn’t provide plugins like WordPress blogging platform. However, it offers SEO settings and social sharing features in the core itself, so you do not need external plugins for that purpose.

Ghost does not offer a free hosted plan (has 14-day trial). However, you are not limited in the hosted version in any manner.

14.

Postach.io

It is a unique free blogging platform that uses the external note organizing program Evernote to create your blog posts and manage your content. The main idea behind Postach is that instead of having another separate platform, why not blog from already existing tool. To sign up for Postach.io, you need an Evernote account.

Pros:

It makes posting easy and fun.

No limitations on your storage, however, depending on your Evernote level of service, you may be limited to 60MB of uploads per month on free.

It has good content management where you can connect your blog with Disqus, which will allow you to have comments on your blog.

Cons:

To get certain features, coding is required.

It has limited customization.

You can’t see preview of posts.

Not possible to import from other sites.

Limited selection of themes.

Video and audio not supported.

There is no official community forums, so if you want a community support, you’ll have to rely on search engines

15. Jimdo.com

Are you looking for a hassle free yet free blogging platform? Give a try to Jimdo.com once and you’ll be surprised with its features. If you want to build an online shop without too much hassle, then Jimdo fits to your needs. If you do not want to pay thousands of dollars for a custom built website or if you don’t know how to code then Jimdo is for you as it is a very good website builder.

Pros:

It’s free platform provides you enough tools to build a very functional website. So, you need not upgrade to the paid platform.

If you know how to code then it gives you tremendous design freedom.

It is ideal for small to medium sized businesses.

You see on screen when you are editing the website, so no need to flip back and forth between editing mode and published mode.

Jimdo web pages are automatically search engine optimized.

Cons:

Due to some template restrictions, it is not always easy to move things around. Good news is that you can test all of their templates in the Jimdo Free version.

It is not the best choice for US-sellers as there’s no credit card gateway available.

When compared to other drag & drop website builders, it doesn’t give you as many options to edit the design or style of your website.

Although there are a lot of common problems you might face with the list of free sites mentioned in this page (that includes, constant 504 and 502 errors, pages getting deleted, slow loading page etc). But again it depends on blog to blog, each blogging platform is different and all of them have their own set of pros and cons.

So make sure to know the primary fact before starting a free blog that it’s not a cakewalk. But if you really want to share your thoughts and create a following for yourself online, using free sites mentioned above is a great step.

What others are reading: List of Free Web Hosting Sites You Can use in 2019

Some Important Facts about the list of Free Blog Sites

Here are some of the most important points to note down while using the best list of blog sites to create free blogs.

First of all, you will have no control on your blog address. You will be at the mercy of your free blog host. They can delete your free blog without any prior notice if they find you are doing anything against their TOS. So make sure to know about this fact before finding about creating a blog using the list of free sites that you are going to explore in this post.

Most of free bloging platforms will allow you to add content on your blog in the form of blog posts and pages. You can easily add images, videos and other kind of media elements on your blog.

You cannot upload a theme or template of your own with most of free blogging platforms. But on Blogger.com website, you can upload templates of your own and also can upload templates that are available on other blogger template websites.

These free blog hosts will give you enough space to write your blog posts in normal. But if you start spamming these blogs with hundreds of automated blog posts on daily basis, you will come to know about your monthly blog post limit on these websites very soon.

You will have no access to the plugins on most free blog creation sites like Blogger. If you are on the other hand using WordPress as your blogging platform, you will have access to over 20,000 plugins ranging from SEO to increasing your AdSense earnings.

You will have very few chances of making money with free blogs created on most of these free web hosts. With most, you cannot do much monetization wise. It will be your blog post area only where you can add links for making money. Most free blog hosts will not allow you adding any java Script or PHP code on your blog. Blogger.com is an exception to this. There are lots of free blog creation sites even that used to run their own monetization widgets on your blogs and you have no control to remove them (Paying money to them will be the only option).

FAQs About The List Of Free Blogging Sites In 2019

Here are few important questions around list of free blogging platforms that might be useful for you before using them to create free sites in 2019.

1. Are there any best free blog hosting sites available in 2019?

Yes, almost all of the blog sites mentioned above provide you hosting for free which means, they won’t charge you anything for hosting your site or posting any content on their platforms but they don’t give you full control unlike self-hosted platforms like WordPress.org.

That being said, if you are exclusively looking for best free blog hosting sites, here are a couple of them you can consider in 2019.

Wix (gives you 500MB of storage)

Weebly gives you 500MB of storage

000webhost gives you 10GB of bandwidth

2. How to use free blogging platforms to earn money online in 2019?

If you want to make money from blogging, we highly recommend you to start your site using a self-hosted publishing platform like WordPress which only costs you under $100 per year (where you’ll need to purchase hosting sites like Bluehost where you can get domain for free).

That being said, you can also make money using free blog creation sites and here are some of the following strategies to earn money with them.

Selling affiliate products

Using display ads like AdSense, Infolinks

Selling banner ads

Publishing sponsored product reviews

Offering services such as SEO, design, content writing and so on

3. What do I need to setup a free account with list of free blog sites?

All you need to get started with list of free blog sites is use your email address and there are also few free blogging platforms that allow you to sign up for free with social media sites like Facebook and twitter.

If you’re looking for best free blogging platforms in India, go for WordPress or Blogger as they are widely popular in India both in terms of usage, affordability and features.

4. List any 5 websites that provide blog service for free?

Almost all of the 15 sites mentioned here provide blog service for free including Blogger, WordPress.com, Penzu, Yola and so on where you can create your free personal blog within a few minutes.

5. What are the top free blog posting sites for SEO in 2019?

Blogger and WordPress are exceptionally well made platforms if you are looking for top free blog posting sites for SEO. And if you’re looking for eCommerce related free blogging platforms, then you should consider both Magento and Shopify.

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Final thoughts about the list of free blog creation sites

I hope I’ve suggest the list of best free blog posting sites that allow you to create your own blogs to share your thoughts and connect with other people online.

As I mentioned in this post, there are a lot of free blog writing sites available out there. Choosing a free blogging site is not an easy task and you can’t try them all at once. So first know your blogging needs, and choose your blogging platform according to your profession.

If you are a beginner and searching for ways to make money from blogs, I would strongly recommend you to try either Blogger or WordPress from the list of free blogging sites mentioned above. Let me know the best free blogging site you would recommend to a newbie?

Anil Agarwal

Anil Agarwal who owns Bloggerspassion.com, is a full-time blogger and SEO expert who has been helping people build profitable websites for over a decade. Bloggers Passion has been featured on premium online sites like Forbes.com, Huffingtonpost, SEMrush, Problogger, Crazy Egg, The Next Web and so on.

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Is it wiser to choose blogger.com as a free website?

Free blogging is always an issue for beginners. They think about blogging with WordPress. Self-hosted version of WordPress is a useful one but many bloggers go for free one because for them starting with some cost matters a lot. This will definatle right.

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

That’s so true Janitha, free blogging sites have their own downsides as they don’t offer you full control over your sites. But if you’re just blogging for fun or looking to share your thoughts, they are great. Or if you’re looking to make serious money or build your online reputation, then, you should definitely avoid free blogging sites.

Sir thank god, i found you on google, to make my dream come true as blogger, I am very new I had bought new domain leaving sub-domain of blogger.com. sir what to do next should I buy hosting or the blogger.com with my custom name will be ok

Sir thank god, I discovered you on google, to make my blessing from heaven as blogger, I am exceptionally new I had purchased new area leaving sub-space of blogger.com.

sir what to do next should I purchase facilitating or the blogger.com with my custom name will be alright

WordPress is my personal favourite and after that comes blogger. I’d never prefer other free blogging sites unless you are doing it just for you hobby and don’t really care about your articles. If anyone who is serious about Blogging and planning to go full-time in it they should always prefer going with WordPress.org. Although, it needs some upfront investment but every penny is worth it once you start to get 10X the ROI. 🙂

Hi. I use Weebly. I find it unreliable for uploading and posting photos. I use it mainly for posting photos for family to follow my comings and goings. I crashes a lot, especially from my phone. Also, it can not be posted to from my iPad. Most annoying.

Hi Anil, Thanks for this amazing list of free blog sites. Except for some 3-4 sites i never heard of these free blogging platforms. Luckily I got through your valuable post and now I’m trying how to get most of these sites.

Hi, Anil Nice collection of free Blogging Site.You did a great work. Because blogging is one of the best practice every one out there are doing but none of them no the free site.For those who are looking for free website this will be helpful for them. Thanks for sharing it great blog.

I am going to create a blog for my recently launched website. I have a question regarding these blog. Are the free blogs useful in terms of SEO? Should I do SEO work on these free blogs also?

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Hey Allan, that’s a great question. Free blogs are definitely not bad in terms of SEO. Take a look at the WordPress alternatives as well (https://bloggerspassion.com/wordpress-alternatives/) once to see a variety of options. There are few sites that provide excellent SEO features such as WordPress and also provide you full control over your sites.

When i started blogging, my first free blogging platform was wordpress.com then when i realize that i cannot make a lot of customization, i migrated to blogger, and in the end i still bought my own hosting and tranfered to a self hosted blog. I recommend if you a free blogging platform, choose blogger.

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

If you’re really serious about making money from blogging, go for a self-hosted WordPress blog as it provides you full control. Self hosted platform like WordPress is where you go to actually download a WordPress and easily install host the WordPress platform on your own server.

Hey they!

In recent times, WordPress.com has been the most valuable website for opening a blog website. Well, I haven’t used livejournal.com but all I wish to know are the limitations of all the listed free blog websites from the paid sites?

Why do most bloggers use wordpress.com most often?

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Emmanuel, we have already covered about the pros and cons of free blog sites in this post. Please check this post once and let us know in case you have additional question for us.

Hi, Anil Nice collection of free Blogging Site.You did a very good job. Because blogging is one of the best practice in off page and great job this web site provides SEO options and dynamic look for the website. Thnks for sharing great blog A very helpful for website

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Yes, blogging is definitely a great way to make money online and most of the free blogging sites shared here provide excellent features like drag and drop builder, SEO and so on. So make sure to check out each one of them and use the right one.

Hi Anil,

I agree with you, it can be a great thing to start on a free platform. Although, I started on a self-hosted blog from the get go. You can definitely save money by starting on a free platform.

Plus it will help you see if you really want to work this hard to grow your blog. It does take quite a bit of time to grow an online reputation and get people to start coming back.

If I was to do it over, I would start my blog on a self-hosted blog again. I wouldn’t want to have to migrate everything later when my blog gets big and popular.

Thanks for sharing this with us, have a great day 🙂

Susan

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Hi Susan, glad to see you around here.

Using free blogging sites, you can quickly launch a new blog without having to spend even a penny as most of the above listed sites provide you excellent features and storage space. Once you find ways to make money from online, you can start using sites like WordPress where you can invest money on hosting, domain etc.

Really Great list of Website and very useful, I have often use Weebly.com, this website provides SEO options and dynamic look for the website.

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

True that, Weebly is great for SEO purposes and also used by over 40 million people worldwide. Using Weebly, you can literally create anything from an online store to portfolio sites or SEO friendly websites to drive more leads and profits to your online website.

I always tell people when they’re starting out blogging that Free sites like Bloggers is the best way to start out because they allow you to put ads in the header, beginning paragraph of your blog posts, sidebar, bottom of the blog post, and footer of the blogger blog. One thing they want to do when starting a free blog is to make sure they have a copy of their contents either on their desktop PC or automatically sent to Google Drive. The reason for saving a copy of their content to their laptop or desktop PC or sent to their Google drive is because their blog can be deleted anytime for any or no reason. Being that the blogging platform they’re blogging on is public domain and anyone can report their blogs or any or no reason, it should motivate the amateur blogger to backing up their content and using the free blog platform form as an avenue of practice of strategically getting their content marketing ideas together and gaining some type of experience. Or just getting in the consistent mindset of posting blogs daily or every other day. This valuable experience I think will give them the inspiration and the proper blogging mindset so when they purchase their own domain and dedicated web hosting package, they’ll know how to keep going the extra mile in terms of blogging, content marketing, and having a piece of mind not having to worry about getting their blog deleted for whatever reason.

I would personally recommend free blogging platforms for anyone looking to gain experience and transition into the mindset of consistent blocking. It gives a person much to look forward to in terms of optimizing their writing style and building relationships with their readers without having to shell out one red cent for it a domain name and hosting. I personally tried Blogger.com back in 2005 when I knew nothing about blogging and affiliate marketing. Back then, I was an affiliate of Walmart.com and didn’t have the complete concept understood about blogging back then, content marketing, and making money in affiliate marketing. Though I made tons of mistakes and didn’t completely understand what a blog was and how it could make money while fiddling with some Walmart ads from LinkShare inside of certain positions in a blogger.com blog, I was able as an inexperienced Internet marketer-blogger to make money from the Walmart affiliate program through my blogger blog and collect a commission check a little over $72. I thought at that time I was really onto something and decided to stick with this line of work as my love slowly and quietly rule for blogging and affiliate marketing. I continue fiddling with the blogger free blogging platform and managed to potentially earn a few more dollars from the affiliate ads in it, some including Google AdSense.

So I’m really glad you put up this post about free blogging sites because it brought back some good memories of the days that I started when I knew nothing about blogging and making money online. I didn’t know about the other free blogging platforms because my mind was elsewhere at the time and was only concerned with knowing one free blogging platform that I can put some ads in my blog and start earning a few bucks just to see how serious this online business stuff really was at the time. Well, thanks again for putting this post up and I hope to read more from you soon! 🙂

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Wow, that’s a very lengthy comment and I really appreciate your time for sharing your thoughts with us. It definitely helps new bloggers to pick the right choice for starting a free blog online. I agree with most of your points that one need to take a full backup of their contents as most free blogging sites don’t provide you any backup feature. Apart from that, you also need to focus on finding a monetization strategy as soon as possible so you can move to something better option like WordPress.

blog.com is gone! My breast cancer story blog is no longer available. I can’t believe it is gone. I should have made a copy, but I usually use blogger and they are so reliable. Not sure why I tried this instead. Devastated! 🙁

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Unfortunately it’s gone and thousands of people lost their blogs as well. Sad to hear that your precious content is gone. That’s the reason why you need to only pick those free blogging sites with millions of people using it (sites like WordPress.org, Weebly, Blogger etc). Hopefully you’re still blogging on a good blogging platform.

The above websites are very useful, but I am a little bit confused with LiveJournal & Edublogs. Because my friend told me that both of the websites have robot issue. Please reply. Thanks

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

I don’t think so. Live Journal is a really good platform and if you’re looking for even better alternatives, you can check out this post: https://bloggerspassion.com/wordpress-alternatives/

hello!

great research on blog platforms.your suggested platform very informative for newly bloggers.IN my blogging carrier i have used many blogging platforms like blogger,tumblr etc.but i like WordPress most.

Thanks for information

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Yes, I’m also into blogging for a long while now and I’ve tried so many blogging sites but WordPress seems to be the best option among all. WordPress is, by far, the most popular open source Content Management System which is actually used by approximately 75 million websites. Not only WordPress is free to install and upgrade but you can also find a ton of useful plugins and themes.

Veerrry good list of blog platform providers. I saw today many other similar pages, but yours collects indeed the best platforms for blogers. IMHO own hosted (f.i. on a cheap hosting) blog, installed on wordpress or something like that, would be always better choice – there are so much more options, you can use or not, but they are there 😉 But of course, for beginners it could be to difficult, then the better option is a free blog platform like the platforms on your list. Thank you!

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

If you’re on WordPress, you can find so many cheap yet reliable hosting services like Bluehost (instead of going for unknown and less popular hosting choices) as they also provide you free domain name. If you want more info: you can check out this post: https://bloggerspassion.com/how-to-install-wordpress-on-bluehost-in-under-5-minutes-with-screenshots/

LiveJournal is nofollow. And SquareSpace is trial only. Try Zoho or SnackWebsites.

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

It doesn’t matter whether it’s nofollow or not as we’re only talking about the free blogging sites. Thanks so much for your other suggestions as well!

Hi Anil,

I am starter blogger person and i follow you last six month your all post and read very careful so you all post useful for me. and i am asking one question can you advise me best theme for starter blogger.

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

First of all, thanks so much for following me for so long time and I’m really glad to know that you’re reading our blog posts, hopefully you’re learning new things. For starting bloggers, there are so many options out there, I suggest you to check out Elegant themes once.

Hi Anil!

Would you mind if I ask you what theme are you using for this blog? I liked it very much and would want a similar one (using same will not be good).

I hope you will be able to answer this.

Thnks! Dhakkanz

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Dhakkanz, its a custom build theme which is designed by designer.

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

If you’re using a site only for uploading pics, I think you should better check out Tumblr as most people I see post a ton of photos and it’s also a great platform that offers you a ton of options for storage. So go give it a try if you’re not happy with Weebly.

Blog.com is a piece of crap, it never works right and the server is down a lot, it runs slow. Especialy in the last 10 days, it has been horrible. You can only know a blog by actually trying it, don’t tell people how great it if you haven’t used on a daily basis like i have.

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Shams, we recently updated this post and added 5 more free blog creation sites into this list. I hope this will help you. Please let us know in case we are missing any popular free blogging platform here.

Blog.com is no more active now and thousands of people who’re using their platform lost their content and sites. You can better check out this post if you’re serious about building your blog on a professional platform: https://bloggerspassion.com/wordpress-alternatives/

ucoz.com is the site which lets you control the way your site works. You can add css, scripts, html, pages, entries, multiple users, multiple subdomains. It provides the option of search through tags, common search. Moreover own themes can be added with full style sheet control.

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Heard a lot of good things about Ucoz, thank you for your suggestion, will definitely check it out and include it as well in the future. I guess it’s already offering easy to use drag-and-drop website builder with an intuitive interface designed for businesses. Keep sharing more information.

Hi Anil,

Free blogging is always an issue for beginners. They think about blogging with WordPress.org or WordPress.com. Self-hosted version of WordPress is a useful one but many bloggers go for free one because for them starting with some cost matters a lot.

Blogspot and WordPress.com are the leading websites which provide opportunity to blog free of cost.

You have listed some great websites to use by newbies.

Great post indeed.:)

Have a nice week ahead.

~Ravi

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

Hi Ravi, as you said, free blogging sites are definitely an issue for anyone including beginners as they don’t provide you much control, features, security, storage and so on but the only reason to consider them is when you’re starting out, it’s always better to start for free (unless you’re ready to spend some money on things like hosting, design etc). Thanks for the comment.

WordPress.com is the best site for creating blog as wordpress provides various themes and plugins to use . But I think blogger.com is the anathor great site for begginers. Blogger.com and wordpress are two most popular blogging sites also tumbler is popular but it didnt provide options like wordpress

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

WordPress.com doesn’t provide you plugins WordPress.org provides you all the plugins. The major difference between both of them is WordPress.com is completely free to use whereas the latter one requires hosting, domain etc. You can check this post if you’re curious: https://bloggerspassion.com/blogger-vs-wordpress/

I have only tried 3 out of that list, Blogger, LiveJournal & WordPress. I then discovered the wonderfulness of self-hosting my own WordPress blog and have never even contemplated looking anywhere else. 🙂

Anil Agarwal says:Reply

That’s what I think about WordPress too. Once you’ve realised the importance of using WordPress.org, you’ll never go back to any other blogging platform. It’s just like becoming an Apple fanboy, once you’re addicted to Apple products, you’ll never go back to something else.

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How to Properly Change a WordPress Theme (Ultimate Guide)

Are you planning to change the WordPress theme of your website? WordPress makes it super easy for users to change and manage themes on their site.

However, you must remember that changing the appearance of your live website is a major event. You need to keep certain things in mind before and after you change a theme, so you don’t lose any data and website traffic.

In this article, we’ll show you the step by step process on how to properly change a WordPress theme with a step by step checklist.

Here’s a quick overview of what you’ll learn in this article:

Things to Do Before Changing a WordPress Theme

How to Install a WordPress Theme

How to Change WordPress Theme Without Going Live

How to Change WordPress Theme on a Live Site

How to Change WordPress Theme Manually from the Database

Things to Do After Changing a WordPress Theme

Things to Do Before Changing a WordPress Theme

While changing a theme is literally a few clicks away, you must take some precautionary steps before starting the process.

We recommend that you to go through the following checklist to ensure that the process of changing your WordPress theme goes smoothly, and you don’t end up losing important data.

1. Copy Snippets from Your Current Theme

Some intermediate WordPress users like to customize their website by adding code snippets directly to the functions.php file of their theme.

Since these changes were made once, people usually forget about them.

If you or your web developer made these changes, then make sure to go through the files of your current theme and note down all the additional code that you’ve added previously. This will allow you to add them later into your new theme’s functions.php file or a site-specific WordPress plugin.

2. Test Load Time

Before changing your theme, you should check the load time of your website, so you can easily compare the differences in the page load time after you made changes to your website.

Remember, WordPress speed is an important factor in user experience and SEO, so you need to make sure that the new theme is faster than your previous one.

You can check your website speed by using a tool like Pingdom.

Make sure that you test the load time of the homepage and also some of your inner pages.

3. Don’t Lose Any Tracking Code

Some users add their analytics tracking code directly to their theme files. Also, there are WordPress themes that allow you to add Adsense or Analytics code in their settings panel.

One of the most common mistakes beginners make is to overlook these codes.

You need to make sure that you copy all the tracking codes, so you can add them to your new site after changing the theme.

To future proof this, we always recommend users to install Google analytics using a plugin like MonsterInsights, and for other tracking code we recommend using the header and footer plugin.

4. Make a Full Backup

It’s always recommended to back up your posts, images, plugins, and the database before changing your theme.

You can use a WordPress backup plugin to create the backup of your entire site. Make sure that you download this backup to your computer before moving forward.

This step will ensure that you can recover your website easily if anything goes wrong.

5. Sidebar Content

Sidebars are used for adding different widgets including social links, advertisements, subscription forms, or a contact form.

Make a note of these changes. If there is any custom code added into a widget, then make sure you copy and paste this code on your computer, so you can reuse it in your new theme.

6. Keep Your Site on Maintenance Mode

It’s a good practice to put your website on maintenance mode when you’re making changes to it. You don’t want your visitors to see an under construction site, right?

We recommend using the SeedProd plugin for this purpose.

It’s a popular WordPress plugin that allows you to easily create beautiful coming soon and maintenance mode pages for your site.

To keep your site on maintenance mode, you need to install and active the SeedProd plugin.

Next, head over to SeedProd » Settings page to configure plugin settings. Here you need to select the Enable Maintenance mode radio button and click on the Save All Changes button.

How to Install a WordPress Theme

After following the above precautions, the next step is to install a theme that you want to use on your site.

There are thousands of free and paid WordPress themes available for you to pick from. The fact that you’re reading this article means you’ve likely found a good theme for your needs.

If you haven’t already selected a theme, then we can highly recommend the following WordPress themes to you:

1. Divi

Divi is one of the most popular WordPress theme in the market. It’s powered by the drag and drop Divi Builder which allows you to easily build any kind of website.

It comes with 20+ pre-built layouts and 46 different content elements. You can easily customize each element of your site and see the changes in real time.

2. Astra

Astra is a lightweight and speed-optimized WordPress theme. It’s compatible with various page builder plugins like Beaver Builder, Divi, and Visual Composer.

It’s a translation and RTL-ready theme. This allows you to start your website in any language and even create a multilingual website.

Astra can be easily integrated with the WooCommerce plugin, so you can easily create an online store without much hassle. You can also customize the header, footer, layout, and more using the WordPress Theme Customizer.

Our favorite part about Astra is all the starter website templates it comes with.

3. StudioPress

Genesis is the most popular WordPress theme framework and has been built by the StudioPress team. You can create amazing websites using the Genesis framework and other StudioPress themes.

In case you don’t know, StudioPress is now a part of WP Engine, the most popular managed WordPress hosting company.

The best part is you’ll get 35+ StudioPress themes for free if you sign up for any WP Engine hosting plan.

4. OceanWP

OceanWP is a responsive and multi-purpose WordPress theme. It offers multiple demo templates that have been built with different professions and businesses in mind.

It is compatible with the major page builder plugins. You can also use different extensions to take your site to the next level.

5. Beaver Builder

Beaver Builder is one of the best drag and drop page builder plugins that allow you to build stunning pages for your site without any coding skills.

Beaver Builder is compatible with almost every WordPress theme, and you can even use it to create a custom WordPress theme without writing any code.

Anyways, we hope the above recommendations will help you to choose a WordPress theme for your site.

Once you’ve selected a theme, you need to install it on your WordPress site. Y

ou can use any of the following 3 methods to install a WordPress theme:

Using the WordPress theme search option

Uploading a theme from your WordPress Dashboard

Installing a theme using FTP

You can check out our beginner’s guide on how to install a WordPress theme for help.

How to Change WordPress Theme Without Going Live

Once you’ve installed your new theme, you are ready to switch themes.

However, it’s always recommended to test a theme before switching to it on your live website.

This way you’ll be able to check the compatibility of the new theme with your existing plugins and make sure that everything is working properly as desired.

There are two ways that you can use to change your WordPress theme without going live:

1. Live Preview Option

By default, WordPress allows you to preview a theme on your website without changing it.

To do that, head over to Appearance » Themes from the left sidebar of your admin panel.

On this page, you’ll see all the installed themes on your site. You need to hover your mouse over the theme you want to preview and click on the Live Preview button.

This will open your new theme in the WordPress Theme Customizer. You can now test your new theme and make sure that everything is working properly.

2. Theme Switcha Plugin

Another option is to use the Theme Switcha plugin. It allows you to preview your new theme without activating it.

First, you need to install and activate this free plugin. Next, go to Settings » Theme Switcha from the left sidebar of your admin panel.

On the Settings page, you need to select the “Enable theme switching” option and then, scroll to the bottom of the page to click on Save Changes.

This plugin will now display all your installed themes at the bottom of this page. Go ahead and click on your new theme to preview it on a new tab of your web browser.

How to Change WordPress Theme on Live Site

After you have tested your new theme, it’s time to start the process of switching the theme on your WordPress site.

To do that, go to Appearance » Themes from the left sidebar of the WordPress admin panel.

On this page, you need to hover the mouse cursor over the theme you want to use and then click on the Activate button to change the WordPress theme.

Now you can visit the homepage of your website to see the new theme in action.

How to Change WordPress Theme Manually

Sometimes an error can make your WordPress admin area inaccessible. In that case, you won’t be able to change the theme using the above method.

To recover your website, you need to restore it from backup, or you may troubleshoot the WordPress error causing the problem.

However, if you don’t have a backup, then you can change the theme manually with the help of phpMyAdmin.

This method allows you to inform WordPress which theme to use by changing the information in the database.

First, you need to connect to your website using an FTP client and go to the /wp-content/themes/ folder.

Here you’ll be able to see all the themes that are currently installed on your website. You can also install a WordPress theme via FTP if you don’t see it.

Next, you want to write down the folder name of the theme you want to use because you’ll need it later.

After that, you need to go to the cPanel of your WordPress hosting account. On this page, you will have to scroll down to the Databases section and then click on phpMyAdmin.

Once you are in phpMyAdmin, you’ll see a list of databases on the left side of the screen. Simply click on the database that you are using for your WordPress site.

Next, it’ll show you the list of tables in this database. You need to click on the “wp_options” table to open it.

Note: By default, WordPress use wp_ as the prefix for the table names. However, it’s possible to have a different database prefix, as shown in the above image.

Now you need to locate the template and stylesheet rows on the right panel.

Next, click on the Edit link present in the “template” row to open the editor.

Here you need to change the value in the option_value field to the theme name that you want to use. It’s usually the same as the folder name in /wp-content/themes/ folder that you copied earlier.

Once you’re done, click on the Go button to save the changes. Next, go ahead and repeat the same process for the “stylesheet” row.

After making changes to both the rows, you can go to your website to see the new theme in action.

Things to Do After Changing Your Theme

Once you’ve changed the theme on your website, you need to take care of certain things before turning off the maintenance mode.

You can check out the following checklist of things to do after changing your WordPress theme:

1. Test Your Website

First, you need to make sure that all the functionalities, plugins, and widgets are working properly.

You should invest some time to test your website and check out different things including the posts, comment section, images, and the contact form.

2. Cross Browser Compatibility

Browsers have a tendency of showing certain things differently.

To make sure that your website looks good in every major browser, you should test your site in different web browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer.

3. Add Tracking Code

After you’ve tested the features and the cross-browser compatibility, you should add your analytics and Adsense tracking code to your site.

You can use the MonsterInsights plugin to add the Google Analytics tracking code. This will allow you to properly setup analytics and view detailed website stats right inside your WordPress dashboard.

4. Turn Off Maintenance Mode

You can disable the maintenance mode on your site to make it go live.

If you’re using the SeedProd plugin, simply go to SeedProd » Settings from the left sidebar. On the settings page, select “Disabled” and click on Save All Changes to turn off the maintenance mode.

5. Test Loading Time

You need to go to the Pingdom website again to test the loading time of your homepage after changing the theme.

Next, compare it to the load time when your old theme was installed. If you see any major differences, you can follow our guide to improve WordPress speed.

6. Monitor Bounce Rate

After switching themes, you should monitor the bounce rate of your site.

If your new theme is not user-friendly and difficult to navigate, it may increase the bounce rate of your site.

You can add related posts, popular posts widget, and breadcrumbs to reduce the bounce rate and increase page views.

7. Ask for Feedback

You can also ask your users for feedback and suggestions on how to improve your site design. You can use survey forms or online poll to gather user input.

You can share the new design with your subscribers using an email marketing service and ask them for their suggestions. This will help you to get ideas on what they would like to see improved.

We hope this step by step guide helped you easily change your WordPress theme. You may want to see our list of the must-have WordPress plugins for business websites.

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Top 10 Best Blogging Platforms for Creating and Hosting your Blog

Today, there are over 152 million blogs on the internet..

Almost all of us read blogs:

News sites and other blogs associated with big companies like CNN or Wall Street Journal

Themed blogs related to our favorite stuff like TechCrunch, Refinery29 or Hypebeast

Professional blogs of leaders in our industry

Personal blogs: ones of our friends, travel, lifestyle and fitness blogs

Starting this blog was a turning point in my life

I was a great digital marketer and I always loved writing. So I married those two passions and took the plunge.

Today, my blog is not only one of my greatest sources of happiness but it also generates a good portion of my income! In our first year, we got 53,781 pageviews. Today, the blog is making over $15,000/month.

Maybe you’re thinking of doing the same thing. The good news: it takes less than 20 minutes to set up a blog.

But before you begin writing furiously, you need to choose the best blogging platform to create and host your blog on the internet.

Unfortunately, it’s a bit confusing because there are so many options. Choose wisely. It’s quite annoying to move your blog from what platform to another once you’ve started.

There’s some important things to consider when choosing the right platform for creating and hosting your blog:

Ease: Blogging should be about making great content, not battling with software or settings.

Customization: If you want your blog to look a certain way, you have to be aware of the limitations of certain blogging platforms.

Support: Will it be easy to get help if/when you need it?

Search optimization: If you want people to discover you serendipitously via internet searches, there are some blogs that offer much better “search engine optimization.”

Price

Features: Some of the blogging platforms offer all-in-one solutions including website domain name and web hosting; the others just provide the Content Management System (CMS) suitable for blog publishing. Based on your goals, you need to choose the features you care about.

I’ve done the research on each of the major blogging platforms. In fact, I’ve used nearly all of them at one point or another in my career. Below is how each of them stacks up.

WordPress.org is still my favorite blogging solution. Learn to start a WordPress blog here.

But keep reading if you’re considering others.

Top 10 Best Blogging Platforms for Creating and Hosting Your Blog

1. WordPress.org

When it comes to choosing a blogging platform the first option that comes to mind is WordPress.org. In my opinion, WordPress wins the award for best all-around blogging platform.

In fact, this blog is a WordPress blog!

Believe it or not, WordPress powers 29% of the internet. By that, I mean WordPress.org powers 29% of the internet. Note that WordPress.com is not what people are talking about when they mention “WordPress.” Curious about the difference? Read WordPress.org vs WordPress.com: What’s the Difference?

Because so many people use WordPress, there are hundreds of help websites for it and developers everywhere understand it in case you run into trouble.

WordPress excels in search engine optimization. Your blog posts are automatically organized in a way that Google crawl them (read and categorize them). This means that people across the internet are more likely to discover your content in Google searches.

WordPress also has a whole host of plugins — in fact there’s over 53,291 as of today. These plugins require no code to implement and can do things like:

Make your blog look completely different,

Add analytics so you can see user behavior

Collect email addresses from your visitors

Further improve your search engine optimization

Sell products to visitors

And just about anything else you can think of

Finally, WordPress blogs are beautiful. There are hundreds of themes to choose from so that your blog looks exactly like you want.

WordPress is one of the simplest blogging platforms.

Our guide on how to set up a WordPress blog is best-in-class and perfectly simple. Launch your blog in 20 minutes.

Pros

Suitable for beginners and professional blogs like CNN.com

Over 50,000 themes and plugins available

Search engine friendly; certain plugins make WordPress’ search optimization even more powerful from a search engine optimization perspective

Cons

Not as easy as a drag-and-drop editor like Weebly, but not very difficult

Types of blogs From fashion blogs to high powered Fortune 500 companies and everything in between, WordPress is a great solution.

Price Free, but you have to pay for hosting. Fortunately, we have a $3+ per month hosting deal thanks to our partnership with BlueHost!

Link WordPress

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2. Blogger

Now owned by Google, Blogger is one of the longest-running blogging platforms on the Internet.

While the most blogging platforms offer paid features, Blogger is completely free. This platform is perfect for the beginners. It’s very easy to set up a blog and begin publishing here.

The other advantage is deep integration with Google.

You may choose the photos for your posts from the images stored within your Google account; there’s integrated Google Analytics for site stats tracking, and you can even make money on your posts by using Google AdSense option which automatically displays relevant targeted ads on your blog.

The Blogger users get unlimited space for their blogs, and the number of blogs owned by each user is also not restricted. You may even run your blog on a custom domain, which was a feature they once didn’t allow.

While the customization options are limited here, the users still have some room for the creativity. It is possible to choose from the number of the templates and to customize them by digging into HTML and CSS.

You can even edit the blog’s code to include third-party advertising.

Blogger also offers a lot of built-in tools, called widgets, which are actually Google Apps integrated with the platform. There are clocks, calendar, Google Maps, Google Translate, Twitter, Instagram, YouTube widgets among the others.

Pros

Unlimited traffic and storage space for free

No fees for adding a custom domain

Google AdSense integration

Built-in analytics

Strong search engine optimization

Cons

Limited number of features

Limited customization

Types of blogs Best for small “hobby” blogs or “about me” blogs

Price Free

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3. Tumblr

Tumblr is positioned as one of the simplest blogging platforms. As the official site says ‘It is so easy to use that it’s hard to explain’. It’s a totally free service which offers yoursite.tumblr.com address for your blog.

There is also an opportunity to connect your own domain name.

Tumblr is not intended for the people who like to write, as it has the really tiny text field. In fact, Tumblr is more focused on a short content and thus, attracts those who are visually-oriented. It stays in the middle between the classical blogging platform and the social media feed.

It’s very straightforward to post links, mp3s, videos, Spotify tracks, photos, and any content you could possibly imagine. You can instantly see the similar posts from the other Tumblr users and share them on your blog.

Apart from the posts, one can also create pages which don’t move through the feed and thus are always accessible to the visitors. The number of pages is unlimited on Tumblr.

One of the outstanding Tumblr features is the mass editor. It’s very simple to work with the dozens of posts on one screen and make some batch actions with them. For example, you can tag, untag, or change a tag on a selected number of posts which are displayed as the thumbnails.

Tumblr is not optimized for search at all. If you want your blog to be discovered, stay away from Tumblr.

Pros

No fees for adding a custom domain

Convenient mass editor

Unlimited number of pages is possible

Your posts are advertised on the similar blogs

Cons

Limited design controls

Bad management of the comments

Types of blogs Only for bloggers who want to curate images (similar to Instagram) — not for serious blogs.

Price Free

Link Tumblr

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4. Medium

A lot of famous folks and influencers have chosen Medium for their blogging platform.

Created by the Twitter founders, this platform uses microblogging approach. There is one standardized template you use to publish all your posts.

It is possible to choose a grid or stream based layout for your publication, as well as add your logo, background color, or image to the header.

However, the customization options are very limited, so you’d better focus on what you write.

Medium has the robust WYSIWYG editor which recognizes key commands and formatting characters, correctly displays styles and more.

This makes it easy to use. But Medium is much better for pure written blogging than anything visual.

Once a post is published, Medium makes it simple for the other Medium readers to discover the content. The recommendations are based on the users’ interests. The readers can also easily subscribe to authors they enjoy. But Medium posts aren’t naturally very discoverable by Google, so SEO is just okay.

There are built-in analytics tools and inline commenting. You may also share your post draft with the interested users before it goes online.

Unfortunately, there is no option of using the own domain for your blog, so you can’t get the full control of your content. So you’re stuck on medium.com.

Pros

It’s easy to reach the existing Medium audience

Built-in analytics

Cons

Direct competition with other writers

Impossible to use your own domain

Just okay for search engine optimization

Types of blogs Not for business blogs or blogs that want to make money because of the lack of search optimization. Best for personal blogs.

Price Free

Link Medium

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5. Ghost

Ghost is another blogging platform very focused on written content. It’s extremely minimalistic and thus clutter-free.

However, it’s much easier to use Ghost if you or someone on your team has an engineering background. The editor involves code, plus most people customize the look and feel of their Ghost blog in code. There are few plugin or theme choices out of the box.

Ghost installation is much more complicated than WordPress. You need to have the strong technical background to make it work on your domain.

Ghost(Pro) is a simpler option as you instantly get the fully working site with it. However, there is no free plan of hosted version like on WordPress.

The other thing that you should keep in mind about Ghost is the lack of the visual editor. Instead, the posts are written in Markdown which is a text-to-HTML writing syntax that translates your text into the formatted output.

Thus, you should have some idea of how to use HTML and CSS if you move forward with Ghost.

Ghost is an open source content management system made for midsize companies and up — who have engineers that can help with the look and feel of the blog.

Pros

It is seen as the fastest blogging platform

Easy writing

Clean and simple

Cons

Free version is difficult to setup

The number of themes is limited

No plugins

You must have a technical background to use ghost

Types of blogs Most businesses and personal bloggers can use Ghost. However, given that some coding is required to use Ghost, you need to be a proficient engineer.

Price Free to install on your own domain. Paid plans start at $19 per month and include 1 blog and 50,000 unique views/month.

Link Ghost

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-WToqkx7GM

6. Weebly

Weebly is not a blogging platform out of the box, but it can be transformed in one.

In actuality, Weebly is a website builder — meant for creating just about any type of website.

All setup job is done by dragging and dropping the required elements like pictures, paragraphs, videos, buttons, maps, contact forms, and more.

What you see in the site builder is what you get on your pages (WYSIWYG).

Updating the site is easy as well. Weebly includes a lot of extensions that can be added if necessary — related to ecommerce, design changes and analytics. Of course, blog functionality is among the plugins.

If you ever need advanced site features like forums, membership options, integrated advertising, or file uploads it’s pretty easy to add them as well.

The best thing about Weebly is that it supports apps made by 3rd party developers. The app center is constantly growing making it easy to find the extensions for any task.

The free version of Weebly includes weebly.com subdomain and 500 Mb of storage which is not much if you want to share images with your visitors.

Weebly offers a number of beautiful themes for all kinds of blog categories: business, academic, education, e-commerce, writer, musician, and so on.

They not only look great but also very responsive and perfectly adapt to mobile devices. And it is possible to customize them making your site to look different.

Pros

Drag-and-drop support

Affordable e-commerce functionality

A lot of extensions and third-party apps

Cons

The pages are difficult to manage if you have more than 10

There isn’t great SEO optimization

Types of blogs Better for ecommerce sites than for blogs.

Price Free. Paid plans start at $8 per month and include unlimited storage and free domain.

Link Weebly

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VnRMP7jRjY

7. Postach.io

Do you use Evernote for organizing your personal information? Then you’ll be happy to find out that there is a way to blog right from this application.

Postach.io is a simple blogging platform directly connected to Evernote. How does it work? You create Postach.io account and connect it to your Evernote account.

Then you specify which notebook will be used for writing and storing the blog posts. That’s it.

The best thing about Postach.io is that all your content is actually backed up on your computer and can be reached from Evernote.

The blogging features of Postach.io are basic. The user gets a free yoursite.postach.io domain. By default, your name and surname are used as a subdomain, but you can choose the one you like in the blog settings.

It is also possible to customize blog appearance with a number of themes, to add social profiles and cover photo, to write a blog description, to specify the purpose and category. F

or the small monthly fee, you are allowed to use your own domain as well as to protect your site with the password.

There are also some useful add-ons that can be easily added to the blog. You can power your site with Disqus comments, add analytics to your site with Google, as well as configure automatic sharing of published posts to Twitter, a Facebook page or profile. Social sharing is implemented just by ticking posts with ‘share’ tag in Evernote.

Overall, pistach.io has limited use cases and should not be used by serious bloggers.

Pros

Evernote integration

Social sharing

Google Analytics support

Password protection

Cons

Few opportunities for customization

No advertising possibilities with a free account

Types of blogs For starting your online notebook. Not for serious blogs.

Price Free. Paid plans start at $5 per month and include a custom domain, password protection, more themes, source code access.

Link Postach.io

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IamSDEpNkDY

8. Wix

Like Weebly, Wix is a website builder — it’s not a blog out of the box. But still, people do use it to power their blog.

Wix is one of the most beautiful blogging platforms.

Fully powered by HTML5, this website builder offers stunning templates for every niche you can imagine. The choice of the niche is made during the registration.

Once you tell Wix what site do you want to build it offers thematic templates for every taste.

Artists, photographers, graphic designers and other creative people are among the most loyal Wix fans because there are so many different animation options, photo galleries, video players, and so on.

With a free account, you get 500 MB of storage and the ability to create the unlimited number of static pages. Secure hosting and a mobile site are also included. The posts are created within intuitive blog editor with drag and drop support.

You can edit drafts, schedule upcoming posts, tag and categorize the posts to help the readers easily find what interests them.

Wix also offers video and photo galleries that could be embed into the posts. And you can even embed HTML code to add quizzes, polls, surveys, and other interactive content.

Pros

Great looking themes

Themes are customizable

A lot of widgets for adding new features

Cons

Free plan has too many restrictions

Wix Ads on a free plan

Types of blogs Good solution for fashion blogs and ecommerce websites.

Price Free. Paid plans start at $4.50 per month and include the custom domain. To remove Wix ads and increase the storage/bandwidth the $8.50 per month plan should be used.

Link Wix

Video https://youtu.be/pWDr1MNfJ34

9. Penzu

Most people who start blogging want to attract as many readers as possible. Best go with a blog platform that specializes in search optimization like WordPress if this is your goal.

But there are a couple blogging platforms that behave more like diaries — for people who don’t want their thoughts to be discovered by others.

Think about pregnancy or food diary, the reflective journal where all daily emotions and activities are covered, private dream journal that makes you feel happy, and so on. This is when Penzu is useful.

The service offers handy blog editor with a focus on writing. There are not too many possibilities for design customization, but basic things like colors and fonts can be changed so that your journal can look the way you please.

Mobile support is also included in the free account, so you can write your thoughts from any device. And don’t worry about the post preservation, since autosave option is also in place.

The main focus of Penzu is security. All posts are private by default. You need to use one password to access your journal and the second for editing and adding the new posts.

And if you’re really concerned about privacy, the paid plans also include encrypted journal locking. Also, Pro plans and tags for your posts, individual entry locking, PDF Export, starring entries, custom writing reminders, version history, trash recovery, and more.

Pros

Possibility to have private blog

Mobile apps for easier blogging

Cons

Pure customization options

No encryption for the free accounts

Not a real professional blog, more for writers who want to keep a diary

Types of blogs Penzu is more of a personal diary. Not for serious blogs.

Price Free. Paid plans start at $2+ per month and include multiple journals, added security, reminders, and journal customization.

Link Penzu

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGVh4ckt6M0

10. Pen.io

Like Penzu, pen.io is geared toward bloggers who don’t want necessarily want others finding their content. The search optimization is not good, but that is by design.

Registering and setting up for Pen.io is incredibly easy.

It is an extremely minimalistic approach to publish your thoughts and to share them in seconds. This platform is also handy for the or online resumes, anonymous letters, lecture notes and so on.

How does it work? Think about services for temporary files sharing. It’s almost the same, but for the blog posts. You need to enter your page title and password which could be used later for editing the entry. Write your post and add images from your computer (drag and drop is supported), then save.

You’ll get the unique link to the post that can be shared with other people. You may also create multi-page posts using tags. No user account, to blog customization, just the pages with the content. The page can be edited by clicking the link at the bottom.

It is not search optimized.

Pros

No registration required to create blog posts

Simple editing

Cons

No customization for the blog

Once the editing password is forgotten, it couldn’t be restored

No social sharing

Not search engine friendly

Types of blogs Pen.io is more of a personal diary. Not for serious blogs.

Price Free

Link Pen.io

Video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F9fyf3hDyyI

Conclusion

When you are just thinking of your own blog you really have the freedom of choice.

Of course, if you’re a novice it’s important to choose the blogging platform that is easy to set up and customize. But it is always a good thing to look ahead because switching the platform is not easy when your blog is already running.

So, before making your choice, try to visualize your blog in the future.

Could it grow into something bigger (online store etc.)?

Are you considering advertising option on the site?

Do you want to own all your content and have an access to it and thus, ready to buy a domain? Answers will definitely help you to choose the best option.

There’s a reason most bloggers use WordPress. It has the out-of-the-box features and flexibility to serve your needs today or however you decide to grow in the future. See the guide by clicking below.

–> How to Set Up a WordPress Blog: Easy Step-by-Step Guide <–

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Try to cover everything that a potential customer would like to know about the product. Use examples and screenshots and don't shy away from pointing out potential weaknesses of the product. Share your first-hand experience and tips. Transparency goes a long way. Finally, make sure to include at least one CTA on your page with the affiliate link. And if you can offer perks such as discounts, you may leverage that angle and ask your visitors to sign up for your newsletter, for example, to get a special deal. Just don't try to rank for discount-related keywords in the hopes of making easy money. That's not allowed by most affiliate programs and will only lead to the termination of your affiliate account. A resources page can be a list of your top tools and products that you endorse and use yourself. Just don't go overboard with your list by adding items that you're not actually using regularly. Add a brief description of each product, and your affiliate link. This should lead visitors to a free trial. Make sure you include a disclosure as well, just like with any promotional page. This rule is the same for your affiliate program itself.

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37 Reliable Ways To Make Money With Your Blog or Website as a Newbie

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37 Reliable Ways To Make Money With Your Blog or Website as a Newbie

So, you have built a fully functional website or blog and you are trying to figure out how to monetize it. Well, there are tons of ways you can make it work for you. In this book, we have compiled a list of 37 methods of turning your website into a money maker without even making significant investments in it. Letâ€™s get started.

â€œPay Per Clickâ€ advertisements (Google Adsense)

Google operates two advertising programs: AdWords and Adsense. The former entails showing adverts on the results returned by Google search. As a website owner who needs to make money from your site, you donâ€™t need the former, but the latter â€“ Adsense, which lets you display adverts on your site instead, and youâ€™ll be paid for it!

The best part about Google Adsense is that it is incredibly easy to set up and the returns are quite motivating.

How does it work? After you sign up with the program, Google will attach a tiny block of code on your website to identify the kind of content you post there and the type of visitors you receive. This code is also used to uniquely target your visitors with relevant advertisements while considering the niche of your website. If your website is all about fashion and apparel, for example, Google will begin showing your audience adverts for fashion-related stuff: clothes, accessories, shoes, etc.

You earn money whenever a visitor clicks on the advert. (Itâ€™s that simple!)

The average pay per click is somewhere in the middle of $0.50 and $5. And when your site has robust traffic, you can comfortably earn hundreds (sometimes thousands) of dollars every month.

How do you apply for AdSense, you might ask? Before even applying, consider taking a glance at their Terms and Conditions (they update them quite often, and they are strict on those rules). Now open another tab on your browser and sign up with the program.

Benefits of joining AdSense

If you own more than one site, AdSense lets you manage all your ads from one place

You donâ€™t need to sell any specific product to earn money; you simply display other peopleâ€™s promotions on your site

You audience will only be showed ads that are relevant to them â€“ no annoying and irrelevant stuff

AdSense doesnâ€™t even require you to understand the technical part of the program, they will do the complicated part for you

Both you and your audience would love good web design. Well, Google AdSense gives you greater degree of customization concerning the adverts they supply

Did we mention it is free to join? Yes, it is. And joining it is incredibly easy

No initial investments are required, whether in term of money or time

Drawbacks

Limited language support

Minor mistakes can result to lifetime ban (as we earlier mentioned, Google AdSense are very strict with their rules)

Traffic exchanges and traffic from social networks are restricted

Invasive tracking brings privacy questions

You canâ€™t change country or the name of the payee

Sell your own stuff (can be eBooks or any other digital product)

You have a huge potential to make money by creating a â€œper saleâ€ service that letâ€™s your audience access your material at a fee. There is no middle man you can worry that they may slash some of your earnings.

Are you too good at something that you would like to pass the skills to someone else? Why not start an online course on your website? Alternatively, you can write eBooks about or create podcasts within your area of expertise and ask your audience to buy them based on whichever friendly plan you can formulate.

Besides selling digital products (eBooks, tutorials, and stuff), you can also sell physical products

This approach may look simple and straightforward because all you need is enough knowledge in something or possession of a product you can make yourself, so you can simply avail these items on your site and start making money immediately. Unfortunately, it is not as easy as it looks. Creating a quality product requires massive investment in terms of time and financial resources. Other resources like content and design may be required. Besides, you will need to set up a third-party payment gateway to complete such operations as shipping, payment, and even taxes â€“ you are almost assured of having problems in the initial phases.

When you get everything right, you will be an independent content creator or seller of an item with greater say on your cash inflows.

Here are some valuable resources I thought would be great for starters:

Guide to selling products from your site

How to create â€œBuy Nowâ€ button on your site with PayPal

Benefits of selling products on your site

As aforementioned, you have total control on things like price and output

You get to keep the lionâ€™s share of your earnings. No middle men, just the tax man.

It is a great way of getting the most out of your talent or skills. (Selling handcrafted products, for instance)

Accept donations from your visitors

If you are a beginner blogger or you’re just starting out with your website and you donâ€™t have many monthly visits, but your site has a sizable and engaged community, you can simply ask your followers to donate. It isnâ€™t the best paying way of monetizing your site but can help you meet the expenses as you work towards making your site more established. We know of some programs that have been sustained in their entirety by donations. A good example is the Videonlan project (the guys behind the ever-versatile VLC Media Player) although their case is a bit unique. Another good example are the operators of the web.acrchive.org who make a lot of money purely from donations.

Asking people to support your journey shouldnâ€™t be hard, and thatâ€™s why Paypal offers a tiny donation button you can add on your site to keep you going â€“ here is how to create one. There is a detailed guide about how to accept donations on wikiHow, check it out.

Benefits of accepting donations

It is easy to integrate

You can easily establish recurring payments (with Paypal)

Payments are almost always secure

It is a showoff gratitude from your audience

Drawbacks

There is always that discomfort you feel when asking people to donate, it feels like begging

It is both unreliable and unsustainable

Review products and other peopleâ€™s websites

This technique of monetizing your site is applicable if you are a leader in a specific niche. If your website or blog is popular among parents, for instance, you can review children toys. If you are into video games and youâ€™ve built a sizable following on social media, why not review the latest releases from the comfort of your website and let your social media followers flock there?

But even if you havenâ€™t established your site to be an authority in any niche yet, you can start off as a reviewer â€“ all popular reviewers began from somewhere.

How does product review pay? Manufacturers would normally pay you to review or test their products on your platform with hopes that someone in your audience will be impressed with the product and proceed to buy. You may as well review products without being asked by the manufacturer, but you will be aiming to boost traffic this time, which can help you build the reputation of your website or even increase your referrals if you are signed to an affiliate program.

The most assuring thing about reviewing products is that manufactures will eventually come to you once your website has gained root in a specific niche.

Benefits of reviewing products

You have the freedom to set your own prices

You can use review materials for marketing

One of the surest ways of becoming an authority site in a given niche

Doesnâ€™t require huge investments as you donâ€™t need to own the products you are reviewing

Drawbacks

Very difficult to make money if you are not an already established figure in the niche

Create an e-Commerce site (you need to work hard)

You can move away from the traditional approach of making content to be the center of your websiteâ€™s survival and instead base it on products or tools. A website that offers a certain product or tools is an online store or e-commerce site.

But this could be the hardest way of monetizing your website because there are tons of e-commerce sites on the web already and you must compete with a lot of them. The only way to stand out of the pack having a better strategy than anyone else and employing the most effective marketing techniques you can ever come across. Also, it is just as important to find a unique niche, preferably one that hasnâ€™t been overcrowded yet.

How much money do you stand to make from an online store? Letâ€™s say your store is one of the most successful in your niche, you can earn over $100,000 per month. The initial investments leading to such income can be significantly high. A yet-to-very-established online store can bring about $500 in a month.

How do you get started? We need a whole separate post to outline how to go about it. Here are two brief guides:

How to start a WooCommerce online shop (for WordPress)

How to start a Shopify e-Commerce shop (for Shopify)

Benefits of running an online shop

Access to global market 24/7

You can manage your shop from anywhere

Measured results through various online marketing strategies

You can sell almost anything

Setbacks

Initial investments can be very high

It is highly demanding. Unless you have a dedicated team to handle your clients and other aspects of the business, you will have a hard time running it alone

Flip your site (Build > Sell > Reinvest)

Well, you have probably never heard of this before, but you can sell your website to someone else, make some good money, and reinvest it in another new website. You just add everything that makes a good website: AdSense, search engine optimization, and even having sold some products on the site. There is always a buyer out there trying to avoid the hard labor of creating a functional website from scratch.

Honestly, I donâ€™t suggest that people should make sites and sell them and even make a business around that activity. I am a big fan of building something that you can use in a long time, or forever.

But you canâ€™t ignore how lucrative this business can be. Imagine a scenario where your site earns about $400 per month by selling ad space. If everything else is working perfectly, the price tag on such a website will be somewhere between $4000 and $10,000.

Better yet, you can opt to deal in ready-made sites. They are cheap, but you can make pretty decent money from it

Where can you sell your site?

Flippa â€“ the most well-known website market

WeBuyWebsites â€“ a marketplace strictly dedicated to buying websites

FEinternational â€“ if you have a high-end website, sell it here

Benefits of selling websites

Low set up and running costs

You enjoy higher margins and better cash flow

You can do it from anywhere

Scale-ability

There is always a market

Drawbacks

Establishing a fully functional website complete with SEO and other necessities is harder, especially when you must do it en masse

Create an affiliate program

Once you have established your online shop or put some content on offer (whatever you choose to sell on your website) you can establish an affiliate program and enlist affiliates to help you market your products out there for a commission.

The idea of having your own affiliates spreading the word about you on their platforms is one of the best ways of building the fame of your site and boosting the sales of you are running an e-commerce site. It is a win-win situation: you get a lot of traffic from the referred visitors and boost your sales while the affiliates get their commission plus recognition for identifying with your brand (if itâ€™s a brand of authority in your industry).

If you are using WordPress, there are plenty of plugins that you can utilize to achieve any affiliate marketing goal.

Benefits of having your own affiliate program

It cuts the marketing expenses because the affiliates will do most of the marketing

You are almost certain that every lead will end up making a sale

It is straightforward and dependable

Easy to manage and control

Drawbacks

You will always be pushed to offer higher commissions even when your earnings are low

Build an amazon store page

Ponder over this: Amazon, the largest e-Commerce company on the planet, sells almost everything your audience could ever want. Doesnâ€™t it make sense to add an Amazon page on your website instead of creating your own online store that you might have a hard time building?

If you think about it, you will quickly realize how cost effective and rewarding it is to have Amazon on your page. Also (to my surprise), many bloggers and website owners donâ€™t seem to be too much into this venture.

It is important to note that this approach works very much like Amazonâ€™s own affiliate program â€“ you get a commission when the member of your audience proceeds to Amazon to complete a purchase. The commission can be anything between 1 percent and 10 percent. It is still a great way of monetizing your site.

Now those were the top ways of monetizing your website. Letâ€™s look at other not-very-well-known ways of making money. They arenâ€™t minor ways. Rather, they are ways that deserve special mention:

Selling text-link ads

You can sell text-link ads to websites that need them most. We donâ€™t really recommend this, but it is worth trying out. The reason why we donâ€™t root for this way of making money is that Google Terms of Service are strongly against it. So, if you get involved in this kind of business, you risk being penalized, and it could be for life!

Set up â€œinfolinksâ€

If you are not a huge fan of Google AdSense, you can opt for infolinks. Infolinks is a handy online advertising platform enabling website owners and bloggers to display relevant ads on their sites and earn money. As you can see, it works very much like Google AdSense. Sounds interesting, Huh! Here is how to set up infolinks on your site. There is only one major drawback about infolinks: their payouts are remarkably small compared to Google AdSense, but itâ€™s worth trying out.

Use monetization widgets

A web widget can be in the form of an application or a web page. In this specific case, you will use web page-based widgets. Web widgets are normally independent from the host web page and have very limited interaction with the rest of the web page.

How do you make money from widgets? Well, they work in a way similar to Google AdSense â€“ they display relevant ads on your site in exchange of money. There is a guide to it, check it out.

Establish RSS feed ads

RSS feed ads work exactly the way they sound: you allow RSS feeds on your site along with ads. The best part about RSS feeds ads is that you can choose to use partial or full RSS feeds, whichever suits your needs. Another advantage is that they boost your page views while earning income. Which option you choose, RSS Feeds ads are split into two groups: pay-per-click (very much like Google AdSense) and traffic-based ads. There is a guide on how to get started at Blogging Basics.

Create a business page/paid directory.

Business directories keep popping up on the web like mushrooms and that could mean one thing: they are minting money for their owner. A business directly is any site with a list of businesses in a given niche depicting their location, size, and activity.

At the start, you comb sources to get information about these businesses and present them in a presentable way on your site. But as time goes on, and you build reputation, new business will seek your assistance in listing their information on your directory. Here is an example of some of the biggest business directories on the web (in no particular order):

BOTW (Best of the Web) â€“ BOTW has been here since 1994 and now has over 16 million businesses in its database

About Us â€“ About Us enjoys about 150,000 visits every month

Google My Business â€“ A business directory run by the owner of the most popular search engine on the planet is destined to be a monstrous directory.

Do you wish to venture into this line of business? Here is a step by step guide on how to get started.

Offer writing gigs

What about writing for other bloggers at a fee? Yes, many bloggers and site owners donâ€™t have a lot of time to spend on writing every article uploaded on their sites/blogs. So, if you are good in gaming, for example, and you run a website dedicated to posting gaming updates, you can start a content creation service which can benefit other time strapped bloggers.

There isnâ€™t a guide or set of tricks to help you make it in this method of monetizing your website.

Sell podcasts

It is easier to sell podcasts today than it has ever been, thanks to services like Appleâ€™s iTunes. But there is a better approach to it: Why not take full advantage of your website’s influence in a certain niche and start selling podcasts to your readers/listeners. If you have paid close attention to the activities of most political commentators in the United States, you might have noticed that most of them no longer include iTunesâ€™ links on their YouTube or social media pages. Rather, they direct you to their podcasts on their own websites. This approach can be employed by pretty anyone with podcasts to offer.

The benefits of selling podcasts on your website are numerous, including the fact that no one will deduct part of your pay for hosting them on their service for you.

Create videos for YouTube

Letâ€™s be honest, no one on the internet monetizes videos better than YouTube. The social network lets you earn money on views received by your videos. The minimum payout is $100. Before a channel qualifies for YouTube Partner Program, it must receive 10,000 views or more.

Things get a little complicated when you throw ads in the mix. If a video accumulates 1 million views, for instance, but no one clicks on any of the pay-per-click adverts displayed on that video, you earn nothing. Google has a rather intricate way of awarding content creators for videos they upload on the platform.

But youâ€™re trying to make money from your website, right? How does YouTube get involved? If you have been producing a lot of video content on your site lately, you might have noticed that it is hard to increase your audience from your website. You need to move those videos to YouTube â€“ which is the worldâ€™s largest video repository â€“ and include a link to your website. You would have killed two birds with one stone: you would have created a way of boosting traffic to your website while getting paid for your videos at the same time. We already know of a dozen ways web traffic can be monetized.

Be a consultant

Picture a situation where you are so good at Information Technology that your site is entirely based on providing information about the latest releases and emerging trends in the world of technology. How do you monetize such a website further? You can start offering consultancy services to your readers and visitors right on your website or blog.

The goal is to make the most out of your expertise in your field. If you are looking for inspiration, look at what Neil Patel is doing and how he has established his site not only to be a one-stop source of every bit of information you need about SEO (search engine optimization) but to be a reputable SEO consultancy platform as well. And there is a list of proven tricks to make it big in the world of web-based consultancy services, check the out.

Add a forum (membership-based forum)

If you are using a WordPress site, you can benefit from a range of plugins that can make the whole process as easy as ABC, bbPress is one of those Plugins. It doesnâ€™t mean creating a forum on regular websites is hard, Website Toolbox leads you through three simple steps to make one.

Use content lockers

Instead of creating great content and requiring your readers to subscribe to access it, you can choose to introduce content lockers where the reader will only pay for certain content by unlocking it with payments. The best part is that you can switch it around to take various forms. For instance, instead of paying to see the content, you can require the reader to view a certain advert.

There is a YouTube tutorial on how to set up content lockers. The approach may be a little different on a WordPress site, here is the guide.

Affiliate marketing

If you are new to this concept of spinning some cash, just know it entails promoting someone elseâ€™s stuff on your website and if, hopefully, someone sees your promotion and responds to it by buying the item, the guy youâ€™re promoting for will award you an agreed commission.

So, this is how it works: You begin by signing up with a third-party affiliate program (the likes of CJ Affiliate and Amazon Affiliate Program) or the affiliate program established by the entity (also known as the merchant) whose products you wish to promote. Either way, you will be given a referral link and/or banners which you will display somewhere on your website while promoting the merchantâ€™s products. The whole concept is built on whether someone in your audience will be pleased with your promotion or the product you are promoting and decide to give it a try.

When someone in your audience clicks on the banner or referral link, they are led to e a page where they can see the merchantâ€™s product and make a purchase. It doesnâ€™t always entail buying a product; it can be a download or completing registering for something. Whichever intent, you, as an affiliate marketer, will earn a commission if the person you referred completes the process as required.

Where can you find merchandise to promote? There are as many options as there is sand in the sea, but here are the three most popular affiliate programs:

Rakuten Linkshare

Rakuten Linkshare has been around for a long time. Its popularity is increasing every passing day. If you are an avid fan of football, youâ€™ve probably discovered that Rakuten is the jersey sponsor of Barcelona F.C, an indication of popularity. Rakuten has managed to ward off competition for many years it has been around by providing features that are distinctive and user-friendly. Such features include rotating different banner adverts for particular products, ease of administering and optimizing among others. But what makes Rakuten be one of the best affiliate marketing programs is its flexibility in promoting offers.

Clickbank

Clickbank is yet another remarkable affiliate marketing program. Its popularity has been fueled by its specialization in digital products. The program has been around for a long time as well, earning a great reputation in marketing eBooks and other digital products. One of the impressive things worth mentioning about Clickbank is the fact that you can gain unrestricted access to millions of eBooks immediately after finishing the sign-up process. No one else does that in the sphere of affiliate marketing. Marketers make a killing on Clickbank with its sumptuous commissions. The payment process is fast, marketers have the freedom to sell what they like and the site itself is stunningly easy to navigate and use.

Amazon associates

It has been dubbed the king of affiliate marketing due to its huge number of sellers (over 1.5 million sellers). This immense number of sellers makes this program the best place for beginners to start. It isnâ€™t entirely a newbie paradise. Experienced marketers are impressed with the atmosphere created by the program to develop custom tools and web pages that have APIs. Amazon Affiliates have a stunning one million partner merchants! No other program has ever come close to having such many partners. The program is also very flexible and easy to use.

Therefore, if you donâ€™t start well, you may end up messing up various things. There are resources you need to have while embarking on building affiliate marketing websites.

1. Training and inspirations

There is nothing wrong with creating an affiliate marketing website from scratch. However, you need sufficient training to create a really successful affiliate marketing website. Having the inspiration to push the idea is also an added advantage. Starting an affiliate marketing website is overwhelming.

2. Video Tutorials on Affiliate Marketing

Basic education about affiliate marketing isnâ€™t enough for building a successful affiliate marketing website. Video tutorials about affiliate marketing can be of great help especially when you have basic affiliate marketing knowledge but you need to improve it and kick-start affiliate marketing career. Affiliorama is the best place you can get affiliate marketing tutorials.

3. Email platform

Your website needs to be linked to a Google email platform. Although not every strategy in online marketing involves the use of email, having a reliable email strategy can have a remarkable impact on the sales. Some of the reputable email platforms to choose from include MailChimp, GetResponse, aWeber e.t.c

4. Backlinks

Backlinks are a valuable resource that should never miss on your affiliate marketing website. They serve to link your web page to other websites hence boosting the traffic and your websiteâ€™s outreach. Backlinks help popularize your website within the circles of a niche of your choice. For instance, if you are selling fish, you need backlinks linking to websites that sell or talk about fried chips, chili and anything else that can go together with fried fish.

Google Webmaster Tools

Search engines are a great source of traffic for blogs and websites. It is good to know how search engines view your affiliate marketing website. One tool to use is Google Webmaster. Actually, Google Webmaster is a group of tools that help users see how their websites are crawled, how the pages are indexed and the performance of keywords. Google Webmaster can also identify if there is a malfunction in your website.

Benefits of joining an affiliate program

If you are good at marketing, or if your site is sort of an authority in a given niche â€“ say, in golfing, fashion, or motor sports â€“ and you have a significant following, you stand to make an insane amount of money

It is based on performance, not the investments you commit

Affiliates can increase your reputation

Affiliates can also increase the traffic on your website while increasing sales

Drawbacks

You will find that some program offers meagre commissions that makes the whole thing to be unmotivating

You donâ€™t have any control on what the affiliate program chooses to do

You have no say on your competitors

Revenues are not guaranteed

Affiliate links can be hijacked

Link your site on craigslist and sell skills and possessions

If you canâ€™t design a website for an individual then probably you have an old toaster you need to sell on the craigslist. Many graduates are offering their skills online as consultants of almost anything you can mention depending on their expertise. Additionally, you can sell items you no longer use on the Craigslist and earn some quick bucks. Craigslist has over 40 million users. Better yet, every large city has a special section reserved for it. The website is highly convenient to anyone with a drive to make money.

Link your site to ebay and auction products

eBay is the best site you can use to auction stuff that you no longer use. Clothes, cars, electronicsâ€¦you name it, eBay can auction it. You can choose between the options of straight auction or flat rate. To compensate for the service, eBay takes a tiny amount of what you earn and thatâ€™s just Okay. You need to know that eBay thrives on an elaborate feedback system which requires you to build a great reputation as a trustworthy seller.

Selling homemade items

You can sell handmade items on your site. You can also collaborate with sites like Etsy to promote your homemade merchandise. Etsy is a platform where crafts and other homemade creations are availed for sale. It can be anything you made at home: beautiful candles, soap with your signature fragrance, hand knitted scarves, homemade jewelry, essential oils, postcards, art prints, crocheted small animals etc. To send sales in the roof, you need to charge your clients reasonable top keep them coming back for more knitted kitten clothes. Just like eBay, Etsy will ask for a small percentage of your earnings.

Publishing eBooks

Have you ever thought or offering your book for sale on your website or in conjunction with KDL (Kindle Direct Publishing) This is the best opportunity for men to capitalize on their previous writing works that have never been finished. If you have an unpublished book and you believe you are not in a so nice financial situation, quickly dash to Amazon, publish it, set the best price you can think of and put it up for sale. You need to promote your eBooks widely on social media to expose them to most people. Consider publishing a book within your area of expertise and not just a fictional story.

Taking online surveys

You can make your site to be part of crowds pooled by consumer companies to conduct online surveys and get consumer feedback. For just 6 hours, you can earn up to $50 which is channeled in your Paypal account. Some of the websites offering survey services include My Survey, iPoll, and Pinecone.

#Make Money #Make Money With Your Blog

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Hot Topix - Modern WordPress Magazine Theme

Last update: Version 3.3.1 – July 19, 2018

Hot Topix is the complete makeover for your WordPress magazine site! This ultra-modern, professional theme is compatible with WooCommerce and bbPress, is retina-ready, fully-responsive and comes with five different ad units, including a wallpaper ad. Hot Topix also comes with a drag-and-drop homepage, featured posts on each category page, a “sticky” menu bar, post/page slideshows and so much more!

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Complete List of Features

Compatible with WordPress 4.9+

SEO Optimized

HTML5 & CSS3

Translation-ready (contains .po/.mo files)

Comes with XML dummy data (posts, tags, categories, menus)

Easy implementation with Google Adsense ads

WordPress Featured Image support

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WordPress Custom Menu support

No need for any additional plugins

Custom Theme Options panel

Custom CSS section in Theme Options so users will not lose custom changes to CSS when you update to a new version

Built in Google Analytics support

Optional homepage blog layout

Free lifetime updates

News ticker

Mobile/tablet versions use “swipe” navigation for carousel widget

Easily upload you own logo

Threaded comments

Ability to turn Responsiveness on/off

Ability to turn Featured Image on posts on/off

Ability to turn social buttons on posts on/off

Optional Author Info at the bottom of posts

Custom copyright/footer text

Custom favicon

In-depth documentation

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Support

MVP Themes takes pride in its support! If you have any questions related to the setup of Hot Topix that are not covered by the theme documentation or if you run into any bugs with the theme, please submit a ticket at the MVP Themes Support Center.

Unfortunately, MVP Themes cannot perform customization work for each of our customers, so Hot Topix comes “as-is”. Any customization you would like to make to the theme outside of fixing bugs will need to be done by you or a third party.

Updates

v3.3.1 – July 19, 2018

Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (2.0.0)

v3.03.0 – November 14, 2017

Theme is now PHP7 compatible

Fixes bug with retina feature

Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (1.15.0)

Affected files: /js/retina.js /widgets/All Files style.css

v3.02.0 – April 24, 2017

Adds compatibility with WooCommerce 3.0

Removes share count due to change in Facebook API

Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (1.14.0)

Affected files: attachment.php functions.php page.php page-fullwidth.php style.css

v3.01 – August 7, 2016

Increases speed and efficiency of theme by removing Tag arrays in Theme Options and Widgets by adding input fields

Fixes bug with social sharing function

Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (1.10.4)

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php /widgets/widget-carousel.php functions.php style.css

v3.0.3 – May 13, 2016

Fixes bug with flyout menu

Affected files: /css/media-queries.css /js/scripts.js functions.php style.css

v3.0.2 – March 9, 2016

Fixes bug with jQuery

Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to latest version (1.9.15)

Affected files: functions.php style.css

v3.0.1 – March 8, 2016

Fixes bug with category pages from previous update

Changes width of menu on boxed header option

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php category.php functions.php style.css

v3.0 – March 2, 2016

Adds built-in fly-out menu to replace Menufication

Increases speed of backend by removing dropdown of Google Fonts. Now, you can simply enter the font name in the Theme Options

Updates title tag code to comply with WordPress 4.0+

Fixes bug with XML data

Fixes bug with Checkout button on Cart page in Woocommerce

Fixes bug with Theme Options caused by WordPress 4.4 update

Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to its latest version (1.9.14)

Social media sites now require full URL in Theme Options

Theme is now full-width on all mobile devices

Affected files: All

v2.9.1 – August 28, 2015

Fixes bug with social count relating to Google Plus

Fixes bug with Woocommerce star rating display

Affected files: functions.php style.css

v2.9 – August 22, 2015

Changes formatting of share counts higher than 1,000 to 1.0K, 1 million to 1.0M, etc

Fixes bug with widget code to comply with WordPress 4.3

Affected files: All files in /widgets folder functions.php style.css

v2.8 – June 3, 2015

Updates mobile display to be full-width

Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (1.9.1)

Affected files: /css/media-queries.css style.css

v2.7 – March 17, 2015

Updates Responsive Ad Unit below articles to enter code from Theme Options rather than individual articles

Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (1.8.3)

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php functions.php single.php

v2.6 – March 14, 2015

New Feature! – Full-Width Posts layout

New Feature! – Adds ability to display a responsive ad unit at the bottom of posts

New Feature! – Adds caption/photo credit space below Featured Image

Adds Social Count number to social sharing buttons

Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (1.8.2)

Affected files: attachment.php functions.php header.php page.php page-fullwidth.php single.php style.css

v2.5 – January 19, 2015

Updates social sharing buttons

Makes minor visual updates

Updates Theia Post Slider to latest version (1.8.1)

Affected files: All files

v2.4.1 – January 6, 2015

Fixes bug with default mobile menu

Fixes bug caused by last update causing plugins to load in author description

Affected files: /css/media-queries.css single.php

v2.4 – December 19, 2014

Fixed issue with nav menu in Chrome

Fixes conflict between plugins and author description on post pages

Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to latest version (1.8.0)

Affected files: author.php single.php style.css

v2.3 – September 26, 2014

Fixes retina related errors by updating retina.js to latest version

Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to latest version (1.6.4)

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php /js/retina.js style.css

v2.2.1 – August 19, 2014

Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to latest version (1.5.7)

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php

v2.2 – June 13, 2014

Fixed minor bug with jumping on mouseover for Featured Posts section

Fixed minor bug with enabling social sharing toggle on attachment pages

Fixed minor bug with unclickable buttons on My Account page of WooCommerce

Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to latest version (1.5.4)

Affected files: attachment.php style.css

v2.1 – March 28, 2014

Updated date format in several places

Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to latest version (1.4.1)

Fixes compatibility with some plugins

Affected files: /widgets/widget-catlight-links.php archive.php category.php functions.php style.css

v2.0 – February 11, 2014

Adds WooCommerce Compatibility!

Adds BBPress Compatibility!

Adds (optional) Fly-Out Mobile/Tablet Navigation via Menufication plugin, which is now included in the theme.

Adds ability to turn Featured Posts section on category pages on/off within Theme Options

Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to the latest version (1.3.9)

Fixes minor bugs

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php /css/media-queries.css /css/menufication.css (new file) category.php functions.php header.php page.php single.php sidebar-woo.php (new file) style.css woocommerce.php (new file)

v1.10 – January 21, 2014

Posts in Featured Posts section are no longer duplicated below the section in the Homepage Blog Layout .

Affected files: index.php

v1.09 – January 9, 2014

Fixes bug for social sharing buttons below post

Fixes bug related to Theia Post Slider that affected some installations. The plugin is now included separately. Existing users will now have to install it as a plugin.

Affected files: /admin/theia-post-slider (removes folder) functions.php style.css

v1.08 – December 16, 2013

Updates Theia Post Slider plugin to latest version (1.3.4)

Adds Tumblr button to social buttons

Affected files: /admin/theia-post-slider (entire folder) /admin/theme-settings.php header.php style.css

v1.07 – November 9, 2013

Adds ability to replace featured image with video/audio embeds in posts

Adds ability to disable responsiveness

Adds ability to disable featured images on posts individually

Updates social sharing button functionality

Updates opacity for Featured Posts section and dark widgets

Updates code for page titles, improving compatiblity with SEO plugins

Fixes small bug with slight movement of Google Fonts during transitions

Fixes small bug with mobile menu

Improved Child Theme compatibility

Removed mobile ad unit and replaced it with compatibility with Google’s responsive ad unit

Affected files: /admin/theme-settings.php /admin/theia-post-slider/ (entire folder) /css/media-queries.css (new file) functions.php header.php page.php single.php style.css

v1.06 – September 4, 2013

Updates Theia Post Sldier to latest version (1.1.7).

Makes minor bug fix to CSS.

Affected files: style.css /admin/theia-post-slider/ (entire folder)

v1.05.2 – August 23, 2013

Fixes issue with Author Box information on author pages.

v1.05.1 – August 9, 2013

Fixes issue affecting customers with a very large number of Tags (10,000+) that caused a heavy load on the server.

v1.05 – July 16, 2013

Made several upgrades to improve overall performance

Updates .po/.mo files to include more translatable words

Updates widget structure to increase compatibility with more plugins (requires existing customers to place widgets back into appropriate widget areas from “unused widgets” area)

Removes shortcodes as per new Themeforest guidelines

Removes Twitter widget due to update in Twitter API

Made small fixes to CSS and other small functionality improvements

v1.04 – June 7, 2013

Adds option to place leaderboard ad next to logo

Made small fixes to CSS and other small functionality improvements

v1.03 – May 13, 2013

Adds 600+ Google Fonts

Made small fixes to CSS and other small functionality improvements

v1.02 – May 9, 2013

Adds localization support (.po/.mo files)

Adds XML dummy data

Made small fixes to CSS and other small functionality improvements

v1.01.1 – May 9, 2013

Fixes bug causing the sidebar to display incorrectly

v1.01 – May 8, 2013

Added (optional) Author Info at the bottom of posts

Added option to turn on/off social share buttons on posts

Fixed other minor bugs

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