Free Blogger Templates With Unique Designs - For Classic Blogger

I have received an email today from Pinay Ladies, one of the readers of Blogging Mix. Pinay suggested me to review SuckMyLolly.com, another great website that offers Free Templates for Classic Blogger. The designs of the free blogger templates available at SuckMyLolly are simple, unique and very attractive. Here are some thumbnail shots of the template designs.



Sharnee, the author of SuckMyLolly started her blog because she got tired of the generic Blogger template designs and because there is a limited number of free Blogger templates available. Like she said, she simply wants everyone to have an awesome template design so don't forget to take a look at her template designs.

Custom Blogger Template

When Sharnee started her blog, she also accepted request for a custom blogger template. Unfortunately, the number of requests were overwhelming so she temporarily stopped accommodating requests for custom blog templates. If you would like to request for a custom blogger template you would have to wait as the list has gone long.

Suggestions For SuckMyLolly

Most Blogger users are now upgrading their blogs to use the New Blogger so it would probably be a great idea if Sharnee starts to create free Blogspot templates. Also, the free blogger templates at SuckMyLolly are all 2 columns. Right now, there is a high demand for three column blogger templates so creating 3 column templates is probably a good idea. Lastly, I am hopeful that Sharnee changes her mind and create templates for New Blogger as well.

SponsoredReviews.com - Get Paid For Your Reviews

Another option if you want to monetize your blog is Sponsored Reviews. SponsoredReviews is another great websites that pays you to review blogs, goods, services etc.



After Make Money Online has been approved by PayPerPost, I've submitted my blog at SponsoredReviews.com. The approval process was rather quick as it took them only 3 days before I've received their confirmation that Make Money Online was accepted. So far, I've done 4 sponsored post with SponsoredReviews and I was already paid $78 two days ago via PayPal. In contrast, the money I've earned from PayPerPost has not yet been paid considering that my paid post was done earlier.

Get Paid To Blog With Smorty

I've submitted my blog with Smorty two days ago and I have just received a notification from them that my site has been officially accepted. This is exciting as it gives me another opportunity to monetize Make Money Online Made Easy. At the same time, Make Money Online will have a broader list of advertisers to choose from.

Smorty is a website that offers opportunities for Bloggers to earn money from reviewing blogs and products offered by advertisers. Advertisers on the other hand are given an affordable option to create buzz or reviews about their blog, website or products. Get paid for blogging about the things you like by taking this time to register your blog at Smorty now.

Mistakes in Affiiliate Marketing that Can Stop You to Succeed in Affiliate Marketing

Although anyone can start an affiliate marketing business but not everyone can achieve success in affiliate marketing. What is the reason? Well, there are 10 of them, actually. There are 10 affiliate mistakes that deter people from succeeding in affiliate marketing business. To avoid all these mistakes, you first need to study them and understand them thoroughly.

• Believing that visitors would only click on their affiliate links. Although the task of an affiliate is only restricted to pre-selling, pre-selling isn’t just limited to displaying the affiliate links. It also entails enticing visitors to click on them by listing out the benefits of the affiliate products, giving positive recommendations by writing reviews to encourage readers to check out the products.
• Promoting too many affiliate programs at the same time. If an affiliate markets 8 affiliate programs at the same time, he or she will have 8 affiliate marketing campaigns to handle. Most probably, the affiliate will find difficult to manage all his campaigns and unable to concentrate on each one of his or her affiliate programs in this situation and ends up losing money.
  
• You should begin with one affiliate program; choose a program that you are passionate about. Then put your best effort to market the product. Test different marketing strategies to see which one works best. Once you are making a steady commission with the product, then maybe you can look for second affiliate product to sell.
• Believing that using a single method of marketing technique is sufficient. There are people actually think that submitting a few articles to article websites will generate the amount of traffic they expected. But this is wrong. Focusing only one marketing technique will limit the number of potential buyers you can send to your affiliate merchant’s website
• Failing to improve the performance of your marketing campaign. Many affiliates tend to concern on checking their daily commission only and have no interest on studying and analyzing their marketing campaigns performance. When their campaigns don’t work as expected or don’t generate sales, they will fail to make corresponding adjustments because they don’t know which aspects of their campaigns need to be improved. It is essential to learn every aspect of our marketing strategies. Which marketing techniques are attracted most visitors? How many unique and returning visitors generated? How long do they stay in our website? Where they come from? These are the questions that could help us enhance the performance of our affiliate marketing business.
• Promoting affiliate products that are lacking of demand. Some affiliate programs offer extremely high sale commission to their affiliate. But the products aren’t sellable and thus earning nothing.
• Failing to find an affiliate program with a proven record of consumer satisfaction. The trustworthiness of a company relies on how people view it. If the affiliate program has established good relationships with their customers, then it has established a brand which is recognizable for its excellent service. You will find easier to pre-selling such an affiliate product.
• Failing to keep abreast with the latest developments in the industry. There will come a time when the marketing knowledge we know would become obsolete, more so in the field of internet marketing where everything transpires at a rapid pace. You have to constantly update yourself with the newest trends, techniques and news in this field to always keep your competitive edge.
• Failing to invest on knowledge. Knowledge likewise evolves and you have to evolve with it. Buy noteworthy eBooks, special reports and the likes… those which would teach you the latest tactics to help you conquer your field.
• Resting on your laurels once a semblance of success is achieved. Success is not eternal. You have to sustain it. If you leave your business alone once it shows the promise of success, you’re just setting it up for failure.
• Though that affiliate program can help you become rich fast. No, affiliate program isn’t a “get rich quick” scheme. You have to put in a lot of effort and time, and some capital before you can make money in affiliate marketing.

Making money Online is not Easy

People always thought it is easy to make money online. The reality to make money online is not easy. A lot of effort must be put on table and time consuming as well at the early stage. To make money either online or offline must correctly conducted in order to maximize the possible revenue. The method is the same; the more customers we received the more money will be generated.

In every business, analyzing is key area to success. In order to maximize money what we need is to analyse our make money online strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

Below is the example of my make money online analysis.

Strengths
Have some knowledge about SEO to optimize my website for higher ranking. I would like to share my knowledge to everybody but at the moment as my blog is still new, there is no proof of my ability. I will wait patiently and will try to increase my page rank as soon as possible. If you find this blog on major search engine such as Google and Yahoo, especially with “make money online” search keyword, that mean I have succeed and you can use this blog as guidance.

Weaknesses
There are a lot of weaknesses on my make money online strategy such as number of visitors and ranking. As I say be patient, it is still new. We will see for the next 3 months the performance of this make money online blog.

Opportunities
There are a lot of opportunities to make money online available on the internet such as affiliate programs, blogging, paid survey and more. Please make sure you have chosen the reliable one. Examples of affiliate are SFI and Adsense.

Threats
There are lots of individual doing the same thing as I do making money online by blogging. I do not see them as a threat. Instead as an opportunities to gain back link for better page rank.

This is just a basic example of making money online analysis. Maybe in my next post I go in details to talk about my making money analysis and perhaps sharing my strategy on how to get a better ranking in order to increase my making money online.

A Guide on RSS Tool

RSS is an abbreviation that has evolved into the following, depending on their versions:

• RDF Site Summary (also known as RSS 0.9; the first version of RSS)
• Rich Site Summary (also known as RSS 0.91; a prototype)
• Really Simple Syndication (also known as RSS 2.0)

Today, RSS stands for ‘Really Simple Syndication’, and it has the following 7 existing formats or versions:
• 0.90
• 0.91
• 0.92
• 0.93
• 0.94
• 1.0
• 2.0
RSS tools refer to a group of file formats that are designed to share headlines and other web content (this may be a summary or simply 1 to 2 lines of the article), links to the full versions of the content (the full article or post), and even file attachments such as multimedia files. All of these data is delivered in the form of an XML file (XML stands for eXtensible Markup Language), which has the following common names:
• RSS feed
• Webfeed
• RSS stream
• RSS channel
They are typically shown on web pages as an orange rectangle that usually has the letters XML or RSS in it.
RSS feeds can be used to deliver any kind of information. Some of these ‘feeds’ include:

• Blogs feed - each blog entry is summarized as a feed item. This makes blog posts easier to scan, enabling ‘visitors’ to zoom in on their items of interest.
• Article feed - this alerts readers whenever there are new articles and web contents available.
• Forum feed - this allows users to receive forum posts and latest discussion topics.
• Schedule feed - this allows users (such as schools, clubs, and other organizations) to broadcast events and announce schedule changes or meeting agendas.
• Discounts or Special feed - this is used to enable users (such as retail and online stores) to ‘deliver’ latest specials and discounted offers.
• Ego or News Monitoring - this enables users to receive ‘filtered’ headlines or news that are based on a specific phrase or keyword.
• Industry-specific feed - used by technical professionals in order to market, promote, or communicate with current (and prospective) customers and clients within their specific industries.

RSS feeds enable people to track numerous blogs and news sources at the same time. To produce an RSS feed, all you need is the content or the article that you want to publicize and a validated RSS text file. Once your text file is registered at various aggregators (or ‘news readers’), any external site can then capture and display your RSS feed, automatically updating them whenever you update your RSS file.
RSS tools are useful for sites that add or modify their contents on a regular basis. They are especially used for ‘web syndication’ or activities that involve regular updates and/or publications, such as the following:

1. News websites - as used by major news organizations such as Reuters, CNN, and the BBC.
2. Marketing
3. Bug reports
4. Personal weblogs

There are many benefits to using RSS feeds. Aside from being a great supplemental communication method that streamlines the communication needs of various sectors, RSS tools and feeds can also have tremendous benefits in your business, particularly in the field of internet marketing.
RSS tools and feeds provide Internet users with a free (or cheap) and easy advertising or online marketing opportunity for their businesses. Below are some of the RSS features that can help make your internet marketing strategies more effective.

1. Ease in content distribution services. With RSS, your business can be captured and displayed by virtually any external site, giving you an easy way to ’spread out’ and advertise them.
2. Ease in regular content updates. With RSS, web contents concerning your business can now be automatically updated on a daily (and even hourly) basis. Internet users will be able to experience ‘real time’ updates as information in your own file (such as new products and other business-related releases) is changed and modified simultaneously with that of the RSS feeds that people are subscribed to.
3. Custom-made content services. With RSS, visitors can have personalized content services, allowing them total control of the flow and type of information that they receive. Depending on their interests and needs, visitors can subscribe to only those contents that they are looking for (such as real estate or job listings).
4. Increase in (and targeted) traffic. With RSS, traffic will be directed to your site as readers of your content summary (or 1 to 2 lines of your article) who find them interesting are ‘forced’ to click on a link back to your site.

These are just several of the many things that you can do with RSS. The possibilities are endless, and they are all aimed at providing you with an effective internet marketing strategy for your business.
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Thesis Wordpress Theme

If you’re in the middle of choosing the best Premium Wordpress Theme for your blog, Thesis Wodpress Theme is the answer.

Part of the reason why Thesis is a kick ass Wordpress theme is because it’s created by the best Wordpress Theme Designer. Chris Pearson’s experience as a web developer and extensive knowledge of SEO + CSS + PHP + HTML guarantee that Thesis is the only Wordpress Theme you’ll ever need.

Why Thesis Wordpress Theme?

Good question! That’s the same question I’ve asked myself before I finally decided to use Thesis on my blog. There are tons of reasons why you should use Thesis but here are some for your consideration.

THESIS IS FOR PROFESSIONAL AND NEWBIE BLOGGERS

If you’re new to blogging and you totally suck at SEO, CSS, PHP and HTML, Thesis is for you. Chris Pearson created Thesis with the users in mind. That’s why he did all the job to let you “DO MORE, CODE LESS”. After all, bloggers’ least worry should be the design of their blogs.

Take a look at my blog, TheWeblogZone.com. I did all the customization myself… the design and everything and let me tell you that I barely know CSS, PHP and HTML. That’s because Thesis is easy to customize. In fact, 90% of all your customization needs can be done through Thesis Options and Thesis Design. All you have to do is click and save. Thesis also has its own Support Forum where you can find solutions to all possible problems you might encounter.

Well, if you’re a professional blogger, Thesis is still for you. Thesis has unparalleled SEO, CSS+PHP+HTML optimized and inspiring typography. What else would a professional blogger need from a Wordpress theme?

THESIS TESTIMONIALS

• Just wanted to let you know that The Bygone Bureau is a finalist for this year’s SXSW Web Awards in the Blog category. People started paying attention to our publication once we switched to Thesis last fall, and I think we owe much of our success to your design work.- Kevin from The Bygone Bureau

• …. Thesis is the best out of the box solution I’ve seen in regards to a blog theme. Easy to use, pretty damn customizable and when you see them say over and over on the Thesis sales page that the support is awesome, they ain’t lyin’. And all future upgrades/releases of the theme are free.- Sugarrae from her Thesis Theme Review

• Thesis is incredible…. One week ago, I wouldn’t have dreamed of paying money for a WordPress theme. Now, I’m seriously considering laying down $77 for the developer’s option.- Jordan from Elegant Digital

• “Great, simple, effective SEO.” From my mate in Australia who’s a senior SEO guru for Yahoo, when he saw my site.- Mark McGuinness via email

• The truth is, your personal attention to this and the Thesis theme in general is why I signed on. I know something good when I see it. Not only are your skills exemplary, but your heart’s in the right place. Please keep up the good work.- John Farr via email

• Just want say you created a great theme! It’s very flexible, SEO-optimized and so simple to customize. Just 3 words: I love it! - FlepStudio via email

• Just wanted to express my gratitude for Thesis…. and all the work that Chris et al. have done. I installed it this morning, followed instructions by the letter, and things went very smoothly. I had to familiarize myself with the hooks concept - it makes all the sense in the world! I like to tweak code here and there, and the hooks method as well as the whole Thesis framework/vision helps me do just that without having to get too engrossed in code! When I do have to know some code, the forum is absolutely the best place to go. I’ve been most appreciative for the support community…. So thanks for a great product and community.- Sister Julie Vieira, IHM from A Nun’s Life

• Well I’m totally stoked with the latest release of Thesis and so glad I hitched my web aspirations to your talented little wagon; plus the support on the forum is superb.- Raquel from Growing Up Green

• I really don’t see how any other wordpress premium theme designers can compete with you. I have been following your work since you started thesis as well as the other top wp theme designers, and the work you are doing is really 1,000 steps ahead of them.- Jake Summers

• Thank you so much for your AWESOME THEME!! I have been trying to do it the “free way” for a while and I am blown away by how awesome this is.- Jamey from Miami City Diggs

• Awesome! This is the best Wordpress theme I have ever used. I believed in this theme so much I bought it. I was nervous at first after investing money into this theme, but today, the support and community have made that decision a worthwhile one. I can only hope more people buy into this great theme. This theme is worth every penny! - Nightfall from Nightfall.net

• What an adventure. I literally did not know a single thing about blogging or Wordpress two months ago. I’ve lurked on here for awhile and picked up the coding knowledge I needed. Thanks for the (affordable!) design and amazing functionality.- Michael from ICM-Bot

• Chris, I get complimented on my blog’s design at least several times a week. I am SO happy I bought this theme! It’s been the best. And I agree with the others, thank you so much for taking the time to add all these tutorials. I feel spoiled.- Toblerone from Simple Mom

• Thanks for the info… works great, instructions are very clear which is great for someone like me who doesn’t know a lot of coding. Just learning as I go along. Great theme, so happy I purchased it! - Sasha from The Slavic Bazaar %u2026People have told me I was crazy to pay for a theme, but at every stop you make it worthwhile with updates such as this and the thesis forum which I have found extremely helpful. - Lee from The Blissful Pixel

• Not only does your Thesis Theme rock, but I am shocked how much effort you are putting into providing tweaks and very detailed tutorials after the initial development and launch.- Casper from Conscious Bliss

• I however am not a top-notch WordPress designer, but rather am learning the trade. So I value my time highly enough that paying Chris P. $87 (less during intro phase) is ridiculously inexpensive to me. And the fact that Chris P. spends time here and in the forums answering questions, ….. priceless! - Rees from Women’s Memoirs

• You know, I’ve waded hip-deep into a lot of Wordpress templates in the past 2 years, both for my own, and other people’s projects. Thesis was by far the easiest to work with, and with the best results. - Torideaux from MindTweaks

• Everyone who sees it, loves the look. In fact, I got a small job out of it last week because the client believes I “Get it.” (his words).- Michael from The Editorial Engine

• The thesis theme has been such a great investment. I am new to website design and wordpress, so I’m really glad I went with Thesis because of all the support. It’s been really easy to figure out how to customize things how I want, and I’ve gotten so many compliments on my site. - Eileen from Breathe

• Hope Chris’s themes (both Thesis and his free themes) are much more well-crafted than the typical themes out there. It’s what’s on the inside (the code) in addition to what you can see (attention to details) that sets them apart. - Lisa from Hit Those Keys

• There are not enough superlatives in the lexicon to describe this theme. It is SMOKIN’ HOT! - Jay from Phoenix Real Estate Search

• Thank you for your commitment to excellence and continuous improvement. I love the theme, and love that you continue to improve it. Thanks! - Bruce from Keener Living

Blogskins.com - Free Templates for Blogger, Xanga and Movable Type

Do you want to improve your blog’s layout and design but you don’t have the necessary skills to do so? You can hire someone to do it for you or you can just join Blogskins.com and redesign your blog’s layout by yourself. Continue reading to learn more about this.Today, I’ve just received 9 emails from different people extending their appreciation for making it convenient for them to search for free blogskins that they can implement on their blogs. I’m really glad that my previous posts on Free 3 Column Blogger Template - I and Free Templates for Blogger.com were useful. I just hope that next time when you want to appreciate any of the articles here at BloggingMix, leave it in the form of a comment. I regularly check on new comments and try to respond to it if necessary.

In my post on Free 3 Column Blogger Template, one of the links I have mentioned is a link to Blogskins.com, which by its name alone you already have an idea of what they’re offering.

Free Blogskins and More at Blogskins.com

BlogSkins is a community of blog template designers, users, and friends. Whether you’re looking for a fresh new design for your blog or wanting to share your hot designs with others, this is the place for you! - Blogskins.com

Using Blogskins is free and they offer one of the largest if not the largest collection of free blogskins mostly contributed by its members. What’s more, Blogskins supports Movable Type, Xanga and Blogger.com templates. In order to avail of their free services you need to register and confirm your registration through an email that Blogskins will send you. It will take you less than three minutes to register but sometimes, the confirmation email will normally take no longer than 24 hours before you receive it. This is probably due to the huge number of registration they receive everyday. But don’t worry because once you’ve registered, you can already start to browse and download their free blogskins. However, in order to comment on their free blogskins and submit your own blogskin design, you need to confirm your registration first.

Free templates at Blogskins comes in different styles.

3 Column Blogger Template

2 Column Blogger Template

Themed Templates

Other than the free blogskins offered at Blogskins.com, you can also join their forum where you can seek for help when you encounter troubles installing their templates. You can also exchange ideas with the other members and meet new friends. Once you’ve confirmed your registration, you can leave comments and give your ratings to the blogskins contributed by the members. For those who are good at creating blogskins or templates and would like to exhibit their works, Blogskins is definitely a great place to do so. I would suggest that you visit Blogskins.com now and discover all the benefits you can get. After visiting Blogskins, feel free to come back and leave your impressions of the site

Free Templates For Blogger (Blogspot) and Wordpress

Yesterday, I have discovered Cool-Template.Blogspot.com, another great blog that offers free templates that you can implement on your Blogger or Wordpress blog. All the templates are free.To date, Cool-Template.Blogspot.com offers 41 Free Wordpress Templates, 31 Free Blogger Templates and 13 Free Three Column Templates. Other than templates, the blog offers free tutorials on blogging, photoshop and graphic designs. You can also download anti-virus softwares for free.

Steps to a $50/day Income Online

There are countless ways to earn a living online. The following is a list of steps that I refer to as the “Shampoo of Online Success”. What do you hopefully do in the shower regularly? Wash, rinse, repeat, wash rinse, repeat, etc. Repeating digital products or duplicating success on the Internet can be surprisingly easy. Here’s a great list of steps that I found scouring the forums.

1 Find a niche

Check out some forums, usergroups, and places like yahoo answers. See what kind of questions people are asking. Look for popular topics.

2 Keyword research

You can use the free tool over at digitalpoint.
Suppose you type in ‘any keyword’;

It will return to you a list of related key words and how often they are searched a day. Then go to Google and search the keyword (with ” ” around it) and see how many sites it will return. The fewer the better for now. Once you get the hang of online marketing I wouldn’t really worry about competition. Just build the better mouse trap.

3 Get a web hosting account

They are pretty cheap. Around 10 bucks a month for a good shared host. Stay away for free web hosts. They are not worth it. I strongly recommend hostgator.com. You can host unlimited domains there, and there price is under $10 a month. If money is an issue, do a search for hostgator coupons enter the code when you signup and the first month is only 1 penny.

4 Find or create your product

You can write your own info product or you can go to clickbank.com and chose a product for there. You will get a commission for each sale. (There are novels I could write about in this step, but to keep this post readable I’m assuming you have a product in mind.)

5 Create your site

Now you will want to create a content site. This only needs to be a few pages. You will want to put 10 articles on the site. Make good use of the keywords you researched. Also put out product on the site.

6 Set up an auto responder

This is optional if you REALLY don’t have the money, but it’s something you will need to do eventually. This will collect peoples emails on your website. You write a small report (you can base it off of your articles to save time) Have your visitors sign up to get the free report. Make sure you include a link to you product in the report.

7 Marketing

Remember those forums you looked up to find a good niche? You should start posting (not spamming) on them. Help people out, become an expert in your niche. You don’t really have to be an expert…but you should look like one. Share and help as many people as you can. Include a link you your site in you signature. Also places like yahoo answers. You can answer peoples questions and include a link in your resource box.

You will also want to submit articles to article directories such as EzineArticles.com.

Another good marketing tip is to exchange links with site in the same niche as you.

There are a lot of different marketing techniques you can use (too many to go into here, but this should get you started) Just search around the forums here.

8 Wash, Rinse, Repeat

Do this with several different niches. The more sites you have going, the more money you have coming in.

Give it a try!