April 15th, 2008 42 Comments

Tips for Start-Up Blogs

Start-Up Blogging Tips

While I was preparing for my site launch, I’ve gathered some useful tips by asking for advices from fellow bloggers around the web.

1. Press Release – Creating a Press Release can be tricky but do keep one thing in mind, is your article even “newsworthy?” The objective is not to make a Sale or a Marketing Pitch but rather to provide useful information about your product, blog, event or service. Download List of 80 sites to submit your Press Release.

2. Email Marketing – You have to remember that you have a new site and you still have a lot of promoting to do. Why not start it with you contacts? Send an email to everyone on your Contact List informing them of your new project.

3. OnlyWire – Social Bookmarking is one sure way to drive traffic to your site. I suggest you focus on StumbleUpon and Digg, however, there are also tons of social bookmarking sites or services that you can take advantage of. To refrain fro this time consuming strategy, sign up for an account in Only Wire and you get everything done in just one click.

4. Squidoo and HubPages – Creating and Joining Squidoo and HubPages will truly be worthwhile. The pages you create could serve as a gateway for people to reach and visit your site.

5. Blog Catalog, MyBlogLog and Entrecard – these are hot widgets you should not forget to install in your sidebar.

6. Google Analytics – A great tool to analyze how your visitors behave in your site, you should take on of your bouncing rate and popular keywords. Also, this will also help you find out where your visitors are coming from.

7. Directory Submission – Do not forget to submit your site to DMOZ although it could time for your site to be approved. Also, on other reputable web directories. Download Huge Directory List with PR.

8. DoFollow Blogs – Start your Link Building Campaign immediately! Comment on DoFollow Blogs and get some PR Link Juice Love. Download List of DoFollow Blogs with PR.

9. Network/Make Friends with Bloggers – Make friends with Bloggers, most especially those who have the same niche as yours. Do not go for A-list Bloggers, they’re most likely too busy to even bother checking your site. Friends become loyal readers/visitors.

10. RSS Feed Submitter – Another Great way of Advertising and Promoting your site. Download RSS Tools.

Being a New Kid on the Block can be tough but as long as you have something new to offer in this competitive market, then all you have to worry about is your consistency as a blogger and the rest will follow .. (traffic, subscribers, profit and authority in your chosen niche).s

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April 13th, 2008 44 Comments

Official Launch!

Online!

After one tedious month of preparing for this site, I am proud to present to all of you my New Project. I have been wanting to buy this domain name for quite some time now but never really had the reason to until I sold my site.. cmdesignlounge.com

What can you expect from wpthemedesigner.com?

Free Premium Quality WordPress Themes!! As most of you already know I am quite fond of 3 Column WordPress Theme Designs. I will also release more Magazine Style WordPress Themes and Professional Themes with good Ads/Banner integration, widgetized sidebars, and ajax tabs.

How often will you release Free WordPress Themes?

Every 3 Themes sold on my WordPress Theme shop and every 25 RSS Subscribers on this site.

WordPress Theme Shop?

Yes, this site will house my WordPress Theme Shop. My Premium WordPress Theme will be sold only once. Why buy Premium WordPress Themes being used by a thousand of bloggers already? You want to stand-out, right? Then buy your own unique Theme!

Will you offer Custom WordPress Themes?

No. I have been offering Custom WordPress Themes for more than a year now. Most of the time, I end up too exhausted.

What if I want a particular theme Design?

Sign up and join my Support Forum and Submit a Wp Theme Request. Post all the details that you would want, much better if you can post a draft of it so that it is much easier to visualize your design.

When will you release your first Free WordPress Theme?

Next week. So do visit this site again and do not forget to Subscribe to my RSS Feed now so you won’t have to wait too long for the next Free WordPress theme release.

Lastly, I would like to apologize for the bare site (it’s new!) and some minor fixes that I need to make. I am still in the process of adding and editing the site. I would like to thank Smaug for his expert coding, Bon for the awesome Toon/Character/Logo and Sabrina for the finishing touches on the header. Specially to those who I can’t mention here on the site (but I’m sure you all know who you are)..

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