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Glad to see you again! Be sure and check out the Blog page. Feel free to send me an email if you have any questions. Have a great day! Lina

cause I wanna do it and yeah I have a self hoste wp…

I downloaded some Wordpress themes but since I haven’t decided on a site name or web host, I have nowhere to download it to. I don’t understand anything about PHP files, how Wordpress works, nothing. I just want to edit some of the pictures to decide what theme I want to use..

If I download a theme from, let’s say, http://topwpthemes.com/.
How do I get it onto my Wordpress?

starting a website or online magazine….and I cant really find any great themes…..im looking for wordpress themes or any other as long as its free….the first person with the best link to themes will be chosen

There are some good ones here…http://rockbridge.payloadz.com/
There is also a free download pack look under free downloads.

ForJoomla:
Take the template index.php file and save it as index.htm.
Remove the php code and you’ll be left with the layout. Make sure the css files are attached
Add your text into the appropriate places and off you go.
Toni ( www.web-a-week.com )

Is There Anyway You Can Get A Theme Into Your Wordpress Blog Without Using FTP Client Thing….

If not I will have to write one. I guess a lot of themes are available for wordpress. Does any one of these themes cater the needs of a regular website … intended for carporate presence ?

I love the Arthemia (Premium) theme: My review of it here:http://pennybutler.com/wordpress/themes/…
I’ve listed my fave premium themes here:http://pennybutler.com/wordpress/themes/…
Do you use Twitter? If so, there is a site called TweetWorks where we have a wordpress group (called AllThingsWordpress), if you asked the same question there, all the bloggers out there would recommend their fave magazine-style wordpress theme. http://tweetworks.com
The previous poster is right though, you can spend wayyyyyyy too much time browsing through the various magazine style wordpress themes, but as a wordpress lover, I absolutely love finding new themes to post to my site and to use on my sites.
Good luck with your hunt

While I was at Compendium, I was often confronted by SEO professionals who liked to challenge every little thing across the application. At issue was that these folks were used to working on a set number of pages with a few keywords and then maximizing the impact of those select pages. They weren’t used to using a platform where they could target hundreds of terms and write limitless amounts of good content to build results.

Not all SEO Professionals are created equal. I’d classify myself as an SEO jack of all trades. Thankfully, I’ve surrounded myself with other SEO professionals who have worked on a variety of challenges for clients. I’m constantly learning from them.

I’m not knocking any particular SEO expert – but there are some challenges that many clients face that require specific expertise:

• Competitive – these sites are usually high dollar sites and pumping a lot of money into content and services to help sustain strong backlinks to the site and optimize every single page with every possible optimization technique.
• Local – optimizing your site for local SEO demands some different techniques, incorporating regional terms, and building local, relevant links. Content has to be very targeted throughout!
• Broad – building and optimizing your site for a broad array of keywords, sometimes thousands, can take some very unique site structures to maximize the impact of the content on the site.
• Blogs – blogs are a different animal than optimizing web sites. The techniques utilized to publish and broadcast content, write compelling copy to draw attention, and integrate social media is key. Building on a platform that fully leverages tools like pinging, sitemaps, meta data, and highly optimized themes are a foundation you must incorporate. You’re also not constrained by the number of pages.
• New – pushing a new domain with no authority requires a very different strategy than working with a site that already has a ton of authority and ranks well.
• Micro-Sites and Landing Pages – building discreet sites with a page or two to target very specific traffic with static content requires very, very tight control of keyword distribution and page construction.
• High Authority – some SEO professionals who haven’t worked with established domains with great ranking often take unnecessary risks. Some SEO guys like to tinker and tweak until they’ve broken what actually worked. Not good when you’ve got a solid track record. Sometimes tinkering can take months to climb back from.
• Real-time – many tech and celebrity sites require knowledge of how to take a trending topic and turn it into tons of traffic within minutes or hours using SEO effectively. These guys are amazing… it’s always interesting to see who lands a #1 rank when news breaks.
• Farms – content farming is starting to take off as space and bandwidth costs have dropped dramatically. If I can put up an effective site that adds 500 articles a day and gets those pages indexed, I can throw some ads on them and profit considerably. Especially if I target the pages on keywords that drive expensive click-through rates and high search volumes.

As you shop for your next SEO professional, be alert to the size of the clients they’ve worked with, the strategies they had to deploy, and especially the results they were able to achieve. It seems every agency out there is now adding SEO to their list of services… be careful.

Ask for references, look up the experts online to see if they actually rank, and don’t be surprised when quotes come back all over the map. Great SEO help is worth the investment and may cost a lot. Poor SEO is simply money wasted.

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Douglas Karr is the founder of The Marketing Technology Blog. Doug is President and CEO of DK New Media, an online marketing company specializing in social media, blogging and search engine optimization. Their clients include Webtrends, ChaCha and many more.

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