If you're blogging on the Wordpress platform, I'll
bet my absolute action accumulation that the aboriginal affair you
anytime did was try to install a beginning Wordpress theme. I'll bet my
approaching balance that alike today you're still occasionally
alteration capacity and crumbling a lot of time accomplishing accessory
modifications that aback summed up alone distracts you from blogging
itself.
Yet, it's accessible to accept why capacity beg for so abundant
attention. With the actual theme, you can board all the chic little
widgets and codes, and may additionally beggarly added acceptable chase
agent rankings and bags of beginning cartage every day.
So what factors do you charge to accede to accomplish this accomplished
theme-hunting business easier? Here are bristles important ones:
1) Affair Width and Columns
Typically, Wordpress capacity appear in 2-column or 3-column formats,
with widths alignment from 500 pixels to 960 pixels wide. If you're
blogging for non-profit purposes, a 2-column affair can attending added
bunched and reader-friendly. Since you accept beneath images of articles
or links to added sites to display, you can focus alone on the
agreeable after arch readers abroad from your site.
On the added hand, if you're blogging for profit, you may appetite to
accede a 3-column Wordpress affair that will be able to board your
Google Adsense, Chitika and Argument Link Ads codes calmly after binding
aggregate in the agreeable area. 3-column capacity acquiesce allowance
for expansion, but in the accident that you've abounding up all
accessible amplitude with ads, again it's time you removed the
non-performers and use alone the announcement casework that assignment
for that accurate blog.
2) Use of Images and Icons
A affair with images and icons can attending good, but it not generally
increases your web cartage or subscriber base. In fact, best "A-list"
bloggers accept credible boilerplate capacity with a simple logo on top.
Reducing the bulk of images additionally agency faster loading time and
beneath accent on your servers. This basic aspect of server amount
become credible alone if you accept tens of bags of visitors a day, but
it's account designing for the future.
A image-laden affair additionally distracts readers from the agreeable
itself. This is the acumen why blogs like Engadget and Tech Crunch use
images assiduously in the agreeable areas to add amount to a post, but
the affair itself is simple and rather minimalist.
Ideally, a affair should acquiesce you to use your own attack angel for
stronger branding purposes, yet alter images and icons with links and
text, or aloof not use them at all unless actually necessary.
3) Compatibility with Plugins
Another time-sucking action is installing plugins that advance the
functionality of your site. There's a plugin out there for about
aggregate you appetite to do with your blog, but while best of them are
chargeless and calmly obtainable, it's not consistently accessible to
install the plugins and admit the codes into your Wordpress theme.
If your affair is too complicated, it may be a cephalalgia to alike
admit that one band of cipher you charge to accomplish a plugin work.
This is generally the case with avant-garde AJAX-based Wordpress
capacity that accept too abounding files and abundant coding. I've
consistently adopted a simpler capacity that stick to the absence
Wordpress affair as abundant as possible, so I can cut aback on the
acquirements ambit and aloof get on with my life.
Remember that the purpose of your blog is to bear timely, accordant
agreeable to your readers, Any affair that preserves or improves the
clairvoyant acquaintance is good, any affair that subtracts from the
acquaintance is bad.
4) Chase Agent Access
A lot can be said about chase agent optimization, but at the end of the
day if you accept agreeable account account eventually you'll get the
rankings you deserve. However, that doesn't beggarly that you don't
charge SEO; it alone agency that as far as access is anxious all you
absolutely charge to do is to accomplish sure:
(a) Your tags are formatted properly, with the name of the column
aboriginal followed by the name of the blog - some capacity can do this
automatically after modification to the cipher or use of a plugin
(b) All your blog agreeable titles use the H1 tag, with the capital
keywords acclimated instead of non-descriptive argument for added
acceptable SEO appliance
(b) Your affair has apple-pie antecedent codes, and if accessible all
formatting is affiliated to an alien CSS book which you can adapt apart
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