Google Adsense WordPress Plugins

• Adsense Deluxe  – offers advanced options for managing the automatic insertion of Google AdSense or Yahoo Publisher Network (YPN) ads to your WordPress posts. Easily switch all AdSense ads to a new color scheme across the entire site.
• Adsense Injection  – inserts Adsense code randomly into a pre-existing blog. Takes a random paragraph (or br tag) break in your article and inserts adsense code. It does one per story on multi-post pages (home, archive, category) and let’s you pick how many to show on single post pages.
• Adsense Beautifier  – makes your Adsense look beautiful by placing images beside them to increase your clicks (CTR) and subsequent Adsense earnings. (May not be compliant with Adsense TOS now)
• AdRotator WordPress Plugin  – rotates your adsense ads with other affiliate programs like Chitika Eminimalls wherever you want. Helps to reduce ad blindness and test different ad formats and affiliate programs.
• Adsense Earnings WordPress Plugin  – displays your adsense earning details within wordpress admin panel.
• AdSense Manager  – is a WordPress plugin for managing AdSense ads on your blog. It generates code automatically and allows positioning with Widgets.
• AdSense Sharing Revenue and Earnings System  – allows you to view your adsense earnings and share your adsense impressions with your friends and co-authors.
• Google Ad Wrap  – wraps posts and comments inside Section Targeting tags for better targeted ads.

Landing Pages Turn Traffic Into Money

What is a Landing Page?

A landing page is any page on a website where traffic is sent specifically to prompt a certain action or result. Think of a golf course… a landing page is the putting green that you drive the ball (prospect) to.

Once on the green, the goal is to get the ball into the hole. Likewise, the goal of the copy and design of a landing page is to get the prospect to take your desired action.

Here are a few examples of ways that landing pages are used with various traffic sources:

• Traffic is sent from a pay per click (PPC) search marketing campaign (such as Google AdWords) to multiple landing pages optimized to correspond with the keywords the searcher used.
• Traffic is sent from a banner ad or sponsorship graphic to a landing page specifically designed to address that target audience.
• Traffic is sent from a link in an email to a landing page designed to prompt a purchase.
• Traffic is sent from a blog post or sidebar link to a landing page that pre-sells affiliate products or encourages an opt-in to a sub-list.
• The page you’re currently reading is a content landing page designed to organize many related pages around an overall theme.

Nine Landing Page Tutorials That Will Make You Smarter:

Here are nine articles that will help you start creating killer landing pages right away:

1. 5 Landing Page Mistakes that Crush Conversion Rates
2. 10 Tips for Writing the Ultimate Landing Page
3. 5 Tips for Designing the Ultimate Landing Page
4. “Keep it Simple, Stupid” Applies to Your Landing Pages, Too!
5. How is an Effective Landing Page Like a Direct Mail Letter?
6. 7 Steps to an Email Opt-in Page That Works
7. How Crappy Landing Pages Kill Email Campaigns
8. How Successful is Your Landing Page? The 3 Key Metrics You Need to Know
9. The 10 Commandments of Landing Pages That Work

Landing Page Software for WordPress:

Premise is a bundle of software and education that lets you quickly and effectively create landing pages with WordPress. The total product breaks down into the three vital aspects of landing pages that work:

1. Pages

   First of all, you’ve got to be able to create the important landing page types outside of your normal WordPress theme. You don’t want your typical header and sidebars in the mix, and you need to be able to controls styles, colors, fonts, and graphics specifically to those landing pages.Premise allows you to easily create 6 critical landing page styles in WordPress, add visual flair with included custom graphics, and control fonts, colors, and styles without code. And it works with any WordPress theme you’d like to use it with.

2. Copy

   Building pages alone won’t get you the action and conversion rate you’re looking for. It’s the copy that makes people do what you want, and this is the element missing from any website or page-building software. But we’re uniquely qualified to make up for that. Premise makes your words work with copywriting advice delivered directly from your WordPress interface for each type of landing page. Plus you get the Premise Guide to Effective Copy and high-quality copywriting seminars as part of the deal.

3. Optimization

   No matter how great your copywriting skills, there’s always room for improvement in your conversion rate and search rankings. You just need the proper tools and the right guidance. Premise provides detailed conversion optimization seminars, split-testing directly from inside WordPress, and SEO tools that ensure you’re getting the absolute most out of your landing pages.

Check out Premise here.

Decide to start today

“The best way to live the life of your dreams is to start living the life of your dreams Today, in every little way that you possibly can.”  – Mike Dooley, Inspirational Quotes from Today Is That Day

Step #1 – Choose the right niche – What your blog is about…

Some questions to help you choose the right niche

• The most important question you have to ask yourself is this: What are you passionate about?
  It’ll be very hard for you to write regularly and authoritatively and be a go-to industry expert on a topic you don’t really care about. Passion tends to make the difference between amazing success and quiet failure.
• Do you intend to make money with this blog? Would you like it to be your primary income source?
  This makes a big difference. If so, you’ll have to choose a nice that is not overly crowded. Regardless of the crowding, you’ll need to research your niche thoroughly and develop your own value proposition.

Research your niche and learn the landscape

Find the right keywords to target with your blog

Step #2 – Get a web hosting account

Tip: Don’t forget to use Coupon Code BLOGSUCCESS when you sign up with HostGator – and your 1st month is just $0.01! That means you can start a blog today for just $0.01. Now you’ve really got no excuse to delay, so take a few minutes and do it before you get busy and forget!

Step #3 – Install WordPress

Start Your Blog Today with our FREE WordPress Installation Service

Step #4 – Make a great first impression with a great blog theme

Step #5 – Configure WordPress and its plugins to get the most search engine traffic

Step #6 – Make your blog welcoming and engaging to every reader

Step #7 – Write your first post

So now is the time for that all important first post

Get feedback

Step #8 – Set up your RSS feed

Step #9 – Register your new blog with the top directories

Step #10 – Promote! Social Media, Internet Press Releases, Article Marketing, and more

Social Media – Facebook, Twitter, Digg, StumbleUpon, and more

Article Marketing – Establish yourself as an expert by publishing your articles

“Conditions are never perfect. ‘Someday’ is a disease that will take your dreams to the grave with you. If it’s important to you and you want to do it ‘eventually’, just do it and correct course along the way.” – Tim Ferriss, Inspirational Quotes from Today Is That Day

Next Steps: What to do RIGHT NOW – Today…
(It’s Easy, Stay With Us Here)

OK, so we’ve been through the basics, it’s time for action. If you’re going to do something, there is only “now”. Later and someday never come. So let’s do it together! Yes, today. 

1.) Choose your niche.

• Ask yourself these 3 questions.
• Here’s a short video to help you choose a niche.

2.) Get a cheap, reliable web host. Regardless of your niche (topic), this is one thing you’ll need before you start.

And that little $5 commitment may actually help you get going! This is the ONLY web host we recommend if you’re just getting started – the one we recommend to our own friends and family.

Our recommended web host even comes with 1-click installation of WordPress, our favorite easy to use publishing platform: the one we use for all our sites. So you can now check this item off your list, and move up to step 2.

Here’s a tip – Start Your Blog Today with our FREE WordPress Installation Service

3.) Write your first post.

Don’t agonize over it, just do it! Start small, and keep going. Here’s some step by step help for you -
How To Write Your First Blog Post (Video)

Blog Theme Design tutorial

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Finally I have managed to put my self together and create another blog template tutorial!
sorry to all those who were counting on it before,i just didn't have the time for it but anyway here it is. so enjoy!

• Background
 
• Design
 
• Image
 
• Gimp Tutorials
 
• Photo
 
• Have The
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Getting Started

Creating this template is very easy, it just needs some patience and a little effort, so what ever you do. don't give up.Here is the outcome of this tutorial.

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Hopefully a member of the forum will help out in coding this template to a working wordpress theme, so keep an eye out for it :).

Updated

The theme has been converted a wordpress theme to see a live demo or download click here

Before we jump into this gimp tutorial ill need to remind you that i will only go into details of how to do cretin techniques once and then ill just describe it briefly when ever its repeated so pay attention.

Step 1:

Create a New image at 1024X900 and fill the background image with the color 3f3534 adjusting the zoom rate to %50 as i did might to help you compare your progress with mine.

First thing will do is create the content box's transparent border. this effect is easy and gives a nice touch to the design.

Step 2:

Make sure you have the "Tools option dialog" on your screen,
then start off by Grabbing the "Rectangle Select tool" now draw a Rectangle at any size and in the "Tool option dialog" adjust the position to 98 and 150 and size to 590x695.

If you did that right you should have something like this.

Step 3:

While the selection is still active, in the "Tool Options" dialog Tick the Rounded Corner Box and change the Radius value to 13.7.

Once your done you can click inside your selection to finalise your changes.

Here is how it should look.

Step 4:

Create a new Layer and name it "Border Main content box", now fill your selection with Solid White. then change the Opacity to 50.

Now that we have the border set we can create the actual base of the content box with a few simple steps.

Step 5:

Right click on your image and the then go to Select > Shrink. now change it to 5 then press OK, below in the example image is how your selection should look by now.

Step 6:

As in step 4 Create a new Layer name it "Main Content box" and fill the selection with Solid White. you can un-select everything by going to Select> None. *Tip make sure the Transparent layer is Below the "Main content Box" layer.

Now that you know how to create these content box's with there borders i won't go through them again instead ill just briefly mention what to name the layers and the values like size,position... etc.

Step 7:

Will start with the search box .

Create a new layer name it :Border Search Box with the rectangle select tool draw a selection and

• change values as the following:
• position:697:150px
• Size: 229x65px.
• Rounded corners: radius to 13.7
• Color Fill:Solid white
• Layer Opacity:50

Make sure you have the selection from the border search box still active,now right click then go to Select>Shrink at 5px.

Create a new layer name it "Search box base" fill with solid white and unselect the layer by going to select>none. this is how yours should look.

Step 8:

Create a new layer name it : menu box border with the rectangle select tool, draw a selection and change values to the following:

• position:698:225px
• Size: 228x360px.
• Rounded corners: radius 13.7
• Fill Color :Solid white
• Layer Opacity:50

Create new layer name it: Menu box Base
with the selection of the menu border layer still active, right click and go to select>Shrink 5px, finally fill with solid white. and unselect it by going select>none

Step 9:

Create a new layer name it : 2nd Menu Border
as we have done a few times now grab the rectangle select tool, draw a selection and change values to the following:

• position:698:594px
• Size: 228x249px.
• Rounded corners: radius 13.7
• Fill Color :Solid white
• Layer Opacity:50

Create new layer name it: 2nd Menu Base
with the selection of the 2nd menu border layer still active, right click and go to select>Shrink 5px, finally fill with solid white. and unselect by going select>none.

You should have something like this by now.

So far we have made all the main components of the website now its time to add some nice brushes to the background.
I used the Floral Brushes set by solenero73 , you can use your own if you wish, the trick is to apply the brushes on each corners but don't go too out of control with it, the less you use the better.
you can download them from here: Download the floral brushes here.

Step 10:

Once you have downloaded and installed the brushes have your foreground color set to fffe87, Create a new layer and name it "Floral effect" and place the layer just after the background layer.

Now smartly place the brushes around the corners, see my result.

Now its time to create the top menu buttons, depending on how much you intend on having you might want adjust the width, in this gimp tutorial i intend to only have three main buttons.

Step 11:Button/Tabs

You might want to zoom in to 100% to make it easier.
Create a new layer name it : Tab border
grab the rectangle select tool, draw a selection and change values to the following:
position: doesn't matter right now.

• Size: 140x62px.
• Rounded corners: radius 13.7
• Fill Color :Solid white
• change Layer Opacity to 50

Create a new layer name it: "Tab base" and with the selection of the "tab border" layer still active, right click and go to select>Shrink 5px, finally fill with solid white. and unselect by going select>none.
this is how it should look.

That part was repeated many times but now here comes something different. what we are going to do is merge the two layers that make up the tab button so that we can add some changes to it later on.

Step 12:

To merge the two tab layers you need to hide all the layers we've created, except the final two which are the "Tab base" and "Tab Border" layers. to do that simply un click the "EYE" icon shown beside each layer. Your layers dialog should look like this

Step 13:

Once you have that done, right click on the tab base layer and click on "merge Visible Layers" in the Merge Layers window keep it on its default "expanded as necessary" then hit OK.

Step 14:

Now its merged into one image go ahead and change its name to just "Tab" and display all the hidden layers by clicking on the eye icons again.

Before we put the tab into position we want to delete part of the transparent borders on tab so when we overlap the tab above the content box it blends in perfectly. you might want to zoom in to about 200% to make it easier.

Step 15:

Grab the "Eraser tool" then go to the brushes dialog and create new brush with the values set as the following

• Radius:18.6
• spikes:2
• Hardness:1
• Aspect ratio:1
• Angle:0
• Spacing 0

Then name it what ever you like and save it.

Step 16:

Place the tab above content box and using the eraser and brush we created, eraser the overlapping border, you might not get it the first time so keep trying took me 1 min to get it right.

Step 16:

Now duplicate 2 more tabs and space them out evenly as shown in the image below.

Time to create the menu buttons for the category side I'm going to use two colors the blue for mouse overs and the gray for normal status.

Step 17:

Grab our favourite tool the "Rectangle select tool" draw a rectangle and enter these values in the "tool options" dialog.

• Rounded corners: 62.7
• Position 708:253
• Size:206x30px

Once you have the oval shape fill it with the color 36afdc.

Now will duplicate a few more menu button but this time changing the colour to Gray.
Step 18: right click on the menu button and click on "alpha to selection" create a new layer name it "Menu button 2" then fill it with this color a09999

Step 19:

Now duplicate 5 of these menu button name as menu1-menu2 etc. and space them out evenly like as I did in the image below.

Now we need to create three more rounded buttons for the titles of the links that will be placed at the bottom.

Step 20:

Create a rounded rectangle using these values
Create a new layer name it "Bottom content buttons"

• Rounded corners: 5.0
• Position:309:640
• Size: 168x32px
• fill using the color d2d2d2

Duplicate 2 more of them and place them evenly at the bottom of the content box.

Now we will create content dividers that will go between each post.

Step 21:

Grab the selection tool and draw a 563x1px rectangle which is basically a line, once you have that right, duplicate it twice and place them as i did in the example below (notice the blue arrows).

Step 23:

We should have done this before but anyhow make sure you add another rounded button for the search field with these values.
Create a new layer name it "Bottom content buttons"

• Rounded corners: 5.0
• Position:717:166
• Size: 168x32px
• fill using the color d2d2d2

So far we're done with the main layout and can now move on to adding icon/content elements which will really make it look good once its done.
we will start with the icons. fist of all i didn't create these once to save time i instead bought them offistockphoto, its pretty cheap so unless your going to make your own you might shell out a few cents and buy some.

Step 23:

Your going to need a search,RSS, and a Comment icon. now i don't think i need to explain much here so just look at where i placed mine and do the same. try not to have icons bigger than 32x32.except for the RSS icon see what matches. here is what i picked off istockphoto

You can see my placements in this example.

Now for the content. its probably the hardest part when starting from scratch, laying out content is key to great design, you can have a perfect design but if you don't place content in just the right place and style it can ruin everything. so pay attention to where i placed mine and notice how i try my best to keep white space equally on the sides all the time.

Since all i did was add text ill try to give a few pointers for when you apply your own content.

• Images in post should be consistent i gave my self around 128x128.
• I used the font "Trebuchet MS Bold" for everything except the right category buttons, i used "Verdana Bold"

here are all the colors i used for text.

• Headers, Blue"36afdc"
• post text, light brown "939191"
• bottom lists, medium brown "5f5b5b"
• Dates in post, "d2d2d2"
• Comments count, "3f3534"

So that's it! there you have a great blog theme design created in gimp. you might want to modify colors and other elements to suite your taste.

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The gimp XCF source file is attached at the bottom of the tutorial.and one last work give credit where its dew. This design has already been converted to a wordpress theme and can be downloaded fromhere

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