Free Wordpress Blog Templates

Many bloggers want to know where they can find some really nice blog templates. Since I am a Wordpress user, I know some good places where you can find some nice Wordpress templates for free. I am not that familiar with Blogger so I will not be discussing this platform in this article. Here are some great places where you can find some nice Wordpress blog templates that you can use for free.

Smashing Magazine

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TopWPThemes

Wordpress Themes

These are my top 4 sources where you can find some very nice and attractive Wordpress themes for free. If you want you can do a google or yahoo search and you will find plenty of information about free wordpress templates you can use for your blog.

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How to bring in more readers for your blog

When people start blogging, they automatically assume that they will have plenty of readers. This is far from the truth. It takes some time to bring in a lot of readers to your blog. You have to promote your blog as much as you can. If people don’t know that your blog exists, how can they know to read your blog? There are so many ways you can bring readers to your blog. The list below is only a small list of some of the ways you can bring readers to your blog.

The first thing you should do is to promote your blog as much as possible so that you can let people know that your blog exists. Using social media sites like Myspace and Facebook will help bring in some readers but you probably will not get a lot of readers using this method. Whichever way you decide to promote your blog, keep doing those same things again and again so that you can get a lot of readers for your blog.

Another way of promoting your blog is to keep writing fresh and interesting content on your blog. The major search engines will index the new posts and pages very quickly so this should bring in some readers fast. Of course, the major search engines are Google and Yahoo. You can also submit your blog to these search engines manually which will be a little faster than the search engines indexing your blog posts and pages on their own.

You should also make as many knowledgeable blog posts as you can. This will show people that you are credible when writing about your specific topic. I would start off with at least 5 knowledgeable and well written posts so that you can attract people to your blog. When someone does a search on a topic, they could find your post in the search results which would lead them to click on your post. The more people clicking on your posts, the more readers you could receive.

Another way you can get some readers to your blog is to write articles and submit them to article directories. Every time someone readers one of your articles, they will most likely visit your blog and become a reader because they are interested in the topic that you are writing about.

The last way I will discuss that can help you bring in readers to your blog is to make sure that each blog post has a proper title and some good keywords. By including some good keywords, people who search for articles on your topic will be able to find your articles a lot easier. This will lead to good page ranks and a lot more readers for your blog.

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64 Ways to receive traffic to your blog

Here are 64 ways to get traffic to your blog:

1. Join MyBlogLog: add friends and join communities
2. Sign up for Technorati: ping it when your blog changes
3. Use a ping service like pingomatic
4. Submit your blog to all of the blog directories
5. Use trackbacks
6. Leave comments on blogs in related niches
7. Tell your friends about your blog
8. Put your blog URL in your forum signatures
9. Tell Your newsletter subscribers about your blog
10. Write press releases for your blog
11. Link to other peoples blogs in your posts
12. Tag your posts using Technorati tags or a tag plug-in
13. Use Stumbleupon
14. Answer questions on Yahoo
15. Answer questions on forums
16. Use pictures in your blog posts
17. Use video on your blog
18. Find out what people want to learn about in your blog’s niche and write about it
19. Be the first to break a news story
20. Use keyword research to find good keywords to use in your posts
21. Write controversial posts
22. Strongly Agree or strongly disagree with other bloggers and write about it with a link to their post
23. Make it easy for your readers to sign up for your RSS feed
24. Make it easy for your readers to Digg your posts
25. Ask your readers to submit your posts to social bookmarking sites (Digg, Reddit, etc.)
26. Interview well known people in your industry
27. Give credit to the blogs that inspire your posts
28. Don’t be boring
29. Write for beginners
30. Participate in blog carnivals
31. Post at different times of the day
32. Submit your best posts to article directories
33. Have guest posters
34. Submit your blog to regular web directories
35. Trade blog roll links with related blogs
36. Add a plug-in to notify users of new comments
37. Make it easy for your visitors to submit your post to ALL social bookmarking sites (not just Digg)
38. Make it easy for your visitors to bookmark your blog
39. Make it easy for people to link to your blog
40. Use easy to read fonts
41. Use a professional looking blog design
42. Make your blog easy to navigate
43. Highlight your most popular posts
44. Use questions for the title of your blog posts
45. Use good keywords in your post titles
46. Reply to every question you get through email
47. Reply to every question you get on your blog
48. E-mail other bloggers about your really good posts
49. Offer free stuff like ebooks
50. Publish videos on YouTube
51. Install a translation plug-in for other languages
52. Put Your blog URL on everything like business cards and stationary
53. Add a forum
54. Join Hubpages and post links to your blog
55. Make a Squidoo lens with a link to your blog
56. Tell people you will link back to them if they review your blog
57. Join Blog Catalog
58. Create a MySpace and Facebook page
59. Use SEO (Search Engine Optimization)
60. Use good grammar
61. Write a post about the top bloggers in your niche
62. Promote your posts on newsgroups
63. Post frequently
64. Make a list of ways to increase your blog traffic

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