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High-quality WordPress themes always come in handy. Whether you are looking for some design inspiration or professional coding solutions — in both cases you can learn a lot, you can apply them and you can build customized designs upon them without reinventing the wheel all the time.

In this article we present 100 free high-quality WordPress themes. Together with hundreds of other designs, these themes have been manually selected, installed and tested over the last weeks. They all can be downloaded, customized and used for free in both personal and commercial projects. Links to demo-versions provide a direct preview of a theme.

Please notice that the listed WordPress themes are presented in 8 sections: vibrant themes, simple & minimalistic themes, magazine style, grid-based, clean and legible, advanced, experimental, photoblog & videoblog.

The most popular question sent to our support team, is “How to become a successful blogger and earn money?”. We always had been providing guidance to our bloggers individually, on a case-by-case basis to improve their blog. But we thought this article would help all our bloggers to succeed in their efforts.

More Traffic – More Money
Many successful bloggers around the globe earn very good income from their blog. Here is a simple math. For every 1000 page views on your blog, you could earn anywhere from $2 to $10, depending on the topic your blog specializes. So target for 1000 visits per month to begin with and continuously raise your standards.

Many top blogs on an average get over Million page views a month. So, you calculate what they may be earning.

It Takes Time
Professional bloggers evolve over time as they develop skills and attitude to improve their blogging. For some, it’s natural but many need practice and the commitment to shine their skills. So, don’t give up.

Pick Your Favorite Topic
For gaining the reader’s interest and to turn visitors into your readers, your blog must provide useful information on a specialized topic. Pick any topic that you really like.

If you are not clear, do some research to understand what people are searching for, on the internet. Google Trends and Google zeitgeist are useful.

Stay on Top
Stay up-to-date with what is happening around. Do your best to post the latest information or any developments on your blog, on the topic you selected. Posting current affairs on your blog could bring more visitors to your blog.

What You Write Matters
Content is the key for any successful blog. Do not just write, but try to communicate your message to the readers. Write in simple language. Make use of examples to articulate.

Do not steal someone else’s content. Not only it is unethical, but also the duplicate content will make search engines to penalize your blog.

No Discipline - No Success
Nothing can be achieved with out hard work and discipline. Create a plan when and how much time you will spend on your blog. Stick to the plan. Make it a habit to regularly update your blog. Ask this question to your self. Will you read any news website; if the news is few days old?

Create Connection with Readers
Effective communication is very important. In your articles express your thoughts clearly and ask for reader’s opinions. More importantly, respond to those comments.

And the list goes on. We will stop there and wish you all the very best.

We had been getting many queries not to show Ads on the blog homepages or show fewer. So we have been experimenting for some time to see which type of visitors tend to click on ads and generate revenue for you on the blog and how the ads on homepage perform.

Following is an anonymized graph from Google Analytics, using a sample of 90 days data, shows the percentage of ads clicked by visitors coming from different sources.

It’s clearly evident that the visitors sent by search engines are generating 90% of the revenue that a blog earns. Though you see 19% direct visitors clicked on the ads, most of them were originally came from search engine results, for the first time.

And, further analysis has shows that 96% of search engine visitors do not land on a blog’s home page, but directly on a post.

So it appears that showing no ads/fewer ads on the home page has almost zero impact on the blog’s revenue.

Lately, Google has been strict on the new applications for the AdSense. Here are few tips that could get your AdSense application approved.

• Do not apply for AdSense with empty blogs where there is not much content.
• Make sure your blog has unique content and it provides some value to visitors.
• Do not copy content from other sites. Also do not post copied articles from free article websites. They also badly affect your blog’s search engine ranking, due to content duplication.
• Make sure you regularly write on your blog.
• Do not add lots of affiliate marketing links / sidebar widgets from all sorts of websites, unless they are very relavent to the content on your blog.
• Do not create a blog purely for search engine optimization.

Now your visitors can spread the word about your blog posts to their friends using Emails, IMs, and Social Networks. They can also reblog about it or bookmark it on social bookmarking sites with the new Tell-a-Friend which appears below every post.

SocialTwist’s Tell-A-Friend widget, customized exclusively for Blog.co.in is now available on all user blogs. It is enabled automatically for all the blogs and is shown at the bottom of each post.

It’s an easy and effective way to tell your friends about a post you just wrote or read on a blog. You can even bookmark it to popular social bookmarking websites such as del.icio.us, Digg, etc.

That’s just another reason to be a part of happy Blog.co.in family

Take a couple of minutes to explore it’s cool features. Give it a try, you gotta love this!

Here is a screenshot in action.

Adding image gallery is a simple task. Just follow the steps in the order as given in the screenshots below.

XML Sitemaps are automatically generated for all the blogs. They can be accessed via the URL http://interneteclub.com/sitemap.xml

For example, sitemap for the blog mirror.interneteclub.com can be found at http://mirror.interneteclub.com/sitemap.xml

We also submit the sitemap URLs to Google and other popular search engines, each time a new post / page is written on the blog.

This should help in improving the search engine rankings of your blog.

It is as simple as typing [ contact-form] in the post / page, wherever you want the form to appear. Following are some screenshots in action.

You can optimize your blog for Search Engines. Every post/page can have their own meta description, title, meta keywords. On the post/page editor scroll down to see the options. Below is the screehshow.

You can publish posts/pages in 8 indian languages. Currently Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati and Malayalam are supported.

All you need to do is pick the language on the post/page editor and start writing. It works just like Google’s Indic translator. http://www.google.co.in/transliterate/indic/

Following is a screenshot of this feature in action.