WordPress as I have said before is a great CMS system, but without the proper theme, it can looking drab and emotionless. But, if you find the right combination of design, usability, and content, you can create a compelling offering for both your visitors and yourself.

One of my biggest pet peeves is when WordPress themes don’t fit the theme or content of the website. So many times I have stumbled onto blogs with completely contradictory layouts and content. You can’t have a professional website with cartoon characters as the heading (depending on what kind of site, obviously an artists website it would be appropriate). So being able to match a theme to what you like, without much modification is the goal.

Step in premium themes. Premium themes are WordPress themes that cost actual money, but come with a ton more features than free or open source themes. The price you pay is well worth it, for professional looking designs, different color and layout options, and a well crafted user interface that makes it easy to customize and modify the themes on the back end. With that, I want to introduce you to a few theme companies and websites that feature great looking themes for an affordable price.

Elegant Themes http://www.elegantthemes.com

Elegant themes is easily my favorite of all of the premium theme websites. With a unique subscription model in which you pay a yearly fee and have access to over 40 themes for any of your websites, it is a great idea for a niche site builder or someone with a large blog network. The price is very reasonable and you can customize the themes to your hearts content. Definitely worth checking out.

Thesis http://www.diythemes.com

Thesis has been the longstanding king of premium WordPress themes, with their extremely customizable hook framework, making it virtually customizable in every regard, Thesis supports many different layouts and allows the user to have a very SEO optimized theme that is lightweight and fast. Thesis is one of the most popular premium addons for WordPress ever and for good reason.

Woo Themes http://www.woothemes.com

Despite their name, Woo Themes features some really great and customizable professional themes for WordPress. Woo themes does a great job with a very customizable backend that allows users to access almost every element of their theme through a easy to use interface.

Theme Forest http://themeforest.net/

Theme Forest is unique in that they offer many different themes from different designers and coders who are allowed to set their own prices and features. This limits the user experience of consistent interfaces like Elegant Themes or Woo Themes, but does offer a very big variety of themes at various price points.

A great way to make money with a website is to purchase an established website that you know you can add value to the website and flip it at a later date for a profit.

To give you an example of what i mean i will give you an example of how i once made money buying a website from flippa.com for $1800 and then 3 months later sold it for $15,000 making a tidy profit.  The website i bought was a 6 months old blog that was rarely updated by its owner.  It was in the internet marketing niche which i know alot about so i knew i could add value to the blog.

The blog at the time was receiving 3,000 unique views a month and was a PR2 and was making $500 a month from affiliate sales via clickbank.com and a little on google adsense.

When i took over the blog this is what i did to improve the value of the blog:

1.) Made sure i added at least 2 very informal posts everyday to keep my readers and attract new readers.

2.) I offered a fee ebook download with an optin emails form. (i managed to capture 5,000 email addresses) to which i later emailed offers to bringing in $2,000 in commission, mainly clickbank products.

3.) I changed the theme of the blog to a premium wordpress theme.

4.) I installed a forum which help build a community around the blog.

5.) I submitted alot of articles to article websites and built up some good backlinks

6.) I did alot of blog commenting on other similar blogs helping bringing in more backlinks

7.) I sponsored wordpress themes digital point marketplace also helped bring in more backlinks.

After the first month my traffic had reached 6,700 uniques a month and my revenue went upto $1600 a month from commission from various networks i was using.  Most of my income came from my email list because within the free ebook i was given away had links to affiliate products and was earning money from my readers clicking on links within the ebook and purchasing a product.

By the end of month 3 i was adding 3 new articles a day and my email list had reached 5,000 email readers and was making on average $3,000 a month from affiliate commission mainly from Clickbank.com, Cj.com and Google adsense.

Now i knew i could resell the blog as i had added some very good value to the blog and sold it back on flippa.com for $15,000

So the key to buying and selling websites for profit is to look for a website you know you can add value to it.  Pick a niche you know about and would enjoy working on.

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Step 1 – Find a niche

Generally I just go to Clickbank and look at the top 5 products in each category – if they have a high gravity then they’re obviously selling well so I might choose one and base a site around a particular product. I also take a look at CBTrends and take a look at the top 100 most researched/requested products.

For instance if I chose Fat Loss 4 Idiots my niche site would be based around fat loss (fat loss as opposed to weight loss as I want to keep it as targeted as possible).

Step 2 – Keyword research

I used to use Free Keyword Suggestion Tool From Wordtracker but nowadays I prefer the Google Adwords keyword tool at https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal – both are good though.

Look for keywords that correspond to the product you’ve chosen.
E.g. if I chose the product ‘Reverse Phone Detective’ I could use keywords such as:

“reverse phone number look up” – according to the Google keyword tool that exact phrase was searched for 40,500 times in August. Our competition on Google is only 64,000 so this keyword should be easy to rank for.

I choose 10 – 15 long tail keywords that I can base my sites articles around.

Step 3 – Choosing a domain

I would choose a domain name with the keyword in it – for instance if reversephonenumberlookup.com (or .net) was available (it’s not) I could use that. 90% of the time I can rank on page 1 of Google for the phrase included in the domain name so it is important to choose carefully.

Step 4 – Create your site

I generally either get a free template from Open Source Web Design. and use NVU, or I use wordpress (I like the templates at WordPress Themes and WordPress Themes and create it like a html site (using a static page). I start by writing and adding 10-15 articles to the site – all of them based around a particular searched for keyword.

Next add in your affiliate program. One of your articles should be a good review of this product and I always have a short presell on the main site page as well.

Step 5 – Promote your site

The first thing I do is submit some articles – I usually start with about 10. I submit the majority to Ezinearticles and the rest I submit using Article Post Robot to the top 15-20 directories. Submitting GOOD articles to Ezinearticles will get you traffic and sales from the first week. Use appropriate anchor text and link to both the home page and internal pages.

The next thing I do is social bookmark the site with Social bookmarking service. Fast tagging and posting to all major social websites – SocialMarker.com

Depending on the niche I might also do some forum posting with a link to my site in my sig. I find topic related forums at The largest Message Boards and Forums on the web!

Step 6 – Using Web 2.0 sites

I build a Squidoo lens, a Hubpage and a wiki at Wikidot – Free Wiki Hosting to provide more backlinks (and some extra traffic) for my site. When selling my site I always include the Squidoo lens but I don’t think you can transfer a hubpage or wiki.

Step 7 – Site maintenance

I always monitor each site closely to see how traffic and earnings are progressing. If they’re not, I submit more articles to Ezinearticles, do more forum posting, blog commenting etc. However if you’ve chosen a niche with little optimized competition you shouldn’t have to do too much to rank your site well. I also keep my Squidoo lens updated as well, because a high-ranking lens with lots of good unique content will add value to the sale. Generally I might only spend 30 minutes a week on maintaining the site.

Step 8 – Sell your site

I only sell on Digitalpoint and Sitepoint – maybe I’m only limiting myself because I haven’t tried any others but they work for me. If I’ve had a steady income for 3 months in a row (or a steadily increasing income) then my site is ready to sell. Generally I get 6-10 times monthly income (a lot more for Adsense though), which may not seem like a lot, but because the site is still quite new it’s probably reasonable.

If you wanted to keep the site longer then you would probably earn more, but I like to sell my sites in between 4-6 months.

The whole setting up the site process should only take you a day or two at most – much less if you outsource. Plus you’ll get quicker every time you do it.

Although this is basically what I do written out in the simplest of steps, it’s still necessary to have some marketing skills – good article marketing and preselling being the main ones, plus of course the ability to create a simple website.

It actually isn’t that hard though – this is all information that you probably knew, it’s just a matter of putting it into practice. If instant cash is what you’re looking for this may not be the method for you, because although you’ll have earnings from your sites you won’t get the big sale payout for at least 4 months.

Just think though – if you built one site per week or more (and kept it up week after week), in a few months time you could be earning a 6 figure income from site flipping!

The only way to succeed online is to make sure your online marketing promotion is perfect.

First you need to make sure your website is fully optimised for search engines

The next step is to start link building.  There are many different ways in which you can start link building e.g:

1) Submit articles about your websites to press release and article sites

2.) Submit your website to free directoris and social networking sites

3.) Blog commenting on other websites

4.) Forum posting in forums and blogs

5.) Answering questions in yahoo answers

6.) Creating classified ads

7.) Purchasing links on other websites

8.) Sponsoring wordpress themes

All of these will take alot of time and patience to do manually.  I have found and created an automated system that will do all your link building for you for free which you can install this system onto your website and does your link building for you by itself.  The system is whitehat and only takes about 1 hour to install.

Take a look on the following post – it shows you how to build millions of backlinks:

http://www.search-internetmarketing.com/2009/02/gain-over-13-million-backlinks-for-free/

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