I first switched over to WordPress 7 years ago when I learned the top news organizations were using WordPress and just customized their theme.  Now, you can easily install their theme and have a ready to go news site up and running within an hour.  Companies like CNN, Yahoo, Huffington Post, Fox News, Perez Hilton, and millions more have made the switch and continue to use WordPress today.   If you think about it, each news organization serves a different niche of society:  Young Gossip Queens and that’s just Fox News. Maybe you can pick a new niche to serve.

So if you’re looking for a News Theme for WordPress, here are three that are easy to plug into and ready for content.  Check ‘em out.

The News WordPress Theme #1

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Looking to Start the Next Huffington Post?

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Download the News Theme #3:

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• The News Theme #1

• The Huffington Post Theme

• The Newswire Theme #3

• Hosting = 25% Off

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If you’ve been sleeping under a rock for the past 60 days, then you may have missed of the fastest growing trend on the internet:  Pinterest.  Pinterest is a social photo sharing site with a great twist.  They allow you to PIN your interests and share them with others.  Somehow, it’s turned into the latest addiction with over 11 million users per week.  So this model really works.  (AND before the venture capitalists came in – it was funded by the affiliate model.  Each link was cloaked with Pinterest’s affiliate link).  It’s brilliant.

Would You Like to Start Your Own Pinterest Website?

I found a Pinterest WordPress Theme that you’re going to love.

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Looking to Start the New Pinterest Website?

Here are a few facts about Pinterest (and the Pinterest Theme).   They started in beta in 2009.  In 2010 – they started to gain traction, and in 2011 – based on their affiliate numbers and the number of users, they were able to secure venture capital money to the tune of $37 million dollars.

What is Pinterest Value and Can This Pinterest WordPress Theme Do The Same?

As the venture captalists moved in, they value the company at $200 million dollars.  How’s that for 2 years of hard work?

Items You Need to Start a Pinterest WordPress Website

• The Pinterest WordPress Theme

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Right now, with technology moving towards a plug-n-play model, it has never been easier for to start your own “online” community.  And I found three WordPress themes that you’re going to love.

Have you heard of Huffington Post? Huffington Post is an online newspaper started by Arianna Huffington back in 2005 (who I just don’t get).  The reason I don’t get her is because in the 90′s, she started her first site called Resignation calling for the impeachment of President Clinton.  Her niche:  Conservatives.   Now, In the 00′s, she targets a different niche:  Liberals.  99% of her readers are loyalists to President Clinton.  In less than a year, it took off, and Arianna had instant VC money.  I don’t get her, but I do get the fact that AOL bought her site 5 years later for an outstanding 315 million dollars.  $315 Mill eee on.   What’s a fly sitting on a turtle’s back say?  Wheeeee!

The creators of the SuperAffiliate Theme (this one right here) – Theme Junkie has created a new theme that looks identical to Huffington Post (and it’s under $30!)

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Looking to Start the New Perez Hilton Gossip Website?

So maybe firing up the political storm is not your cup of tea.  With shows like The View, The Chew, The Chat, The Voice, Gossip Websites will always be popular.  Have you heard of Perez Hilton?  Another person I don’t get, but the numbers don’t lie.  His blogs bring in a cool six figures per month (and there are no affiliate links!)  The niche:   The Gossip Crowd.  He said, She said stuff.  Controversy and starting fights are the best way to get readers riled up to keep coming back for more.  PLUS, they are more likely to tweet and Facebook like creating a viral traffic explosion, and Perez Hilton is right there to cash in on the simple two column blog.

Check Out The Perez Hilton WordPress Theme

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Want to Start Your Own Wine TV (Like Gary Vaynerchuck)

So you grew up in an industry where your family had a wine store, and the whole industry becomes embedded in your skin.  What do you do?  Do you leave the family business to find your passion or do you accept your talents and start a huge following thirsty for this week’s wine rants.  If your Gary Vaynerchuck, you start Wine TV cuz you were born this way baby, and drinking wine is a sport that requires that special skill (that I just don’t have).    Smells like cedar wood.. with an aroma of raspberry and peaches.. throw in a smoky this and that – and voila’ all of a sudden you have raving fans and a successful blog, book and consulting firm which has taken off to the turn of millions of dollars (Robin Leach voice).

The secret behind this:  Turn the camera on you and just talk about your passion (that one thing you’re excited or mad about).

JOKE: Why does Gary need a cameraman if the camera sits on a tripod.  ANSWER:  He’s too drunk to find the record button.  SNAP!

For this one, you’re going to need a Video Theme, and I have just the one.  Check out this video theme:

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The Job Opening:

Design/Programming Team – If you have both sets of skills, then this is a plus.  But, in my 1200 websites, most need both to make this work.

Pay Per Click Manager – If you have Facebook PPC and Email PPC experience, then please contact me below.  My goal is to replace myself! :0)

Requirements:

You will be put to the test by creating powerful designs for OptimizePress and handing that off to the programmer who can program order buttons, upsell buttons, one time offers, add to cart buttons, thank you pages.

So designer would be creating the designs for these pages and the programmer will get them to work.  It’s that simple.

Demand:

I’m looking for someone who can match my previous team who can build exceptional websites in 5 to 7 days.

How to Apply:

If you have experience with OptimizePress and/or Digital Access Pass – then this job is for you.  If you can create powerful designs quickly, then this job is for you.  If you are the type to improve your game by constantly tweaking and testing – then this job is for you.  I’ve been doing this for 7 years full time and we have a blast!

Please email my personal email at:

kit at superaffiliate dot com.

I would like to see your portfolio of powerful designs that you have done (not a template) as well as your availability.  We will hire the best team who can deliver the best results!

Onwards and Upwards,
Kit Elliott

P.S.  Tell your programmers/designers about this posting!  I would greatly appreciate it.

The MAY affiliate review sites have now been uploaded to your member’s area!

If you are not a member, please click here to get your premium monthly, high quality review site templates for affiliates.

The topics for May are:

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If you have not signed up for Anthony Hull’s Review Site Templates, then, I would go ahead and sign up here:  High Quality Review Site Templates.

Every month, you get two red hot, in demand review site templates that you can plug right in with your affiliate links and shortcut the whole process.  I believe these sites are going for $13 each.

WOW!  $13 – You can’t get professional designed website templates for $13 anything..  And if you follow this simple three step formula, you might see a commission when you wake up tomorrow.

Step 1: Do a simple keyword search.  (notice I said search not research :0)) The rule of thumb is this.. You find one keyword that gets 1500+ searches per month, and you type that keyword phrase into Google and if there is less than 10,000 competing sites, you have a winner.

Step 2: Register that keyword as the domain name.  Upload these templates to your domain name and plug your affiliate links in them.

Step 3: Get Page One of Google.  How?  Simple..

• Create a press release for free and make sure you link to your new domain name.
• Create an article for free and make sure you link to your new domain name.
• Create a docstoc for free and make sure you link to your new domain name.
• Bookmark, Submit to Directories, and Ping each of three URLs above.

That’s it.  You do this 3 step process everyday and you will see a commission within 24 to 48 hours!  I can’t guarantee that, but it works for me over and over and over again.

Also, if you want the unfair advantage.  You can use Senuke to spin articles, submit articles, submit to directories and all the bookmarking places.

The service is called SENuke, and you can try it out for free for 7 days. I get credit for any signups so try it out for 7 days, and if it works for you like it does for me – then you’ll stick with it. If you don’t like it, you didn’t lose any money.

The key here is to build your commissions up to the point where you can hire a SEO company to do your SENUKE submissions.  You can find them at RentaCoder for $10 per day.

To Your Success,

Kit Elliott



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Arriving at your site either from an organic listing or a pay-per click ad, will prospects immediately recognize your expertise? Will they immediately understand how to engage with the site as well as the call to action (what they should do once they get to the page)?

Assess your site and determine if it makes one of more these five lethal mistakes when it comes to design and content:

• Design and content assume prospects know what your site offers. It’s astounding how many “branded” sites forget to make the selling proposition and call to action clear.
• The site offers no methods for building credibility. Either more assumptions are made about what prospects are supposed to know about the company before they arrive at the site or the marketing folks plain forgot to include valuable information such as customer testimonials on the home page. Often these are relegated to some other page. Why hide them? Let the prospect get a glimpse of what other customers have to say about their experiences.
• The content is stale and has not been changed in months or even years. If you home page doesn’t offer fresh content at least monthly, then think about how to incorporate the latest news about the company, events or other continually changing types of content. Search engines like fresh content.
• Design gets in the way of selling or taking action. The home page may be cluttered, not intuitive or not take advantage of proven design placement. The golden triangle is the most valuable web page real estate encompassing the left upper corner, extending down the left side and up to the right corner, thus making a triangle. Your most important information and call to action (such as a newsletter sign up or free report download) should be located within the triangle.
• Anything clever, funny or cute that misses the mark and makes the selling or navigation harder than it needs to be will dissuade prospects for reading on or clicking deeper into your site

Breathe life into a site suffering from lethal mistakes with these five suggestions:

• If appropriate for your site, include a photo and short bio in the top left corner.
• Include some vehicle for capturing emails in the top right hand corner. This can be for a monthly e-newsletter, free report, or other incentive to help build an email list.
• All home pages should have a headline. It should make your selling proposition clear and be informative.
• Content should articulate one or two main points and benefits you want a prospect to know right away.
• It is essential to bring fresh content to the home page as frequently as possible. There is simply too much technology available to help you accomplish this goal.
• Include testimonials along the left (preferable) or right hand column to help build credibility.

The take-away from this article: design important elements into the golden triangle and change your home page as frequently as possible.

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There are two issues when designing your navigation. First and foremost, it must be user friendly. Second, think about the search engine impact for each type of design (drop down vs. HTML).

As for drop downs, they can be designed as CSS, JavaScript, Flash. If you don’t know what these are, your web designer will, but it is your duty to direct the design to have the best impact on SEO.

Here are a few pros and cons to consider before investing in a new web design or rehabbing an existing site.

Drop down pros:
·    Clean design
·    Organized navigation that can layer content
·    CSS-based download links are search engine friendly

Drop down cons:
·    Limits accessibility for some people
·    JavaScript drop downs can be problematic, leading to poor search engine crawling. Search engines are beginning to process JavaScript drop downs, but not nearly as much as CSS-based drop downs.

If you are set on having drop menus on your website, then at least consider CSS-based menus.

HTML navigation link pros:
·    Search engine friendly
·    Sub-page links can be revealed on all pages or once visitors go to a main topic page

HTML cons:
·    Too many links can become unwieldy and confusing for the site visitor

The primary purpose for a navigation menu, of course, is to guide web visitors unambiguously through your site. Ultimately, navigation must be intuitive and easy to use.

Whether you choose drop downs or HTML menus, here are few rules for good navigation:
·    Navigation must be as accessible as possible. No matter what page the visitor is on, they must be able to quickly and easily see the navigation menu.
·    Use short, yet descriptive titles.
·    Keep primary navigation to six or seven topics.
·    Navigation should be consistent from page to page.
·    Visitors should be able to tell where they are relative to the rest of the site.

One solution is to include drop downs as well as HTML navigation in the left panel. Visitors can choose and you cover both sides of the debate regarding whether crawlers can crawl drop down menus.

For more information on search engine optimization and Internet marketing, visit my website at www.strategywriter.com.

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Day 1:  The Installation

-I already have the domain name.

-I already have a dedicated server through Hostgator.

-Now – I need to pick a theme and install WordPress.  Luckily, I tuned into Super Affiliate’s YouTube channel.  Six months ago, I posted a how-to install WordPress and I refer to it quite a bit because I seem to get stuck at the “database connection part”.

Here’s the video of how to install WordPress (manually):

Video 1 of 2 (without Fantastico)

Video 2 of 2 (without Fantastico)

For this theme, I purchased Brian Gardner’s Studio Press Theme called Lifestyle.  And if I go through my own affiliate link, I get a commission (and if you go through my affiliate link, my company gets a commission).

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Recommendations: Studio Press Blog Themes – Very Professional-Looking Blog Templates – As low as $39. Click Here.

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Second item in this email:

Last weekend, we had a blast at the Shortcuts to Success Seminar, and one of the recurring questions that kept coming up was:  Where are the virtual assistants that we can hire for pennies on the dollar?

So without further ado, here are three links that will make your life easy! 

Social Networking Expert - http://www.superaffiliate.com/recommends/find-social-networking-experts.html

Flash Designers / Cool Graphics - http://www.superaffiliate.com/recommends/find-flash-designers-experts.html

Blog Editors / Designers - http://www.superaffiliate.com/recommends/php-blog-wordpress-designers-experts.html

Onwards and Upwards,

Kit

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Happy Monday to ya!  What a great weekend.  The clouds rolled in and made for a nice day of swimming and cooking out all weekend.  My mom is in town and we actually did a little BINGO (she wins everytime and this time – she won again!)  So my sister’s family (3 kids), my mom, and two tagalong kids, and my family are all sprawled at my house this whole week.

They are actually staying the whole week because my nephew’s team is ranked number one in the state of Texas in Little League baseball and number two in the nation!  This week is tournament time.  One team out of 55 will be crowned Little League national champions.  I’ll be at the game tonight.. let’s hope we advance to the next round.

And it’s another great week for online profits. Let’s start this week off with a new-updated look for SuperAffiliate.com.  I’ve always wanted a better navigation system for this site so you can find the free training faster and easier.  If you scroll over any of the Featured Sections – the latest entries and subsections will magically appear!

With the new menu system and the new CSS in place, SuperAffiliate.com is looking for writers who would like free publicity and exposure but more importantly someone who understands that Super Affiliate means so much more than just making money.

It’s a way of life!  So if you would like to write for us – please click the “Write for Us” tab at the top.  I would love to see if you are good fit for SuperAffiliate.com.

With that said – let’s start the week off right with a great attitude and a fun little website that I found.. Who believes that saying, “Choose Your Attitude!”  I do – wholeheartedly.  Whenever I catch myself drifting away from the attitude or atmosphere that I want, I quickly remind myself, “Choose Your Attitude!”

And I quickly do a weird dance and full-body shiver/shake and I’m back!  :0)

This weekend, I found a neat little online tool. How many times have you wanted to add your real signature above your name.

Looking for a cool signature file for your blog and websites?  I found just the tool to help you out..

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I’m always amazed at the tools and services that keep popping up for bloggers and website owners.  Last week, I setup a new marketing system that five years ago was unheard of.. all computerized phone service that transfers to order operators.. adds 800 numbers and more in five minutes or less.  Just amazing.. (more to come after I get the results from my first test with this new marketing system)

Have a great week and let’s keep this party going!

Onwards and Upwards,

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