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These services can cost anywhere from $30.00 to $300.00
depending on the designer and the complexity of the
design. In most cases you will need to provide images for
the designer to work with.
These images can be purchased from stock photography sites such
as Dreamstime (http://www.dreamstime.com
).
Dreamstime will also, occasionally, have free images available
for use as long as the photographer is credited somewhere in
the design.
Some of the best places to
find designers who will work for reasonable fees are on
Craigslist (http://www.craigslist.org
) and deviantART (http://www.deviantart.com
).
If you are looking on Craigslist for a designer go to the
Creative and Computer services section, and perform a search
for blog design, blogging, or your platform by name. Be
sure you search all major cities to try and find the most
affordable designer.
When looking on deviantART you can browse the Job Offers forum
for designers who are currently accepting projects or register
and post your own job opening.
After you’ve found a designer,
or before you purchase a pre-made template/theme, be sure you
take readability into account.
Your reader shouldn’t have to strain to view small text or get
headaches because of overly bright colors. I have
extremely poor vision and nothing will make me leave a site or
blog faster than small font and bad colors.
Take readability into account
when you are writing individual posts as well. Make sure
that you always use a decent sized font and that you use
punctuation when needed. Also include line breaks between
paragraphs or statements.
Even with decent sized font reading text with no breaks or
punctuation can be frustrating, and will cause your blog to
lose readers.
Once your blog is beautiful,
readable, and you are ready to start posting content, make it
easy for people to subscribe to your content.
If you are providing content that your readers want to read on
a steady basis they shouldn’t have to tear your site apart
looking for an RSS feed.
Also, offer an alternative to RSS feeds just in case your
readership does not like dealing with feeds. Services
like Feedblitz (http://www.feedblitz.com
) will let readers sign up to receive your latest content right
in their email inboxes.
Now that your blog is
optimized you have to start maximizing your traffic. A
lot of blog income opportunities can only be maximized if your
blog is receiving a good amount of traffic. Participating
in a pay per impression ad program is useless if only two
people visit your site a week.
Make sure your blog is listed with as many blog directories and
communities as possible so that you can ensure a good amount of
traffic. Here is a list of great blog directories and
communities that can help your blogs traffic and popularity sky
rocket.
Blogarama: http://www.blogarama.com
This is one of the largest free
directories on the internet. Once your blog is listed on
Blogarama users will be able to rank your site, and many users
using Blogarama will comment on your posts and refer your blog
to other users.
Blog
Catalog: http://blogcatalog.com
The Blog Catalog is a directory
of blogs around the world.
This directory contains high quality, content rich blogs.
Having your blog listed on this catalog will increase your
blogs popularity and reputation.
My Blog
Log: http://www.mybloglog.com
Unique in the sense that this
blog directory lets you create your own free widget to display
your recent readers and their information.
It helps you track traffic and communicate with repeat
readers. My blog log also has many communities that are
great for networking and establishing link
exchanges.
Blog
Rush: http://www.blogrush.com
Rather than simply list your blog
in a directory, blog rush adds your latest posts to their
widget which is seen by thousands of viewers.
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