Make money Blogging in Nigeria - Part 4

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Posted by Felix Okoli on Saturday October 16, 2010 at 11:4:16:

Choosing a Blog Theme
If you bought a web hosting account that allows blog hosting, then it's probably working with Wordpress and infact most blogs are, especially when it has to do with cpanel web hosting.
Wordpress is the most popular blogging platform withe the second being Blogger and they both allow you to use the software for free with your paid web hosting account and on a personalized domain name. However, blogger doesn't offer a variety of Themes as much as Wordpress does.
Selecting the right Wordpress Theme can add more value to your blog. While some Wordpress themes are available for free, there are a tonne of other more beautiful custom Wordpress themes that you can buy online and this will offer uniqueness to your blog.
Premium Wordpress Themes
It is a good idea to get a unique blog theme for your blog and Wordpress.org may not have the best themes available and that's why most professional bloggers go for customized themes. You can get customized Wordpress themes by doing a Google search for Wordpress themes and you will see a tonne of results. Wordpress themes can be sold from $50 to $100 each while some sits allow you to browse and download as many themes as possible for a flat fee of about $150 per year or so. Checkout Themewars for more themes.
Free Wordpress Themes
Wordpress Themes are ordinarily available for use at Wordpress.org and with a Wordpress installation on your site, there is a default theme which you can change or edit later on. Wordpress free themes are a good way to start blogging as it reduces your set up costs.

Web Examples of Premium Themes
Have you been to Problogger.net, Johnchow.com or chrisg.com? Those are professional bloggers who see the importance of using a particular blog theme and it helps give their blog that uniqueness and authority. You may even have someone design a wordpress theme for you to make it look quite different from any other blog in existence. Wordpress templates can also be edited by going into the index template and adding the changes you need. You can also ass the latest addons available for wordpress blogs.

Conclusion
A blog theme can add more value and attract more visitors to you site. At times, it is not just the writing that sells or pulls web traffic, your blog theme also matters.

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