How To Choose a Profitable Wordpess Blog Theme

The theme of your blog can sometimes be the most important component to becoming successful online. Usually, the design is the first thing a reader will notice when they first come to your blog, so it’s important to impress them right there in then. It’s been proven that bloggers who forget about the design of their template usually aren’t as successful than the people that have put time in to find an attractive looking template.

The design of a template can be also used to direct visitors to certain locations of your site. For example, most blogs have a big RSS sign sitting around the top right hand corner of their blog. This, you may not know, is actually strategically placed because readers tend to look in that corner. There’s no particular reason why they direct their attention that way, they just instinctively do. This is why it’s crucial to choose a blog design that will have an RSS icon graphically embedded directly into the template.

Another thing I look for when choosing an optimized template for my blog is the media intensity of the template. Choosing a design that overwhelms your readers with videos, pictures, and animations can turn visitors away quicker than you can say “RSS”. It’s important to limit the design to a reasonable standard. With that said, I previously mentioned that you need to make a good first impression. You can still keep your blog colourful, just don’t throw stuff in your readers face. There’s a fine line distinguishing what’s to much in regards to the design of the blog template.

Lastly, I want my blog to have easy access to links of my titles and the content itself. In order to have your blog discovered around the Internet it’s important to make it easy for your readers to do so. A few themes in the Wordpress theme directory unfortunately make this difficult as they use a picture in the place of a title, therefore, it’s impossible to simply copy and paste the title of the post.

It’s important to make decisions carefully when getting a Wordpress theme because it’s going to be one of the critical factors for readers in deciding whether they want to remain on your site or depart. One thing I also recommend doing is by testing your theme in different browsers (particularly in Firefox, Internet Explorer, and Safari) before making your theme permanent on your blog. Check to make sure there’s no broken html code and links also. If you can’t decide on a Wordpress theme try asking other people you may know and ask for their first impressions.