Make More Money From Blogs

These next few pages will show you how to make more money from your blogs by designing your sites better.

I’ve decided to make my first mini-site course/pillar article series to get a lot of useful content to you in away that you’ll be able to experience it better.

A while ago Jack Humphreys and a gaggle of other pro-bloggers were touting the Thesis theme as the end-all be-all for money-making WordPress themes, then Yaro was promoting the Affiliate Theme as the “other”  “best” money-making WordPress theme.

Here is the “Thesis” behind why those themes are supposed to make your blogs into better converting sites: (btw the way I realize that was a lame-ass pun)

Look at most blogs that you see nowadays, they’re absolutely filled with clutter, especially if they have all the banners in the sidebars and all the Sociable or Share This features at the bottom of each post.

If you’re writing a review or your content is trying to sell something, it’s great to have a nice long blog post explaining everything, showing proof, giving tips etc…

But the clutter is interfering with the readability of the site.  Your readers are STRUGGLING” to absorb your content.  If the post is especially long that merely makes it harder for the readers to stay focused while ignoring the flashy banners and the hyper linked categories, recent posts, and recent comments on the sidebar.

This is going to be a long blog post by the way, so think about how you feel as you keep reading down and down and down this page, it’s hard to stay on point, right?

By the way, I got refunded for the Thesis Theme because the support wasn’t there and it was lacking in a lot of areas.  Also, when I land on some of the Thesis-promoting bloggers’ sites, I’m not happy with my experiences there and still feel distracted and find it hard to read the content, and pretty much don’t like the layouts.

The Affiliate theme was a bit better but I was happy with the selection of columns.  I asked for a refund and never got it so I wouldn’t do business with them if I were you.

So, what the 2 aforementioned themes were suggesting is to separate your regular content from your “money pages” but to also drive away all those sidebar distractions and even the blog headers using those 2 themes built-in features.

So how do you make your WordPress sites convert better?

1- Put together a list of your most important site items and make them into WordPress pages.  These money pages would be:

  • Squeeze Pages
  • Recommended products
  • Mini-site series
  • Contact

#2 – Hack the WordPress Page Template on the theme you’re using to remove sidebars from the pages since this eliminates the sidebar distractions and makes for an easier read.

Here’s the code you want to put to make your Pages not have the sidebar elements: (notice that 700px dictates the width of your pages)

<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
document.getElementById(‘content’).style.width = ‘700px’; document.getElementById(‘content’).style.fontFamily=”arial narrow”;
// –></script>

A special Thanks to Peter From Monetize Wordpress for helping me out with this

Here’s the code you want to put in your Page Template (Themes>Editor) to allow for comments on your WordPress pages.

<div id=”comments” class=”box2″>

<?php comments_template(); ?>

</div>

This will add the “Leave A Comment” feature to all your blog money-pages” and it might be a good idea to allow comments there in case your money pages leave some questions unanswered…

So, just by doing these 2 methods you will increase your conversions because you’re making your most important content easier to read, and you’re engaging your audience by allowing comments on those pages

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