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This WPengine Genesis Pro Deal Will Give You 35 Studiopress themes

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Sometimes you never know what will happen next. Replacing my old wordpress theme with a Genesis Studiopress theme frameworks for me was a surprising eye-opener. I wasn’t really sure if this would work for my Australian blog when I purchased the lifetime package subscription from Genesis after reading a review. I never looked back. Today studiopress is now part of the WPengine Network.

[Update: WPengine has just released the new Genesis PRO Deal with studiopress themes which has a lot of inclusions including hosting – check out details here. ] WPEngine is a premium and fast wordpress hosting provider with good tech support for your websites.

35 theme gutenberg wordpress theme free offer

Breakthrough Pro Theme

This is one of the newest wordpress pro released by Studiopress – WpEngine after their merger. The Breakthrough Pro has beautiful colors and minimal design in a sleek, modern layout suitable for an advertising or marketing agency.

It has 9 widget areas and a widgetized sidebar that you can customize to fit your brand and it is  mobile responsive, meaning your website will be perfectly optimized for every browser, device, and screen size. Breakthrough is compatible with Gutenberg and updates will be released with additional Gutenberg updates into the WordPress core!

Genesis Framework and 35 premium StudioPress Themes are now available for free for WP Engine customers* [New $28 Plan with 35 Studiopress themes & wpe20off coupon applied]

I manage a lot of wordpress sites and blogs. One of my websites had the default WP theme design and I decided to test the website performance by changing the design theme to the Genesis framework wordpress theme that I purchased a couple of months ago.

I decided to do this to optimise my website further with an SEO friendly theme and measure results, change layout options, speed and ranking. My blogger friends had recommended this WordPress framework – SEO optimised theme.

I was surprised I not only managed to double my traffic rapidly but I also fully recharged my affiliate earnings that were a bit boring and on a downtrend with that particular website.

 

How does this genesis framework work?

My knowledge of frameworks and child themes was a bit hazy before I actually purchased this theme membership, but now its all clear after actually working with this theme.

Definition of child theme:

A child theme is simply a theme that inherits the functionality and looks of another theme – the parent

Studiopress sites make use of child themes. All the studiopress templates/themes available on the website are called child themes.

They are two components to these themes to make them work flawlessly and with good structure and speed which is necessary for ranking in search engines . The two components are:

  1. The Genesis Framework
  2. The studiopress child theme

So all the WordPress themes available on studiopress are child themes and will work only with the framework. You get the framework free when you purchase a theme.

Both the framework and the child theme are installed in the – add theme (admin area) of wordpress. Once you have added both framework and theme to the wordpress blog. You first activate the Genesis framework and then activate the child theme. Now you are ready with your new design for your website.

Apart from the good coding and structure and advanced SEO benefits of having a framework, your theme also has fewer chances of getting broken with any modifications done as the template design structure is held in the main genesis framework, which doesn’t get changed with any modifications in design to the child theme. You could also say that this template also works as a content optimizer, due to it structuring your content to shine out of the box.

You can always just reinstall your child theme if any settings get broken while modifying the code in your theme. With a re-install, all setting data saved in the framework will be intact for your website. This 1 click install or re-install does save a lot of time, even if you want to change to another studiopress theme.

Before we get into  the details of  studiopress and how good they can be, lets dive into WPengine’s hosting deals as well.

Wpengine prices

 

They are currently one of the best hosts for speedy wordpress optimised hosting.  with the merger you can get best of both worlds. Above are their prices for hosting.

 

NEW GENESIS PRO  THEME DEAL 2020 (WordPress block editor (Gutenberg) Supported)

wpengine 2020 deals

Genesis Pro enables you to build better WordPress sites, faster. This is a brand new deal that supports the  new block editor in wordpress and has an array of inclusions in the deal , including speedy hosting if you want it.  What you get ? read below

For $360 per year Genesis Pro includes….

  • A 60 day money back guarantee.
  • Access to and support for the Genesis Framework.
  • Access to and support for the Genesis Sample theme.
  • Access to and support for all 35 StudioPress made themes.
  • 1 year of free hosting for one website on WP Engine with NO automatic billing for hosting beyond your first free year unless you choose. Available for a limited time only.
  • Access to & support for the Genesis Pro plugin which delivers new super powers for creating beautiful websites quickly.
  • Use Genesis Pro’s professionally pre-designed & optimized blocks, page sections of blocks, and entire page layouts of blocks to get a HUGE head start on your next project.
  • Genesis Pro also includes features that allow you to restrict blocks, sections, and layouts to specific users so you can arm your content creators with blocks optimized to help make sure the beautiful site you build stays beautiful!
  • You can use Genesis, our premium themes, and the Genesis Pro plugin on as many sites as you’d like and no matter where your site is hosted!

You can read more about Genesis Pro and see it in action here.

Doubling my traffic on the blog

visual composer traffic gainer

I suppose the doubling of the targetted traffic to my blog with a change in framework and design played a crucial part in the increasing the sales and traffic.

Today I am reviewing this awesome wordpress theme provider named – STUDIOPRESS THEMES. I signed up with them, earlier last year and since then, I have used their themes on five of my new and existing websites.

Little did I know changing just a website theme design would have such an impact on money earned. You could easily say I recovered my money spent on the Studiopress pro plus theme package. I know a pro plus package is not cheap compared to just purchasing a single WP theme, but the benefits definitely paid for in value and money in this case.

Is Genesis framework good for affiliate websites?

Seeing the success achieved by changing the wordpress theme to the Genesis framework, now I have two more other affiliate sites of mine changed to the studio press theme.

genesis framework corporate theme +multipurpose studiopress theme

I have also decided to change my this blog theme from the solostream wp clear design which I had from 7+ years to the Genesis framework design theme. This, of course, is the starting point for me with this framework and I plan to customize the look even further.

I am no newbie to testing out different wordpress themes. The solostream wp clear theme has served me well on this blog for the last 7+ years.

I  would still recommend solostream clear theme as my favourite especially if you want a professional theme with good Google Adsense advertising options.

In fact, I have a membership with them and also with elegant themes and ThemeForest designs. But it was time to move one and try something different in this challenging google search engine optimising challenge.

 

My top favourite wordpress theme/template subscriptions

This below quick comparison is not comparing individual WP themes, but actually comparing theme subscription plans for wordpress themes. When you purchase a subscription or a lifetime package(lump sum), you either pay an ongoing monthly cost or a lump sum that gives you access to all the theme collection that the theme provider makes for a lifetime.

Now that I have the studiopress pro plus package, I might have to make a choice to cancel one of my existing wp theme plan subscriptions. Here is my list of existing subscriptions.

1. Studiopress Genesis themes($499.95 Lifetime plan Or 1 theme approx $99) (Check new updated Genesis PRO Deal )

2. ‎Elegant themes(my review)($299 Lifetime Or $89 per year)

3. ‎Solostream themes ($299 Lifetime Or 1 theme approx $49)

4. ‎ThemeForest themes ($60 approx for 1 premuim wp theme – no membership)

Looks like its an easy choice, keep the three – as I don’t have an ongoing fee with ThemeForest, I just pay for the wordpress theme or plugin that I purchase. Studiopress has 62 themes in all and they are all high-quality themes. The templates are fully responsive design and so work on all devices and help to rank in search engines.

Apart from the united states, Genesis studiopress themes are most popular in countries like Spain, India, Italy, Vietnam and Australia. The most popular package is the PRO PLUS package and the most popular themes are the Essence PRO and Aspire PRO Themes.

The best-inbuilt SEO in a wordpress theme

SEO if properly inbuilt into a website design framework can work wonders for your site. The Genesis framework has managed to do this well and makes your website content shine in search engines.

The only other framework that did this well was the old thesis framework. Unfortunately, the Thesis template is not that well supported today.

seo settings without plugin

Genesis SEO settings image above

Genesis themes have inbuilt sharing buttons for social media and have their own custom developed plugins and theme you can use for optimal use. They also provide a hosted solution package for which I have given details below.  This is best used as a self-hosted option for blogging or websites.

The Genesis theme works well just out of the box, so you really don’t need an SEO plugin for the theme.

It has its own SEO settings panel – however, if you want to get more in-depth control of your SEO you could add the “all in one SEO” or “Yoast SEO plugin” and the theme automatically defaults to the installed SEO plugin settings.

 

My Review of Genesis Framework – Studiopress themes

I have always got good search engine results just running the theme out of the box, with just a few basic plugins. If you don’t like the basic design look of the Genesis framework design, you can either buy a child theme that suits your taste or then just splurge and get the whole premium plus package(lifetime membership).

Its worth it! – why might you ask?

Here is why I think its worth it?

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PROS of  WPEngine Studiopress Themes

One of the best-inbuilt SEO framework design. This reduces your on-page SEO effort quite a bit.

Frameworks work much better than any other wp design where SEO is important. The Genesis framework is just built to work out of the box, so there is no real need for more advanced  SEO editing that you have to do.

Here are some of the rest of the reasons, why its worth the money.

professional wordpress themes

 

Detailed Setup/install guides for theme setup and Demo Content :

All those good-looking designs studiopress have on their website – Guess what, there is detailed set up tutorials for most of those themes. They got a detailed install tutorial page and demo content for each theme they sell.

install guide image for business

This is available to you soon as you purchase your theme. Some themes even provide an instant XML setup file so you don’t have to worry setting it all. You just download the demo content  XML file and upload it to your website and it will get set up just like the demo site. Their support pages will let you know which free plugins you will need to install for this.

Fully Responsive and Modern styling:

Want to be ranked high on search engines. Responsive themes are a ranking factor to rank higher in Google search and these themes are mobile responsive. All the themes provided are fully responsive and work well on desktops, tablets, and mobile.

The designs are made using modern concepts and trends to display fluid design and flow.

A typical featureset  of a studiopress theme :

 

features of studio press themes

Features showed above may differ from theme to theme, but is an indication of what you can get with many studiopress themes.

Multiple themes available on Plus plan:

I purchased the lifetime membership plus plan which is the best value plan for these themes. You get access to a variety of many different theme niches like recipe themes, an agency designed theme, templates for portfolio, news-based designs, fashion blog theme, health-focused theme and many more.

The themes are provided by studiopress themselves and many themes are now also by approved third-party theme builders. These designs are easily adaptable for business or corporate design and you don’t need to use visual composer for any designing purposes.

Free and paid Studiopress plugins

Apart from  Free wordpress plugins, there is a number of free studiopress plugins  ( genesis author pro, genesis responsive slider,  simple social icons and many more) that have been specifically developed for these themes.

There is the Design Palette Pro plugin which is a  third party paid plugin that is available for these themes which works like a website builder tool.  With this PRo plugin, you can quickly and easily modify the look of your website without touching any code.

You can change the look of the Colors, fonts, backgrounds, margins, and padding and also the look of the header, navigation, content area, sidebars, and footers.

 

Extensive online support/help:

There are many online tutorials on the internet available for advanced theme hacks.

Wide customer base means more shortcuts and hacks to make things better or to do some advanced optimizing. They are heaps of people sharing their tips and code modifications online to make these themes even more better.

The Genesis customer support is quick and knowledgeable.

In my one year, I have contacted them only once to ask a technical query I had. And they came back within the day providing two solutions to my query.It got solved immediately

Did I already say – pretty good inbuilt SEO options!

With the purchase of the Pro Plus Package, you receive instant and unlimited access, plus support and updates, for all themes created by StudioPress.

 

CONS of Studiopress themes :

I can only think of 1 con for studiopress themes and that is the price – which many feel is a bit too pricey.  While it looks the case on the face of it, believe me  its worth it in the long run.

 

Some of their latest WordPress themes (2020)

business pro wp theme

 

corporate mai lifestyle and gallery pro themes

 

Check out more awesome themes here

 

Making money with Studiopress :

All the studiopress themes are well polished, professional looking designs which you can easily replicate for yourself or your client websites within minutes.

These well designed ( if you in that business) website designs can be used either in your personal blogs, business or then as professionally designed wordpress blogs if you’re a webdesign agency providing websites.

You have the opportunity to make websites just like any bespoke design with these templates and designs which can easily be further modified and changed as per your client needs.

 

New managed webhosting with + themes included 

They have also now launched customised managed wordpress  hosting with their 20 themes package included.

The benefits of  signing up with their new hosting  solution, which starts at $24 a month paid annually is that you will get  premium themes included with webhosting and also some bonus features as  listed below.

Premium partner plugins access included

Content optimiser module included

Advanced SEO settings module

Genesis plugins pre installed

 

 

You can Learn more about StudioPress Sites here

Summary

To sum it up – I don’t want to have to worry about whether my website theme has good SEO, security, or any of the things a theme really should already have. This is a clean coded search engine optimized theme out of the box.

I know Genesis gets updated automatically on a regular basis and so is secure and I know the “team at StudioPress” knows  all about what they do – Code awesome themes, based on my support interaction with them.

Rest assured, I know I can just get ahead with what I do – that is blogging and writing content with peace of mind with this robust theme that takes cares of the website bits.

So I would recommend, for you to go ahead and browse the  Genesis-powered WordPress themes so you can also spend less time running your website and more time writing and growing it.

Downlod Free Resource for beginners – Genesis for Beginners

online guide genesis framework

The StudioPress team wrote this non-technical guide for you, it’ll help you get your site up and running.

Download (PDF)

Starting a Blog for Making Money Online in 2019

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Recently I wrote a extensive post on “how to blog successfully and make your blog popular” ,  and I received a quite a few questions from new bloggers, who are  just getting into the blogging game asking me “How do they make money and start with blogging“. [updated 28 March 2019]

2016 moneymaker

The short story  is, that you will need a “Australian WordPress hosting”  account and  a good “WordPress Design Theme” to truly blog with freedom attract your audience  and grow  your  traffic to your blog.

Making Money from blogging

Making money from blogs  is not easy today, it used to be easy at one part of time but now everybody  and their dog is in the game.

Today  the blogging world  is kinda saturated  with mom bloggers, business bloggers, fashion bloggers, travel bloggers and all sorta bloggers ( my dog is a princess bloggers).

So you pick any damn niche and you already got competition.

 

It’s a struggle to survive – if your already in the game 

What google says  about what a blog is – “A blog is a website, where you write stuff on an ongoing basis” – I really like this simple and to the point definition.

 

Look and search everywhere, but there is no magic mantra or magic bullet  for a Sucessful Blog.

In addition, google keeps changing the goal posts with annoying algorithm updates that keep bugging SEO’s and bloggers.

Every year there is something new with google requirements  to be popular in their search engine , like now you need a https website  for security, your website design needs to be responsive, you need amp and what not.

Its harder and costlier  to make money every year.

What you should do  to become popular online ?

You should definitely get your blog a USP (Unique Selling Point) to stay on top of your competition.

If you get this right you will get blog viewers, likes and  sharing of your content, which will surely get your blog traffic coming back to you on a regular basis.

This will also encourage your  viewers  to  subscribe to your email list and also people to comment on your blog, which all creates a buzz around your blog.

These all work together in your favour and also help you #rank in google search

Trust me  people commenting on your posts  or  on the blog  and contacting you via your contact me button is a sure sign of you becoming more popular (or in some cases unpopular) in your blogging journey.

 

When you write quality interesting  content  better than most other blogs, have a professional looking designed website and you share  your top written content  in the right  social media channels and forums – Your blog will soon get  noticed and  be on its way to being successful.

 

If  all of this happens a lot (people interacting , commenting , likes on facebook, sharing your posts) and it happens more often, then your on your weay to becoming a blogging superstar so to speak and you don’t have to chase money, but the money will chase you sooner or later.

This shows people are listening(reading) to you, want to interact  with you and you  have become bit of a influencer, and companies and brands love that.

This is a sure sign of achieving success and if you get all these above tips/hints correct and implement it, you will be  lucky and will surely succeed. If your luckier  than most other bloggers/instagrammer’s then  brands will also approach you.

Success surely involves one important thing  in these times  and that is making authoritative and quality content  and getting the word spread  about that “Epic Content” you just created to the  blogosphere.

You do this  by getting it shared on social media ( Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, Linked in)  and  also getting mentioned by popular people of note in  your blog niche.

Today many people do outreach  to amplify their best content  and get it shared online  and this can  work for you as well. Its not hard to do, outreach can be done by yourself or then  you can hire an agency to do it.

Influencer’s are kinda getting big right now on the Instagram platform. Some popular infleuncers get paid  quite well if they have a huge following and can earn even more than a full time job.

However Blogging aint getting any easier, so  don’t expect the great Matt Mullenweg of wordpress or Matt cutts of google to help you out with this. This job will have to be done by you – by doing the hard yards.

There is another option to speed things up, I would recommend learning from a experienced blogger who is already earning income online. I have got an online tutorial if you want  to get started today atleast getting your blog online as a start.

In relation to making money online, I would recommend Rosalind Gardner  who is a super affiliate and has helped many into  their online affiliate marketing careers, she has an in-depth  affiliate guide called – “Super Affiliate: How I Made $436,797 In One Year which covers how to start Your Own Home-based Affiliate Marketing Business.

These guides will surely teach  you how to go about and start earning  with affiliate marketing or  increase your existing blog income

Keeping on top of competition, also involves churning out  regular awesome content,  sharing it on social media, doing proper SEO so that  the content shines,  promoting the blog and updating it regularly to match what google search engine  needs(SEO) to keep it ranked high on their search engines.

My Post of

“The 3 Steps to Setting Up a Popular and Successful Blog”

just got published at dailyblogtips.com, so you might wanna check out this extensive post  to get some tips on – How to get a successful blog going!

3 steps to suucess in blogging

For People Looking to Start a blog

Luckily there are quite a few free platforms that help you start out on blogging  totally free and so you can start your blog without spending money.

Free Blog Platforms is not my recommended way of starting a blog  if your really serious about blogging, but if your cash strapped  then you can surely take  advantage of  this method and get started. 

Most successful bloggers would have used these free bloggin services at some part of time  or maybe even when they started their new bogging journey. WordPress.com offers free as well as paid options for a website, but if your after self hosted which is most suitable for making money with affiliate offers then the below offer might be more useful.

But, if you can  afford a reasonable >>  $3.49 hosting a month for a brand new self hosted wordpress blog. I would recommend this as a preferred starting platform. Not only  you will have 100 % ownership  of your own blog , you dont have the risk of ban or deletion of your website by google / tumblr /wordpress.com (whichever platform you decide to go with)

My recommended service for  a self hosted blog is  the wordpress software and the recommended service provider is Bluehost hosting. Below is a link to my blog post

startatechblog

With Bluehost WebHosting you get both Hosting and domain name , plus a 1 click install option to get your wordpress blog installed quickly.

The WordPress CMS is recommended, because it is one of the most versatile website software which give you 100 % flexibility in design. It also has  awesome flexibility in functionality  which can be added if needed with heaps of plugins , WP themes and tutorials available online.  Your website can be designed with easy install themes to make it look , just like any professional website. It is also one of the easiest to use blog/website software.

Bluehost hosting , I recommend because I have had blogs on their servers for ages, besides they also have a 1 click install which is so easy to install a website or  blog in minutes, just by following their install  prompts.

Below is a current deal for you from my blog as I am an affiliate partner with them

Special Promotion Offer for 2019  from Digital Grog + (BLUEHOST)

Special Feb/March bonus, My readers can enjoy the ultimate steal of  $7.99 $3.95/mo  on the  shared hosting plan (this promo is for a limited time! – Get it here )

+  offer, $3.49/mo for 36 months (link here) on the Basic Plan.

A self hosted wordpress blog is a website that your run on your purchased hosting account and have full freedom over  this website.

Most hosting  companies provide a 1 click install nowadays  to get your self hosted blog set up easily.

 

Getting a self hosted wordpress blog will also avoid the hassle of moving your blog later on  which every free blogger does eventually.

Because for sure,  if you sign up with a free service like blogspot or tumblr or wordpress.com, you will move sooner or later  to a self hosted wordpress blog like most professional bloggers do.

This normally happens when they realise the constraints and limitations of using a free blog service or getting a blog deleted for a policy violation.

However, choosing what blog service you want to start with is totally upto you and so are below are some free blogging hosts listed for you.

  • WordPress.com (or  from wordpress.org)

WordPress.org is one of  the largest self-hosted blogging tool and software in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. You can check out their features here  and get a free or Premium blog at wordpress.com

Get a free or paid wordpress blog here

 

  • Blogger.com ( from Google)

Blogger is free blogging platform by google.com  with a host of features to make blogging as simple and effective as possible. You will need a google account  or gmail account or  then just create one for free when registering with blogger.com

Get a free Blogger blog here

 

  • Tumblr.com

Tumblr is a mini blogging or micro blogging service and  lets you effortlessly share anything, Post text, photos, quotes, links, music, and videos from your browser, phone, desktop, email.

Get a free Tumblr blog here

These three services  are free to use  and if you get real popular fast you will have the option of breaking out or branching out from their services  to  transfer your blog to a paid server.

Most people when it is time  to upgrade, move to self hosted wordpress platform with their own custom domain name and webhosting.

As I said before , if you don’t want the hassle of moving hosts and your  blog  later when you get more traffic on your blog and start to earn some revenue, then I would recommend for you to sign up with Self hosted blog  choosing a hosting company  with 1 click install to get your blog started. Here are some price comparisons for hosting companies.

Intro – Digital Grog Blog Video

 

Review of website –>  Hosting 2019 ( Best WordPress Host Providers)

Website Hosting 2019 Australia 

However, just starting a blog is not sufficient to make money and the best way to ensure you are doing this the right way is to get the right training right from the start. This ensures that you dont have to waste time figuring things out and can start earning money quicker.

There are not many brick and mortar university courses that teach you how to earn money on-line  and the online courses that are available are for specific niches like social media marketing, web design and on-line marketing.

The on-line marketing course available in these universities go though the traditional approach and basic concepts of on-line marketing, but is often outdated as this subject matter changes rapidly.

It is best to take a course from a on-line marketing agency that is currently practising this in the market and that is why I recommend Rosalind Gardner  who is a super affiliate and has helped many into  their online affiliate marketing careers, she has  an indepth  affiliate guide called – “Super Affiliate: How I Made $436,797 In One Year which covers how to start Your Own Home-based Affiliate Marketing Business.

There is also Affilorama By Mark ling  and  click bank university .

Clickbank is one of the largest marketplace for digital products and has made many millionaires.

These courses, not only provide you training to earn money on-line as a affiliate (selling other peoples products through your blog/website) but also trains you for making and launching your own product and promoting it.

Some more Useful internet marketing courses

  1. The “Affiliate Blogger Pro”
  2. Affilorama By Mark ling
  3. CB Passive income for 2019
Step by step Instructions to start a WordPress blog 

If you don’t have a blog yet and you are ready to get started today with a wordpress website, then you might want to check my tutorial post with step by step instructions  on starting a website over here –  https://www.digitalgrog.com.au/australia/starting-a-tech-blog-in-six-easy-steps/. This post will give you a step by step break down of how to start your own WordPress blog today with bluehost webhosting.

You can start by choosing a good domain name  with our domain checker tool below

More tools : Bluehost Domain Checker

How to make money with  a wordpress blog

No one is going to give away  all their secrets for this one. But i can atleast point you int he right direction. Here are some tried and tested methods to make money with your website.

Google Adsense

This is one method whihc needs the least  effort  to make some money, but will also pay  peanuts if you dont have much traffic  to your blog or if your  blog is in a  niche where you cant earn much.

 

Affiliate Income

This is where many blogs earn top dollar, by promoting  products  in the niche they are bloggin about  to their audience.

Fashion bloggers can earn thousands of dollars promoting the right brands. Technology bloggers can earn thousands of dollars promoting technology and gadgets. Food bloggers can earn hundreds of dollars  promoting products in their niche.

I have seen  many people in all of  these mentioned niches doing  anywhere from $2,000 to $40,000 a month in revenue.

 

Ecommerce shop

This is a new trend where people are creating their own products and selling on platforms like shopify – online shops. 

They are many people not stock/products on hand, but selling stuff online and  getting it shipped directly to customers from vendors in china, while making a nice commission with no inventory, this is also called drop shipping.

 

 

Amazon Niche Websites (Amazon affiliate)

This income stream has taken off in the last couple of years. They are bloggers who write articles on certain niches. example fishing lures.

create an amazon store and product

The bloggers then have links to fishing products  from amazon on their website.  when a viewer purchase  a product from amazon, they earn a commission for advertising that product on their website and making a sale.

While all these methods are good, there is one basic  thing they need to make money – Qualified leads or  targeted traffic to your website.

If you are getting  the right people coming to your website  who are interested in your products, you will be making sales.

Targeted Traffic with Advertising

One way to get quick targeted traffic is online advertising with  the search engines themselves. I suggest Bing adwords as they are cheaper and more flexible with their  ads. Here are some free started coupons worth $50  to get you started.

With search engine advertising  you can make unlimited money if you get your advertising right.

New Business and website customers in the following markets receive free search adverting credits to help them get started:

 

Other methods for targeted traffic is as  I have said before – SEO for your website, awesome content on your site/shop or blog,  promotion on social media  by you or a hired agency – which will get you on your road to success.

If all this is not your cup of tea and you would just rather doe something quick and earn money , then maybe  you need to check  these survey websites out here “Make money surveys – Australia”  or  iSurveyWorld Surveys (Australia) and just fill out surveys and make some money online.

Good luck!

Why I love elegant themes website builder plugin

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divi builder plugin

Today I am going to show you an amazing WordPress Wp plugin that can make any WordPress website awesome. I will test elements of the design modules within the post to show you what can be done.

Its from elegant themes.This is not a review, but a honest write up on a amazing WP plugin that can transform your website design and look of your blog posts.

I love this plugin as you can use it with any theme. I have been using elegant  themes and plugins for the  past 7+ years.

The Divi Builder plugin from elegant

flexible website builder

This  wordpress web builder plugin can make landing pages, faq pages, lead or sale buttons, your profile or portfolio page, an awesome price comparison page or just mix this all together in one page seamlessly. You could easily add any of these above mentioned features to any page on your website. The plugin that does this is called the divi builder plugin from elegant themes. I have been using elegant for the last 7 years and they are the most value for money wp theme provider IMHO.

To be honest I got to know about the divi builder plugin only a bit recently and I m a fan already. I like it because it does not restrict and can be used with any WP theme you have installed on your webpage. It can make your website look like a professional landing page in a minute, if you like . It builds webpages as responsive pages. You can easily chop and change design elements on a page  including  adding  a pic background , transparent color background  and many more features to any section of your page.

The beauty of this all is anybody can now design an awesome looking page or website with this website builder plugin without having to know any coding. This plugin uses the new drag and drop technology, where you can just drag a premade section or style to your page and drop it where you want it to appear. You can then go ahead and edit elements further if you want, like adding a background color or pic, changing the font and font colors size for that section, adjusting margins , padding etc and much more.

Using this plugin, I almost felt like i am using microsoft word and making an amazing looking document – its so easy. For people entirely new to websites or minimum knowledge of websites, this might still take a few days of getting used to how you use this plugin, but once you know what you can do with it, you will use it everywhere. what does this Website builder plugin cost –  It is available with purchasing a yearly membership to elegant themes, but  for sure  you get much more in value than you can imagine with the membership fees. Details of fees below.

So what’s the price of their membership today ?

socail media sharing plugin

The cost for  a elegant  WP theme membership today is $89 per year. For this you get access to their whole collection of 87 premium wordpress themes, access to all plugins,updates and premium support. The got two awesome plugins Bloom email opt in plugin free ( email opt in plugins for  collecting emails) and  Monarch ( Social media sharing plugin) that by itself is of great value and is included  with the membership fees.

different kinds of wp themes from elegant responsive

They have an amazing 22 responsive themes and  many more themes  including ecommerce, magazine and 4 free tumblr themes.

 

Divi builder plugin vs Divi theme

The divi website builder plugin was built as an afterthought to the release of the Divi theme, but both of them are awesome in thier own ways. Divi theme has all the features of the divi builder inbuilt into the theme, while the builder plugin can be used as a stand alone wp plugin to work with any wordpress theme.

I actually tried this plugin on one website that i am building for a friend. I used the genesis pro theme with the divi builder plugin and was amazed I managed a google page 1 ranking for him within a week .

extra divi based theme template

There is also the “EXTRA Theme” from elegant wordpress themes that makes use of the divi functionality and is an amazing theme itself out of the box. When I first purchased my elegant theme membership 5+ years ago it was only $39 a year for like 60 or so premium wordpress themes and it was a steal then. Today prices have increased with most premium wp theme and template providers, yet elegant is the cheapest with the most professionally coded themes on the internet.

When I first started blogging i was on a budget and purchased single themes costing me anywhere betwen $15 to $30 for each theme at that time. So when I came across 60 plus quality themes, it just made sense to sign up for a yearly membership. I didnt regret it and my active membership today and use of thier plugins is proof of that.

Apart from this plugin they do have some other amazing WP plugins like bloom and Monarch that I use on some other websites and those add value for the membership too.

I have websites as online web directories that I launched 3 years ago and still doing well with the elegant elist theme.

To be fair I do have other favorite theme providers too. After elegant, I would rate Solostream WP themes and the Studiopress Genesis themes as my second best WPtheme providers. I used to use wpzoom for quite some time, but then they started charging more for extended support etc , so I ditchedd them. Thier themes are still good and helped me rank sone sites up , but i feel Studiopress Genesis themes much better and getting ranked with thier in built seo. I have made sites that make me money withdc elegant themes and rank on google as well, so I hope im not confusing you.

Each theme provider has their own unique strong points and so its always good to sign up with at least three if you can afford to. If you cant then the choice is clear for me.

If you are looking for a good design option for your existing or new wordpress blog , then do check out their themes here, before you go elswhere. You will thank me later! 🙂

Designing your page/post with Divi pre-made modules

Below is live examples of  different pre-made modules you can insert into you page or post with the divi builder plugin to  design your page or post to look better.

Blurb Module Example 

"This

The elegance of the blurb module can be seen int his example . You click and choose the blurb an then  insert content. You can make the blurb a link or then also use an icon for the blurb, as we have done.

Countdown Timer Module 

Countdown to New year - Digital Grog

Day(s)

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Hour(s)

:

Minute(s)

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Second(s)

Circle counter module.

You can define color, number and percentage for the circle

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The Circle Counter Module at 65 %

Button Module 

A Button to click  banner module

Get the Divi Builder Plugin

Gallery module

Its a gallery of pictures module 

Person Module

This is a person module, you can insert a bio for yourself and your social media links

"Jeff"

"Jeff"

"Expert

You can check out about me at my about page here, but I think Elly Glendenning from influencing.com has done a better job writing  about me  on their website Influencing.com over here.

Number Counter

Thisis the number counter module

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Number Count

Comments Module 

This is the Comment Module below, which you can insert anywhere  on your page  to display comments nicely

Solostream WP Clear WordPress theme review

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Updated 14 December 2016 – I have been using WPClear solostream “wordpress theme” on my blog for the last so many years now  and  I am happy to continue using it for my blog. This WP clear  wordpress theme by solostream  has provided me with a professional looking blog , heaps of advertising options  in header , sidebar and footer, Inbuilt social share buttons ,  customised banner advertising options on a per page basis,  and may more options that are too many to list here.

But i will break it down slowly, in my personal re -view here.

review of wordpress themes

Besides the normal Wpclear theme , they have recently also released a new version of the WP clear theme called WP CLEAR  VIDEO and I am loving it!

This premium WordPress blog theme is designed mainly for video bloggers or small business people who use video marketing to boost their business. This video theme can be extremely handy for affiliate marketer’s or bloggers  who do a lot of videos of Youtube , Vimeo or other video distribution platforms.

But First The DECEMBER  2016 SALE DISCOUNT

Here are the details:

60+ Premium WordPress Themes + Support = SUCCESS

Enjoy 50% Off Theme Plans with Coupon Code “E970B”

 

Short review of wp clear  theme by solostream

The WP-Clear WordPress theme is a very professional looking them  which can be a bit, information-heavy theme. At the same time it is also is rather minimalist in design and style. It has space for a great deal of content on the homepage and allows you to arrange it however you wish.

It also has several features page options , post options that make it very easy to transform your blog or website  into exactly the site you want.

Video Review of Solostream

Now Break down of  the features of  solostream themes

Header logo and  Navigation menu – The Theme has   a convenient way to load a logo of your choice in the header portion , so you are not messing around with code. The navigation menu is convenient drop down menu , with a sub menu available if needed to fit in more

How to upload logo to wordpress clear

Upload your logo via the WordPress dashboard in add media , then add the file URL to the WP-Clear Theme Settings page found in your WordPress dashboard.

Seo optimised and Responsive layout – The theme code is very well written  if your blog is trying to get noticed and enables google to immediately index the  blog. My blog has had not problems being indexed  and also  new posts being found immediately. The theme itself is very flexible in displaying in tablets , notebooks, iphone ,  smartphones and other smart devices  and is a responsive theme.

Other features i Like

  • Automatic Post Thumbnails – It generates thumbnails for each post on the main page
    • Subscription Form Widget With Social Networking Integration – Makes it easy  for people to subscribe to your blog  with email and also to share to facebook , google + twitter etc from the post and  pages
    • Built-In Author Page – Author pages and google authorship is so more important for seo now and author pages support this very nicely
      • Multiple Post and Page Layout Options – You can have your post or page without side bar  and many other layout options

Some features that You might find useful ( but not useful to me)

  • Alternate Home Page Template for Business Sites – You can easily switch from a business template to a Home page blog template
    • Portfolio Page Template – If its a portfolio page  to display your skills or business page then this feature can become useful

Comparison of some other similar pricey themes vs solostream

This chart below is a small comparison chart of some premuim word press themes that can be compared against  solostream–themes

 

Theme Provider & features Price
Solostream themesprices for solostream theme and membership options

With Solostream themes you can buy  a single theme or buy a membership option

Current offer:

Get Every Premium Theme We Make For As Little As $99

 $59 Wp clear theme ( you get lifetime support and updates if you buy a solostream theme)

There are also membership options for all themes
Studiopress genesis themesdownload genesis theme studio press membership

Studio press themes normally come with the genesis them framework

You can get their all theme package for $399.95. Click here to check out detailed prices

 $99.95( Theme + Genesis framework)
Thesis DIY Themesthesis diy themes price and download

Thesis theme also know as DIY themes has been one of the popular pricey themes among bloggers,that is not as pricey as Studiopress

 $87 for Basic theme(This basic theme has limited support and updates . More info here )

Some other good themes from solostream

Below are some other good themes that you can check out from solostream themes, i personally other than  the WP clear theme ,  prefer the  Davinci WPtheme  and WP Radiance theme.

First –  the  Wp clear theme!!

wp clear blog or business theme

WP-Boundless Blog Magazine WordPress Theme

wp boundless blog magazime wordpress them by solstreamWP-Boundless is one of the latest blog magazine WordPress theme from SoloStream.

The blog theme has a smart responsive design and is very flexible with lots of styling and layout options. This theme also has a,  one click colour schemer and colour controls for individual design elements, featured post and featured category sliders, portfolio template (2 and 3 columns), theme settings  and much more..check it out here

WP-Radiance Premium Responsive WordPress Theme

WP-Radiance Premium Responsive WordPress Theme

WP-Radiance is an brilliant  premium WordPress theme from Solostream that is responsive ,flexible, multipurpose theme. It is feature packed and has a clean and professional design which can be used for any type of website including professional blogs, online magazines and business websites.

It has a responsive layout for new smart devices which adjusts for any screen and device making it mobile ready and works perfectly on iPhones, Android phones, ipads , tablets etc  check out a demo theme here

 

The solostream ecommerce online store theme for wordpress

solostream ecommerce shopify theme

Ecommerce themes are becoming popular with shopify and  woocommerce and this theme can make your wordpress blog into an online store

Solostream  makes it easy and Affordable to build not only your personal blog  but also your Business Blog, Website or Online Magazine. The design is quite  professional to build business blogs themes as well.

Review video of solostream  wordpress themes

I would not recommend for anyone to get a nulled wordpress theme or a solostream theme from a free theme download website as often these sites insert virus or malware code in the theme code in the installer file which can be  leave your website or computer vulnerable for attack  by hackers.

What i also like about  their themes is once you buy their theme you can use the theme on as many sites as you like and also modify it and use them as you please.

I would suggest getting any solostream theme directly form the vendors website below over here.

buy or download solostream theme not nulled or torrented theme

6 AWESOME, CHEAP PREMIUM WORDPRESS THEMES [updated: January 2015]

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I’ve writ­ten else­where about  Free premium wordpress themes and how I finally switched from free themes to cheap paid premium themes after frustration from broken themes left from regular updates done by word press. I did for a while try designing my own WordPress themes, also tried  using free themes but was not really 100 % satisfied or problems kept cropping up and it needed more maintenance. I even shelled out a modest sum for a few pre­mium, professionally-designed WordPress themes and was burnt by making the wrong choices. I might get  small commission  if you do eventually decide to buy from some of the affiliate links listed below , though i honestly recommend  these theme providers as i have been using them over the past couple of years

Since trying out numerous cheap, free and also paid  themes, i have now pretty much narrowed down my preference to just  three theme providers for my wordpress blog themes. By the way themes are also called templates by some on-line webdesign stores, just to clear any confusion.

I have used many  Blog and website template and themes providers in my 10 + years of blogging and creating websites and blogs,  but these are the one’s below that i  still have a membership for in the last so many years and i am happy to recommend them.

Good  word-press themes can  normally be priced from as low as  $30 to $200  and that is just for  1 theme,  How ever most of these below is a membership and has more value  due to the number of themes  they provide in that membership.

My preferred Three WordPress blog theme providers are :

1. Elegant themes  ( Why – because they are cheap or affordable compared to others, looks nice  and has an up to date latest design and for Just $69 a year and you get to use 80 + premium themes for that one membership amount). Elegant  themes provide value  because of the sheer number of professional  themes you get  for just one price.

[updated  Elegant themes membership price :$69]

2. WP Zoom themes  ( Why – Because they got a nice set of professional news  and magazine themes in addition to blog themes and are a bit more advanced in design to elegant themes)- I’ve purchased the$9/mo -$199 SIGN-UP FEE membership option, but there are other –See pricing options

3. Solostream wordpressthemes ( This blog uses a solostream theme) – Truly SEO optimised and nicely structured blog  which is the next best option for a premium blog theme with excellent AdSense advertising options inbuilt which you can use for affiliate links as well.

This theme provider stands out  for the well designed professional look, with  very good options to integrate ad-sense and advertising banners and ads. You can also  change the  look of your blog  to different styles , like portfolio,  blog design, Full width length  posts without sidebar , adjust your sidebar designs  etc  with just a click of the button.

4. Themeforest Or Envato Market 

This one is one of my favourites for not only wordpress themes but also blogger themes and  wordpress plugins, email templates , Mailchimp plugins , facebook integration plugins from Envato-codecanyon  and many more  blog related stuff that i have bought  from them.

templates and design for blog

 

 

 

 

 

 

[my membership badge with themesforest/envato above] Theme forest/ Envato – are one of the bigger providers for all related bloggin stuff from themes to plugins  to scripts for your blog etc. Check them out here 

Difference between Free WordPress themes and PAID wordpress themes

Free themes Pros :

  • They are FREE ( Oh yeah! )
  • There is a larger selection of Free themes

Free themes Cons :

  • Most don’t  have any  regular ongoing support ( theme breaking and  security updates slow)
  • Theme authors may no longer update themes (as its free after all )
  • Limited features  available

As part of Black Friday and Cyber Monday Deals, Solostream is offering a 20% discount on all products. Apply for discount – Coupon Code: 5084BE  [expired November 26, 2012].

All three theme providers provide AdSense  and seo options inbuilt.

Here area  few of the word-press themes that are free from these providers , Its a  roundup of some of the best, freshest—and cheap—new premium WordPress themes. If you really want the latest and the best and the most up to date themes, I would recommend you get a paid membership  from these guys.

Most of these “Free themes” don’t have any demo sites any longer ( as they usually do) , but you can get an idea of the theme by the pic below and can try them for free

SOLOSTREAM FREE PREMUIM THEMES BELOW

To check out the  demo themes click on word press themes a then free wordpress themes on the Solostream website

Bosco 2.0 Free cheap premuim solostream wordpress templates

Solostream Bosco 2.0 (Above)–  Download link

WP-Glory 1.0 solostream free premuim templates

Solostream Wp glory1.0 – Download link

torn 2.0 solostream cheap wordpress themes premuim

Solostream Torn 2.0 – Download link

Elegant themes doesn’t have any free themes as they are already are so cheap priced at $69 for 80 premuim themes, giving the designers no time to work and provide for free themes

WP ZOOM FREE PREMUIM THEMES BELOW

Click on the free button on the wpz website  to checkout  the demo version of free themes

Photoria free wp zoom theme

Photoria Wp Zoom Free theme – Download link

wp zoom Academica theme free premuim wordpressblog theme

Academica Wp Zoom Free theme – Download link

meeta sweet Budget theme for wordpressblogs

Meeta Wp Zoom Free  theme – Download link

I have these  “wordpress premium  themes” from Solostream , Wp zoom and Elegant themes installed on various blogs that i manage and i am totally pleased with them. Go check it out for yourself.

Check out my this blog theme  which is also from SOLOSTREAM called WP– CLEAR  (Use Solostream Coupon Code 26009B for a $10 Discount)

STILL LOOKING?

banner edited elegant themes

ElegantThemes WordPress Themes

If you check out ElegantThemes, you’ll see a wide selection of beau­ti­fully crafted wordpress themes. Better yet, you get unlim­ited access to all of these themes (almost 80 as I write this) for only $69! It’s an incred­i­ble deal! Get it here

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Digitalgrog.com.au is a affiliate partner to most of the Hosting services and some other blog related promotion services that I have listed here on my blog and I use, which means that in addition to using their service, we also receive a commission for referring new customers. To be fair, though, we still use these services even if we weren’t an affiliate. We don’t recommend any particular host just because we’re an affiliate (every hosting company offers a similar affiliate program); we recommend certain Hosting companies because they are the best, most reliable option. Plus, because we’re a partner, these providers offers a special price for Digitalgrog readers. Get your hosting today.

More themes 

WordPress theme for food blog

WordPress theme for Business Blog

WordPress theme  for Gadget blog

WordPress theme for Sports blog

The new wordpress theme that’s truly radiant

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Welcome to Radiant! (Updated July 17, 2014)If you are looking for a wordpress theme  that has a professional look, can alternate between blog  or professional look and is truly flexible “wp radiant” is the theme  you want.

This Theme is also built “ready for lazy bloggers” the theme will function just fine without changing any of the default values but if you are truly keen you can make it blossom and shine and fill your blog with inspiring radiance

New wordpress theme from solostream

Screenshot of the New solostream theme WP radiance, Check demo here

wp radiance new solostream wordpress theme

Regenerate Thumbnails

This feature is awesome , they got this built in  plugin that just regenerates all the pictures on your existing blog to fit in to the theme properly

WOrdpress theme features

That’s the message i got

All done! 80 image(s) were successfully resized in 79 seconds and there were 0 failures.

when  it processed all  the images. You can also check out another demo website here.

Responsive Design Framework (Mobile Ready Theme )

This theme is also Responsive Design Framework (Mobile Ready) – Adjusts to Browser Size

The alternate layout  Home page below  for this solo stream website  gives you  totally different look , if this is what you like.

alternate responsive solostream new wordpress theme

There is  an offer for this New wordpress radiance  theme at the moment CLick here  to get this saving while using code below

solostream savings coupon for wordpress themes

The theme itself is $59  for the wp radiant theme.Use the discount code above to get a $10 discount on this price.

The usual price for a Gold membership is $129 per year. Click to   Check for  any discounts if available 

If you do blogging , you would know the importance of gathering emails  and this theme has this inbuilt  and displayed prominently if you wish. The inbuilt  subscription widget does this job efficiently

The Video tutorials, demo site and support forum are very useful and I have been  able to do many customizations with the support of all this excellent material.

I have been able to customize killer websites that bring me passive income years to come without touching the designs or playing with codes

Check  it out below

neat Subscribe Box Widget. form

Its also got heaps of advertisement options if you use AdSense and other affiliate banners

If you decide  to have multiple authors for you blog or website  you also have a inbuilt author page  where all authors will be listed with a short profile on a profile page  giving more authority to your website.

GPL Theme License/Unrestricted Use

All Solostream  wordpress themes are licensed under the General Public Licence (GPL). This means there are no restictions on how you use the themes.

You can modify them and use them for both personal or commercial projects on as many websites as you like. Get your discounted copy here

If  you want to check out on of my other favourite wordpress themes  provider check out  this  website who also have a coupon for Wp zoom

Some of the other solo stream themes i like and are really good  are below

Check out the demo sites

WP-DaVinci Premium WordPress Theme
WP-Prosper Premium WordPress Theme
WP-Chatter Premium WordPress Theme
WP-Mystique Premium WordPress Theme

The latest release wordpress theme from solostream is WP-Blossom