There are so many out there!

One, on actually finding the perfect wordpress theme, there are so many available that it is difficult to sift through what you have. I am not sure of the number that have been made, but I know it is higher than you can search through in 2 days, 2 weeks, 2 months, or maybe even 2 years.

Problems Arise

I have seen thumbnails of what I think will be a great theme, and when I take a closer look it turns out to be pretty crappy. Sometimes you have your hopes up high from a demo, thinking that it may look great on your site. That is only 1 of 3 problems that can arise. The second problem is that when you upload and use the theme, you are tired of it and don’t like the look. This has happened to me many times, and I mostly download them because they look interesting and not always because I think they are perfect for my site. The third problem that might strike is that of having technical difficulties, saying something doesn’t display right, things aren’t aligned as they were in the demo, words overlap, things like that. I hate these things that happen, and wish I could get rid of them with a click of a button. So, unless you are a professional theme designer or it is your theme then trash that theme, it has no use to you if it’s “broken.”

Interests Change

Because your interests in theme can change, and will change, then you may have the perfect theme but it will never be perfect forever. Even if you have a high-quality custom job done you will not always love the theme the same way, though you may keep it for months, years, however long. I am just saying that your theme interests will change just as your love interests do.

Those are my reasons, I could add a few more, but they are the most obvious and the ones that standout the most. I have a few small updates for you, and a little notice, so don’t hop off to another water pool yet.

Updates

I think I am going to re-brand this blog, though I will continue to dish out blogging tips. Mostly I would like to add a little niche, and there is no word for it really, because it is a new niche. Since it is new, I might be able to dominate it easily, who knows. It is just “about blogging,” just little things that happen, tendencies, news, and just a general about blogging blog. This is not considered a category in most options, so I will continue to officially brand this as blogging tips or young entrepreneur. If I have to, I might say it is MMO, but I have learned to stay away from that path.

I may be changing the theme soon, I am on the lookout, and Rajaie is coming out with one that I might be able to use. I advised him in the making, and added some things that I like, and I am going to be happy to promote it and use it.

I have started to think or branding “flamingo” a bit more, and trying to go with a green flamingo feel. This is why I mentioned the water pool, and in contest I might play on words with “flamingo” and “flaming.” If you have any ideas as to how to make this have a more “Green Flamingo” feel, they will be highly appreciated.

Note

Tomorrow I assume I will be heading off to an amusement park, and I will most likely  staying the night in the region. I may not be back for a day or two, so just look out for me, I won’t be gone long.

Over the weekend, I may go on another trip to Dallas Forth Worth, flight training does allow you I think to bring family along, so I might tag along there a few days. If there are any bloggers I know in Dallas, I would love to meet, though I am not sure it is possible. I will open this option in a few years, as I get older it will seem more professional. Going to Dallas I hope to bring my computer with me, maybe write an article on the flight and publish it at the hotel. I will have Internet access, so I will probably be blogging.

Updates

Technorati

Authority – 27

Rank – 268,611

That was of today, though the other day my authority was 29 and rank was better too.

Alexa – 584,744

PR – 2 (dam it was higher before the PR update, but I think I have gained back my PR3, sadly this post is going to kill some of it)

With a new RSS feed, a totally different than I have had for months (that was the default one, green-flamingo.com/feed, the one I can’t access the back end of) to 22 subscribers. I don’t think that is amazing, but it is a start.

If you don’t mind, would someone show me how to get traffic views, like the total unique pageviews? Also does anyone know how to get the images for things like technorati, feedburner, and so on? I need them for my advertise page.

Top Commentators

Now it is time to kill some pagerank with my top 10 commentators.

1. Rajaie AlKorani – Rajaie Talks
2. Tom – StandOutBlogger
3. Melvin – MelvinBlog
4. Narendra - TechTreak
5. Germz - TheGermz
6. Karen – LightSpringTransformations
7. Ryan Mclean – SmarterWealth
8. Agent 001 – GreatestReviews
9. Chelle – It Might Be Love
10. Chiq Montes – WPThemeDesigner

Well, those are our top commentators for the month.

Be happy please, I spent half an hour going through my comments and tallying them, I hope you enjoy.

I have a special surprise planned for my top commentators, I will be contacting them shortly. I thought of this just as writing this post, but it pretty spectacular. Look out for this month, I might plan something else on the way.

On the 21st my Adsense account was sadly disabled. This I am very mad about, as I had nothing to do with invalid clicks and therefore am appealing. I have not found any suspicious IP addresses however, and if any of you have tips on how to get it back successfully I would appreciate them. Also I am really bummed about it for I had made $50 with it, the day before was the marking point, and I had made that much in about 10-11 days.

I lost my spot as the top commentator of the month of TUK, and though it wasn’t all that important to me, I like to be the best of the best. Suddenly when I had about 40 comments (sheesh! A lot isn’t it!) I was beaten by a 50 commenter! I have no idea how you should have 50 comments in 20 days, and it was only about a week ago the person started to comment! I wonder if any is spam, I hope not. I don’t really need the spot back, though it would be nice, but I don’t feel like spamming Jason.

I have not gotten my interior design services up still, though I have been on it for about 2 weeks. If I don’t launch soon nothing will come of it. There are a lot of things to be done, that is the problem, and I just don’t put 2 hours straight of work into it. If I did so, I would probably have it done, but I have to visit so many places I am sure to be distracted. I need to focus on one thing at a time, and then I will be ready. I guess I could lauch the first 5 free consultations, but I still have to have things ready if those fly. I will set up, then I will announce the free deals. By the way if anyone knows how to use Paypal to have someone pay 50% before hand and the rest after, then please tell me, for that’s what I need. That is one of the bumps I have to get over.

Jason has written some depressing posts, one on how anonymity is needed for online business, and another on how revealing your sources might be a bad idea. I guess these aren’t terrible, but I know those are two fields I don’t do too well in.

Besides all the bad things that have happened, good things have come out of it all too. Yesterday I was able to revisit the amusement park, but I have gone about 4 times in between when I posted about it.

I have had an increase in Technorati authority, and my rank has gone from 270 something to 264 something. I am happy with this, though comparing the two it is a much smaller difference than I thought.

My Alexa rank has gone from 690,730 to 630,370 which I am also happy about, though Alexa is not thought of as an accurate rating.

I am also writing some killer posts, and hope to do more, and I have had a bad and good week.

Here is it…

drum roll if you want and you have drums…

keep things short

That is my advice to you. I should tell you why as well.

Most make money online bloggers sort of target those longer posts, the ones that will have people marvel at their writing skill. They use unnecessary words, to many its and thats and so on.I read posts that if they were converted to a distance, would be kilometers or miles long. Take The University Kid for example. His posts are those page long posts. It takes you a while to read them. They can be good, with  lot of information, be he could cut down on word usage. Now Jason’s posts are not usually the ones that use extra words, they are just really long. Why target long posts? If you have something really long to say, you might consider breaking it down into other, smaller posts. These three in the series, when I posted the first one, I was originally going to put it all into one huge post, three topics, but I decided to do this series. This, my 103rd published post, could have been my hundred and first if not broken down (more posts doesn’t really mean anything either by the way). So keep things short and to a minimum. Your readers don’t like those kilometer/mile long posts either.

So, what has been updated? Look at the top links. They all work. That is all except blog, an since this is a blog, I don’t need anything there. Any ideas to change it to? If so let me know. The about page is getting settled, I am still not finished, but it works for now. I may put child pages under the about page, because there are so many categories. The contact page is working, no contact form but enough ways that you can contact me, either through email or through instant messaging.

As you probably noticed, and how it has been that way for about a week, the RSS button is much bigger. I give a special thanks to Big Ben Patton for helping me with this.

I have been working on fulfilling some of the suggestions sent out to me at Blog Premiere, one of which is a header logo. I created a button, now only to get it in there properly. I now learned that the style sheet controls colors and sizes and other stuff (dumb newbie, aren’t I?) which helps me a bit in trying to increase the size of certain elements.

These are updates for my website, and I have other updates too. These could have fallen in ideas, but who cares.

I am writing a book/ebook guiding you to live a better life. You may think I cannot accomplish this feat, but I think I will. If you know, I type an average of 5000 words a day, including blog posts, comments, IM, etc. So I hope I will be able to step up the pace, and maybe slow down how long my comments are, some of them are a few paragraphs long.

Look for the next post on advice to being a better writer! I will see you soon!

Let’s start with ideas.

I will put some of these ideas on a separate page, because they are similar to goals. I will be starting a few new websites I am hoping. Once I have the money situation set up where I will be able to handle it and invest my money into domains and hosting then the new websites will start.

Recipe/cooking website – I have already started thinking on this one, not that hard to pull together. I will be targeting the cooking niche, adding some of my own recipes as posts. Yum yum!

Other design websites – Besides interior design, I specialize in many other types of design too. One of the main ones though will be on web design like Shauryadeep.com. By that time, I hope I will be able to create my own theme.

I may be going down the photshop route soon. I long and difficult trail I hear, through jungle areas that are hard to learn to adapt to. There are a few things I want to use photoshop for. One of them, I want to be able to create different backgrounds, behind a window, or anywhere, this would be used mostly in my design, as in the photo shoot I am coming out with soon. I will announce the coming of the first RSS only post, which will introduce the photo shoot. When Green Flamingo Designs goes up, it’ll be in the portfolio section.

I am also thinking about devoting a website to StarWars, another favorite of mine. This will probably go up  the soonest after Green Flamingo Designs because there are star wars things going on. Yoda has also asked to participate regularly, and may be one of the admins behind it meaning I would not have to do all the work. This will be nice. He will probably write some long essays on what actually happened, the movies didn’t alter much, but the movies did emphasize the events.

I think that is all for now, there will be three parts on this series (at least I think so), this one the ideas, next the updates, and then the advice. See you soon.