One thing I don’t love about the Thesis Theme for WordPress is the page headlines. Usually when creating static pages, I’d rather not have the page headings appear ( i.e. – Home, Contact, etc. ). They’re not always bad, but the “Home” one always annoys me, and is kind of a giveaway that you’re using WordPress as a CMS.

You don’t actually want to REMOVE the page headings, as they are actually pretty important from an SEO perspective, but there’s a great bit of CSS that will hide them from visual display. The h1 or h2 headlines still appear in your code, the headline is just not visible to people who visit your website.
- Jeremy Lindh

Click here for tutorial link

• http://www.jeremylindh.com/remove-the-headline-area-from-thesis-theme/

resource:  http://www.jeremylindh.com

Click Below for Video Tutorial

• http://thesistutor.com/how-to-make-custom-headers-for-each-page/

resource: Thesis Tutor – Matt Gross

If you want to sell your own product, you need a sales letter landing page to send potential buyers to either from your own blog, via affiliates or via PPC search engine marketing. Landing page template can help you improve conversions and drive sales.

When I released my Twitter marketing e-book last month I created a landing page for affiliates to use. In this article I will explain how I did it. If you follow these steps, the end result will look something like my Twitter marketing page.
1. Strip your Thesis to the bare bones

2. To create this landing page I am using a self-hosted WordPress blog with a premium theme Thesis Theme.

Read the rest of the article…

Resource: Mark Saric
website: www.howtomakemyblog.com

You must get the developer license to try Thesis 1.6 today or wait a few days to try it with the standard license.Difference between developer license and standard license is that the developer license allows you to use Thesis on more than one blog.

• Thesis Theme now has its own home in the WordPress menu called Thesis Options
• Custom File Editor lets you edit custom.css and custom_functions.php from WordPress interface
• No need to login to your hosting account via FTP anymore
• Thesis Theme now features automatic drop down navigation menu
• Background color control – Select content area background color, multimedia box background
• Text color control – Select text / link colors for different parts of the blog
• Navigation menu color styling – Link color, link hover color, background color, hover background color
• Navigation menu border styling – Select border width, border color
• Remove all borders – One click to remove all borders

Thesis Theme 1.6 features all of the above, but also takes it to another level in terms of styling of the navigation menu and styling of  the fonts and content area.

Grab Thesis Today! www.diythemes.com

Check out the Video for new features:

resource: Mark Saric www.HowToMakeMyBlog.com

125 140 Sites currently in Slideshow and growing daily….

Click Here to See Full Screen SlideShow

All the sites in this slideshow run on Thesis. To get your own copy of Thesis, hop on over to diyThemes.com and they can hook you up.
If you already own Thesis and have done some customization, please consider submitting your site for inclusion in the Thesis Showcase Gallery.

Okay, so I haven’t had a chance to move over all the sites at the Thesis Showcase gallery. There are currently 470+ sites on display there. Hey! I’m working on it. In fact, if you head on over to the Thesis Gallery, you’ll see some of the changes already. Unfortunately, the Thesis Gallery itself is not built with Thesis, so it’s a bit kludgy to work on. That’s a testimonial for Thesis, it sure makes it hard to work with any other theme once you’ve been exposed to the Thesis Design/Option Interface & Panels.

I expect to have everything in place and updated within the next couple weeks.

In the meantime, you can navigate this slide show in several ways.

• You can do nothing except just watch
• You can change the speed of the slideshow
• Click on the next/previous/pause arrows within the slideshow. (on mouseover)
• Advance using the filmstrip slider on the bottom
• You can watch a full screen slideshow
• If you double click on the slide show or the bulletin board animation on the right, you’ll be taken to a gallery where you can see ALL the sites one page. From there you can view full size images of the respective websites. Too cool for school!

When it is all said and done, I’ll have hyperlinks back to the respective sites and the ability to feature special Thesis customizations.

I saw a post this recently over at Nicholas Reese’s  ArtOfBlog.com. He listed 100+ of his favorite  Thesis websites. What struck me funny was that someone commented that there were too many sample sites listed in his post.

I display  close to 500 Thesis Customizations over at www.ThesisGallery.com and am always thinking it is not enough. I’ve had several comments asking for a better way to display the gallery entries as it was getting a bit unwieldly and people tended not to look at the older gallery entries. I think this will take care of it.

Upgrade WordPress Thesis Theme to version 1.6

In the following video, Matt over at ThesisTutor.com walks you through an upgrade to WordPress Thesis Theme version 1.6 in real time

Note: You’ll need a Thesis License to use version 1.6. If you don’t have one yet, get on over to www.diythemes.com and they can hook you up.

Resource: Matt Gross – from Blip.TV
http://thesistutor.com

How to Customize Navigation for Thesis Theme with 1.6

There are a ton of new features in Thesis 1.6 , but everyone has been waiting for the all-new drop down navigation menu!

In the following video, Chris Pearson shows you how to set up your new menu and use the new design controls to style your menu.

Note: You’ll need a Thesis License to use version 1.6.  If you don’t have one yet, get on over to www.diythemes.com and they can hook you up.

Resource: Chris Pearson @Pearsonified – from Blip.TV
http://diythemes.com/thesis/

Google Does Not  Use the Keyword Meta Tag

Google is finally telling the world what every seasoned webmaster and Internet Search marketer should already know: The keywords meta tag has no impact whatsoever on how Google’s search engine ranks pages. And even though Google often needs to be somewhat ambiguous when talking about how it ranks pages, the message in today’s blog post is perfectly clear:

“Our web search (the well-known search at Google.com that hundreds of millions of people use each day) disregards keyword metatags completely. They simply don’t have any effect in our search ranking at present.”

Google’s blog post also talks about an imagined clash between two web site owners, Bob and Alice, over Bob’s use of Alice’s business name in his keywords tag and copying of other words from her keywords tag. Although Google doesn’t mention actual companies and doesn’t reference a specific lawsuit, the video that accompanies the blog post does mention lawsuits that involve the keywords tag and Google’s search rankings.

About the keywords meta tag, Matt Cutts says:

“It’s really not worth suing someone over because, at least for Google, we don’t use that information in our rankings even the least little bit.”

This is old news and most people know that just putting the keywords in the keyword meta tag has no effect at all, at least at Google. I guess this confirms it! Yet really the keyword meta tag hasnt been used for like 5 years or more and never really was that big of a factor anyway.

Here’s what Important

• The Title of each page though is very important
• Having solid unique content on all pages
• Links from other websites pointing to your site using the keywords in the anchor text that you want to be ranked on.

Resource: Legal Search Marketing

When creating a business website, one consideration foremost in the developer’s mind is how to make it rank highly with search engines – there is no point in having an internet marketing website if you can’t get traffic to it. The designers of the Thesis WordPress Theme took this into account in determining the number of ways it can be optimized for major search engines.

In the past, themes were not given much importance as a factor in search engine optimization since the process for doing so needed a lot of technical ability. But as more and more websites are being developed, the emphasis on themes and their functionality with regards to SEO has increased proportionally.

So if you are planning to put up a blog, keep in mind the goal of attracting visitors to it through high rankings. An easy first step is to choose a Thesis theme (diythemes.com).
To make the theme of your site work for you, Thesis will ensure it is well-defined and distinct from others. Its built-in features assure it.

More ideas for optimizing your WordPress Business Theme:

1. Research your market before finalizing your keywords. Know the terms that your audience uses and use them. Don’t complicate or confuse them with terms that are more technical than they are used to.

2. Don’t include a great deal of unrelated content – this could cause dilution of the main theme and affect the ‘relevance’ of your site in the eyes of the search engines, thereby influencing the site’s ranking.

3. Getting links from websites whose products or services are similar to yours is still one of the most popular and effective ways to define your blog. When a search engine decides that your links from these websites are relevant and ranks it accordingly, your site will be rewarded with a higher ranking.

On the other hand, links from unrelated sites will see you penalized by the search engines.

Many internet marketers have already identified the benefits of using the SEO powerhouse, Thesis WordPress Theme, and are banking the results. Having a professionally constructed theme as the basis of your site will take the pain out of attracting the search engines.

Resource: http://www.offsite-backup.com.au

http://www.offsite-backup.com.au/blog/web-hosting/thesis-theme-blogs-that-rank-450/

In this tutorial, we will see How to Setup Pagination on the Home Page of your Blog or Website running on the Thesis Theme for WordPress. This will replace the regular “Previous Entries” link that appears at the bottom of your Content Area, just below the Teasers (if you are using them).

Install the WP Navigation Plugin

To setup pagination on your WordPress Blog, we need to install the WP-Navigation Plug-in.

You can download the Plug-in from its Home Page -http://www.lesterchan.net/wordpress/readme/wp-pagenavi.html

Follow the instructions on the Plug-in page for installation. Note there are different versions of the plug-in, for various WordPress versions. Choose the right one based on your WordPress install.

Default settings and options for the plug-in is sufficient to get started. If you need further changes, options are available under Settings – PageNavi in your WordPress Admin Dashboard

• Watch the Video…

Resource: Ashwin http://thoughtsunlimited.net