If you use a free theme from a Google advert you are an idiot..

Yeah you are, admit it. You would have to be unless you knew what you were doing. Having spent some time recently helping out when people have had their blogs hacked I decided to take another look at the free theme scams and was shocked by what I found.

I say I was shocked, thats a lie really. I knew what to expect and I knew where to look. I have to also admit I know all this and how effective it can be as I have done some of this in the past too.

OK so what I did was nip over to Google and search for ‘Free wordpress themes’ and heres what we get: -

Now as you can see we have a few paid adwords ads for free themes, suspicious? Yeah me too…

We also have a couple of decent organic results from upstanding places like Smashing Magazine etc.

So what we will do is grab a random theme from the top adwords adverts and the top organic result and have a poke around to see whats there.

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Don’t you hate those slow WordPress blogs that can’t survive a Digg too? This post offers some simple tips which can help it make Digg proof.

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A friend of mine asked me my opinion of how to get your Wordpress blog search engine friendly. I promised that I would email him a list of plugins and articles that would get him where he wanted to be as quick as possible but I decided that it would be useful for others as well and so did a post on my corporate site here: -

Search Engine Friendly Wordpress

Does anyone who reads this blog ever want to hear more about ways to hack wordpress so that it becomes a more powerful tool for SEO and a great CMS?

Just wondering as I am thinking of posting a bit more on that subject on here.