I have a question for you. Simple, straight and easy to answer - Do you like my Wordpress template? Answer can be as simple as Yes / No or as elaborate as positives and negatives about my wordpress theme, the alignment, the colour, navigation of this template and so on. I know it’s easy for you to do so, because you are seeing this wordpress template right in front of you as a live demo. And deciding on whether you would like to select this template for your blog is easier for you now. [I know you would thank me to find out such brilliant red professional template]

Did you know what is the general thinking of a blogger while choosing free wordpress themes? He or she needs the visualization of the wordpress theme or in simple words - picture of the theme or demo; categorization of the theme; quick glance on what theme can give you in few words and last but not least the free download link. This is what exactly I look for when I browse through some of the cool wordpress themes to select one for my next wordpress theme change.

These guys at TopWPThemes.com are doing all the hardwork for us and we need not to worry about all this. They have around 55-60 top wordpress themes that are categorized in categories like 2 columns, 3 columns, Adsense ready, widget ready etc. If you observe they have almost all those basics covered while presenting a new theme what we talked about a while ago. I can see the free demo and download link right there to preview the theme and short notes about the theme. Cool - that saved lot of my efforts!

No doubt, they will go places, and I would like to contribute a little to their success. I have few suggestions for them to incorporate few things to take this theme blog towards completeness. How about adding a simple rating system for the wordpress theme? Would not you like to see 4 or 5 stars around a theme given by visitors and users of the theme! If it’s difficult to incorporate, let it be. And also, I would like to see more categories and more themes, and yes - this is something which can be worked upon over the period of time if the themes are added religiously. If they could post one wordpress theme per day, imagine a huge database of wordpress themes in next few months. I would certainly like to see it, would not you?

This search engine optimization method we are going to discuss shall be the simplest method to optimize for wordpress blogs. Why I am talking here about wordpress blogs only, because blogger already has implemented this tact by default.

We are talking about the difference between URLs like http://www.lifeiscolourful.com/nofollow-or-dofollow-link-train-contests-are-fun/ and http://www.lifeiscolourful.com/?p=6

It’s well proven that if you have keywords in your page URL, the page comes in SERPs sooner than you expect. Google loves to see the keywords in your page URL and bring your page upfront. This blog has been experiencing this for many of the posts that start coming in Google search results within couple of days of posting.

Getting this done is very simple method but many of you might not do it, just because you might not find it out how to do it quickly in wordpress, or you have lack of time due to busy schedule even though you are strongly willing to get it done for your blog or you are just a lazy bum - We don’t mind catering to all type of readers.

First step is to login as administrator to your wordpress blog [Now I know this step could be avoided, don’t you think so?]. You can now go to “Options” and then “Permalinks” in the second row of tabs.

If you would like to have only Post name in your URL, add /%postname%/ in “Custom Structure” or if you would like to have post name as well as post id, add /%postname%/%post_id%/

Before you update your new page URLs, it’s important that you install Permanent redirect wordpress plugin that replies a 301 permanent redirect, if requested URL is different from blog post’s permalink. This ensures that there is no duplicate content for your blog post in Google’s eyes and only one URL associated with each blog post.

And now you can update the new search engine optimized page URL structure for your blog.

ShareThis, which was available for wordpress earlier is now also available for Blogger platform or any other website

With ShareThis utility, your website or blog visitors can promote your blog content on social websites like Digg, Delicious etc. Other than social web sharing, ShareThis will let readers forward your stuff via email /SMS while staying on the page. This is the feature I wanted for my blog since long, as I wanted people to just email my useful blog posts to their friends.

ShareThis not only gives your visitors a chance to submit your articles to social bookmarking websites but also has something for you, ShareThis will provide you tracking this information through charts and reports. It’ll be very useful for any webmaster to know what blog content is most popular among visitors. One more way to track this information to reach to accuracy.