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With a plethora of WordPress themes to choose from out there, it can
certainly be overwhelming for a newbie blogger to decide which theme to
go for. Although almost all theme developers allow users to take a demo
before buying any particular theme, choosing one is a cumbersome task.

To make the task easier for you, we’ve handpicked the top 20 gorgeous
looking premium WordPress themes that we feel could lend a unique look
to your blog.

1. Eleven 40

2. Enfold

3. Kallyas

4. UDesign

5. 907 Parallax

6. GameZone

7. Avada

8. Pretty Theme ‎

9. YourInterior

10. Playbook 

11. FoodPress

12. Day Night

13. Foxy

14. Tripod

15. NewsRoom

16. Janela

17. HappyFood

18. Hypergrid

19. LilyPress

20. Onion

Since a Google pagerank update is on the way, many of you bloggers must be eager to know what the updated PR of your site will be. If you have been serious about your linkbuilding campaigns, yo must be having a fair idea of where your site stands at this point and how much pagerank it deserves.

However since it is difficult to predict the pagerank of your blog before hand, especially manually, you can make use of several good pagerank prediction tools that are available for free on the internet.

Though most of these do not work properly, there are some that give a good prediction of pageranks. Still you must treat them as an estimation at best, as a few of them will generally show exaggerated PR’s, which will only increase your hopes of a PR4-5 for your blog and when the actual update happens, you will be disappointed to see your blog being given a PR2 or 3 by Google.

So here are the top 2 Future Google Pagerank Prediction Tools:

SEO Mastering Pagerank Prediction Tool:

Currently one of the few very PR prediction tools that actually work since most of the other tools are usually broken or do not work as precisely. Sometimes it might show an inflated PR so don’t go by it fully as it is the real PR which generally tends to be higher than the actual PR that Google assigns to your blog but it will give you a decent idea of the estimated PR of your blog.

iWebTool Pagerank Prediction Tool:

Another good PR prediction tool that allows you to check the future estimated pagerank of up to 100 websites, beyond which you need to go for the Gold account. However for amateur webmasters, the free tool should be enough. Not only does it show the current and the estimated pageranks but also shows the number of backlinks to your site.

If you know of any other good Pagerank prediction tools, do share them with our readers.

There’s a lot of talk about the pending Google pagerank update in May 2013 as bloggers from all around the world try to anticipate the change in the pagerank of their blogs.

Most of them have been working hard on building quality backlinks to their blogs in order for Google to reward them with the much valued pagerank since all bloggers know the value of Pagerank and how it impacts the revenue of their blogs as a better pagerank almost always equates to a better income.

In the last update of pagerank in February, ExceptionalBlogger had got a PR2, thanks to all the effort I put in writing guest posts for some of the best blogs in the blogging niche. This time I’m hoping for an even better surprise, preferably a PR of 3 or more. Let’s see whether it becomes a reality or not.

Google Pagerank Schedule:

Although Google does not announce publicly when they would make their Pagerank update live, it happens once every three months roughly. Since the last update was in February 2013, one can say that it will be updated very soon – perhaps in the first or second week of May 2013.

Since the update is not very far, you should keep a close eye on your blogs as their pagerank might start getting updated in a matter of a couple of days. However if Google rolls out a surprise this time by changing its usual routine then it might be a different matter.

How to Check Your Pagerank:

If some of you are not sure where to check out the PR of your blog, there are several quality sites out there where you can get to know the latest PR of your site. My personal favorites are:

MassPageRank

PRChecker

Masspagerank allows you to check the PR of several sites at once, whereas PRChecker is a very fast tool that shows the PR of your site instantly.

Stay Away From Spammy Links:

While I can understand that most of you want to leave no stone unturned when it comes to building backlinks to your blogs is concerned , but you should not go overboard in doing it. Especially since Google now keeps a close eye on blogs that link to bad neighborhoods, it’s always better to stay away from any of the spammy links such as:

• Links from Link Farms
• Link Exchanges
• Low quality sites

Always go for quality linkbuilding, which includes guest posting, commenting on quality blogs and so on. This will keep your blog safe from any of the link penalties in the future, hopefully!

There are times when we feel the need to blast off our message to thousands of people instead of having to mail each one personally, especially when we are promoting our new business, product or service.

Although newsletters are exactly for this purpose and some services like Aweber and GetResponse do an excellent job, they usually require months of patience before we can build a sizable email address database.

So here comes an alternative to all of that, a software named ThunderMailer which is basically a mass emailing software that incorporates a host of features that make emailing and managing subscribers quite easy.

The software has been developed by a company called 100 Software based in Malaysia. In quite a small time frame, the software has been able to generate a lot of buzz, particularly because it caters to a demand that is prevalent in the markets.

Thunder Mailer is perfect both for individuals and mid sized organizations that need to interact with their clients on a regular basis to keep them abreast of the latest promotions, discounts and other offers.

Thunder Mailer Features:

Although Thunder Mailer comes with dozens of features which would need an exhaustive write-up to cover, we’ll discuss the main features that would be sufficient for your email marketing campaigns:

Email Personalization – Personalize your messages by inserting the customers/users names and making them feel that your email is especially for them.

Import Email lists – A feature that allows you to import any of your email lists so that you need not add each email address that you previously had manually.

WYSIWYG Editor – A great way to edit your emails the way you like, without the need for any prior HTML expertise or knowledge.

Test emails – An important aspect for any marketer, a test email allows you to send the email you created to yourself and see from a users perspective how that email appears.

Filter Emails – With many email addresses being forfeited by their owners, an email marketing software needs to have the ability to block out the email addresses that are not working anymore and those that are being blocked or marked as spam by the recipient.

Free Version – In order to let you get a feel of their product, the company is offering a free version that comes with all of the features of the pro version, but is limited to sending 100 emails at a time, which is sufficient to test it out.

If you are wondering why anyone would prefer it over Aweber or Getresponse, the answer to that is it is a one-off investment rather than a monthly payment. The software costs just $69 which is pretty cheap if you’re serious about email marketing.

With the evolution of World Wide Web, the use of internet in every field has increased tremendously. Whether it is about getting the news about any recent of age old occurring in any part of the world, searching information about a topic from any field, entertaining oneself with the latest movies and games available online, conversing and connecting with the people who are residing in the different parts of the world with instant clicks or shopping from a store that is not even present in one’s area, internet has certainly gained a place in the routine lives of humans which is becoming significant with each introduction in the World Wide Web.

Marketing through internet- A growing trend

Like every other field, online advertising has also been on a high end from the last few years. The major portion of a company’s advertising expenditure in being invested in the online sources of advertisement as it is more in the reach of the people and hence attract more business for an industry that any other source of marketing. However, there are different types of internet marketing and one need to choose the ones which seem to be more suitable for the kind of business that one runs.

Listed below are some of the types of internet advertising that a person can adopt to promote the products and services offered by its trade:

• SEO Marketing

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) marketing is one of the most popular technique of advertising on the internet. It is the tendency of every individual to visit the search engines like Google, Yahoo and Chrome whenever any information from internet is required. These search engines enlist number of websites with the relevant information as searched by the user. However, being on the top of the search result list is what makes a company more popular as the users generally visit the top results only while the others are ignored. Having the SEO content hyperlinked in your website would make it appear among the crowned search results on these engines, hence increasing the traffic on your web page.

• Pay Per Click Advertising

There are so many blogs and web sites available on the internet that is owned by the individuals rather than a company. The technique of Pay per Click advertising makes the marketing work easier for the companies as the responsibility of the same is shifted to the owners of such web pages. A small advertising column about the company’s official website is published at such web portals and the owner gets paid for every click that is being made on the web link, that is, for every visit made by the users to the website.  Consequently, to gain more income the owner would put in more efforts to get your website promoted on his page.

• Social Media Selling

Social networking websites like Twitter and Facebook are highly popular among the internet users. Every person who uses the service of World Wide Web is considered to be having an account for regular use in one of the social networking communities for sure. Thus, having one’s business advertised on these web portals would imply the attraction of more customers and hence more business opportunities for a company.

• Promotion through Videos

People generally find reading the material on websites really boring at times. Besides, YouTube is a very popular portal for uploading, viewing and downloading videos which is used worldwide by the internet users to view all the pictorial representations.

Stake Paul feels that the internet has emerged as a very strong advertising tool which can be used by the companies to survive in the neck cutting competition. He thinks that having the information stated for them through pictures and videos can make the visitors of your website more luring than any other source. Just like Wayne Gattinella, he too says that it can face local and as well international competitors.

In this present era of cloud computing with significant advances in IT sector, there is an anticipated vision that one day computing will be one of the utilities among water, gas, electricity and telephony. The utility of computing will provide the basic level of computing that is very much important to meet the demands of the general community. To accomplish this vision a lot of computing paradigms have been set up, from which the latest one is cloud computing.

In fact, cloud computing is something where people trust online sources to preserve their data, and that day is not so far when you will see the trend of the web shift to work as a platform where people can use web apps to perform all their work and their PC’s will become stateless machines.

Chrome OS: The most significant implementation

Currently, Google is trying to provide as many stateless machines as possible. It has already gained much popularity by adding the fundamental application called as ChromeOS. Basically, it is an operating system like other web browsers, with an additional enhanced word. The platform itself is designed in such a way that it allows the users to palm off their responsibilities and duties of managing data to the cloud without performing negligible work, which is being referred to stateless platform.

Benefits of the Implementation

• Once the data stored on a cloud, you don’t have to worry about managing the data or files further.
• The servers of these clouds usually run a backup schedule along with them so, if the server crashes incidentally, your files can be brought back online without causing any loss to the user.
• These servers have built-in hardware redundancy so, if data get lost in hard drives, it can be brought back immediately without any data loss.

Platform for cloud app integration

Do you not feel like these cloud-based apps talk to each other?? That’s the reason, which has geared up the topic of cloud-based app integration and has started beginning to heat up in the market. This cloud-based app integration is nothing but a platform which offers a plug and play opportunity of cloud connectors for quick integration or synchronization.

Through this platform you would be able to synchronize the data of your company across your cloud apps with best practice recommendations. This platform enables companies to attribute the level mapping, take care of old and new records, an interactive researching mode and data syncing as fast as real time.

Cloud concerns

As people have been talking about cloud computing for years now, but still a majority part of the society has been wary about it. Well, the concerns of people are understandable, especially when the outsourced projects come into picture of the past few years, when a couple of IT departments were converted to external service providers.

The question which has been rising against the cloud for past few years, “where exactly is my data being stored”? In this situation, you can make use of three different clouds which are public cloud, private cloud and hybrid cloud respectively. In public cloud, provider makes your content available to public over the internet, whereas private cloud services are run by industrialists for their companies and their own employees only.

Hybrid cloud processing, makes use of the technique of mixing two cloud types, some of its services are run through public providers, whereas other applications are confidential and processed within the company itself.

David Buchholtz is a web enthusiast and a successful software developer who loves to design codes that are used for the web applications. He works for an IT firm, which is located in New Hampshire, and has made many contributions to its glory. He has got a large number of technological skills through which he wants to replicate Charles Phillips path.

BuySellAds has gained a lot of popularity in the last few years, especially after many of the renowned bloggers started using it on their blogs to sell advertisements  Though BuySellAds has emerged as one of the best ways to get advertisers to advertise on your blog, without taking the trouble of finding them yourself, there are a few disadvantages with using it as well.

So let’s look at some of the advantages and disadvantages associated with using BuySellAds, assuming that your blog has decent stats to qualify for their system.

Advantages of BuySellAds:

1. You don’t need to search for advertisers who are willing to advertise on your blog.

2. There is no need of convincing potential advertisers and wooing them to consider your blog for advertising.

3. You don’t have to spend time negotiating the prices again and again and finally find out that the advertiser isn’t interested anymore.

4. You can sell sponsored tweets using BSA as well, so you can make even more money if you have an active twitter account.

5. The payments are handled by Buysellads efficiently, so you won’t need to remind advertisers to pay you each month and need not worry about the advertiser declining to pay the money later on.

6. There is an option of getting paid by Check as well, which is great for those who don’t have a Paypal account (especially in third-world countries).

Disadvantages of BuySellAds:

1. The number one reason why I don’t like to use Buysellads on my blog is that they take a 25% cut on all advertising revenues generated by you. While this isn’t bad if your blog isn’t popular and you are having a hard time finding advertisers, but if you are already being contacted by a few advertisers and have good stats to go along with it, then you can make much more money by directly selling ads on your blog.

2. Since the price is fixed beforehand, you cannot negotiate prices with advertisers. This way you might lose some money that you could have made by negotiating the prices of ads.

3. BuySellAds takes time to make the payment so you need to wait for some time before you see the money rolling into your Paypal account.

Finally, I would like to mention that BuySellAds has made making some extra income from blogs quite easy and even newbie bloggers are able to benefit from it. However that being said, I find that many reputed bloggers use BuySellAds on their blogs, when they could be making a lot more money by simply selling ad space on their blogs directly.

If you are looking for a Mackeeper coupon code for 2012, you’ve come to the right place. Though there are many Mackeeper discount codes available on the internet, most of them do not work. However on this page you will find the latest working Mackeeper coupon code that will get you the maximum discount.

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How to Avail the 10% More Discount:

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2. To get 10% more discount, just enter the code: facebook.ngh in the coupon code column on the left.

3. Choose your plan and click on Instant Activation.

MacKeeper Features:

Mackeeper is one of the most trusted, highest selling and award winning software that provides a full suite of applications that keep your Mac working perfectly. Let’s take a look at some of its best features:

1. Security – Mackeeper comes with anti-theft features that keep your Mac safe from any external safety threats. The Internet Security suite has Safe Browsing feature that blocks untrusted websties and an in-built Antivirus that eliminates the risk of viruses entering your system. There is also an anti-theft feature that allows you to track the location of your Mac (very useful if you misplace or lose it). One of the best things I like about it is its iSight feature that takes a picture of whoever person is using your MAC after it has been stolen.

2. Data Control – This is another set of highly useful features that covers everything related to Data control right from Dta Encryption, File recovery, backup, ZeoDisk and Shredder that protects your data from being accessed by anyone, by making it invisible on your hard drive and also password protecting it via Terminal and Finder. You can also restore your lost or previously deleted data with the File Recovery feature.

3. Cleaning – With all the junk that we tend to store on your computers these days, an automatic cleaning software is indeed useful. Mackeeper comes with cleaning features such as Fast cleanup, Smart Uninstaller, Disk Usage and Files Finder that remove unnecessary files of installation and clear the unrequired system and cache files to keep your Mac working faster and smoother. There is also a plethora of other cleaning features that you will come in handy for you.

4. Optimization – This covers features such as Login items, update tracker and default apps, all of which have different functions that together help in optimizing your system. For example, Update tracker keeps track of the updates that your apps need from time to time, and gives you an option of updating them all at once, without having to waste time updating them individually.

5. Geek on Demand – This is nothing but the excellent support offered by the software team. You will be thoroughly about using Mackeeper with the help of support sessions, where an expert from the team can remotely configure your Mac if you require him to do it. You can also receive assistance with regards to any problem or issues that you need to fix on your Mac.

We will keep updating this page from time to time when new Mackeeper coupon code are made available. You can bookmark this page to help your friends and colleagues get Mackeeper discount whenever you want.

When I was just about starting my blogging career, I had nothing else in mind but to go after the most profitable niches, the niches where most of my money lay. While it may not be a good idea to go ‘only’ after the money today, my reasoning behind it was simple – I just wanted to get a piece of the luring pie.

If you want to try your luck to chase the big niches too, then this article might just be for you. Half a decade back, there wasn’t such great information available on the net about niches that might be profitable, but now since I’ve stepped in the game myself, I can claim to know some really good niches that can be tapped (although you would have to tap hard enough!). So let’s take a look at some of these best niches for affiliate marketing:

1. Relationships

With all the crap happening in people’s lives these days, it shouldn’t come as a surprise to you that the ‘relationships’ niche tops the list of most profitable niches. As relationships is a huge niche in itself and can cover thousands of topics, there are various sub-niches that you can look to target.

For example, breakup is one such lucrative niche that can turn out to be a big money-maker, but only if you can ramp up your game and speed ahead of the flourishing competition. The best part about ‘the relationships’ niche is that the conversions tend to be pretty good. The reason according to me is that people are undergoing emotional ups & downs, so they’re basically looking for something that can heal their heartd and in the hope that they might find such a thing, they end up buying products that claim to help them in such times.

Some well renowned & highly converting products in this niche are Men Made Easy, Pandora’s Box – A Man’s guide to the female mind, Get Your Ex Back etc. I’ve had success with all of them, so you can rest assured they will convert with the right traffic.

2. Weight Loss

Weight Loss is another all-time favorite niche for most internet marketers as most of the population these days suffer from obesity and desperately want to lose weight. The big players in the industry are already cashing in on the huge potential of this niche and although it’ll be hard for you to break into it initially, if you can succeed in doing it, sky is the limit literally as far as making big bucks is concerned.

The only downside to this niche is the lack of keywords as most people just search for extremely competitive keywords such as “how to lose weight” so there aren’t many long tail keywords that can bring traffic.

Although many people tend to classify this niche as a part of the much larger ‘fitness’ niche, I wouldn’t really agree with that. Fitness is a different niche in my opinion and one that I’ll deal with later in this article.

3. Forex

I’ve not really tried this niche but analysing some of the products and the conversion rates, the Forex niche sure seems to be one of the top ones that you should be looking to lock in on.

While there is not a dearth of well converting products, just like the weight loss niche, the only downside is the apparent lack of money making keywords, so you would either have to rely on PPC to get visitors to your products/blog or work really hard on the SEO part to rank for the main keywords that people search for.

However there’s one more thing that you could do to cross-promote your product or service and that is to start a blog that teaches people some working strategies for forex trading or write some product reviews, but to be able to do that you would need to be well aware of forex trading yourself.

4. Muscle Building

Another hot niche that is being creamed by some of the big guns in the internet marketing industry. Unlike some of the other niches that I discussed above, there is no dearth of keywords that you can try to rank for.

While I won’t reveal the keywords myself, I will leave it to you to dig deep and find out more about this well converting niche. The good thing about the muscle-building niche is that you can potentially target both overweight as well as the underweight people, since all of them have just one motive in mind, and that is to get ripped and build some muscles.

The top converting products in this niche that I’ve tasted success with are No-Nonsense Muscle Building by Vince Delmonte, Muscle Gaining Secrets and The Muscle Maximizer.

5. Money Making/Internet Marketing

Though money making and internet marketing might sound like two different niches, they’re practically one and the same, as both of them cover nearly the same aspects.

The best part about this niche is that people are looking for quick ways to make a fortune, so selling them a product by making enough hype about it isn’t too tough. If you look around, you’ll find some insanely converting products and believe me, there are literally dozens of them. Probably that’s the reason why there is such intense competition to go around as well.

The downsides? Well, as I said, breaking into this niche is much harder than any other niche as every pro marketer knows the most money is to be made here. Another problem with this niche is that although the conversions are great, the refund rate tends to be pretty high as well.

These days coupon websites are becoming a hit as the demand for coupon codes is increasing day by day. More and more people nowadays search for coupon codes before buying the product that they are looking to buy, so as to get a discount on the purchase. Therein lies your biggest opportunity to make them buy the product using your affiliate link so that you get a commission as well.

If you are looking to make a coupon based website, then you’ve come to the right page. You won’t have to look anywhere else as the two themes that I’m discussing below are the ultimate in the sense that they are cheap & best. You won’t have to spend hundreds of dollars as both of them are extremely affordable and very easy to setup. So here they are:

1. Clipper

Clipper is my personal favorite themes when it comes to creating a coupon website and it is also the best coupon theme according to me. Most of the coupon websites that you see on the internet today are made on this theme itself. The layout and design of the theme is very professional and the overall appearance is nothing short of perfect.

The best part about Clipper is that it is a feature-rich theme, which means you can easily add a lot of features to your website just with the click of a button. Also it is extremely easy to configure and it instantly turns your WordPress blog into a fully featured coupon codes website. If you buy it, you won’t have to spend much time setting it up. Just add your products and your own coupon website will be ready within minutes. All in all, it is a complete coupon management system and is highly recommended from my side.

Top Features:

• Advanced Link Cloaking & Tracking
• Visitors Can Submit Coupon Codes
• Customer Coupon Management
• Subscribe to Coupons via Email
• Indepth Statistics
• Custom Email Templates

Pricing – $99

2. CouponPress

CouponPress is also a popular coupon theme and it has been designed by a highly reputed theme developer – PremiumPress. However, although this theme is easy to use, you will need to spend some time tweaking with the colors and giving it your desired look as the default look is not that good.

However on the positive side, one of the best features of this theme is its advanced admin area that comes with dozens of features and options to integrate whatever you want to your website. Also the theme is SEO-optimized so that your website can get organic visitors from major search engines.

Top Features:

• No Programming Required
• Unlimited Installations
• Search Engine Optimized
• 10+ Different Layouts
• Widget & Plugin Support
• 24/7 Customer Service

Pricing – $79