My customers pop up in my email or on my BlackBerry with a problem for me to solve.  If we have a meeting of the minds, their problem becomes MY problem as we tackle their web marketing project. MY challenge is getting them, or… their talent, or… their service or… their product SEEN by as many targeted demographics of the Web as possible.

Okay… okay… Just kidding. Obviously, you have poked around the Internet and you are really getting excited about maybe getting THESIS for yourself and you need some more red meat. Alright! Let’s look at Thesis a little more.  I just know that this post is going to burn up my whole Sunday…

At the end of most projects using many themes,  I just wasn’t a satisfied, Happy Camper!

Yup… I jumped on that BIG, moving THESIS BUS!  Sure, I jumped on late, but I am so glad that I did. If my doctor was to prescribe the perfect Rx for me, it would have been the Thesis Theme. It’s easy to use, it’s a very clean and sanitary design, it can be set up minimalistic or totally PIMPED OUT with affiliate Ads and Banners oozing from all possible placements (or hooks).

When you hit your head against what appears to be a THESIS Brick Wall, don’t PANIC!  Be comforted that there is a huge THESIS COMMUNITY of bloggers, developers (like me), and DIY Thesis Forum members who will help fellow Thesis Users blast a hole through that brick wall without too much time wasted in a search for a specific solution. At the THESIS User Forum there are plenty of answers to your occasional questions. There are also some “regulars” there who are quick to lend a hand if you cannot locate the proper thread about your issue of the moment.

With the click of your mouse, you can tick a box that allows you to use either the default css theme or your own custom css file. Thesis allows you to pick and choose which “pages” you display instead of utilizing a code that simply displays every page.

If you already OWN Thesis Theme and need help:

• I can get your website LIVE and UP in mere hours and completely fleshed out to your specifications as quickly as 48-HOURS.  Simply visit my Pricing/Contract page, and get a quote today.

If you need a Membership Theme or Plug-In consider:

• WishList MemberShip Theme

I will be reviewing WishList in soon as we conclude setting up our umpteenth WishList Website based on that powerful model.

Google’s Matt Cutts will share first-hand “How to Get Better Visibility on Google….”

Google’s Matt Cutts, a name you should remember, talked about WordPress and it’s VALUE way back in 2007 when WordPress was at Version 2.4 ~ WordPress is now at 2.9.

This is my most comprehensive review yet about BlueHost that I have written. This is not a review of the dark-magic, so I won’t get into the web guru stuff like SSH/Shell Access,  mod_rewrite support, mod_security support, PHP5 servers, Ruby on Rails support, etc… This review is more for the folks wanting to launch a new business website, the writer wanting to start one or more blog sites, someone considering affiliate marketing…

I use BlueHost – I’m a Happy Camper

Unlimited Disk Space and Bandwidth

Host Unlimited Domains under ONE (1) Hosting Account!

BEWARE!

More than Disk Space and Bandwidth

Add-on Domains

93 Video Tutorials!

100 MySQL Databases Included

Fantastico and  SimpleScripts Library

By investigating the Legal address of SimpleScripts I learned sometime back that the creator and owner of SimpleScripts is none other than BlueHost!  The folks at BlueHost have created an even better version of the Fantastico script delivery and installation process called SimpleScripts.  It is more up-to-date than Fantastico to the point where they took over the delivery of the more popular scripts, including the very popular WordPress delivery of new version releases to BlueHost customers. SimpleScripts is really simple and effortless. One day you see a notification that your current WordPress version is out of date (say 2.8) and with one click your WordPress platform is updated to 2.9 or 3.0 beta – “just like that!”  Woo Hoo! BlueHost is always perfecting their services. BlueHost is not my only hosting company, but 2 years and 2 months into their service and I find myself always smiling!  

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Backlinks – are they important?

You’ve heard about backlinks.

Are they a FAD?

Are they necessary?

If you have a website, you know —or have learned that the very first thing you need to get in order to be successful is traffic coming to your website. You also know (or should know) that getting traffic over the long term means getting top ranking in the search engines for search terms that are related to your business.

PAID TRAFFIC (Pay Per Click)

Sure, you can get paid traffic in the short haul by using Adwords and other Pay Per Click (PPC) services. In some business niches it is a fast and effective way to get to the head of the line while your organic search efforts are taking hold. But PPC advertising, in some very competitive business sectors has become ridiculously expensive over the past few years – so expensive that some business website owners just can’t afford to compete with big companies in a battle that is more about the size of your pocketbook than the quality of your product or service. Remember, PPC traffic only comes to you as long as you pay for it. If you stop paying, you no longer receive traffic.  A harsh lesson in capitalism – to be sure.

FREE TRAFFIC (Organic)

BACKLINKS ? ~ I thought SEO was all about Keywords

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jK7IPbnmvVU&feature=player_embedded

Getting Backlinks – The Business-Owner’s Dilemma

• Send an email to other websites and ask to exchange links
• Submit their website URL to online directories and referral sites
• Participate in online forums and make meaningful comments on blogs
• Write countless, relevant articles for e-zines
• Buy links from a link broker or SEO firm
• Hire individual link builders on forums to do tedious linkbuilding for you

• No longer work
• Take many hours of drudgery every day
• Cost a fortune and then your first born
• All of the above

And of course, you can purchase links, or purchase the services of a person or organization that can get these links for you, but the cost can get very large very quickly. Want to buy some quality links?  Do the math! We want you to have 100 to 300 backlinks in a competitive market such as Southern California. Most services charge $10, $100 or even more per link! No matter what link building service you investigate, the cost of buying links adds up to big money really fast.  Most folks who buy links at $10 – $100 per link then have a monthly maintenance fee on top: on average, $300 per month. Oh, and as we said, miss a payment and the house-of-cards (links) come crashing down with a huge startup cost facing you as you re-start from scratch.

The process of moving the Thesis Theme Navigation Menu is pretty straight forward. You have to tell the Thesis Theme (via code) to remove the Thesis Navigation Hook from before the header and then using a new instruction, tell the Thesis Theme (via code) to place the Nav Menu immediately after the header.

So you go to your Thesis Menu on the left side of your WordPress Dashboard, select Custom File Editor and then select one of the three files shiped with Thesis: custom_functions.php

You will add two new lines of code the remove and the add

// Delete this line, including the dashes to the left, and add your hooks in its place.

Then delete the above line inside your custom_functions.php and place these codes in the same place of the deleted line:

//Move nav below header
remove_action('thesis_hook_before_header', 'thesis_nav_menu');
add_action('thesis_hook_after_header', 'thesis_nav_menu');

And finish! Now your Main Navigation Menu, such as Home, About, Etc will appear right below the header!