The ultimate collection of horizontally tileable web 2.0 backgrounds for web design, blogs and software. Ideal structure for ” header + navigation bar + body bg ”. This is an absolutely massive download as not only you get so many ready backgrounds, but also detail stylized PSD files with all the layer styles for each and every layer individually. 50 variations with very neat and mild gradients to choose from, different web 2.0 style combination, colors for any web site, both dark and light color scheme backgrounds. I am sure you are going to love them! Here is a partial preview of some of the backgrounds that will be included in this huge download…

The file includes:

• 50 ready-to-use .PNG files (optimized for fast loading, 2 kb each)

• 50 fully layered PSD files (detailed layer style for each segment

If you have any questions, please contact me in the profile form. Comments and ratings are appreciated!

DISPLAY is a Wordpress Theme, best suited for Business and Portfolio sites. It comes with a fantastic 3D Image slideshow that can be controlled from your back-end with a custom tool. The Theme has a huge wordpress custom backend (8 additional Admin Pages) that make customization of the Theme easy for those who don’t know much about coding or wordpress.

Display also has 3 Fantastic skins to choose from:
(The dark and minimal preview are only html previews, just to show you how it looks like. Of course there are fully functional Wordpress skins included within this theme)

• display light
• display dark
• display minimal

The 3D image slider is editable without the use of flash. you can add and remove slides, change the order, change transitions with the help of a backend. The Theme also comes with a more subtle fading image slider. You can use this slider as your main slider, otherwise it will be used as a fallback if the users browser doesnt support flash. Key features of the template:

• Valid XHTM Strict1.0 and CSS 2 .1, tableless Design
• Multiple Page templates:
  • Index Page with 3D Slider
  • Index Page with jQuery Slider
  • Static Page
  • Blog Overview Page
  • Blog/Portfolio Single Page
  • Portfolio Overview
  • Contact Page
  • Full Width Page
  • Error pages, archives etc etc
• jQuery Support:
  • 2 different Portfolio/Item slider, supporting unlimited items
  • Dropdown Menu, improved with jQuery
  • jQuery 100% unobtrusive wich degrades gracefully if javascript is turned off
  • Gallery Page with lightbox
  • Working ajax/php contact form
• Huge admin area to customize the theme from your Wordpress backend.
  • Menu Manager
  • Slideshow Manager
  • Additional Preview Picture section on write post/page panel
  • Different Widget Area for every Page
  • and many more… (8 option Pages for easy customization included)
• All PSD files I used are included for easier modification
• Extensive Documentation Included

External scripts and resources used:
Social Bookmark Icons
drf icon set
Cu3er by Stefan Kovac
lightbox plugin
logo font: Museo

New Wordpress theme has been released today and I am sure you are going to fall in love with it. Polish up your blog with this silky-smooth design. My goal with this theme was to create something simple, refined, and well, polished! All of my recent themes have been page-based, so I thought it was time I release a more traditional blog template. I hope this dark and “interfacey” design will be a welcomed addition the the ElegantThemes collection. For more information be sure to check out the Live Demo, as well as the Features Page in the gallery.

Perfect for portfolios as well as business websites and personal blogs.

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The use of competitive ad filters will allow you to block certain competitor’s ads from being displayed on your website pages. With Google you may enter 200 URL’s. Many webmasters feel there is no competition because they’re not AdWords advertisers, but they could be losing money due to Arbitragers and MFA sites.

Made for Arbitrage and AdSense

Made for AdSense is otherwise known as MFA.  There is rarely content in these sites, they are placed only to make money off of the Google AdSense ads. Some sites will only type up a header and the rest of the page is purely ads. You do not want to provide backlinks to these sites. These sites can affect your AdSense income. There is a very low CPC rate on these sites so they catch traffic as low cost as possible. When you check your AdSense invoice and find figures like 1-3 cent clicks, it is probably due to an MFA site. The following is an example of just how this works.

• MFA’s bid minimal amounts on keywords in your site
• The MFA ad shows up in your site
• A viewer clicks the MFA ad and you make a big 1-3 cents for the click
• The MFA site has only ads and to leave the reader clicks on one of their ads making the MFA site $1 and even more sometimes.
• This is enough that an MFA site can produce 50-500% return

This process is known as the PPC Arbitrage and will affect your income from AdSense. The user leaves unsatisfied and you loose a viewer. When a client comes to your site they expect to find more information when clicking on ads, they do not want to be stuck in the black hole of ad madness. Google can easily stop this from happening but choose to ignore it because they are making loads of money.  The fact is, whether a client is clicking an ad on your site or the site of an MFA Google gets paid! As long as this is happening, there will always be another Arbitrager making another MFA site to take away any profit that a legitimate site may otherwise be making.

The Competitive Ad filter application

If you use the Competitive Ad filter to block out the MFA sites on your pages, Google can put higher paying ads on your site.

To block ads, you need to place the URL of the destination or the display in your filter. The display URL is the one that is within the text in the ad.  Not all ads have this so you may need the destination URL to filter it properly.

To get the destination URL of an ad you can look at the link properties or use an AdSense preview tool. The preview tool is suggested by Google because it is simple to use, be sure you do not click the ad itself because then you will be in violation of the TOS for AdSense and you could be banned from using it.

An easy way to block the low paying CPC sites or the MFA’s is by using the Ads Black list. You will get a list of 50 MFA sites that you can filter and if you become a paying member you will be allowed the current limit of 200 that Google allows.

The Ads Black List is easy to use. All you need to do is enter your URL of your site and click the button “Get Black List” when they give you the list all you have to do is copy and paste each URL into your Competitive Ad Filter. If you implement this idea it can take up to 12 hours for the ads to start getting blocked there is one site among many you may want to block and that is tinyurl [dot] com because MFA sites frequently use this site to camouflage their URL’s.

Hopefully in the future Google will increase the limit for the Competitive Ad Filter but that is unlikely because of the amount of money they make off of these sites. If you use these tools to block some of the larger MFA Arbitragers, you will see an increase on your earnings from your AdSense. If more sites start using these simple steps we may be able to get the MFA’s to start increasing bids or close up shop, but it is not likely that will be done any time soon.

Key Features of this magazine style theme:

1. Inbuilt easy to use gallery
2. SEO friendly
3. Inbuilt drop down menu
4. Lightweight, optimized for fast loading.
5. Tested on Wordpress 2.8+
6. Compatible with IE7, Firefox 3, Opera and Safari
7. Ready for All the social bookmarks
8. Ready for 250*250 ads
9. Beautiful organization of the comments section
10. Ready for thumbnails – no need to use custom keys, images are pulled automatically from the post.
11. beautiful web 2.0 magazine style design, based on CSS 3.0 features.

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Marketing strategies and the best business practices always go hand in hand. Companies come up with the best strategies in order to attract more clients to the services or products they offer. The internet is the best marketing tool that is offered to businesses and Google is the number one search engine out there today.  More than 65% of all web traffic goes through yahoo, msn and Google search engines.  The importance of this information is that the average person only spends 2-3 minutes in a search when they want information fast. Usually while conducting a search, only the top 3 links of that search result are ever visited.

Search Engine Optimization, otherwise known as SEO is the way to get the search engines to do the work for you. These tips will allow you to utilize SEO techniques to help your company get higher rankings on the search engines within a month.  Many techniques are free of charge, but we will go over some that have a minimal charge to boost your traffic to your site.

The SEO breakdown:  We will use the example of a shoe store. You sell all types, orthopedic, designer and mass production shoes. Your goal is to be at the top of all of the search engine lists that we have mentioned above.

1. Do the search – First perform a search on what it is you do. Check out the competition. Look through their page and see if they really offer what it claims. Some sites are only on the internet for advertising dollars.
2. Fill your domain name, Title Page, Meta tags, and content with the keywords that are pertinent to you and what you have to offer. These are the keywords that someone will use to find you on the internet. The keywords are searched for, and the search engines like Google will crawl for these words and find your site.
3. Designing your own page – Make sure the home page of your site is all about the shoes, create a cascading effect for each item such as orthopedic, designer etc. this way you are allowing yourself the room on the new page to add more detail about orthopedic shoes that you offer, this way you will create another set of keyword rich text for each item.
4. Repetition- repeat your keywords throughout the text, normally a 2% density should suffice here. Try to use your keywords in different phrases such as “cheap orthopedic shoes” or “the best orthopedic shoes” and remember to use these phrases in title tags and Meta tags for the best results. The crawlers will be able to then see what the content of your site is.
5. Submit your domain – You should submit your domain to all of the popular search engines as soon as possible, these search engines can take a couple weeks to register you so timing is the key. Get it submitted as soon as possible.
6. Make your website use friendly as soon as you can. Make sure you have your links up and your back links up, it takes time to do this and regular updates are necessary. Make it functional and useable for your clients to enjoy right away.

TheCorporation Features

Powered by ePanel, TheCorporation comes with all of the great features you have become accustomed to here at EelegantThemes. Change  color schemes, post layouts, manage your navigation, optimize your blog for SEO and more with the click of a button.

1. Optional Blog-style Structure – TheCorporation is a completely page-based design, but that doesn’t mean you have to use it that way.  You can switch to “Blogstyle” mode at any time, which converts the page-based homepage into a post-based blog. Furthermore, you can choose to populate the Featured Slider with posts instead of pages. Even though this theme was made with a specific audience in mind, there is nothing stopping bloggers who just like the design from using it.

2. Six  Unique Color Schemes – TheCorporation comes with 2 styles, each with 3 color schemes, for a total of six different variations to choose from. The standard skin comes in three colors, including Blue, Green and Purple.

Polish up your blog with this silky-smooth design, the Polished Premium Wordpress Theme. Designer’s goal with this theme was to create something simple, refined, and well, polished! I hope this dark and “interfacey” design will be a welcomed theme that you will love to use on your business blog or web design company. I personally grabbed this theme as soon as I had seen it released and used on one of my company’s websites, but the great thing is, I already had a subscription I am maintaining for 2 years now and not going to cancel. $19 for having unlimited access and usage of ALL the premium themes is quite frankly — almost FREE.

All of Elegant Themes’ recent wordpress blog themes have been page-based, so I thought it was time I release a more traditional blog template.