Willie Wagtail Wordpress Theme

May 13, 2008 · Filed Under Life Log · Comment 

Wordpress Template

Ladies and Gentleman, boys and girls, children of all ages, I am proud to present you (the readers) the all new GeckoandFly, re-branded with a brand spanking new layout that took me 4 sleepless nights. This theme is named after Willie Wagtail, an Australian passerine bird that caught my attention and not to mention the close encounter I had when the bird pecked me for being too close to its nest.

Their most notable feature (and what gives them their name) is their long black tail, which they fan out and “wag” from side to side when hunting. Even while perching they will flick their long tails from side to side, twisting about looking for prey. Isn’t that cute?

Willie Wagtail
Image Source: Wikipedia

According to Wikipedia: “It is moderately territorial, particularly when nesting, and will readily chase off larger birds or other animals.”

Willie Wagtail is no bigger than the fist of a teenager, probably the size of a small boy’s fist, yet the most amazing thing I came across on my way to university is the sight of Willie Wagtail pecking a Raven ten times the size of its own size. Size doesn’t matter, does it?

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Copyblogger Wordpress Theme

May 11, 2007 · Filed Under Blogging · Comment 

Copyblogger Wordpress Theme

I’m not sure if any of you guys know about Copyblogger, but recently he has change his blog layout and honesty I prefer the old layout - Simple and clean, the new layout gives me the “being boxed in” feeling, too square, well, that is my own personal tasteless taste. Word has it that Copyblogger is going to release his old Copyblogger Wordpress Theme for the public. I bet it would be a hit among average blogger, possible due to its 2 column layout.

Below is a screen shot of the new layout, where else the above image is a screen shot of the old layout.

Copyblogger Wordpress Theme

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Wordpress Theme for Apple Mac

April 10, 2007 · Filed Under Wordpress · 2 Comments 

Wordpress Theme for Apple Mac

If you are an Apple fan or Mac user and so happen to be using Wordpress for blogging, then this would be your lucky day. Ndesign Studio has this cool mac looking wordpress theme for all Mac user, it feels like a mac and you’ll be amazed with the template, trust me! Visit the demo site - Wordpress Theme Apple Mac.

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How I Increased Search Engine Traffic by 450%

November 8, 2006 · Filed Under Blogging · 8 Comments 

How I Increased Search Engine Traffic

Pearsonfied has two great Wordpress themes available for free, listed in Wordpress official site as one of the must have theme, I have to admit that the author - Chris Pearson is a very creative person.

His recent article on how to increase your blog traffic by a whooping 450% is unbelievable. In his post, he argues that in order to achieve this miracle, you need to use his “cutline” wordpress theme. He showed graphs indicating a tsunami of visitor to the site after switching over to his theme, which he claims that has special meta or tag or some code that are able to get you a higher ranking in search engine.

In the image above, note how my search engine traffic jumped an astounding 455% from September to October. On top of that, the total number of search strings that resulted in visits to Pearsonified jumped up 232%, from 1,128 to 2,619. - Chris

I hate to say this but whatever he wrote there are all bullshits. Well, not really, come to think of it, if you’re a Blogger user and just switch over to wordpress, chances are you’re going to experience this sudden increase of visitors - definitely. One of the main reasons being is that you got your own domain name and Google tend to rank you higher. The other reason would be the headline of each post, Wordpress or most of its theme tends to display the title of the post first then follow by the title of the blog, which is a search engine friendly feature.

I have a few blogs and in order to witness this so called miracle, I was fooled into switching over to Chris “cutline” wordpress theme and to my dismay there is no 450% increase in visitors.

Increased Search Engine Traffic by 450%

Chris said just give it a try and you’ll know without any facts to back him up. It is like me telling the entire Blogger Blogspot user that by using template from GeckoandFly, you’ll have a higher ranking in Google thus a 200% increase in visitors. Nice try Chris but no thank you.

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