Caroline Middlebrook has just released a free ebook on how you can develop money-making niche sites with WordPress. The ebook is completely free and is available for instant download on Caroline’s WordPress Niche Sites webpage.

The ebook is very well put together and all 41 pages are jammed with useful information regarding configuration, setting up new Wordpress blogs, monetizing your blog and lots more.

So if you’re ever wondering about generating income from your blog or niche site, it is definitely a book thats worth taking a look at.

You can download your free Wordpress ebook here;

http://www.caroline-middlebrook.com/blog/niche-sites-wp/

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The people at BlueVerse.com have just released a new theme which firmly focuses on monetization of your Wordpress blog.

The theme is called Weblogger and is fully Adsense ready with a nice Web 2.0 look and feel. The side bars are well done and widget ready too which makes it easy to expand your blog with extra monetization code if required.

According to the website this theme does a lot of the monetization for you and just by installing it your blog will be nearly 40% monetized! The Adsense integration is great because the theme is designed to get your visitor’s attention in the first load of a page. The Adsense ads are displayed prominently at the very top of your blog where there is a much better CTR (Click Through Rate).

From the screenshot above you’ll see the top half of the theme is completely monetized for Adsense and these ads are very easy to edit as well. You will simply need to edit the pub-id code in 4 php files. These are;

• ad-header.php
• ad-nav.php
• ad-post.php
• ad-top.php

The Weblogger theme is available for download here; Weblogger Wordpress Theme

Enjoy!

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Amadeus is a new Widget Ready WordPress Theme which has just been released by headsetoptions.org. It is a 2 Column theme with an eye-pleasing green and white color scheme.

An added bonus with this theme is the fact that it is Adsense ready and it has a very professional look and feel about it. The theme is a fixed width one which can be good thing when it comes to heavily configuring your blog later.

Amadeus also has a very Web 2.0 professional look to it with the cool looking RSS and Technorati icons and crisp text fonts.

Installation Info

• Upload the Amadeus theme to your Wordpress themes folder.
• Upload the supplied plugin files to your plugins folder.
• Activate plugins
• Activate theme

Download

To download the Amadeus Wordpress theme please visit here.

On the whole, Amadeus is a clean, professional theme which is Google Adsense ready and well worth considering for your blog. Hmmm, come to think of it, I’m kinda tempted to change mine to this one as well.

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I just came across a really cool widget for monetizing your blog using the new AuctionAds.com service.

The Auction Ads Widget allows you to monetize your website by displaying live eBay auctions in your blog sidebar. If you are familar with the way Google Adsense operates (which uses javascript to display ads), you will be right at home with this new Auction Ads Widget. All configuration can be done in the Widgets section of your  Wordpress installation.

Requirements

The only requirement to use this Widget is that you should have an AuctionAds.com account. It easy and free to sign-up and just takes a minute to do. After sign-up you will now have a Publisher ID which you can enter into the widget configuration area.

Widget Installation

Simply extract the file to your wp-content/widget/ directory. Go to Presentation tab and select Widgets (WP 2.2) or Sidebar Widgets (WP 2.0+). You can drag and drop the AuctionAds widget onto the sidebar. Configure it with your AuctionAds.com ID (which you will have received after signup) and Campaign ID if you have one. Select the appropriate layout and change the color according to your own theme color. You can enter a keyword or multiple keywords so that you can trigger appropriate Ads for your blog. Click save… and thats it!

Auction Ads Sample

Download

Soon, you can be on your way to maximizing your blog’s revenue potential using AuctionAds. You can download the new AuctionAds Widget here.

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