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ONE, TWO or EVEN FOUR COLUMNS in WordPress?  (PART ONE)
I’ll follow up with a selection of sites to find the best themes that you’ll need in PART TWO!

When you install Wordpress, you’re next task is to pick a theme. I’ll try to help you decide which format theme you can use –ONE Column to FOUR Column.

Here is the general logic process you can use to build a site with one to four columns –The less commercial activity you plan to pursue, the less columns you’ll need.

Most WordPress sites are fine with just two columns. This setup actually looks like a basic business site with navigation at the top for the major pages, and sidebar navigation for individual pages, to other sites and running some advertising.

If you are going to run an expert site or authority site about a given niche, then there is no need to add a lot of ad space and make a huge presentation. All you need to do it present the information you need your readers to know and put in enough links to your sponsors.

Things get much more complex with 3 or 4 columns. I’ve run the Rich Sage dot com for about 6 months with 3 columns. But now the objectives I have with Rich Sage dot Com are bursting at the seams! It time to add more content room and build upon the next level of Rich Sage dot com success.

Continued –The elements you’ll need to consider in a 4-column theme…

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Digital Point Forums Review by the Rich Sage

Several weeks ago I posted a review about the Warrior Forum, which I think is the best marketing forum on the Internet if you are seeking answers to advertising and marketing problems.

Today I am reviewing the Digital Point Forum, which I think is the best forum for advertising and marketing purposes because of the shear volume of users. There is a huge discussion about a diverse topic base, but I feel that the answers that I often see at the Digital Point Forum are inferior to the quality of the answers at the Warrior Forum.

However, if you have a product or service that you wish to market, given the number of visitors and registered users, there is no better place than the Digital Point Forum.

Some of the advantages and disadvantages of the Digitalpoint Forums…

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TOP 100 Rich Sage Reviews

From time to time I’ll do a review of a product or service that I think helps the Rich Sage readers, and make money online community. This is a directory page that links to each review at Rich Sage dot com.

A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T | U | V | W | X | Y | Z

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List of TOP 100 Advertising Networks:

AD NETWORKS

This is a list of Ad Networks that you can utilize to build your business. I will update this post regularly to provide a summary about each ad network. I will also test (use) many of them in the coming months and years and provide a breakdown on how things work. *Below text paraphrases linked web site text.

The list is broken down by category, but most of the companies can cross many of the categories. Keep in mind that companies always evolve their business plans and add services from time to time. If you represent an Ad Network, please contact me to list your service below…

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Things You’ll Need to Consider Setting up Your Own Blog by the Rich Sage: Part One

Everyone wants to start a blog. These are the considerations I needed to make when I decided to jump on the blog train.

The very first of such considerations was how I was going to host my blog.

Here are the options:

• Using a blog hosting service such as Blogger or Wordpress.com and a host of others.
• Creating my own site using a website template.
• Installing a Content Management System (CMS) such as Joomla or Drupal.
• Installing a CMS that was quick and easy to manage, such as WordPress.

Here are the reasons why I eliminated the first 3 of the above options…

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The Rich Sage Alexa Ranking keeps getting better and better.  My goal this month was to top the 100,000 mark, on my way to cracking 20,000 by the one year anniversary which is actually next month.  I am not sure I’ll make it, but the chances seem to look good.

Today I took a quick look at the ranking at Alexa, and was pleased to see:

The above results are most likely a one-day spike, so my challenge is to keep writing and adding valuable insight for my readers.  Then it’s just a matter of time before the three month average dips to the point that I have targeted –which is less than a 10,000 ranking.

I don’t put a whole lot of time and religiously check my rankings, but I know that any advertiser will make a decision whether or not to advertise at Rich Sage dot com based on ranking such as Alexa.  I don’t aim to disappoint anyone. I want to over deliver.

The above graph is showing my “reach” per 1,000 web users.  I need to build the readership to 0.004 or even 0.008 to make  my efforts meaningful just as the Rich Sage.   I think some of the recent additions to the site, including the Rich Sage FREE Ad Forums make a great addition to my traffic building.  And that’s just the beginning –I’ve got a few more ideas that will “go live” soon, including a band new theme for WordPress 2.5 using 4 columns!

After a few weeks of “slow progress” I feel that life is moving forward again, and I’ll be here to add to my content to help you build your own online business.

Success!
Rich Sage

Rich Sage Underground

Foot Note:  I worked on this page for weeks… It does not look like I’ll get it done in “one shot”.  I’ll publish it “as is” and keep coming back to Revision 1, 2, 3, etc. until I get it done.  Sometimes that’s the only way…

This page is the main information page for my Rich Sage Pro lessons, which I will call “Rich Sage Underground“. I will be charging about $67 dollars per month for the lessons, and will limit the number of students to a few hundred. The primary mission of the lessons is to teach the students how to build a full-time income working part-time hours helping managing a local business network. Within months students are expected to build a successful online business managing one of my business centers.

My role in this endeavor is to provide the best SAAS –Software as a Service that helps my students better manage all of their clients.

One of the challenges that I am facing is to explain my business model and affiliate program to potential new Students (future Affiliates) *without* hype. I am going to do that in this post, and later use the post on my recruiting page. Most new Affiliates who participate in my “PRO” Membership will learn how to work with me, my utilities and setup a local business model…

I started writing this note two weeks ago. It’s much harder than I anticipated. So, what I think I’ll do is “break it down” to several key elements that I want to get across to my readers and see if I can finish it. That’s the plan.

There are the various elements that make up my introduction to the Rich Sage Pro Membership:

• Introduction
• Current Online Business Opportunity problems
• Why they don’t work
• What has to be done to correct that problem
• What make my PRO program the best online business opportunity

My primary goal writing this introductory page is to:

• Convey to my readers that I have a success plan that is reliable, sustainable and very lucrative.
• My success plan is also a realistic long-term plan that gets stronger and stronger, as more and more Affiliates and Members join the network.
• Lastly, given the tremendous resources that I “bring to the table” each Affiliates joining my program is not sitting alone with just reading materials to build success. I have a step-by-step plan to make all of it work.

Then I’ll work on filling the above main points with my explanation.

The Rich Sage’s Perfect Affiliate Program

This page is an introduction to my PRO Membership, which I call the “Rich Sage Underground”, and it outlines one of the most important online lessons you will ever learn. The 15 minutes you spend reading it will save you a world of frustration and headache for many years! And for those who decide to work with me, you can realize your online success dreams by learning how to build a very successful online business!

Unlike many affiliate programs that have thousands and thousands of Affiliates, my program is limited to a few thousand.

Before I share this lesson on online success, let me share these thoughts with you…

• Most online businesses earn less than $100 PER MONTH!
• Sure online businesses cost virtually nothing to setup –but if such a biz-opp earns you virtually nothing, you have not made any progress.
• Often finding (or stumbling upon) a success online is just a temporary “fix” –no niche lasts long at all.
• Finding success is almost as bad as trying to “hit the lottery” –Your dreams are then left to chance!
• Often hyped income claims are made –but the “cost of that income” is never revealed. The worst part is that by the time you learn how to duplicate that success, it’s too late for your own!
• Lastly, the worst part of my analysis is that people who jump on to the latest make money online business opportunity do so without regard to common sense nor do they analyze the basic business principals that underpin any successful business online. They let the words of insiders and their testimonials “sell” them.

No wonder most people fail. They are doomed from the start!

That’s the bad news… Let me explain what you need to “Stick to” to build success online!

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Debut of the Rich Sage FREE Ad Forums

One of the elements that I wish to ‘cultivate’ at Rich Sage dot com is more and more reader interaction. I want to create several places where readers build the content –often described as “user generated content” by the gurus.

I’ve come up with these ideas to do that:

• A forum area where registered members can create free ads –This is what I just implemented at http://forums.richsage.com.
• A gallery area where readers can post images –More accurately, I want to post images of people who wear Rich Sage t-shirts. Then I can allow the pink Rich Sage Diva (ladies) and blue Rich Sage Prodigy (guys) pictures and have people vote on them.
• User comments –that’s already running. I will update user comments in the next site update to post comments more freely. At this time I have to approve each comment.

The first of the ideas is now up and running. Sure there are a few things that I need to make better like the logo/image for the forum and some of the forum titles. But that will get done in the next few days. It’s a work in progress…

How to Maximize Your Traffic with a Forum…
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Rich Sage April 2008 Traffic Growth

After a pause in March, traffic growth is back to normal in April. So is the progress to get several key word phrases listed in the first page or two of Google.

The traffic resulting from this effort is growing steadily. I know because for two weeks I’ve made very few updates. I was simply exhausted with a lot of personal events taking their toll.

Now I hope to get re-stared in my effort to reach the reader base that I desire and the daily traffic that I’ve worked on getting for six months. The fun is just starting!

What I am doing to double and triple site traffic…

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The Rich Sage is growing rapidly…

When I started my wise posts, I had just a lone account hosted on a virtual hosting server. I was on a VPS. As part of my traffic building strategy, I moved the Rich Sage dot com to a back up hosting server that I had. It’s not fast, it was just a basic server that I could use.  As part of that strategy I extended the registration for the Sage several years and pointed an IP address to RichSage dot com.  Then I started my traffic building.

However, there were some limitations –the hosting only allowed one domain and only one email address.  That was part of my back-up server limitations.

Now I need to prepare a server for the following advances:

• Brand new three-column Wordpress theme
• Reaching 1,000 visits per day
• Averaging 25,000 hits per day
• Running several sub-domains
• And several domains
• Running a gallery area & forum
• Running my normal free membership
• Creating content for a paid membership
• Upgrade to Wordpress 2.5

More server upgrade wisdom & benefits of Wordpress 2.5 …
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