If you are planning to redesign your site or you want to make a new unique template that can attract millions of readers. If you really want to create an ultimate wordpress design i recommend some must have elements for your site.
Relevant placements of ads
Above 50% of bloggers are careless about ad placement. They just want to make money, for that they filling their blog with ton’s of ads, here and there. This makes the reader frustrated, actually what the blogger is doing that he blocking his readers view. So it is really important that you should place your ads without affecting the post content.
These are the most suitable ad placement locations on a blog. If you want to make more mouse over impressions,i recommend to place it as an inline text ad. Inline text ads can make 2X impressions than a banner ad.
Note: If you are planning to to use inline text ads, limit 2-4 ads per page.
Blog search & Web search
Blog search (search box) is one of the common things we can find on almost every blogs. But what about Web search? , it is really important to add a Web search box to your blog. I recommend google custom search for this. Adding a web search is a great idea to increase your blog traffic. This can provide your readers easy web search experience without leaving your blog.
You can see i have two search boxes in my blog, one blog search and another web. I had to say this is one of the key element for your blog success.
Catchy tagline
Be prepared! your tagline can do wonders. Make your tagline solid, simple but expressive. Your blogs tagline plays an importent role while a person searching on google (&others also) to find a solution for his problem. You can use your elevator pitch as a tagline. Simple, easily understandable taglines are optimum.Your tagline should say what your blog is about.
SEO (Search engine optimization)
Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via “natural” or un-paid (“organic” or “algorithmic”) search results as opposed to search engine marketing (SEM) which deals with paid inclusion.
To become a successful blogger optimizing your blog for search engine is necessary. 90% of internet users hitting on search engines to solve their problems. Basically people are using internet for three reasons
- to solve their problem
- to collect/earn information
- for entertainment
A small wonder all these people are hitting on search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo..to find the correct site that can fulfill their needs. In this situation optimizing your blog for search engines is really important. If you want to get more traffic -SEO can do this. I don’t want to put more detailed writings about SEO, because there are ton’s of blogs already did it.You may find more detailed articles about optimizing your blog for search engines on problogger. 
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