By Alyssa Udall (@udallyss)
Eight seconds.
No, I’m not talking about bull riding or that 1994 movie with Luke Perry. I’m talking about the amount of time you have to convince visitors to your website or blog to stay visitors on your website or blog.
For blogging, this is especially important. If you want your visitors to turn into readers, and your readers to turn into regular readers, your web design needs to be user friendly and interesting. To give your blog a quick makeover today, try out some of these free Wordpress blog themes. These are just some of my favorites that I’ve come across recently. Your readers will thank you 
Business Themes
Desk Mess Theme
Coffee Desk Theme
Trendy Themes
Decayed Theme
Dark Splash Theme
Magazine Themes
Daily32 Theme
Turnout Mag Theme
Some Others
Imprezz Theme
Ahisma Theme
Another thing to remember is that clear web design can also help your site get ranked better in search engines like Google and Bing! If you are having trouble getting your blog ranked, try visiting our SEO blog to read helpful articles on how you can optimize your web page. You can also visit our free search engine submission to get your blog listed in over 100 search engines and directories!
By Alyssa Udall (@udallyss)
What does your blog design tell your readers?
If you still have that generic blue and white WordPress theme that is standard on all newly created blogs, you probably won’t get the chance to say much. An unchanged, sterile design not only gives off an air of neglect, nonchalance and antiquity, but it also gives your readers no reason to stay! This is mainly because so many spam blogs out today keep generic themes like this. If your reader’s first perception of your blog is that you look like a spammer, how likely is it that they will read on to discover that are not one? However, a lack of focus in the design of your blog may also force readers to think that you are an amateur blogger and your content will be as uninteresting and unprofessional as your theme.
In short, web design for blogs should be just as much a priority as the content it offers! Why would a visitor take the time to read your blog posts when it is physically straining on their eyes, due to bright colors, lack of color, inconsistent formatting or poor layout? Poor design forces the visitor to seek more interesting content elsewhere.
It is so easy to fix this problem! There are hundreds of sites out there offering a wide variety of free WordPress themes to plug-in to your blog.
One of the best free blog theme sites I’ve come across recently is ThemeFury. ThemeFury just launched dozens of high-style WordPress themes that fit every blogging niche. All in all, it’s just a simple blog-theme site. However, that simplicity is what draws me to it, for unlike most sites boasting “free” items, ThemeFury does not attack their visitors with banner ads, pop-up ads, or other annoying marketing campaigns.
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