If you have not been to Template Kingdom for your website templates resource needs, you are definitely missing out a real goldmine! You will understand what I mean after you read this post. Allow me to touch on the features of this excellent template provider.

Strong Membership Base

With a strong community of more than 8,000 members joining up with Template Kingdom, it attracts tons of eyeballs every month especially from Affiliates. It is free to join up as their members to download freebies for your site and receive updates and latest template news from them.

The majority of the website metrics like Google PageRank (PR4) and Alexa rankings (56K) are showing that Template Kingdom is definitely one of the biggest companies in the area of website design and templates.

A Wide Range of Templates

Template Kingdom offers a very wide range of templates such as Joomla, WordPress, CSS and others. You rarely find a company that offers all these templates together nowadays.. As you may know that I am a fan of Joomla and Joomla templates, I find that Template Kingdom does offers high quality of templates and I particularly like the following Joomla templates, Feather Creat:

Stay In Trend – Latest Templates

Most template sites make a mistake by not answering to the needs of the visitors. They overlook the power of trend. Template Kingdom always fill in this gap by introducing templates that are in the trend and/or upcoming season. For example, the flowers theme template was released for marketers to catch the Valentine’s Day sales.

Free Templates for Everyone!

I would also like to applause the generosity of Template Kingdom by making some of the high quality templates available for free. You can view all the Free website templates here. The following is one of the free templates that I like =)

Powerful Affiliate System

Providing value to customers is one thing. Helping the customers providing value is even better than that! Template Kingdom has this powerful affiliate system that if you can refer someone to register in their website, you will receive lifetime commission from their purchases! Most affiliate system work by allowing only people who follow through your affiliate link. However, Template Kingdom adds more value to the Affiliates by tagging your id with all the affiliates who signed up during registration and pass on the commission whenever purchases happen.

You can sign up as an affiliate for Template Kingdom here and earn 20% lifetime commission from people who you recommend

Do let me know how you feel about Template Kingdom once you have visited their website

This course, Internet Entrepreneur Bootstrapping Course (IEBC) is to help aspiring Entrepreneurs who want to setup their Internet Business but is limited by the know-how. I have met many people who have great ideas but they can’t implement their ideas because they do not know how to setup a website with the features they have in mind. If you know what I’m talking about, read on.

We are no longer in the HTML world

What do I mean by that? We no longer need to know HTML or any web development knowledge in order for us to build a site. You might be surprised that I have built my WebSprout Consulting site without actually touching any HTML codes! There are actually open source (free) programs that enable anyone to build a sophisticated site without any programming knowledge, these systems are known as CMS (Content Management System). Some examples of CMS are WordPress (for blogs), Joomla (for web portal) and Moodle (for e-learning).

You just need to get familiarized with the CMS tool and utilize the functions to create a site that fulfills your requirements.

Powerful new skills for life

One of the objectives of IEBC is to teach the creation of website and instill Internet Business start up strategies to the attendees. These are essential skills for anyone when they are starting out in any online business.

There are two advantages for mastering the above essentials. First, if you know how to create a site on your own, it will not only save you valuable funds, it will also allow you to test your ideas quickly. Second, if you start on the right track (by minimizing expenses and knowing where to find your resources), this will cut down any wastage of time as well.

Web development will never be the same again!

If you are interested in my upcoming IEBC on the 07 Feb 2009 (one-day course), the full information on the course can be found in the IEBC Official site here. The course price is S$299 and is only conducted in Singapore currently. Do let me know if you have groups in your country whom are interested in my course and we can definitely work out something.

Do contact me if you have any questions regarding IEBC

To people who have read Aaron’s SEO Book or frequent SEO forums, you may already know 99% of the stuff inside this guide. However, this guide is extremely useful when you need it to prove and show your client that certain techniques are forbidden or not allowed. Having said that, I would still recommend you to read through the SEO starter guide here (pdf version).

For some of you (or may be a lot of you) who might not have the time to read through the 22-page guide, you can refer to my following summary:

Creating unique and descriptive page titles
To me, this helps a lot in ranking your page on the search engines. Having a unique page title should be your priority when designing or developing your site. Not only the titles have to be unique, but it also needs to describe the content on that page for optimal results.

Now, you may asking what if you have a site that has thousands of pages and needs to check for duplicated titles? Instead of checking them page by page yourself, you can simply use Google Webmaster Tools account to check if there are any duplicates (they have a reporting feature there)

Make use of the ‘Description’ meta tag
Yes, they are not dead yet! Google still advise us to put in descriptive words to describe a page so that they have more alternatives to choose what to display to the searchers.

Improve structure of your page URL
This means that if you have a choice, use readable and descriptive URLs for all your pages across in the site. For example, avoid using urls like 0987yrtiudc.html and use something secrets/paypal-login-password.html (just an illustration).

Improve your site’s navigation
This section advise webmasters to use text for navigation in your site. Avoid using entirely images or animations for navigation. They also recommend you to submit a sitemap to them if you have a medium to a large site.

Write better anchor text
A better anchor text will do a good job describing what is the target page about. Ok, maybe not so much for the human readers but this is critical for the search engines. To illustrate, use the second version below for better SEO purpose:

1. You can access the Google SEO Starter Guide here.
2. Go ahead and read the Google SEO Starter Guide!

Use headers tag appropriately
Using header tags in your page will also help Google to allocate relevancy to your page. In case you are not sure about what’s header tags, refer to this header tags illustration. You should also note not to overuse them thou..

Optimize your site’s images
Does your image contains alt description? This description tag is not only good for SEO purpose but will also benefit other users who are unable read off the screen. I strongly advise you to add in the alt tag for every images you put on your site for accessibility purpose.

The guide also cover other stuff like robots.txt, encourage web analytics usage and making use of webmaster console tools. All of these advise is golden if you are new and want to make sure that your site is being picked up by Google to send you some initial traffic.

In closing, don’t forget to read the Google Webmaster Guidelines to supplement this SEO Starter guide