Hello, My name is Shannon and I have been making money online for the last several years. I am dedicated to showing everyone I can how to replicate my blogging success. I work very hard and I have been featured on some of the biggest blogs on the net, you can 
Thats right everyone, the time has come and the new IBB has arrived!
If you can’t already see it all around this post then your not looking very hard, we have spent several weeks readying this new look for Infected By Bugs and we believe its a winner! We have done this for a few reasons and in this post I want to outline a few of those and also cover some news that is coming next month for Infected By Bugs!
Why The New Theme?
The main reason I decided to go ahead and get a new theme for IBB is because the old one simply did not offer anything to my readers that made them say wow this is a site I can trust upon their first look. I am by no means saying we accomplished that with this new theme either but I believe its a huge step in the right direction, what do you think?
Along with the fact that our old theme did not scream professionalism, the theme really did not have any more room to grow in terms of advertisement slots and places for highlighted content. Our new theme offers both, advertisement wise there is a new 468 x 60 slot which you can grab right now if you want along with a new system we plan on trying in the coming months. On the other hand I believe highlighting top priority content / reads for my readers is important but the old theme had no place to do that on. This new theme actually does this with the new javascript / flash 4 feature post rotators that’s on the homepage.
That brings me to another interesting point, did anyone notice how clean-cut the homepage now looks? It no longer is a super long page with the last 5 posts on it, instead its showing snippets of the latest 4 posts which shortened the page up to about half the length! I am hoping this speeds up loading times and bot search ability for better seo overall.
Another great thing about this new theme is the fact that our menu is now at the top of the site, before it was hidden down on the bottom right of the blog and the pages got barely any clicks because people simply did not see them.
One of my favorite new things is the logo we had created by my buddy who helps video tutor over at PixelForLife. He did an awesome job and I recommend you contact him if you need a logo or any other graphics work done!
How does the new look help in terms of traffic / social media?
This theme is built specifically to help increase traffic and help you all connect with me on other social sites such as twitter and youtube. If you look at the footer, there is a place for all of these where you can visit me and just say hi or see what I am currently doing.
Not only that but by me only putting snippets on the home-page instead of the full posts I have instantly generated an extra click from everyone who reads my posts, why? Because you can’t read it without clicking the link into the post! I am hoping this increases my page-views which in turn will allow me to up my advertising prices!
News for later on!
That brings me to my last words for this post, I have so many things in the works for you guys its not even funny but one that I want to reveal is probably going to be the biggest of all (maybe not, we shall see). Here it is…
You know my old IBB theme? How about the themes I have had on other blogs before? Does anyone know what I did with them?
Well to be completely honest I didn’t do anything with them, they have been rotting away hard-drive space on my machine for far to long, so now its time to kick things up a notch here on IBB and here is what I am going to do.
We are going to start a wordpress theme section which can be access anywhere in the site on the top menu once the project goes live.
From this page you will be able to grab one or all of my themes completely free of charge!! The only catch is that you must leave my footer link on but guess what? For only $9.95 you can have that link removed and your readers will never know where you got the theme.
I hope you all enjoy the new theme along with the new features I have planned, be sure and leave a comment below and let me know your thoughts!
January 28th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Tweet this post plugin rocks!
January 28th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
I’m liking the new theme Shannon. It does look cleaner and more professional.
I’m with you with the homepage – I only show my latest post and then a short excerpt of the next four. It has increased my page views, increased exposure for advertisers and in turn it should increase the amount advertisers are willing to pay for that spot.
Offering your themes for free and submitting them to the free theme directories is a great way to increase your number of backlinks, but I heard at one point that Google are penalizing people who do this.
January 28th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
Well I am not doing it for backlinks so im not worried
I am doing it for traffic and Google wants me to do that so…
January 28th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
I absolutely love the new theme. It is simple and very easy to navigate through. My favorite feature is the new Twitter plugin after every post.
January 28th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
Thanks Donny, Glad you like it!
January 28th, 2009 at 6:05 pm
This is a very good theme, your best so far! Not too many ads, not too basic.
January 28th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
Looks cool!
January 28th, 2009 at 8:10 pm
Wow, your theme is amazing! I really liked your old one though, can we buy a copy or license of it to use on our blog?
Let me know!
January 29th, 2009 at 3:23 am
I like the magazine style theme and the choice of colors is great. I don’t really pay much attention to a blogs theme because I’m usually only interested in the articles but I noticed the theme change right away when I visited.
January 29th, 2009 at 4:54 am
Hey Shannon,
I do like the new theme but I must admit I liked your old one because it was unique. This one is more professional looking and as you say has more growth potential for advertising
January 29th, 2009 at 5:56 am
Hmm I liked The New Theme,
But The Home page Looks A somewhat bad too me if you can add more post ther would even look better theres some empty space ther just give it a thought,
The twitter button is even cool,Whats That Twitter addon,
and i wasnt visiting Ur Blog From Somedays Nice Posts there
January 29th, 2009 at 8:25 am
Really nice theme, I like it. Only thing missing is a search box.
January 29th, 2009 at 1:06 pm
Thanks Ray! I will add the search box back on!
January 29th, 2009 at 1:11 pm
@ Make Money Online – I went ahead and put more posts on the homepage, I hope it looks better?
January 30th, 2009 at 2:12 pm
Hi Shannon
OMG Where did you get this theme? Did you buy or design (sorry i just amazed with the design)the theme looks so peaceful and eyes friendly.
January 30th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Hey Busby, I bought a theme then customized it myself!
I will probably sell copies of it as some point because it really turned out great!
Let me know if you want a copy for like $35 or w/e
February 2nd, 2009 at 1:18 pm
I like your new theme
February 2nd, 2009 at 5:35 pm
it is nice, simple theme and light when loaded with my super duper slower connection..great theme
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:28 am
The new theme is praiseworth.The page contains much more titles the reader puts his eye on.It is more convenient to look at. At it is simple and easy to novigate as it was already said by the other commentor.
February 6th, 2009 at 9:42 pm
What is the orignal theme?
Love the tweet this!
March 1st, 2009 at 4:12 am
Thanks for the post Shanon
April 4th, 2009 at 6:56 pm
Awesome new theme- nice job!
April 8th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
this is a nice looking theme thanks
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