Few months back, I posted about some free Magazine Style WordPress themes available for free download. All of those themes were great with lots of features. But, now I can see that there are some more free magazine style WordPress themes. So, in this post I have listed 10 more free magazine style themes. I hope that you will find these themes interesting and suitable for your blogs (if you need a new theme!).

• WP Revolution-X: Beautifully designed, fully widgetized WordPress theme with featured article section, 3 different front page category loops, custom page template, built in image transparency and lots of other features.

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• Guzel Pro Magazine: Magazine style theme with professional control panel, built-in plugins, multiple stylesheets support, 3 fully-widgetized sidebars and many other powerful features. With the theme control panel, you can easily customize the look at feel of your blog.

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• Branford Magazine: A magazine style theme based on popular “Revolution Theme” by Brian Gardner and “Mimbo Theme” by Darren Hoyt. Comes with lots of features and have a clean look. It comes with lots of options for customization.

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• WP Strict: Magazine/Blog/Webfolio hybrid theme that runs out of the box. Uses custom fields for image display and comes with built in image transparency for linked images. Easy to customize the look and feel.

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• Indomagz 2.0 Premium: A fully widgetized, magazine style theme with automatic thumbnail resize, gallery category, dropdown menu, built-in gravatar and some some other cool features. cross browser support.

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• Options: An advanced, highly configurable theme that gives users a lot of control over their wordPress blog from the theme settings page. Five blocks on home page layout. Customizable, widget-ready sidebars. Built-in support for popular plugins like Flickr RSS, Related Posts, Popularity Contest, WP-Pagenavi etc.

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• Arthemia 2.0: Combination of a magazine and a weblog in one theme. The front page of Arthemia shows the headline and featured post of yours along with the pictorial representation. Automatic image resizer, three column bottom section, archive, search page and more.

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• Magadine 1.2: Magazine style fixed width WordPress theme. Three spacious columns on front page that shows post excerpts with images. Three column footer section and single pages with two right sidebars.

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• WyntonMagazine: Magazine style WordPress theme with lots of features. Comes with different page templates like featured page, three column page, section page, archives etc. Requires some set up in the beginning.

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• Worpress Magazine: Magazine style theme with beautiful front page. This tableless and unique design comes with three sidebars. Front page shows both post excerpts and post links. Space for latest video and advertisement blocks.

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Want to try an advanced plugin on your blog? Try HeadSpace2, an advanced all-in-one plugin for WordPress blogs, that enables easy management of meta-data and handling of a wide range of SEO tasks. With HeadSpace2 you can tag your posts, create custom titles and descriptions that improve your page ranking, change the theme or run disabled plugins on specific pages, and can handle a number of other tasks.

HeadSpace2 offers different ways to configure and use meta-data. For example, meta-data nesting, where data is collected not only from the page itself, but nested parent pages. It can also dynamically generate meta-data from the post itself and offers mass editing for all pages and posts at one go! This plugin offers a full GUI interface, where data is entered alongside post content, and with a full auto-suggested AJAX interface for tags and keywords. So, it will help in reducing your efforts.

HeadSpace2 plugin is modular in nature and provides a full set of modules (both site-wide and page) that will allow you to configure your blog exactly as you want and without requiring several conflicting plugins. It is available in a number of popular languages and the latest version requires WordPress 2.5 or higher.

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WidgetBucks‘s new Travel and Local ad widgets, that were introduced earlier this month, are now available for all publishers. With this, now publishers and bloggers will have more options to provide relevant and interactive ads on their sites or blogs and maximize their revenue.

The local ad widgets are targeted to user’s geographic location and offer a combination of highly-relevant information about local content, weather and gas prices. On the other hand, the travel ad widgets will show real-time airfares and travel deals based on your user’s origin. The good thing is that, both of the new ad units pay on a CPC basis.

Presently, local widgets are available in 160×600 wide skyscraper format and you can customize the widget style with black background or blue with white background. On the other hand, you can customize your travel widgets to show travel map search, hot deals, destination and origin-based deals. Travel ad widgets comes in 728×90 leaderboard ad format.

These new widgets definitely looks great and I am sure that your visitors will also like them! So, try these new WidgetBucks widgets today and earn more money from your websites or blogs.

Want to get the real time updates on a particular topic? Want to see who talked about your product or service, recently? Try Social Mention, a new and interesting social media search engine that searches user-generated content such as blogs, comments, bookmarks, events, news, videos, and micro-blogging services for a given keyword or phrase.

To use this social search engine, just enter your keyword or search phrase in the search field and hit the search button. Within seconds it will collect the latest conversations or mentions of your search term in a number of social media sources and will present the results in the form of a single stream.

The social media sources that SocialMention uses to collect data includes Google blog search, Digg, Twitter, YouTube, Delicious, FriendFeed, Flickr, Blinklist, Reddit, Pownce, Technorati, WordPress, Yahoo, PhotoBucket, Bloglines and a number of other popular services that contains user-generated content.

SocialMention also provides a feed API for developers to access search results in a number of formats like RSS, JSON, and KML. So, you can easily use their web-based search results in news reader, blogs or even on your own application.

So, SocialMention is a cool web application to scan the user-generated contents in different social media sources. It is fast and will save a good amout of your time. Give it a try!

Popular social networking service MySpace has finally launched it’s long-awaited product – MySpace Music, in a bid to compete with Apple’s iTunes store. MySpace Music (http://www.myspace.com/music) will let users listen to millions of free streaming audio, make playlists and purchase song downloads, concert tickets and other merchandises. It will also open doors of e-commerce opportunities for independent artists, where they can find customers for their music,merchandise and concert tickets.

MySpace Music, that was launched today, is a joint venture of MySpace and four major music companies – EMI Group Ltd., Warner Music Group Corp., Vivendi SA’s Universal Music Group and Sony BMG Music Entertainment. Besides these 4 major music companies, MySpace will also incorporate the entire music catalogue from The Orchard, the global leader in distribution of independent digital music.

MySpace Music aims to empower major, independent, and unsigned artists to monetize their content through multiple revenue streams like ad-supported free streaming, music sales via Amazon and sales of concert tickets and merchandise. MySpace Music will also connect artists and fans in the offline arena through various concert series and live events including Secret Shows, MySpaceLIVE!, Transmissions, Front to Back and The List.

Some features of MySpace Music:

• MyMusic personal music management toolset.
• Free and unlimited ad-supported, full-length audio streaming.
• Free and unlimited playlist functionality.
• Free discography and content catalogues for SONY BMG, UMG and WMG artists.
• DRM-free MP3 music e-commerce downloads powered by Amazon MP3.
• Ringtone e-commerce powered by Jamster.

Well, full functionality of MySpace Music is currently available for U.S. users only. Users from Europe will be able to use it later this year.

I am sure that with this new product will show more money to MySpace. They have already got some big sponsors – McDonald’s, Sony Pictures, State Farm, and Toyota. MySpace Music will also help those record labels to make some money in this era of file sharing and piracy. Well, the independent and unsigned artists will also get a share of the pie! But the big question is how much money it will be able to rake in from paid music download?

Earlier this week, Google updated it’s popular RSS Reader, that we all know as “Google Reader”. with some user-friendly features. The new features of Google Reader includes friends worldwide, tagging with note, alphabetical ordering, and last-crawl-date. Besides the new features, they have also made some iPhone speed improvements and bug fixes to the reader.

After introducing sharing feature for US readers, last month, Google Reader now supports international sharing through its new ‘Friends Everywhere’ feature. The tagging with note feature will allow you to add a tag while adding a note. It will help those users who uses lots of tag to organize their posts.

What’s more? Now you can arrange your feed subscriptions by choosing between alphabetical ordering or drag n’ drop ordering, which is available in the ‘Options’ menu of your reader. This is helpful if you have tons of subscriptions.

One more new feature is the last-crawl-date, which tells you the last time a feed was crawled. While reading a particular RSS feed, you can check the details area to find the last-crawl-date.

I have seen that may bloggers are using free articles on their blogs. By free articles, here I mean the reprintable articles that different article directories and e-zines publishes. The reason of using free articles in blog posts, may vary from blogger to blogger. But, I am sure that one main reason is content. But, do you think that it is a good strategy to publish free articles, specially when you intend to make some money with your blog?

In my view, you must think twice before publishing free articles on your blog! Why? Free articles do supplies content, attracts search engines and blog visitors. And probably you will get one or two customers out of those visitors. But, if you look for long term benefits, you will get noting but problems from those articles. Still not getting my points? Let me elaborate how free articles on your blog can ruin your quest for making money online.

Poor Search Engine Ranking:

Search Engine Ranking

Search engines visits blogs and websites for fresh contents and keeps an record of each and every webpage they visit. When they finds same duplicated content in multiple webpages, they simply drops the rankings of those pages. Even search engines like Google can penalize your blog for too many duplicate contents.

So, with free articles posted as it-is on your blog, you will never be able to get good position in search engine result pages, because those article are already on multiple websites. Thanks to killer article marketing techniques and article distribution services!

And good search engine rankings are essential in getting visitors to your site so that they click on your affiliate links to buy a product or service recommended by you. Bad search engine rankings means lesser organic traffic and lesser traffic means less revenue. When you cannot even get visitors to your webpages with affiliate links, how can you expect to earn some revenue from your affiliate links?

Loss of Credibility and Authority:

No Authority, No Click!

Let us assume that you are getting some visitors to your blog posts, even though you have duplicate content on your blog. Don’t be happy my friend, because this is only half of the battle. The most important part is convincing your visitors to click on your affiliate links and to make them buy the product/service that you are promoting.

When visitors comes to your blog and see the same content that they have seen on a number of other sites, they will be least likely to click on the links provided by you. Why? This is because your visitors are human like you and me and they love to buy things that are recommended by people that they trust or whom they consider as an authority on the subject.

When your visitors realize that you are using duplicate content on your blog, the first thing that comes to their mind is that you are not an expert or you don’t know anything about the topic. And that’s why you are using duplicated content. Therefore they will never consider you as an authority person and will not even look on your product recommendations.

So, the ultimate loss is yours. This will reduce the number of visitors who will be willing to click through your recommended links. And lower click through always reduces the chances of better revenue. I’m sure that you know it!

Loss of Valuable Traffic:

Loss Your Valuable Traffic

Most of the free articles carries one or two lines about the author with one or two links provided by the author. We call it author resource box or author bio-box or whatever. When you use a free article, you must follow the rules specified by the content provider and keep the resource box intact.

This poses a great problem for you! Because most author resource box includes links. After reading a really intriguing article on your blog, there is a strong possibility that your readers will click on the author’s link rather than the affiliate links provided by you.

In fact, this is the main reason why authors offer free content for republishing and it is called article marketing. So, by publishing free content on your blog, you are helping those authors to generate traffic, sales and credibility! And in return, you are getting nothing but a big zero.

When you will put all the above points together, the picture will become clear! By publishing free articles on your blog, you will loss search engine ranking, you will loss your credibility as an authority person and you will loss your valuable prospects. Ultimately you will loss revenue, that you could have easily earned by not using free articles. So, if you are serious about blogging and want to make money online with your blog, write your own content. Spending some hours every day on writing or hire a good writer to produce some good content on your behalf. Remember: “In Blogging, Content is King”.