Selling blogs is getting more and more popular these days. If you have an established and professional blog, it can be sold for few thousands of dollars easily. Many people value a site based on multiples of income. I have seen blogs sold for 12x monthly to 35x monthly income. So a site that makes $100/month could easily achieve $1200 – $2400. If you can spot a potential blog and buy it with a low price, you can earn money quickly by selling it with a decent price after little monetization.

Sitepoint Marketplace is an indispensable website trading point for people who are involved in buying and selling of websites. Yet, you may not be fully aware of the different auction categories without an effort. Now the author of Sitepoint Watch would like to share this tool to enhance website flipping in a more presentable effortless way. You can have all the newest and ending soon auctions of Sitepoint at a glance. Furthermore, you need not refresh the page to update the newest information.

Pricing: Free
Source: http://www.sitepointwatch.com/

BranfordMagazine is a combination of “Revolution” by Brian Gardner, “Mimbo” by Darren Hoyt and “Structure” by Justin Tadlock. BranfordMagazine features a lead story with a photo, a category title, an article title and an excerpt. This is part of the tabed section on top of the homepage. There are featured articles which is to have a category for teasers, specials and whatever you like to show in a featured way. And also, this template gives you the opportunity to display three different categories in a static page. It can be a nice starting point if you use it e.g as the entry for a news section with three sub-categories.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 2.3+
Source: http://www.der-prinz.com/2008/01/20/wordpress-magazine-style…

Wordze is a keyword research tool that is designed to give users the ability to dig deep into the keyword universe that people search for everyday on search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN Search, and AOL. The tools that Wordze provides do more than just give users a general idea of how often a keyword is being search for, they also allow the user to track daily trends as keywords or industries fall and rise in popularity due to seasons or events in the news.

Simply type in a keyword, select your search style along with the number of results you wish to view, and choose your filter options for Wordze to return thousands of highly relevant keywords with extensive data for you to review and download. Once Wordze’s keyword research database has returned your results, you will be able to compare search volume, estimated traffic, total number of keywords found that are related to your search, along with KEI and other critical data that you need.

Wordze can also Analyze Keyword Difficulty for you. They will give you the inside scoop to what it will take to rank in the top 10 results on search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN, as well as, provide demographic data on the users that are searching for your keywords.

They have offer other advance tools for keywords research, for example, Get Historical Keyword Data, Dig into the top 10,000 websites for any given keyword to snatch their on page keywords and meta tag keywords, Turn your competitors keyword results into a mega keyword list by expanding the results with our keyword database, Download weekly, or monthly top keywords from our search history database and etc…

Wordze has got an affiliate program that pay 30% commission on any trial or monthly subscriptions for the lifetime of the customer. And also, if you get a freind to join the affiliate program, you can get 5% for the lifetime of their sales as well.

Pricing: $45/month
Source: Sign Up Now

The Massive News WordPress theme is a two column Widget enabled theme which is very clean, fully customizable and very simple to use. The fully automated featured article carousel is one of the many premium features of the Massive News WordPress theme. Featured article images, Links and Descriptions can easily be edited through the Massive News control panel within your WordPress installation.

Massive News has a fully featured Control Panel as well. Virtually every aspect of the Massive News Theme is editable through the theme control panel including sidebar items, carousel component and much more. This makes most theme customizations as easy as possible without having to edit theme files directly. Massive News is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Unported License. Go and grab your copy quickly.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://www.wpelements.com/2008/01/15/introducing-the-massive-news…

WordPress Live Search Plugin enables users perform searches on your blog without refreshing the page. By the use of Ajax, users can save a lot of time when they are performing searches on your blog. It can also increase the interactivity between the users and the blog, because the responses from the searching is instant. This plugin can  only displays 10 results from the searching. You need to refine the search terms if you cannot find what you are looking for.

However, this plugin is configured for use with the default wordpress search form. If you have changed the id attribute of the search form (searchform) or the search input box(s), this plugin will not work.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: -
Source: http://addictedtonew.com/archives/145/wordpress-live-search-plugin/

WPDesigner has just launched a $5 Premium WordPress Themes Club. You pay $5 per year for unlimited access and downloads. Each year, you are guaranteed to have at least 12 themes. You may use your club themes on as many sites as you wish including your clients’ sites. There’s no copyright or credit removal to purchase or add on to the $5. You pay $5 for the whole year. The club themes come without copyright labels or links.

And also, you can also gain access to the forum and themes support. The quality of the themes are so good, you can have a look at the first released theme called “Gossip WordPress Theme“. What are you asking for more? You can view the full details about the $5 Premium Themes Club here.

Source: http://www.wpdesigner.com/2008/01/24/launching-themes-club-happy-5-year/

PolaroidPress is a light, cloudy and artistic theme for WordPress. It is a 2 column layout, so that it does not look too busy. I really like the artistic background of the theme, it looks so clean and fresh. This theme is very suitable for personal blog, because you can have few of your own photos inside the polaroid image. Or you can have some of your best shots if you are a photographer as well. The images in the polaroid image will be randomly rotated, so the users will not get bored.

After payment you will be redirected to a download page and the download link will be sent to your email. Just download the theme and install. And also, if there is any changes to the theme you are entitled to a free update as well. PolaroidPress has already been tested in Firefox 2, IE6/7 and with Wordpress 2.3.2.

Pricing: Single License ($49), Multiple License with PSD($99)
Requirements: -
Source: http://wordpress.jepson.no/wordpress-themes/polaroidpress/

Code Markup is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to include program code samples in your posts. You can even include HTML markup in the code sample; Code Markup magically knows which characters should be displayed as code and which should be rendered as HTML.

The <span> tag is rendered as normal HTML. This is very useful for times when you want to highlight a particular piece of code in your listing. Code Markup also prevents WordPress from removing backslashes, turning your quotes into curly quotes, rendering decrements (--) into dashes (–), and so on.

Pricing: Free
Requirements: WordPress 1.5+
Source: http://www.thunderguy.com/semicolon/wordpress/code-markup…

Web CEO is a very complete SEO software package on the internet. It offers more for free than any other software package or suite for SEO. You can use all tools completely free and without time limitations, with only some functional restrictions. It’s more than enough to evaluate Web CEO, and completely enough for non-critical SEO missions targeting averagely competitive keywords.

You can Optimise your site with Keyword Research,Search Engine Optimization; Promote your site with Search Engine Submission, Link Popularity Analyzer, Link Partner Finder, PPC Campaigns Manager; Analyze your site with Ranking Checker, Web Analytics; Maintain Your site with Website Quality Audit, Web Page Editor, FTP Uploader, Website Monitoring.

You currently receive not only SEO software, but also a basic SEO training in a self-study environment and a virtual certificate (visible online) as a proof of your SEO skills.

Pricing: Free Offer (Free), Paid Offer ($199,$389) Exlusive Offer ($339,$479)
Source: http://www.webceo.com/

I am sure you have heard some of the popular blogs have been hacked by someone. When we are having a WordPress blog, we are scared that our blog will be hacked too. Matt Cutts has shared Three Tips to Protect your WordPress Installation.

• Secure your /wp-admin/ directory
• Make an empty wp-content/plugins/index.html file
• Upgrade or apply patches
• (Bonus Tips) Delete the line that contains bloginfo(’version’)

Source: http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/three-tips-to-protect-your-wordpress-installation/