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OK we all know that Wordpress is awesome for building websites. There are 1,000’s of plugins and themes to choose from. For the most part dealing with wordpress is pretty straight forward, but when it comes to customization that’s where it can get a bit tricky!
Step in the Socrates Theme. This has only been out a month and has been taking the Wordpress world by storm. In fact I just installed it 10 minutes ago and my site is now up and running on the Socrates Wordpress Theme.
The first thing I can say is follow the directions! Duh of course 
You really need to go through each setting and save it before anything will take effect on your site, then you are ready to rock! I will customize my site a bit more later, but I really wanted to see how the Socrates theme worked.
It was easy, install the theme, then save the settings, then I went back in and chose a custom header, made my title text a bit bigger and changed the background. I added some nice clean footer text then added some widgets and added what I needed to that.
Bamm that was it. Oh and I added a nice little Socrates banner in the top spot. The product works and works well. There are so many more tweaks I need to make with it.
The cool thing is you can do everything on the fly. Change where you want your side bars, footers, layout colors, add links remove them withouth messing with any code. That’s the big thing. No Coding required. A lot of times people get so nervous when messing with code and they should be, because you could screw up your whole site with one wrong line of code so Socrates makes it real easy to change the majority of your site.
They also add a really cool feature which is just so simple. On the top right of my site you will see a twitter banner and a rss banner. All you need to do in the Socrates Admin Panel is add the urls and voila it shows up. Pretty neat huh?
All in all for messing with Socrates for about 30 minutes I really like it. The joy is that I can push this out to 50 of my other sites and not have to learn a new theme for each one and all the tools I need are there.
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Have you ever used keyword ranking software before? I have and I have even created my own. Well I didn’t create, but I had it created for me. The problems I have had with either paid services or my own system is the lack of support. The search engines are always changing and companies need to change with them. My own system worked great in the beginning, but needed constant tweaks to keep it running right. That just wasn’t working for me!
Step in Authority Labs Website Ranking Reports. I was at the http://searchsocialsummit.com/ last week and it was a great experience. That is also where I met Chase, the owner of Authority Labs. He showed me what his system can too and I signed up right there to give it a shot! I am now an affiliate for the product because it works so well. It is not often you actually get to meet and hang out as well as put a few beers back with someone who has developed the system you are using.
The other great thing about Authority Labs is the support they offer. When you sign up they actually put you on a path to learn how to use the system. You will get emails on how to get started and keep going. I can’t count how many times I have signed up for a service and just not stuck with it because it was too hard to learn or stick with. Authority labs keeps you going by holding your hand a bit and getting you up and running.
They have a few different pricing options to choose from. Check out the 30 day free trial it will give you a nice taste of the service. Click Here
I won’t sit here and walk through every selling point they have. I will let their site do that for you. They also have a sweet video demo of the product. The main thing I really wanted to emphasize here is the support and the passion that goes into their product. If you need to talk to an actual human being you can! You will get a response if you have an issue. In fact there was a hiccup with the system the other day which is expected with any system, but it is the way a company handles those hiccups is what really sets them apart. Chase and his crew were able to take care of business and get everything back on track and keep us customers happy.
If you have been looking for a new website ranking report system to try out give Authority Labs a shot
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