Keep in mind these things when going through the lists of themes I recommend:

1. ALL themes I recommend are responsive. I don’t use anything, but responsive themes! In case you didn’t know, a “responsive” website means it mobile/tablet friendly.

2. The list will be updated regularly. If the theme I recommend becomes defunt, I will remove it. If I find a new theme that may fit this category, I will add it.

Kinetico Responsive eCommerce WordPress Theme Now you have a definitive solution to your eCommerce with this flexible and powerful ecommerce theme. Theme features infinite colors schemes, backgrounds (pattern or full), layout builder, slider manager, unlimited sidebars and more! Theme Info and Demo

Humbleshop Responsive eCommerce Theme Humbleshop is a minimal, responsive, and clean design for wordpress eCommerce that fit all modern shops and boutiques. Humbleshop comes with simple configuration in Theme Options from backend. Theme is compatible with Woocommerce plugin. Theme Info and Demo

Bazar Shop eCommerce WordPress Theme Bazar is a fresh and creative theme that utilises the powerful Woo Commerce plugin to create a very versatile WordPress powered shop, with unlimited layout options and a lot of unbelievable features. Theme Info and Demo

Check out our new and improved list of eCommerce themes in our new resource page!

Keep in mind these things when going through the lists of themes I recommend:

1. ALL themes I recommend are responsive. I don’t use anything, but responsive themes! In case you didn’t know, a “responsive” website means it mobile/tablet friendly.

2. The list will be updated regularly. If the theme I recommend becomes defunt, I will remove it. If I find a new theme that may fit this category, I will add it.

Me, Onepage Portfolio Theme This wonderful one-page theme will showcase your portfolio in a beautiful and simple way. I’m a sucker for elegant, simple designs! Theme Info and Demo

Kronos One-Page WordPress Theme Kronos is a simple and clean one page portfolio wordpress theme. It’s perfect for any designer, photographer, illustrator, creative person or agency. It focuses on displaying a high quality portfolio, large typography presented in a really elegant way. Theme Info and Demo

SCRN Single Page WordPress Theme SCRN is a single responsive portfolio wordpress theme. Perfect to promote your work or your business. Is compatible with all modern mobile devices. Other than the minimalistic single page design, it also has a blog. Theme Info and Demo

Zig Zag WordPress Theme This one-page WordPress theme is packed with everything that you need. A nice modern design where you can feature your portfolio and blog. Different styles are available and it is translation ready! Theme Info and Demo

ShapeShifter 2 WordPress Theme ShapeShifter is well organized. Take what you love, leave what you don’t, customize the rest. It’s completely in your hands – turn it into the next big thing, or just as your little personal projects, it’s up to you. Theme Info and Demo

Quickstep One Page Theme QuickStep is a clean and minimal one page portfolio theme. Choose from tons of options in how pages transition and at what speed. Theme Info and Demo

Novo One Page Theme NOVO is a simple and clean one page portfolio WP theme. It’s perfect for any designer, photographer, illustrator, creative person or agency. It focuses on displaying a high quality portfolio, large typo presented in a really elegant way. Theme Info and Demo

Nash WordPress Theme NASH is a beautifully simple, visually stunning, and striking ‘One-Page’ creative WordPress theme. Perfect for design agencies. The template is fully responsive, and looks amazing on your Smartphone, Tablet, and Desktop. Beautiful typography, gorgeous iconography, subtle CSS3 effects, and those small details that really make you stand out from the crowd. Theme Info and Demo

Ego Onepage Parallax Responsive WordPress Theme Ego is a sleek, fully responsive, onepage WordPress theme that screams with attitude. It boasts a fullscreen slider with custom captions, an AJAX portfolio and contact form, a blog and tons of styling options. Its the perfect WordPress theme for the freelancer or small design studio that wants to showcase their work in style. Theme Info and Demo

Dry One Page WordPress Theme Dry is a responsive theme that features the ability to customize individual pages, choose unlimited color options, custom backgrounds, touch-ready image sliders, and more! Theme Info and Demo

Mercurial WordPress Theme Mercurial comes with pre-made custom shortcodes so you will be able to create beautiful typographic effects, insert portfolios, skill bars, clients logos, social sharing icons, awesome sliders, pricing tables, build up incredible team pages, or even add your twitter feed in just seconds. Theme Info and Demo

theGrid Retina Ready One Page WordPress Theme This beautiful theme keeps it simple and sexy. I love grid designs and this one presents your content in a very sleek way. The theme provides a drag and drop page-builder. Theme Info and Demo

Check out our new and improved list of One Page themes in our new resource page!

Keep in mind these things when going through the lists of themes I recommend:

1. ALL themes I recommend are responsive. I don’t use anything, but responsive themes! In case you didn’t know, a “responsive” website means it mobile/tablet friendly.

2. The list will be updated regularly. If the theme I recommend becomes defunt, I will remove it. If I find a new theme that may fit this category, I will add it.

Daisho Flexible WordPress Theme Daisho is a portfolio solution for creative professionals and companies looking for a minimal and professional look. Flexible and responsive presentation, smooth navigational flow and clutter-free approach. Put your works in focus. Powerful Typography Plugin included. Theme Info and Demo

Adept Style Business WordPress Theme Adept Style is a powerful responsive business corporate portfolio. Adept Style is the perfect match for your business with predefined styles, theme integrated shortcodes and widgets, translated into 6 languages and awesome 5 custom sliders. Theme Info and Demo

Responsive Knowledge Base & FAQ WordPress Theme I LOVE this theme. This theme is perfect for any product or service support. It is fast and easy to set up. Clean and intuitive responsive design with a lot of features including live search, FAQ posts, contact form, custom widgets, shortcodes, and more. Theme Info and Demo

Coffee Shop/Bistro WordPress Theme Coffee Shop is a premium responsive WP template for cafes and bistros. This theme is very attractive and elegant. It is perfect for more than just coffee shops and will work great for any restaurant! Theme Info and Demo

Jad Creative WordPress Theme Jad is a Creative Responsive WordPress theme. Its fresh and modern look with a bunch of features will make your website standout. It’s ready to help you show off your work the way you want to with stunning precision. It has a big variety of options for customization so Jad can be suitable for any purpose. Theme Info and Demo

Edge WordPress Theme EDGE – Amazing WordPress Portfolio is a ultra responsive theme for WordPress that you can do absolutely anything you want. EDGE can be a powerful tool to help your brand grow even more. It comes with a plethora of features that are simple to use. Theme Info and Demo

KnowledgeDesk Wiki Theme Perfect solution for any product or service support, fast and easy to set up and administer. Clean and intuitive responsive design with lot of features including live search, faq posts, contact form, custom widgets, shortcodes, and more. Theme Info and Demo

Check out our new and improved list of business themes in our new resource page!

If you want to try to do it yourself, check out these beautiful, RESPONSIVE music WordPress themes below. After seeing hundreds of themes and purchasing/using many premium themes, I can say with confidence that I can tell what’s a good theme. I’ve compiled my favorite WordPress themes and created lists to share with you.

Keep in mind these things when going through the lists of themes I recommend:

1. ALL themes I recommend are responsive. I don’t use anything, but responsive themes! In case you didn’t know, a “responsive” website means it mobile/tablet friendly.

2. The list will be updated regularly. If the theme I recommend becomes defunt, I will remove it. If I find a new theme that may fit this category, I will add it.

Organic Music Theme Organic Themes is another one of my favorite developers. This awesome theme is the ultimate WordPress theme for bands and musicians! Play your music. Sell your music. Sell your merchandise. List tour dates. Create a discography. And much more. Theme Info and Demo

Bandzone WordPress Theme No matter what band are you in, rock, pop or rap you don’t want to have a corporate website. What you need is a clean, well-arranged website focused on events, albums, photo gallery and blog. Stop worrying about your website and focus on music! Theme Info and Demo

Replay Responsive Music WordPress Theme Replay is a perfect theme for musicians, bands, record labels and any music business. It is easy to use and customize, comes packed with powerful tools for sharing and selling music, managing events and more. Theme Info and Demo

K-Boom Events & Music Theme K-BOOM is one of the powerful Music & Events WordPress Theme, it is meant to serve for Music Projects, Events, Portfolio or just for Blogging. It is a theme with ultra responsive layout adapting perfectly and allowing you to visit it from any devices you want. Theme Info and Demo

Brooklyn Indie Band WordPress Theme This theme is modern, pretty, clean and elegant. The primary idea of the them is to make internet presentations easier for band. This theme is packaged with lots of assets that will help you to make your band site look perfect. Theme Info and Demo

Muzak WordPress Theme Muzak is a great theme for bands, musicians, DJs and everyone involved in the music business. It features an events management, discography management, video and photo management, and more! Theme Info and Demo

Check out our new and improved list of WordPress music themes in our new resource page!

Keep in mind these things when going through the lists of themes I recommend:

1. ALL themes I recommend are responsive. I don’t use anything, but responsive themes! In case you didn’t know, a “responsive” website means it mobile/tablet friendly.

2. The list will be updated regularly. If the theme I recommend becomes defunt, I will remove it. If I find a new theme that may fit this category, I will add it.

Here are my recommendations of simple responsive WordPress themes:

Stella Responsive WordPress Portfolio Theme Stella is a simple responsive portfolio theme, clean-cut, ajax-powered portfolio, that will emphasize your awesome works-straight to the point. Suited for users who want to showcase their work on a neat portfolio site. Theme Info and Demo

Picks WordPress Theme A beautiful photography theme built for pros, instagrammers and photographers. Easily showcase albums of your kitten, photo shoot or panoramics. Theme Info and Demo

Flexible WordPress Theme Flexible is a sleek and minimal portfolio theme packed full of some awesome features. The theme puts your work first, keeping the design elements to a minimum while still maintaining a definitive modern style. With its filterable, ajax-powered multi-media gallery, Flexible is perhaps our most feature-rich gallery theme yet. Theme Info and Demo

Launch Effect Theme Launch Effect comes fully-equipped with a robust Theme Options panel that allows you to customize your Launch Page to suit your business—add your own cinematic background, customize colors, upload your logo, and even display a video all from our sleek user interface. Theme Info and Demo

Genesis Framework WordPress Theme From one of my favorite WordPress theme developers, StudioPress created the Genesis theme, which has become quite popular and famous. It is an incredible and powerful theme and is perfect for a novice or advanced developer. Theme Info and Demo

Minimum Theme One of my favorite themes ever! This theme is also from the amazing StudioPress developers. A stunning execution of “less is more”, the Minimum child theme expresses everything you’re about, with very little effort. Clean, elegant, powerful, unfettered, and uncluttered are a just few words that say… Minimum. Theme Info and Demo

Balance Theme From StudioPress, the minimalist design of the Balance theme gives you the best of form, with a responsive frame that’s built for any kind of communication. Balance automatically adjusts to fit any mobile device and provides intelligent layouts that emphasize email opt-ins to help grow your business or brand. Turns out your website can have it all. Theme Info and Demo

Pipes WordPress Theme From one of my favorite WordPress developers, Designer Themes, this theme is a super-duper, customizable, responsive WordPress theme for your portfolio. You have an arsenal of options to modify the display, appearance and other aspects of the theme. Theme Info and Demo

Props Responsive Agency Theme Props, also developed by Designer Themes, is great for the modern business which houses a portfolio with its emphasis on bold character and customisation abilities. You can guarantee a smart looking website on any device whether it be a mobile or tablet. Props has been fully tested on iOS, Android and all the modern browsers. Theme Info and Demo

Bruan WordPress Theme Bruan was designed with a “retro” feel based on the superb design practices in the 1950’s primarily by designer Dieter Rams. Braun’s designs are epic, uncluttered pieces of art with function and usability being paramount, so much so that many of todays electronics, such as Apple iPod’s design are influenced heavily by Braun. Theme Info and Demo

Aware WordPress Theme Aware is an interactive, responsive portfolio theme perfect for freelancers, web designers, photographers and videographers alike. Its user interactive interface delightfully enhances your most loved portfolio pieces. Now, you can take your portfolio with you, in your pocket. Theme Info and Demo

Quicknote Blog Theme Quicknote is a simple & functional blog theme, suitable to share your thoughts in a very unique way. With 6 background options you can match your personal preference. Theme Info and Demo

Standard Theme This great theme is designed for sophisticated presentation of your content on desktop and mobile devices. Standard is lightly customizable without code. Theme Info and Demo

Darkwhite Blog/Portfolio Theme A big and bold theme for creatives. Are you a Freelancer, Writer, Blogger, Designer or a whole Agency? Then you should take a look at this theme. It’s minimal design gives you room to be creative and enables you to extend your website to your needs. Theme Info and Demo

Me, Onepage Portfolio Theme This wonderful one-page theme will showcase your portfolio in a beautiful and simple way. I’m a sucker for elegant, simple designs! Theme Info and Demo

Slate WordPress Theme This beautiful theme is one of my favorites! It’s also from an awesome developer, Okay Themes. Slate adapts to your style as well as the device it’s viewed on. Featuring a responsive design, you can scale Slate all the way down to iPhone size and still have a beautiful, full-featured site in the palm of your hand. Slate has built-in swipe support for your portfolio images, videos and more! Theme Info and Demo

Pocket WordPress Theme Yet another from my favorite Okay Themes, Pocket is super simple theme. It is responsive, all the way down to mobile. Images, videos and text will scale down gracefully to iPad, iPhone and all devices in-between. This theme looks just as great in your pocket as it does on the desktop! Theme Info and Demo

Verb WordPress Theme Yup, I can’t get enough of Okay Themes. Verb is a blocky, portfolio-style theme with an emphasis on typography and attention to detail. Show off your latest photos and videos in all their glory with the responsive portfolio grid. Write blog posts about your cats with the beautiful, minimal blog. Theme Info and Demo

Flow WordPress Theme FLOW is a creative, responsive blog/personal template. It is great for every type of blog or personal site but it also can be used for other projects. Theme Info and Demo

Responsive Knowledge Base & FAQ WordPress Theme I LOVE this theme. This theme is perfect for any product or service support. It is fast and easy to set up. Clean and intuitive responsive design with a lot of features including live search, FAQ posts, contact form, custom widgets, shortcodes, and more. Theme Info and Demo

View, 2 in 1 WordPress Themes This is minimalist design and is best for personal and portfolio site. A lot of features like gallery, video, flex slider, and a many more. You get 2 themes with this purchase: full site and one page portfolio site. Theme Info and Demo

Moustachey Theme I’m not sure how I feel about this weird trend going on with moustaches, but with that aside, this theme is amazingly beautiful and simple. Theme Info and Demo

WordPress For Writers One of our favorite minimal themes. With advanced layout options, gorgeous large article images, citation support, article series, and author images, all wrapped up in a fully responsive design, WordPress For Writers takes care of making your site look beautiful and allows you to do what you do best: write. Theme Info and Demo

Check out our new and improved list of simple WordPress themes in our new resource page!

Keep in mind these things when going through the lists of themes I recommend:

1. ALL themes I recommend are responsive. I don’t use anything, but responsive themes! In case you didn’t know, a “responsive” website means it mobile/tablet friendly.

2. The list will be updated regularly. If the theme I recommend becomes defunt, I will remove it. If I find a new theme that may fit this category, I will add it.

Source Responsive WordPress Source is a responsive theme perfect for artists (not just photographers). It is fully compatible with mobile devices and it contains many options that will make it easy to customize to fit your needs. Source theme includes shortcodes plugin with 17 button tinymce and very flexible admin theme options. Theme Info and Demo

Volumns WordPress Theme Bold, beautiful, full of character and fully responsive. Volumes is a great asset to any creative freelancer or agency. An attractive showcase for you work packed full of features, a filterable portfolio, custom widgets, custom page templates and more. Theme Info and Demo

The Producer: Responsive Film Studio Theme The Producer is a film focused WordPress theme for studios and production companies. It was entirely designed around showcasing videos. Features a unique “panel” effect when scrolling as well as a traditional credit roll effect. Theme Info and Demo

Crius WordPress Theme Created by great developer Peerapong. Crius is a responsive photography, portfolio, or personal theme built with the latest WordPress features. Includes an advanced gallery admin, Kenburns slideshow, and more. Theme Info and Demo

Anan Photography or Portfolio Theme Here’s another one by Peerapong. This great theme features a full screen slideshow for your photos, art, etc. Unlimited colors are available with built-in color picker. Choose from 30 different header fonts, 4 different portfolio styles, and more. Theme Info and Demo

K-Boom Events & Music Theme K-BOOM is one of the powerful Music & Events WordPress Theme, it is meant to serve for Music Projects, Events, Portfolio or just for Blogging. It is a theme with ultra responsive layout adapting perfectly and allowing you to visit it from any devices you want. Theme Info and Demo

Kabuki Luxury Portfolio/Agency WordPress Theme Kabuki is a premium portfolio / gallery / agency / blog WordPress template created by Satori Studio. Their aim was to develop a clean and eye-catching, yet stable, powerful, and highly customizable theme to use for a wide variety of purposes. Kabuki is a responsive theme, which means it adapts to the screen resolution of the viewing device. Theme Info and Demo

Minimum Parallax WordPress Theme Minimum is a high quality professional WordPress theme for modern business or interactive creative use. Choose between 3 fluid AJAX animations, create unlimited Parallax pages, add unlimited sliders & slides to each page using four types of built-in sliders, take advantage of awesome Revolution Slider. Build you web site using our highly intuitive and friendly to use framework. Theme Info and Demo

theGrid Retina Ready One Page WordPress Theme This beautiful theme keeps it simple and sexy. I love grid designs and this one presents your content in a very sleek way. The theme provides a drag and drop page-builder. Theme Info and Demo

Velo Retina-Ready Theme Velo is a slim, colourful WordPress theme. If you’re a creative mind Velo is what you need: a truly original choice for showcasing your artworks, pictures, videos, illustrations and for telling the world what you want with style, personality and balance. Theme Info and Demo

Verb WordPress Theme Yup, I can’t get enough of Okay Themes. Verb is a blocky, portfolio-style theme with an emphasis on typography and attention to detail. Show off your latest photos and videos in all their glory with the responsive portfolio grid. Write blog posts about your cats with the beautiful, minimal blog. Theme Info and Demo

Nemo WordPress Theme Nemo is a metro inspired, full ajax site with a unique design. It’s a dark, minimal yet powerful wordpress theme. Nemo is a perfect theme for designers, photographers or other artist to showcase their work in a professional way. Theme Info and Demo

Check out our new and improved list of sexy WordPress themes in our new resource page!

If you truly understand SEO, you should naturally practice what is good for the USER, not necessarily what’s good for the search engine. I’m a strong believer that you will be successful in your overall SEO if this is how you roll. You will also naturally succeed in having relevant long-tail keywords in your site.

Long-tail keyword phrases are used to define what is on a website, which equals targeted traffic, less competition, and better conversion. Below I explain the importance of incorporating long tail keywords in your marketing strategy.

Targeted Traffic

In the past, searching for generic keywords would deliver quality pages to an Internet searcher. However, with online competition growing each day, users have adapted their searching habits and naturally search long term search keywords.

I watch my 9 and half year old sister do searches on Google and she is a pro at finding what she needs! She keeps it specific because she knows she’ll find what she’s looking for. She finds what she’s looking for by combining many short-tail keywords, which is essentially what long-tail keywords are. So keep in mind that focusing on long-tail keywords won’t let you miss your generic keywords!

According to SmallBizTrends.com, over 70% of all Internet search inquiries are for long tail keyword phrases. People naturally search long-tail keywords because they know exactly what they are looking for, and don’t want to waste their time searching through results that possibly won’t apply to them. Think about it, how often do you search using one or two words?

The graph below should give you a visual idea of competition pattern for long-tail.

Less Competition

Using long tail keywords also means you will have less competition. The longer the keywords, the less likely other sites would match that exact keyword. Let’s take a look at an example. I did a search on Google to find the following results:

shoes = 68,000,000 results
womens shoes = 1,000,000 results
nike womens running shoes = 22,000 results
blue nike womens running shoes = 590 results

Notice how the number of results go down with more specific keywords. With less competition of other sites matching a keyword, you’re not only getting more targeted traffic, but more likely to convert better as well. Quality over quantity is always a winning strategy.

Better Conversion

Bad ass long-tail tattoo.

Long-tail = Better user experience = Better conversions

Failure to Use Long Tail Keywords May Leave You Behind Your Competition

Since long tail keywords are quickly becoming the norm, a failure to use this type of marketing may cause you to lose ground to your competitors, especially if your competitors begin to use long tail keywords before you do. Don’t let this happen to you, for the strongest Internet presence, target long tail keywords that are important to your site, and begin to use them as soon as possible.

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Visitors Will Come Back

In any business, getting customers to come back time and time again is their number one goal. This goal also holds true with an online store’s website. One of the best ways to get your audience to keep coming back is to include fresh content on a regular basis. If your content is unique, interesting or helpful, customers will continue to come back to read your content, which could eventually lead to sales and can help your site generate discussions amongst viewers. Keeping your site stagnent without any updates may make your website boring. You don’t want to be boring, do you?

Generate Buzz, Discussions, and Social Sharing

The next reason you should update your website is to generate a buzz, encourage discussions, and promote social sharing. This is extremely important because when your freshly updated content, which can include text, graphics, or images, generates a buzz, people will want to talk about it. If you have a blog in your website, it is a good idea to allow comments. If you don’t update your website with new content, what would you have to share to world?

Establish Credibility in the Field

If you constantly update your site with unique and compelling content, you will begin to be seen as an expert in the field. Doing this will allow you to generate more sales, increase your subscribers, and grant your store or services more inquiries. Each of these three benefits will help your business grow. However, when you are adding a bunch of content to help establish your credibility, it is important that your content be unique, well-written, and on topic. If your content doesn’t meet these requirements, it will probably have little to no positive effects on your site.

If You Don’t Your Competition Will Have an Advantage

As the Internet and online shopping prove to be more and more popular, more sites are enhancing their online stores. Businesses also face a great of competition online. If you don’t put the time, effort, and content into your site to ensure its success, your competitors surely will, which will give them an extreme advantage over your business.

What is the biggest change you see on your site when you don’t update it often?

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Easy Navigation/Better Structure

When you choose a simple design for your website, you are guaranteeing visitors will have a great experience on your site. A simple website is easy to navigate because it is less cluttered and easier for users to understand. In fact, the friendliest user websites allows users to find exactly what they want to know the moment they land on a website page.

Faster Loading

By design, simple websites are going to load much quicker than complex websites. The main reason simple websites are able to load so much faster than complex sites is because small file sizes load much faster than large file sizes. Web visitors respond positively to websites that load quickly, which makes simple websites very customer friendly.

Focus on Content

When you skip the decorating elements on your website design, you are allowing your site’s content to shine. To make sure your content shines through, put in right in front of customers when they arrive on your site. Since research shows most visitors simply scan website content and don’t read it word for word, make sure your content is highly scannable, so visitors can find the information they are looking for quickly.

Save Time Building and Maintaining Simple Websites

Simple websites are easy to build, and better yet, easy to maintain. It is also important to keep your website’s code as simple as possible. This is important because it is easy to build on, and simple code is easy to debug.

When creating your website, resist the urge to add a million decorative elements and other non-essential code. Instead, keep the code simple and keep the website simple. A simple website will please your customers, which will in turn deliver more traffic, more sales, and better user experiences.

What are your thoughts on simple design?