Creating blog layouts or templates is one money-making opportunity that can be easily carried out by someone who has web designing skills. For web designers who can easily make the most out their skills by developing a Wordpress theme, a Blogger template or a MySpace layout, they can earn in a variety of ways. Here are some of the methods one can earn from making blog layouts:

1. Get Hired as a Blog Designer

One of the most usual method of earning from your web designing skills is to develop a blog template. However, if you’d like to get improve your chances of earning from this gig, learn SEO. Search engine optimization is the use of various techniques to make a site stand out in the SERPs (search engine results pages) whenever people use search engines when searching for some info. It is one of the most in-demand services that one blog designer can offer as a part of service package. Chris Pearson is one that’s great at implementing SEO techniques in designing a site.

2. Give free blog layouts to earn.

Earning money from a Wordpress theme by giving it as a freebie is impossible, right? NOT! If you create a blog layout for Wordpress blogs, which is one blog platform that is one of the most widely used, and you offer it to the public as a free template, those who will like it will most probably download and use it. So how do you make money from that? Include a link to your blog’s URL, which is most often left on the footer of the Wordpress theme. This way, you get free backlinks and the more backlinks you collect, the higher value your blog, or whatever site you place a link to on the Wordpress theme, obtains especially in the eyes of advertisers. The more link the more chances of getting traffic and a higher pagerank.  And more traffic and a higher pagerank means more chances of earning from referral programs, pay-per-click and text link ad services and even direct advertisers.

3.Get Your Blog Theme Sponsored.

One more way to make money from making blog layouts that becomes more and more popular nowadays, especially with Wordpress themes, is the looking for sponsors of the footer links in Wordpress themes. Why would people pay links on Wordpress themes? When people download these themes to use them as layouts for their own blogs, the footer links usually remain. The more links, the more value the blog that the footer link directs to gets.  Digital Point forum has a lot of these Wordpress theme Sponsoring auctions.

Got other ways to earn from your blog layout creations?