In my last post I bemoaned the lack of aesthetic appeal and functionality of the blogs in my Global Alchemy Blog Matrix. Well I still have to work on the functionality part from an internet marketing point of view but they all got a major boost in looks. This was facilitated by Wordpress Direct, which made it esay to give all my blogs a new look. They have about 1,500 themes. For several of my blogs I found themes that really reflect thier content; for a few the match was decent; for a couple I am not satisfied but still better then default Wordpress theme in both look and functionality. I imported them all into Wordpress Direct, which is not the optimal use for Wordpress Direct as I had to do by hand much of what Wordpress DIrect does automatically when you use it to build the Blogs from scratch. Building blogs from scratch is where Wordpress Direct’s real value come to light. I builds a SEO (search engine optimized) with several handy plugins for monetizing your blog.

I eventually want to build themes that exactly match the tone of each blog but I feel that these are good enough to show the world now.