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While there are bloggers on both sides of the monetizing-of-blogging fence, there is no doubt there are those who take the route of running ads. Those that are using WordPress have a seemingly endless supply of themes to choose from, but not all the selections lend themselves to ad placement. There are, however, some kind souls out there who have made free themes for this very purpose.
All4WordPress.com
– Offers several themes with 125×125 placements, such as the above Clouds Rounds, as well as at least one with a 25ox250 slot.
BlixKrieg – The extremely versatile Blix theme got abandoned as a project ages ago, but it then resurfaced as BlixKrieg with built-in placements for Google AdSense units. Even though this theme is aging, new authors do try to keep it up to date.
BlogOhBlog.com – Offers several free themes, with AdsPress being the most ad friendly of them with some fairly subtle Google AdSense placements.
DailyBlogTips – The popular blog about all-things-blogging has started offering free monthly WordPress themes, all of them with an eye to advertising. There is a mixture of choices with 125X125 ad blocks and those supporting Google AdSense.
EasyWordPress.com – Offers a few free monetized WordPress themes for free (registration required for download) that have various types of monetization units.
ElegantWPThemes.com – ElegantWPThemes offers several free themes with 125×125 spots, the above pictured one is named Soloss.
Jauhari.net – Jauhari.net offers numerous themes, a few with Google AdSense placements, and two with 125×125 spots. This one pictured, My April Reloaded, also features a 729×90 banner spot that can be used for images or as an ad spot.
Monetizing The Web – You can’t do an article about monetization themes without including one named “Monetizing the Web”. Available in 17 different colors, there isvirtually no monetization they left out of this: Google AdSense units, text links, Google Referrals and more.
Slick Blue – From HackWordPress, this theme includes four 125×125 placements as well as a Google AdWords banner slot at the top.
WPThemesPlugin.com – WPThemesPlugin offers several free themes, several of them monetized such as Vestique which features 125×125 ad slots, Google AdSense on the individual posts and a 468X60 slot at the top.
WPThemesPress.com – Offers several free themes with ad placements, but they seem very targeted to niche blogging, like the one above, Deliciously Nature.
