Fthemes.com has released Incorporate, free business WP theme with many feature.  Features that I like from this theme are feature post with slide show style, custom menu, and options page.
Info from develeoper site:

Incorporate is a high quality free business WordPress theme with options page. Supports the post thumbnails and custom menus. Suitable for any niche especially for business or portfolio web sites
Features:

• WordPress 3.0 Ready
• Custom Menus Support
• Custom Background Support
• Options Page
• Post Thumbnails
• Featured Content
• 125×125 banners ready (easy editable from admin options)
• Two columns
• Gravatar on Comments
• Compatible with latest WordPress versions
• Widgets Ready
• SEO Optimized
• Fixed width
• Logo .PSD file and font files are included in theme folder.
• Tested and compatible with all major browsers: IE, FF, Safari

 

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Link exchange site is a site that serves link exchange between the users.  There are free version and paid version in the market.  Free and paid version usually have different facility.  In this article, I will give a review several link exchange service sites I have tried.
Among of link exchange sites, in my opinion these sites have the best service for free version.  The difference between paid and free version, and ease of manage exchange are consideration in this review.

1. Link2Me
Link2me gives 1 credit every day for free that can be used to request exchange.  For advanced, or paid version, you have unlimited outgoing request.  It has facility to search exchange partner, check link status, and manage link.
2. Linkalizer
Linkalizer has complete control panel to monitor your exchange.  It gives you facility to monitor new invitations, accepted invitations, waiting your link back, completed exchanges, and terminated exschanges for free user.  Premium members have easy and fast to use link exchange software for your website (php/mysql required), send unlimited link exchange invitations, set and manage which categories to accept link invitations from, multi handle tools (to handle a lot of links faster in your account), link exchange invitation from all new members (in categories you accept).

LK Magazine V2, by Lasantha Bandara, is a free premium blogger template, SEO friendly, with meta description, and meta keyword setting, and ads ready.

Template name : LK Magazine version 2

Template type : 3 Sidebar, 4 Column, 3 Column footer, Elegant, Fixed width, Featured Section, Header Banner, Left Sidebar, Magazine, Premium, Right Sidebar, Slider, Tabbed widget, Top Navigation Bar, Video, White, Web 2.0

Release date : 05-22-2010

Coder/Designer Name(s) : Lasantha Bandara

Coder/Designer URL(s) : http://www.premiumbloggertemplates.com/
http://www.bloggertipandtrick.net/

Basic Instructions : How to install a Blogger template

Advanced Details : http://www.premiumbloggertemplates.com/2010/05/lk-magazine-v2-premium-blogger-template.html

Key Features are:

• Column: 4 Columns/3 Sidebars/Right Sidebars/Left Sidebar
• Fixed Width Template (1000px width)
• 2 Horizontal Navigation Menus
• Auto Read More Feature with Thumbnails.
• 468*60 Header Ads banner
• 468*60 Header Logo with the PSD file and Fonts.
• 1 CSS Search Box
• 3 Column Footer section
• Social Bookmarking Buttons/Badges installed
• SEO friendly blogger title hack installed to help you rank higher in Google
• Blogger Default Heading Tag has Changed for better SEO
• Meta tags installed
• Top Bar with Feed buttons and Display Day,Month,Year
• Hosted images on blogger. Free use forever!
• Favicon support so you can add your own url icon
• Compressed CSS to speed up your page load times
• Embedded JavaScript date code showing current day
• Built-in Related Posts Widget to show Related posts
• Numbered Page Navigation Hack Installed
• Breadcrumbs Navigation Hack Installed
• Replace "Older Posts","Home","Newer Posts" Text Navigation with Images
• Automatically highlight author comments
• Modified Comments Section to Enable Avatars in Blogger Comments
• Many more ......

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Fearlessflyer has launched a free premium magazine style with slideshow feature wordpress theme. It haves magazine style theme, comes with updated twitter badged, two coloumn, and feature that you should love it, slideshow feature. Thanks to Fearlessflyer that launch this great theme with free. Read complete feature, and download this theme on Fearlessflyer.

Articles directories, can be used to create quality backlink. How can we do that?. If you have a quality articles, try to submit to articles directories with high PR. This can be a good alternatives to create backlinks, if it dofollow, or just spread your blog to the world. Write article, include anchor text or url of your blog as a reference in your articles, and you have quality backlinks automatically. You can use this articles directories list, try to submit to highes PR one first.

Backlink are incoming links to a web site or page. The number of backlinks is one indication of the popularity or importance of that website or page. Quoted from Wikipedia, Google's description of their PageRank system, for instance, notes that Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. This factor rise many SEO company that offer paid backlinks. If you have lot of money, this can be instant way to increase your blog pagerank. But if you have no money, and patient enough, you can try others ways that need no money.

There are many ways to create backlinks using paid free services.
1. Submit To Blog Directories
Submit blog to directories with high PR can be a way to create quality backlinks. Some of them are paid, some are free. Free version usually need reciprocal link. You can submit to this list of directories with PR.

2. Comment or ask to dofollow blog or forum
Comment to dofollow blog can be used to create backlinks.

3. Submit to articles directories
Submit to articles directories can be a way to spread your blog to the world. You can submit your articles with some references to your blog.

4. Share to social network, and social sharing.
Share your blog to social sharing also can be used to create backlinks. Identi.ca is dofollow microblogging with PR 8. Just write something with your blog on it, then you get quality backlink.

Many ways lead to Rome, many ways lead to backlinks. There are many ways to get backlinks. Backlinks is a way to increase blog pagerank. To get backlinks, you can submit site to directories, exchange links with your friends, or pay backlinks from SEO company. There is a more cheap, even free, to get backlinks.
Comment is a way to get backlinks. Not just a comment. You give a comment to a blog that has dofollow setting, and write your blog URL. Comment to dofollow blog with high PR can help increase your PR.

Beside good content, SEO friendly blog, submit to directories with high PR can be a good way to increase pagerank.
Some directories are paid, some of them are free. Free directories usually are reciprocal, mean that you must link back to them. You can submit your blog through this list of directories with PR.

Part of blogging is not just write on your blog. Of course you don't want only you read your blog. You want people read your blog, post comment, or click to your Adsense.
Besides write good content, you need do others thing to make your blog read by others.

1. Write good content
This could be most essential thing for a blog. Write a good content, unique, and authentic. If you can't find unique, and authentic thing, write good content for a common topic, but use your opinion, not just copy, and paste form other source.

2. SEO friendly blog
Not only good content, SEO friendly blog is essential to make your blog found by search engine. You can make your blog SEO friendly, or if you use blogger, you can use SEO friendly premium blogger template.

3. Share your blog to create backlink
Quoted from Wikipedia, Google's description of their PageRank system, for instance, notes that Google interprets a link from page A to page B as a vote, by page A, for page B. Many SEO company sell backlinks with some dollars. This is an instant way, but you must pay it. There are others ways that no need money. Use social networking, or social sharing to share your blog. Another way is to submit into blog directory. One simple way is to comment on dofollow blog with good ranking.

No doubt that Adsense is the most ads network used by world's blogger. Using adsense blogger templates, making money with blogger can be more simple.
Combine with premium blogger templates, adsense ready templates can be a wonderful templates. I found some premium blogger templates with adsense ready widget and banner. Some of theme are Arthemia, and Bloggermint. These two templates have adsense banner ready at top of blog, and adsense widget ready.
To make these templates SEO friendly, I also add function to add meta description on each of post, change title tags using post title, and also remove blog name from post title tags. Every post title also use H1 tags. These templates are also added with related posts on every below post content, to increase pageviews of your blog. Follow my other post, SEO Friendly Premium Blogger Templates to see appearance of these templates, and download the templates.