By Pat Flynn

I’ve been getting a lot of emails asking me about my switch to the Thesis theme for the SPI blog.

I’ll start from the beginning.

Even before I wrote my very first post for The Smart Passive Income Blog, it was really important to me that I sported a high-quality WordPress theme. The design of a blog, both on the front end (what people see), and the backend (what the search engines see), play a huge role in the success of a blog.

Since I bought the domain name, SPI has undergone 9 total design changes.

Yes – 9.

I blame my roots in the architecture industry, where hundreds of design changes on a single project is completely normal.

In chronological order:

2 free themes, which I immediately scrapped because they... More...