In contrast, the Abundance theme uses a simple script to draw the first image from each post and then re-sizes it – a major time saver if you’re using something like Amazon Autoposter, because it means that you don’t have to open and edit every post in order to add a custom field. If the script can’t find an image in the post, it then looks for a custom field and uses that instead. If it finds nothing, it simply displays nothing.

The ‘Featured’ areas beneath it allow you to showcase more of the posts that you most want the surfer to see. These could be your most profitable Clickbank or Amazon products, or even digital products of your own. The title bars above these areas are fully editable – giving Google or other search engine bots an overview of exactly what it is you’re featuring instead of telling them you’re one of millions of other sites showing ‘Featured Articles’ will give your SEO efforts a boost. You can choose to include the topmost featured area, the left and right featured areas beneath it, or all three.

You can never have too much good content, but you’ll be doing yourself and your visitors a favour by pointing them to the best of it.