Blue Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO WordPress theme has been tested on WordPress 2.* including 2.0 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.6.5, 2.7, 2.7.1 and WordPress 2.8 with no problems found. When WordPress updates again Blue Blix will be tested and any problems will be fixed and all customers who have bought the Blue Blix theme will receive a free update (this is also the case for all SEO/AdSense Ready Premium WordPress themes sold on this site).
If you should experience a bug/problem drop a comment below and I’ll look into it, I use these AdSense/SEO WP themes on about 60 of my own domains, so it’s in my interest to keep them up to date (I make a fair amount of money via AdSense): June 2009.
Blue Blix is based on the original Blix theme with AdSense/SEO but with a blue colour theme. Like the original Blix with AdSense/SEO this WordPress theme is Widget compatible, works with the new widget feature added to WordPress 2.3 (no theme editing needed) and has all the features listed on the original Blix with AdSense/SEO sales page.
Blue Blix WordPress theme with Google AdSense and Search Engine Optimisation
See my 14 year old son’s site called What’s the Question for a site currently using Blue Blix with AdSense Ready + SEO WordPress theme: as a side note I gave him a PR5 web site to play around with, I must be mad!
The screenshot shows a single post page of the Blue Blix theme, this is where individual posts are shown (like the page you are reading now: this site uses WordPress and one of the premium themes sold on the site).
You can see two of the three Google AdSense ad units in the screenshot. On the right menu you see the top of a 160×600 skyscraper ad unit and almost in the middle of the page a 336×280 ad unit that floats to the right of the main content. Not in the screenshot is a third ad unit 336×280 just above the footer.
If you compare Blue Blix with AdSense/SEO to Blix with AdSense/SEO you will see Blue Blix is wider, specifically 70px wider (plus 20px less white margin around the outer edges). I added this extra width (90px in total) for those who prefer the 336×280 ad unit size over the 250×250 ad unit. Without the extra 90px the content area is a little on the narrow size for the larger AdSense ad unit (not enough text to the left, doesn’t look good).
This location is one of the most clicked areas (AdSense hot zone) and so by using this area for an ad unit almost always performs well.
You will find the same ad units and placement for all pages of the blog, which will maximise AdSense revenue.
In my experience it’s these pages that will create most AdSense revenue, especially the large square/rectangle ad unit within the main blog post content (it’s a real hot AdSense area).
Further down the page is the third and final ad unit, out the box it’s set at 336×280 (large rectangle to catch leaving visitors)
There’s an easy to use options page where ad unit sizes and colours can be changed, so changing the size doesn’t need a PHP programmer or anything 
all you do is indicate which ad size you want for each of the three ad unit locations.
The benefit of these Premium WordPress themes with AdSense over many other AdSense themes is the top floating ad unit (336×280 ad unit in Blue Blix). I was the first person creating AdSense themes to figure out how to not only add a ad unit in this location on post pages, but also of the very first post ONLY on the home page and other archive pages. Prior to me creating the code you’d have to use time consuming AdSense plugins to achieve the same result!
Blue Blix with AdSense + SEO Installation Instructions
Make a PayPal payment for £9.99 for Blue Blix using the PayPal button below-
When payment is received you’ll receive a copy of the zipped Blue Blix AdSense theme by email (within 24hrs** assuming no payment problems).
Please be patient, although I’m online around 14 hours a day I do have to sleep and eat and the zips are sent out manually. 90% of orders are emailed within a few hours, all depends on the time of day you ordered.
1. Unzip the Blue Blix theme zip file.
2. Edit the file adsense.php within the /blue-blix-adsense-seo-03/ folder to include your Google AdSense code (read the readme.txt file for more details, very easy to do).
Note: Adding your unique Google AdSense publisher code (your pub-##### number) is the ONLY required change needed to the entire theme to make the theme ready to turn your WordPress blog into an AdSense residual income stream.
3. Upload the entire Blue Blix folder to your WordPress themes directory (via FTP, just like any other theme you’ve tried out).
4. Log into your blogs dashboard and under Presentation select the new Blue Blix theme and you are done.
WARNING: Do not click your own ads, Google AdSense is very good at determining click fraud, (for example clicking an ad while logged into the same IP address you use to log into your AdSense account is retarded since they track your login IP!) the odd click they’ll ignore, (mistakes happen) but regular clicks WILL get your AdSense account banned!!
The Blue Blix AdSense + SEO theme out the box uses blended ad unit colours and large ad units for maximum CTR/AdSense revenue. If you wish to change unit colours and/or ad unit dimensions this can be achieved by editing just one file. If you don’t like the 336×280 sized ad unit for example, no problem a few minor changes and you could have a smaller 180×150 ad unit. Don’t like image ads, again no problem specify text only ads.
Search Engine Optimization and WordPress Themes
Most WordPress themes aren’t too bad SEO wise when downloaded directly from their original creators, but there are always SEO improvements that can be made for maximum SEO impact and the Blix theme was no different.
Blue Blix AdSense + SEO theme includes-
Optimized title elements (and meta tags, though they aren’t very important these days). Take a look at the title of this page, note it’s keyword rich and lacks the name of the site (for SEO reasons). This SEO coding is used on all version 03 WordPress themes from this site.
Optimised headers, for example on blog post pages like this one the name of the blog is NOT within a H1 header, (every theme I’ve used has a H1 header that holds a link to home page, this is not good SEO wise). Instead the title of the post is within the H1 header and the link to home is ONLY a H1 header on pages that lack a true keyword focus like the monthly archive pages. On category pages the category name is used for the H1 header.
Optimised anchor text of links and rel=nofollow links to unimportant pages (from an SEO perspective) like the trackback and RSS feed pages (those links waste a LOT of PR/link benefit).
All in all a well optimised AdSense theme.
Make a PayPal payment for £9.99 for Blue Blix using the PayPal button below-
When payment is received you’ll receive a copy of the zipped Blue Blix AdSense theme by email (within 24hrs assuming no payment problems).
Compatible with WordPress 2.0, WordPress 2.1, WordPress 2.2, WordPress 2.3, WordPress 2.5, WordPress 2.6, WordPress 2.7, WordPress 2.7.1 and WordPress 2.8. Will be updated for WordPress 2.9 WordPress 3.0 etc… and sent out for free to all Blue Blix customers.
5 responses to Blue Blix SEO and AdSense WordPress 2.8 Theme
hi
with this theme , could i stop using all in seo plugin ?
Hi April,
Yes all the important SEO features found within the All in One SEO Pack WordPress plugin are more than covered by all the themes on this site.
The All in One SEO Pack plugin adds the ability to add a little SEO to your theme, unfortunately it doesn’t remove poorly thought our theme code, for example we all know header(H1, H2 etc…) are important for SEO reasons, but 95% of WordPress themes use the H2 header on the sidebar for formatting the name of sidebar items, Blogroll, Categories, Recent Posts etc… and this is far from ideal from an SEO perspective.
There’s a similar problem with where you find the start of comments, it will say “15 Comments” or “No Comments” encased in a H3 header, total waste!
With my themes there are NO wasted headers, I’ve either removed them completely (as is the case on the sidebar) and replaced the H2 CSS coding so the theme doesn’t look terrible (looks almost identical to the original theme) or as in the case of the comments problem add the title of the post within the H3 header for add SEO optimisation.
The above sort of SEO theme issues can not be solved using a plugin, it can only be fixed by editing the theme code, one line at a time!
What you loose from the All in One SEO Pack plugin when using this theme is the ability to add unique meta tags the theme takes the excerpt of the post and uses that as the description and the title of the post as the meta keywords.
This has no negative SEO effect since the main search engines DO NOT use meta tags for ranking purposes anymore, they were abused too much in the past (today you could have no meta tags at all and rank just as high as with them, they have little value**).
** There is value in a meta description since Google sometimes uses it as the description of a SERP, this could result in a higher click through rate, but does not effect rankings directly.
I’ve not looked at the All in One SEO Pack for quite sometime (not needed), so if there’s a feature (maybe they added new ones since I last used it) in particular with the All in One SEO Pack you don’t want to loose let me know what it is and I’ll tell you if it’s in the theme.
David Law
Blue Blix SEO and AdSense WordPress 2.8 Theme
i also realised i would not need the exercpt plugin with this theme.
However if shold i wish to disable the default excerpt which comes with this theme in order to allow me to use wp excerpt plugin…what would i need to edit ?
Hi April,
If you use my edited plugin at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-seo-plugins you need do nothing, all the code is created so only one shows (default or the plugin version).
If you find another excerpt type plugin it won’t work with these themes as is, you’d need to do a little code changes. Not that hard, case of changing some code that says by default show an excerpt to show the entire contents of the post on every archive page, then the plugin should do the rest.
Not had a customer ask for help with that yet and doubt I will, but if you do use a different plugin and have problems let me know and I’ll help out.
David Law
Blue Blix SEO and AdSense WordPress 2.8 Theme
Nice design. I have had problems in the past with SEO plugins for Wordpress. Is your SEO plugin friendly with other plugins? cheers
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