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, 2.8. 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4, 2.8.5, 2.8.6, 2,9, 2.91, 2.92, 3.0 and WordPress 3.1 with no problems found.
When WordPress updates again Blue Blix will be tested and any problems will be fixed.
Make a PayPal payment for $25.00 for Blue Blix using the PayPal button. After payment you’ll receive an email (within minutes) with an instant download link of the zipped Blue Blix SEO theme.
Note: if you pay by PayPal eCheque your order will be delayed, eCheques take 3-5 working days to clear (your download won’t be instant).
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 70 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).
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.
I’ve worked as an SEO consultant for around 10 years and guarantee you will not find better search engine optimization WordPress themes (free or premium WordPress SEO theme) online today than my WordPress SEO themes.
Blue Blix WordPress theme with Google AdSense and Search Engine Optimisation
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!
Make a PayPal payment for $25.00 for Blue Blix using the PayPal button. After payment you’ll receive an email (within minutes) with an instant download link of the zipped Blue Blix SEO theme.
Note: if you pay by PayPal eCheque your order will be delayed, eCheques take 3-5 working days to clear (your download won’t be instant).
Blue Blix with AdSense + SEO Installation Instructions
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.
Compatible with WordPress 2.0, WordPress 2.1, WordPress 2.2, WordPress 2.3, WordPress 2.5, WordPress 2.6, WordPress 2.7, WordPress 2.8, WordPress 2.9, WordPress 3 and WordPress 3.1. Will be updated for WordPress 3.* etc…
Make a PayPal payment for $25.00 for Blue Blix using the PayPal button. After payment you’ll receive an email (within minutes) with an instant download link of the zipped Blue Blix SEO theme.
Note: if you pay by PayPal eCheque your order will be delayed, eCheques take 3-5 working days to clear (your download won’t be instant).
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15 responses to WordPress SEO Theme Blue Blix with AdSense
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
WordPress SEO Theme Blue Blix with AdSense
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
WordPress SEO Theme Blue Blix with AdSense
Nice design. I have had problems in the past with SEO plugins for WordPress. Is your SEO plugin friendly with other plugins? cheers
The WordPress AdSense themes doesn’t use an AdSense plugin, it’s all built into the themes code and so shouldn’t be influenced by other WordPress plugins.
Obviously if you ran one of my WordPress AdSense themes and an AdSense WordPress plugin it’s going to be a bit of a mess.
David
Hi David,
I bought this theme quite sometime ago. The adsense plugin disappear all of the sudden. I could not find a suitable plug-in for this theme. Where can i paste my adsense id for this theme now?
Please advice.
Thanks,
Sion
Blue Blix doesn’t use an AdSense WordPress plugin per se, the AdSense code is built into the theme and there’s no way for the AdSense code NOT to be run when a page loads, this assumes AdSense is turned on and you haven’t made any mistakes when you added your AdSense publisher ID etc… of course (recently had a customer with disappearing ads because they added an extra space after their publisher ID by mistake).
What you are seeing can happen to any page with AdSense running on it, AdSense determines it’s better for your page not to load all ad units (supposed to result in you making more money). It tends to be the sidebar ad unit that doesn’t load because it’s the last one loaded in the code (Google AdSense assumes if it’s lower in the code it’s the least important ad unit). So it’s not the theme, it’s AdSense. I have a number of Blogspot blogs and see this sort of thing all the time on them (way more often than with my WordPress blogs). I also see it on my WordPress blogs randomly.
BTW You can tell the ad units code has been loaded because the size of the ad does show up (you get a blank square/rectangle the size of the ad). Would be better if the ad didn’t load at all, but that’s Google AdSense at fault.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Blue Blix with AdSense
Hi David,
I changed to my Adsense Pub ID # within the Adsense PHP file. Assuming that’s the only thing I need to do to connect my adsense account & that IT IS connected to this blog page…how can I tell that my adsense ads are working on this blog page? Where do I look within my Adsense account that I will get the commissions when someone clicks on my ads? I even had a friend click on an ad at my site to see if I would see the commission in my account. I can’t tell.
The main page on this domain (http://parent2parentwithteens.com/) using a default theme with Adsense plugins that are currently working. Not long ago, I applied to google adsense for this domain to be accepted (still don’t know what this is for in my adsense account. I thought I had to do that with your themes), but it got ‘disapproved’. This was about the time when I added a sub page blog to URL above using the Blix theme. Will this disapproval affect my not getting my commissions from my new sub page, even though I am getting commission on the main page using adsense plug ins…despite getting the url disapproved. I don’t get it.
Again, how can I tell that my sub page adsense ads are working with my Pub ID # installed within your new Blix theme?
Norbert
WordPress SEO Theme Blue Blix with AdSense
All you have to do is edit the adsense.php file found at /wp-content/themes/blix-adsense-seo-03/adsense.php (one setting and it works).
Easiest way to check your Google AdSense Publisher ID was added correctly is go to a page with the AdSense theme running and view source.
Scroll through the source until you find an AdSense ad that includes a line like:
google_ad_client = "pub-8325072546567078";If you see the number pub-8325072546567078 you’ve made a mistake as that’s my pub-number (you should see the number you see in your AdSense account).
I see you’ve left my pub-number on your site.
If you edited the file via the WordPress built in theme editor you might have edited the wrong adsense.php file. I include two adsense.php files with my version 03 themes, one in the /wp-content/themes/blix-adsense-seo-03/alt/adsense.php folder within the theme which includes alternative AdSense settings. This page is never accessed unless you move it over the AdSense file in the Blix themes main folder at /wp-content/themes/blix-adsense-seo-03/.
The WordPress theme editor can’t tell the difference between the two files (at the top it does say it’s an alternative, but easy to miss). So I’m guessing you edited the file online and changed the wrong file.
I recommend editing the adsense.php file in the main Blix folder with a text editor before you upload it (you can change the ID of both files if you want, but only the file in the main Blix folder is used, the other is an alternative you have to move to use).
Not sure what you mean by you were disapproved for AdSense for that domain. Usually you apply for one domain for AdSense, if it’s accepted you can add AdSense on any domain (anywhere). If you break the AdSense TOS and AdSense notice, the site can be banned from the AdSense program (you won’t see Google AdSense ads if you add the code to a banned domain).
Assuming you have an AdSense account and as my AdSense ads are currently showing on the sub site if you change the pub-number correctly it will work (domains are banned which if your domain was banned my ads wouldn’t work) for you.
Under your AdSense account setup a domain channel, this will track your AdSense clicks and impressions only for that domain (I setup a domain channel for every domain I have AdSense on).
David
WordPress SEO Theme Blue Blix with AdSense
The different adsense boxes have different ads in them. Some advertizers only bid on one or two of their favorite sizes. I want to use the three main sizes of boxes on each page, not three of the same size.
Rick
Blue Blix theme has problems
Hi, I seem to have a problem all of a sudden with my Blue Blix SEO theme. all of a sudden, the sidebar is all the way at the bottom of the page, and the content has shifted from the left side of the page to the middle.
I tried reinstalling the theme, and removing my cookies, but still have the same problem.
Is there anything that can be done?
Thanks,
JJ
highcorda.com
Blue Blix Theme Code Isn't Broken
Had a look at your sites code and ran it through the W3C Validator and there are no important errors (only error is related to a widget you are running with no content, looks like the Links widget).
Without looking at the css my guess would be a plugin has broken the css coding, I see a link at the bottom of the footer about a Theme Tweaker, I’d first try disabling it and see if it’s the issue. If not disable all plugins and see if the problem still occurs.
Looks like what’s happening is the main content is too wide and is pushing the sidebar down the page. This can happen if the css code is changed and you’ve made a mistake or a plugin has added css coding that clashes with the themes styling.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Blue Blix with AdSense
I have deactivated all the plugins, but still no change.
What I did in the beginning, was add an aweber plugin, to ad a subscriber email catcher, but I didn’t like the way it looked, so I took it out the sidebar.
As soon as I did this, it began to look the way it does.
I have now deleted the aweber plugin, but it still looks the same.
Blue Blix Theme Bug
Figured out your problem, you’ve got one too many links on your top navigation menu. The link that’s causing the problem shows when you hover over the home page link (on the navigation menu) and slide the mouse down a little (says Auto Draft).
The Auto Draft Page link should not even be listed here, it’s a bug I’ve fixed, if you ordered a while ago you’ll have old code, drop me an email (make sure you use the email address you ordered with) and I’ll send you the latest zip file.
If you do add more static Pages you’ll have this issue again. Problem with themes with a top navigation menu is you have to limit the number of pages added to that menu or disable it completely as otherwise you get too many links.
To disable the menu completely edit header.php file and remove the line:
<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1&exclude='); ?>To disable the page to blame edit that line as follows:
<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1&exclude=62'); ?>In the example above I’ve used the ID of the Page that’s generating the Auto Draft issue (Page ID 62). You can exclude multiple Pages by adding a list of Page IDs to exclude like 1,7,62
If you have a lot of Pages can be easier to switch the code to include rather than exclude:
<?php wp_list_pages('sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1&include=5,12,27'); ?>In the example above your Navigation menu would show Pages 5, 12 and 27 only (and the home page link).
David
WordPress SEO Theme Blue Blix with AdSense
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