I have one theme with Clickbank ads incorporated and that’s the Talian 05 theme at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-talian-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html

David Law

Thanks for the great article dude, its been very helpful in my buying some wordpress themes ready for adsense

Now I’m after some that will do the same for clickbank, so do you have a link to any sites where I can get these wordpress themes for clickbank please?

Thanks!

Alexa seems to have a really low count of links to many sites. Are there answers to why that is?

I’ve only done limited testing with the new Clickbank versions of Talian, (three domains about a week of tests) but not impressed with one of the tests so far.

The main reason I created a Clickbank version was for this jokes site http://www.free-funny-jokes.com/ (can get over 10,000 visitors a day, so great for testing things quickly) which Google recently banned from the AdSense program because of some of the content: I included racist jokes for SEO/traffic reasons (they are the most popular types of jokes searched for online!!) and it resulted in a lot of relevant traffic and a LOT of racist comments on the site (I gave up moderating the comments (I don’t even read the comments now) a long time ago, some people are awful!).

After the AdSense ban I moved to running Clicksor and Chitika ads, (not optimised, just quickly added to the theme code) as replacements to Google AdSense and was making less money than from AdSense (about 60% of AdSense income).

Thought AdSense style Clickbank ads would perform better, but after about a week testing later and they aren’t (made about 80% the money I made from Clicksor/Chitika from Clickbank).

I think it’s the niche/traffic (jokes) as the other two domains I’m testing Clickbank ads on (both in the money making type niche) are fairing much better, not as good as AdSense ads, but if you can’t use AdSense on a site for some reason, worth testing. There’s also adult niches you can’t run AdSense on.

As I suspected, basically some niches are going to work with Clickbank ads and others won’t.

Have made a ‘hacked’ Clicksor/Chitika version of Talian and using it on the jokes site to see what better optimised Clicksor/Chitika ads can achieve (maybe match AdSense revenue).

Gone a little over the top with what you can do with Clicksor/Chitika, so if I decided to make a Clicksor/Chitika version of Talian it won’t be that ad heavy (definitely not sure about the pop unders).

Good news is I see no reason why I can’t incorporate Clicksor/Chitika into Talian, so might be working on an AdSense/Clickbank/Clicksor/Chitika version of Talian soon

It’s about finding what works for each site and if something doesn’t work, try something else.

David

“Automatic redirection on permalink changes”

Some of the redirection is now core WordPress. I’ve not used this plugin http://www.microkid.net/wordpress/permalinks-moved-permanently/ but looks like it might be able to deal with other redirects not dealt with via core WordPress.

I tend not to mess too much with changing the permalink structure on a site even if I’ve made a mistake in the past (like having dates in the URL!). When I have it’s been a case of a lot of manual 301 redirects via a .htaccess file!

Your linking back idea. That’s like Trackbacks that can be posted as comments, problem with automatically linking back to sites that link to you is link spam. If you’ve used a dofollow type plugin on a WordPress blog you get a lot of very poor quality comments just for the link back.

I’m using a heavily modified version of SEO Super Comments (original created by Prelovac) and allowing dofollow links on the commenter’s URL, (I’ve added your URL to the website comment form so you can see it in action) your name at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/clickbank-ready-wordpress-theme.html?cid=20138 is a link to one of your sites.

It’s sending out PR/Link benefit, (so dofollow) but because these comment pages are so deep (that page above will only have one link to it) the link benefit sent out is very small. In comparison if this page (the main “Clickbank Ready WordPress Theme” post) had dofollow author links and 50 commenter’s had a URL that would take a BIG chunk of link benefit from the site and damage this pages SERPs (all that anchor text that I didn’t SEO!!!).

So using the SEO Super comments plugin with Talian can give a little back to your commenter’s without too much loss to your site. Personally I don’t comment on other peoples sties for link benefit, when I do comment it’s because I want to comment on something or direct visitors to one of my sites (99% of the time it’s I want to comment).

I’ll be releasing my modified version of SEO Super Comments plugin (it will probably only work with Talian) with the next Talian update (I couldn’t get the original SEO Super Comments to work with Talian).

Got a bunch of updates to include and fully test, so could be a while before the update goes out.

Feel free to keep throwing ideas at me, you suggested I look at Clickbank ads for example http://www.45-year-old-millionaire.co.uk/affiliate-revenue-report-5022-for-december-2009.html/comment-page-1#comment-6828 wasn’t aware at the time you could have AdSense style Clickbank ads

David