The Blix with Targeted AdSense and Search Engine Optimization 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 and no issues found. When WordPress updates again Blix will be tested and any problems will be fixed and all customers who have bought Blix WordPress theme will receive a free update (this is also the case for all WordPress themes sold on this site). June 2009.
Created a new version of Blix with a Blue colour scheme at Blue Blix SEO/AdSense Theme. Blue Blix is this theme with blue colours AND a slightly wider (90px extra) content area allowing the use of the 336×280 AdSense ad unit at the top of the content. February 2009.
Blix is Widget compatible, works with the new widget feature added to WordPress 2.3 (no theme editing needed). Added widget compatibility January 2008.
Targeted AdSense Coding: New option from Google AdSense, we’ve incorporated this feature into all of our WP themes including Blix. The targeted AdSense coding can not be used with popular AdSense addons for WordPress, unless you edit your theme manually. Added targeted AdSense coding January 2008.
Blix is the 2nd AdSense WordPress theme for this website and my third version of the WordPress theme Blix with AdSense and SEO. The first two versions lack the detailed AdSense options available with this version and several original Blix features no longer work in the latest WordPress releases.
As of WordPress version 2.1 Blix has had a few compatibility problems. My Blix AdSense theme below includes multiple fixes that fix the page navigation bar (just below the header, About, Contact links etc…) and the way recent posts are handled. Also fixed the problem with the header where the bottom of letters are cut off. You can see the result of these fixes at another site of mine – Make Money Online Guide which uses the Blix theme with AdSense + SEO (version 03).
Blix Code Fixes, AdSense Ready and Search Engine Optimisation included, what more can you ask for
Unlike my earlier Blix WordPress themes there will be only one version (version 03), AdSense + SEO ready, though there’s a very easy way to turn the AdSense ads off, turning the theme into SEO only if needed.
WordPress Blix theme with Google AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Take a look at What’s the Question for a site currently using Blix with AdSense + SEO WordPress theme.
The first screenshot shows the home page of Blix theme test Site which I used to edit the templates. You can see one of the three Google AdSense ad units in the screenshot, this is a 250×250 ad unit that floats to the right at the top of the content of the first post only for those using the Blix template.
This location is one of the most clicked areas (AdSense hot zone) and so by utilising this location this 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.
The second screenshot shows a single post page, this is where individual posts are shown (like the page you are reading now).
In my experience it’s these pages that will create most AdSense revenue, especially the 250×250 square unit within the main blog post content (it’s a real hot 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), but 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 .
Blix with AdSense + SEO Installation Instructions
Make a PayPal payment for £9.99 for Blix using the PayPal button below-
When payment is received you’ll receive a copy of the zipped Blix AdSense theme by email (within 24hrs assuming no payment problems).
1. Unzip the zip file.
2. Edit the file adsense.php within the /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 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 Blix theme and you are done.
The 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 250×250 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 improvements that can be made for maximum SEO impact and the Blix theme was no different.
The Blix AdSense + SEO ready 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 ready theme.
Make a PayPal payment for £9.99 for Blix using the PayPal button below-
When payment is received you’ll receive a copy of the zipped 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
Tags: WordPress 2.3, WordPress 2.6
45 responses to WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
When you unzip the Blix AdSense + SEO theme you’ll find a folder called /alt/. This includes alternative files, the /alt/ adsense.php file for example when uploaded to the main /blix-adsense-seo-03/ folder results in smaller Google AdSense ad unit sizes (less intrusive).
You can see an example of a site using another AdSense/SEO theme with the alt adsense.php file at
Sketch Monster Art Book
This is just one example of the ad sizes possible with the version 03 themes, feel free to experiment to find a look that works best for you and your blog.
David
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
Hi,
I can’t see any information about the aesthetic features. The theme test site is in a different color scheme and has a modified header design compared to the screen shots. Is the theme packaged as in the screen shots or the test site?
Also, how easy have you made it to change the design colors and the text size and/or fonts. The text size seems smaller than most sites, and I find it is a strain to read. Do you have a fully functional demo site for the way the theme comes packaged?
I appreciate the work you put into the SEO and the Adsense optimization. That is super-important to me, but design, readability, image handling, etc, are what will showcase the content, that will cause people to be there in the first place. It would help to have some detailed info on all of that.
Thanks,
John
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
I purchased the template last weekend after reading about Blix on Problogger.net. I’m brand new to blogging, and have been working on getting my site ready to launch for the last few weeks. I had already done quite a bit of work with another WP theme, but decided to go with Blix because of the AdSense and SEO work that was already done. I’m not a programmer, so this is well worth the money.
The only glitch I’ve experienced is adding a PayPal donate button. Regardless of the size button I attach to my Donate page, the .gif graphic is distorted – its rendering 3 to 4 times the size it should be. It works fine, just looks a little funny. Not sure if anyone else has experienced this and/or has suggestions…
Other than that small item, the rest of the process has been flawless.
Dave was kind enough to answer a few questions also – great support above and beyond the call and cost of the product.
Thanks Dave – I look forward to working with you in the future.
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
Looks great and I appreciate the SEO work done as I am not a progammer. However, I do not yer have an adsense account (but will at some point). Any tips for setting up the theme without adsense?
I would like the tagline displayed under the title. How do I do that? I type it into the box, yet it doesn’t display on my site.
Bit behind on comments, had a major dedicated server problem and had to find a new one (took over a month to move!!).
Blix with AdSense/SEO is based on the original Blix theme (which is quite old now) with various updates I’ve collected from the Internet and code problems I solved myself.
http://www.morearnings.com/ is running the version you get when you pay using the PayPal link above.
I’ve made no edits to the theme shown on that site. Recently added full widget support so no need for me to manually edit a theme now (just use the new built in Widget editor page).
Most font sizes are the same that came with the original Blix except for the header text which I reduced in size a little if I recall correctly because with long blog names it wrapped. If you understand CSS a little pretty easy to increase font size.
The theme does work without an AdSense account since you can turn adds off by editing a file (change a 1 to a 0 which is in the documentation). Leaves one minor issue though, the Advert menu section is still visible, (though lacks the ad, so an empty small box) but since the theme is fully Widget compatible it’s easy to build a menu that lacks that menu section (just add the menu items you want and leave that one out). If you create an AdSense account add that menu item back in and change that 0 to a 1
The original Blix lacked the tagline code and I haven’t added it. In hindsight I should so when I get some time will see if it works with a tagline in the header somewhere and if it does send out an update. If you want to take a crack at it yourself this is the sort of code to add to header.php-
<p><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></p>
Without seeing the code of the page displaying the PayPal button I’d guess you’ve specified a height/width that makes it look 3 times bigger than it really is.
David
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
Hi,
Yesterday I purchased this theme. Currently I’m using it for my blog. This theme works very well in Internet Explorer, but in FireFox, it displays comments and posts in center. This causes the right rail all the way at the bottom of the page on the right after posts and comments are done.
How do I fix this issue in FireFox?
Here is the link:
http://www.chicken-casserole-recipes.com/
Thank you,
Samir Patel
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
Hi Samir
I’ve looked at your site and one of mine using the same Blix theme http://www.morearnings.com/ with the latest version of FireFox and I don’t see anything wrong with them.
What are you seeing that I’m not?
David
Ok I just installed this. The theme in general works fine… but it’s doing this weird truncated and reformatted “post excerpt” thing instead of displaying the posts with the “more” placement that I have chosen.
How do I get rid of your post excerpt mechanism and revert to allowing me to manually pick where I want the break using “more” in the editor?
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
The post excerpt is an SEO feature to stop your index and archive pages from being too big (without this you can have 10 full posts on your index page!). There’s also duplicate content issues with copying so much content like this.
Yes you can do similar with the more tag, but for SEO reasons I wouldn’t advice changing the code because you’ll loose the SEO’d anchor text you see now (the text links you see now use the title of the post as anchor text, you don’t get this when using the more tag).
That said if you want to make the change it’s not that hard.
Open index.php in a text editor and find
<?php /* Post Teaser Addon Fix */ ?><?php if (function_exists('post_teaser22')) : ?><?php the_content(); ?><?php else : ?><?php the_excerpt(','); ?><p>Continue Reading <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p><?php endif; ?><?php /* Post Teaser Addon Fix */ ?>
This code is there to take advantage of a great plugin I’ve added to this page http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-seo-plugins and for those that don’t use the plugin some WordPress coding that does a similar job.
Replace the above code with-
<?php the_content('[Read more]'); ?>Save and upload the index.php file to your theme folder and check your home page.
Since I have no original Blix installations and don’t want to mess up the SEO of my own sites I didn’t test the above, but it should work.
If that worked OK do the same thing with your other archive template pages, archive.php and search.php.
For SEO reasons I would not make this change.
LOL just had a quick look at an original Blix template and looks like it uses the excerpt code as well.
David
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
Hello,
I have issues with this theme. When I use wordpress default theme, the issue seems to resolve, but when i use this theme, i have issue.
Here is the link: http://www.crockpot-soup-recipes.com/
Now here is the issue:
Visit above link and take a look at first post. Find this text “Rate this recipe and see reviews here!” This text should be link. I checked database and I see link:
Rate this recipe and see reviews here!
But it shows up as regular text on the page. What is happened to hyperlink?
Please Help…
Thank you,
Samir Patel
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
Hi Samir,
What your seeing is normal for my version of Blix and the original versions of Blix. When a theme uses the excerpt code so archive pages don’t completely copy every post resulting in an enormous home page etc… this results in the link part of links being removed (leaving only the anchor text) from the snippet of text from each post.
You may notice however my sites still show links within this content on archive pages (like the home page). This is through the post teaser plugin which you’ll find my SEO version at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-seo-plugins it’s better SEO wise than the original plugin since the anchor text of the “Continue reading” link is optimised (original isn’t).
So if you want the links you either replace the excerpt coding for the full code version and completely copy the entire post on archive pages (this can result in enormous archive pages so not recommended) or install the plugin.
Hope that solves the problem.
I noticed you’ve not updated to the latest version of Blix I sent out a while ago (you should have got the updated zip file by email). I know it’s an old version since added more translation links recently (latest Blix has 7, your version of Blix has 4). I also found a widget bug when updating to WordPress 2.5.1 so if you’ve updated WordPress and use widgets best to upgrade.
If you can’t find the latest zip drop me an email using the address you used to purchase the theme and I’ll send you a copy.
BTW snap – http://www.free-recipes.co.uk/
David
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
Thank you so much for your help. Plugin fixed the issue. Thanks
Samir
I would like to thanks for the theme you made.. I really believe that this theme is the best in SEO…..
anyway, if theres a update n this theme.. you will let us know thru email? or you can send the file?
Thanks jalmz for your kind comments.
When there’s an update it’s sent out automatically by email for free.
David
So, you’re charging for a theme that someone else created…and let people use free?
Yes Joe I’m charging for the time it takes to SEO the coding and add AdSense to the themes.
If you think these themes take a few minutes to convert think again. I pretty much rewrite the coding with my own AdSense/SEO WordPress code (taken years to develop) without loosing the look of the original theme I’m working with (tend to fix a lot of mistakes as well).
With most WordPress themes that’s a couple of days work (I test the themes extensively on multiple sites) which is why there’s only 11 themes converted so far.
If you think there should be free WordPress SEO/AdSense themes online feel free to make some and give them away for free (I used to).
I can guarantee they won’t be as good as mine though and if you want the best, that usually means paying for it.
So confident that my themes are the best WordPress SEO themes online (free or paid for) that show me one that’s better and I’ll give mine for free to whoever finds one.
David Law
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
Hello, I am very much interested in purchasing your template, but have a couple questions.
I’m from the US, what would the cost be, I am only shown UK cost?
Can this template easily be used for Affiliate products ads rather than the Adsense?
Can the date/time be easily removed from posts?
Do you have detailed instructions on usage?
Thanks much!
Jennifer
Jennifer
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
hi, is this compatible with the WordPress 2.6? thanks..
Hi,
How does your theme deal with the Google Adsense channels? I use channels to monitor my where my adsense earnings come from.
As you only input your publisher code how does this work?
Many Thanks,
Bob
Hi David
I love this theme and want to buy it, but before I do, I need to know if I am able to put photos in the posts
Thanks
LInda
Hi Linda,
Unless I’m missing something you can put images on any post no matter what WordPress theme you use. Adding images is part of WordPress not the theme.
Will say you need to think through a little where to put your images since there’s a ad block at the top of the content on all my AdSense themes which can look a little weird if the first thing on a post is a wide image. Sometimes there isn’t enough space to fit the image and the ad unit, so one has to go down the page leaving a blank space.
I try to add some text before my first image so this doesn’t happen since it doesn’t look very good.
Another way around it is to make sure your first image isn’t too wide, my wife uses one of my themes on her picture blog, you can see an example here http://www.3d-images.ws/picture-distant-clouds-through-grass.html
The image and the ad unit just fit side by side, if the image was a little wider it would drop below the ad unit leaving a big blank space. I hate it when that happens
You could also edit the AdSense settings within the adsense.php file and make that ad unit a lot thinner, but this will impact on earnings since the square ad unit at the top has a high CTR. I’d rather think my posts out as I make then than loose revenue.
David Law
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
To kcochran
I’ve sent your zipped Blix theme three times now (one just now via an alternate email address).
If the new one doesn’t get to you please email again or respond here with an alternate email address because there’s no reason at my end why it wouldn’t arrive – maybe your ISPs default email address has my domain listed as a email spammer: I get a lot of email spammers using my domains as their return email address and a LOT of my legitimate emails are marked as SPAM (causes me no end of problems)!
If it’s not bad enough I get over 1,000 SPAM emails a day, I can’t use my own domains for sending emails without problems like this! I HATE email spammers!
David Law
Update: kcochran finally got the theme (had to upload the zip for download), turned out the ISP was completly blocking my email address (eventually bounced back). If anyone else has this problem please email with the email you ordered with and include an alternative email address.
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
Hi Template Creator,
In 2.7 users cannot log out.. to solve this problem so you need to edit the theme.
and change it to
<a href=”">Logout
Hi,a few questions I hope you can help me with:
1)My blog is on a page within a website that has other non-blog pages. How do I add a link on the Blix horizontal navigation to link back to my website’s home page (in addition to the blog home link that is already in the Blix theme)?
2)How do I add a rotating banner image in place of the aqua default banner?
Thanks.
WordPress 2.8 Theme Blix with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimization
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