Currently on this Google AdSense Templates and Themes site most themes are for WordPress (2 Blogspot themes), so going to list all features of the WordPress with AdSense/SEO version 03 themes below and open the comments to requested features.
Generally speaking if one of the WordPress AdSense/SEO themes have a feature all the themes have the same feature, so here’s a general list of features.
AdSense Ready
All the WordPress themes are AdSense ready, many WordPress themes are listed as AdSense ready, but this can range from a gap left free on the sidebar where you could add your AdSense code (directly from Google AdSense) to what my themes are where out the box AdSense works right away.
If you bought Talian for example and uploaded it with no editing at all your site would look almost the same as the one you are on now (this site runs Talian with a few minor customizations).
If you did upload the theme out the box I’d get your AdSense revenue since to make my life easy during testing I’ve added my AdSense publisher ID to the themes. All you have to do to get the AdSense revenue is either prior to uploading the theme to your site load the adsense.php file in a text editor (Notepad for example) find where it says:
$GoogleADID = “pub-8325072546567078″;
And change the pub-########## number to yours, you get this number by logging into Google AdSense and create any content based ad unit.
Copy your code over mine, save the file and upload to your site.
Or after uploading and setting the file permission of the adsense.php file to 666 edit the adsense.php file with the WordPress built in theme editor making the same change described above, I rarely use this online them editor because you don’t have an offline backup of changes, but if you want to use that feature feel free.
You can see looking at this site the AdSense ad units are fully blended to match the colours of the Talian theme. Most AdSense ‘experts’ agree this is the best way to use AdSense on a site, but all sites are unique and you might want to experiment with colours and even ad sizes to see what works best with your site and visitors.
This is very easy with these AdSense ready themes, again load adsense.php in a text editor (or the online editor) and follow the instructions.
Changing the colours and ad sizes is optional and I’ve done a lot of testing with these themes and know you will get a very good CTR (click thru rate) with the default settings, so I’d advise if you don’t feel comfortable messing with these types of settings leave them as is (the ONLY required change is the AdSense pub id number to get the AdSense revenue credited to your account not mine, then again you could leave my code on the file, I won’t complain 
).
AdSense Placement
Through testing many people have found having their AdSense ad units above the fold (which means when a page first loads it’s what you see before having to scroll) is where a LOT of AdSense clicks come from.
For this reason I placed a 250 x 250 square ad unit and on some wider/one menu themes like the new Blue Blix theme a 360 x 280 ad unit to the right of the main content. This places the ad unit above the fold and in an AdSense hot click area. This ad unit can be removed completely or made bigger/smaller through the adsense.php settings, but unless you run into problems I’d leave as is.
At the bottom of the page (above the footer) there’s another large 360 x 280 ad unit to catch leaving visitors, like the first ad unit above placement is static. The bottom ad unit doesn’t have a high CTR, but it does create revenue.
The third ad unit is on the sidebar/menu and if you use widgets (which I strongly advise you do) you can position this ad unit anywhere on your side menu(s).
To do this log into your Dashboard under Appearance/Widgets and add/change widgets as required.
If you look through the themes for sale on this site you’ll see links to example sites (real sites of mine) running the themes, I own over 100 domains with at least 60 WordPress installations which I run these WordPress AdSense/SEO themes on.
You will see on my sites how I organise the menus vary from site to site with sometimes the AdSense ad unit being high on the left menu, high on the right menu, low on one of the menus. How I position this ad unit depends on the site and theme. If you are looking for maximum CTR look for a theme with a left menu**
**I’m working on creating a left menu version of all the themes that are by default right menu only (Blix for example) and will be giving them away free as an update to all customers. As of end of March 2009 have made a left version of Web 2 and Cutline, so have a few left to do.
If you put your sidebar ad unit high on the left menu it will increase CTR, but it can make your site look ad cluttered, you decide what’s best for your site and your visitors. As a general rule if most of your visitors are new each day (from search engines) you are less likely to loose visitors by making your site a little ad cluttered.
More info soon…
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I have made attempts to purchase a theme using PayPal but it keeps throwing up an error message, no payment gets taken but equally I am unable to make a purchase. I would like to purchase Web 2 theme, please advise.
Thanks Again
Warren
I just tested both PayPal buttons in Internet Explorer and Firefox and they work fine, they go to PayPal asking for login details etc…
If you can get to PayPal via the buttons the problem is either with PayPal or something at your end.
I’ve sent you an email with details of how to pay via PayPal (assuming you can login to PayPal).
David
Hi david, payment complete via Paypal for web 2 theme, I look forward to receiving the theme.
Thanks Again
Warren
I just used the custom banner feature on one of my sites, and I absolutely love it. That alone was worth the price!
Thanks
Hi I cant put sub domains on the web I contacted my host and they said.
When I type any subdomain like blablabla.weightlossworksblog.com ir redirects me
to the sign up page
So I advise you to ask website developers regarding that matter
Thank you
Please help
When they said contact your wed developer they meant the person who manages your hosting (who sets up domains for you, installs software like WordPress etc…) which I guess is you
Sounds like you have the DNS settings wrong, but each host control panel is different, it’s like asking me how to create a spreadsheet using a Mac when I’ve never used a Mac.
Go back to your host for instructions how to setup sub-domains correctly and follow their instructions. Or search on Google how to setup sub-domains with your host.
Nice of them to pass the buck rather than point you to a FAQ for their control panel!
David
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I am using Talian5 and added the plugin for privacy policy page (which is needed to run adsense). I also have an about page.
Niether of these pages is displaying. Is this WP problem or a Theme problem?
I love the theme -- it will serve me well. Just need a little help.
Thanks
Sounds like you’ve turned Navigation links of via the Talian Admin page. Checked your site and can type in the URL for those two pages and they exist.
Go to the admin page and check the settings of
“Navigation Menu On/Off”
If you have it set to “Navigation Menu OFF” that would hide your About page and any other Pages you’ve created.
Other possibility if you’ve excluded pages via the setting “Navigation Menu Excludes”, that would involve you typing those Pages IDs in the exclude box (I’ll assume you didn’t do that
)
Those are the only Talian settings that can hide Pages. If it’s not one of those are you using a plugin for hiding pages from normal WordPress navigation?
If this doesn’t solve the problem go to the widgets page and drag a Pages widget to one of your sidebars and see if the links show within it (they should).
BTW are you supposed to have a link to “betting football” at the bottom of the Privacy page?
David
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Thank you so much. That was it. I had the Navigation turned off.
Also, thank you for that catch on the link to betting football. I do not know how that got in there
May you have a wonderful day!
Extra tab where the page tabs display?
How do I remove the tab that has the name of my site on it. It appears before the contact page and other pages.
This might be simple to someone that knows how to edit within the .php files but it is a little foggy to me. I can remove the code if I know where to find it
Thanks again for your time and patience
As you are running Talian 05 it’s easy to achieve through the Talian options menu.
Find the setting “Home Page Link On/Off”
Tick the “Home Navigation Link OFF” radio button and “Save Options”.
That will remove the home page link on the navigation menu.
David
Thanks again for the quick response and the solution to my problem.
I do appreciate your help and the beautiful theme!
Have a great day!
Hi Please can you help?
I purchased the Talian5 theme from you. I know it is Clickbank ready but I seem to have no control over the Clickibank ads. Is there any way I can generate a box at the side that I can use to display Clickbank ads that I especially want? So that I can copy and paste the individual codes/links myself?
Sorry if this is obvious…but I’m still new to wordpress and I have tried their support -- with no luck.
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Talian 05 SEO/AdSense/Clickbank theme currently only allows for automated Clickbank ad selection, it takes the title of a post etc.. and uses that as the keywords for searching for products.
In the next update (should be released before Christmas) of Talian I’ve added the ability to specify the keywords site wide.
It’s not exactly what you are asking for, you can’t select specific products, but it is another way to generate the ads.
Not the way I’ve coded it into Talian (in the update it’s part of the admin menu), but you can hack the same thing as follows:
As a quick fix you could edit the clickbank-functions.php file as follows.
Near the bottom find the line:
hopfeed_keywords =
And replace the entire line with:
hopfeed_keywords = "<?php _e('keyword1,keyword2,keyword3'); ?>";where keyword1 etc… are a list of keywords.
Save and upload over the file on your site and only those keywords will be used for all Clickbank ads.
As far as I’m aware the Clickbank API doesn’t allow for selecting specific products. If you wanted to display specific Clickbank products you’d have to build a custom ad system and write the ads yourself, upload images (if you wanted images) etc… I do something like this at http://www.free-funny-jokes.com/ (note it has a lot of racist joke comments, thousands of them!!) as a replacement to AdSense ads. Have taken a product datafeed from Shareasale and using a custom built plugin and custom Talian 05 theme generated what you see (would like to add this feature to Talian, but it’s not straightforward as involves a lot of effort to setup).
Actually you might be able to get close to what you want. The keywords you use in the hack I’ve listed above could be the unique usernames of the products you want to list. When you create a Hop Link the Clickbank publisher usually gives each product a relatively unique name (not all do this, but many do) so when you build a Hop Link it looks like this before it’s cloaked:
http://yourusername.UNIQUEPRODUCTNAME.hop.clickbank.net/
Find products in Clickbank you want to promote and search Clickbank for the UNIQUEPRODUCTNAME to see how many products show up. If it’s only the one you want to promote (or just a few you are happy to promote) use it as a keyword. It’s not a perfect system for what you want to achieve, but as long as the products you want to promote have unique products names used in the Hop Link you could build a handful of keywords (product names) that only target products you want to promote.
David
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Hi,
I purchase Talian 05 I know the read me file say unzip load folder, question when unzip I see 3 folder and more pages, do I upload all 3 folder or what.
Thanks
If you’ve unzipped Talian correctly (maintaining the correct folder structure) you should have a folder called /talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05/ within that folder are four more folders and a lot of files. If you don’t have this structure you’ve unzipped it with the wrong settings, try with different settings.
Upload the folder /talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05/ using FTP to the /wp-content/themes/ folder (so you have /wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05/).
Or you can install a theme via the built in WordPress theme installer via your WordPress Dashboard under “Appearance” >> “Themes” and under the “Install Themes” tab “Upload”, browse and find the Talian zip file you downloaded (talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05.zip) and click “Install Now”.
The second option can fail if permissions of your upload folder isn’t writable by WordPress.
David
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Hi Dave,
Can you explain by different settings, I’m using WinZip when I unzip the Ink-pr0t zip file I get the 4 folders and lot of files.But do not get the folder name /talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05/; Thanks
That’s not the Talian theme you are unzipping.
I guess you’ve mixed up the file with something else you’ve downloaded.
Check where you normally save zip files you download for the talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05.zip file, if you can’t find it use the download link in the email you received when you made your order (you still have time remaining to download again).
If you have problems with that drop me an email with the email address you ordered with and I’ll email you the file.
David
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Hello David,
This is Jose. Just to let you know that I purchased Talian05 and used it to completely update my site (which was a static html site) in Spanish! Though it is not completely finished yet, I am really satisfied with the result.
Thanks so much for this great theme.
Jose
Hi
Iam setting up a site utilising the Talian Theme and have at present installed it to an apache development server on my Desktop and the server at the website included in this comments details. AT the moment I am experiencing two problems.
1.) On my development server the large ad that floats to Left/Right of page content does not show up no matter what setting I apply in the adsense.php code page. this is the same in IE8, Firefox 3.6.13 and Opera 11.
2.)On the live website all is OK with IE and Opera, but with Firefox, If I place a Calendar widget in the Left (sidebar1) the heading shows in the sidebar but the dates are hidden behind either the page content or the adsense ad depending on whether I have it set for left or right.
If I set the calendar in the Right (sidebar two), again, the heading shows in line below the sidebar but the dates are again offset to the Right of the heading.
Is this a known problem you already have a solution for, or have I won the jackpot for finding this.
Any chance of a pointer to what I have to tweak to adjust for these cases?
Other than these niggles I think this Talian 5 theme is great.
Many Thanks
Paul
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Sounds like your development server is missing an Apache module or something your live server has. In Talian 5 that ad is held in an include file, so if it’s not showing might be a setting related to PHP includes. Try turning more modules on/checking PHP settings until it works. Also check you’ve not added a space to your pub-number as that breaks the AdSense code.
The calendar widget is an SEO disaster and I’ve not supported it in Talian 5 (css code removed) and in Stallion 6 I’ve removed it completely (will no longer show on the widgets page).
This default WordPress widget is so poorly coded and SEO damaging you should not use it in it’s current form. Every day link on the calendar holds the text content of an entire post in the title attribute of each link! Imagine having a blog with a new post every day, that’s the full text content of 28-31 posts just within that widget, that’s potentially making each page ~30x bigger than they should be and for no gain!!!
If you still want to include a calendar widget I can post the CSS you’d need to add to the style.css file?
David
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Hi
Thanks for the info. As far as the Ad is concerned I think it is a case of the diparity of php versions between live and development sites.
Re the calendar, I have got my head round the “cause it was there” syndrome and decided I can live without it. But! I will be using the eMember plugin and am experiencing the same displacement effect when I place the login/sign up form in the sidebars. Only in Firefox, IE and Opera are OK.
Would that be a similar css tweak that is needed?
Many Thanks
Paul
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I had a quick look at the eMember plugin output on your site and it’s using tables to generate the form, that’s probably causing the problem.
They’ve given the table various CSS classes, don’t they provide some example CSS for styling?
BTW noticed you have some nofollow attributes in your code, nofollow deletes link benefit. View source on your home page and track down how they are generated and ideally remove them. For example you’ve added the Recent Comments widget instead of the GAT Recent Comments widget. The former uses nofollow on links to the authors website, the latter doesn’t add links to the authors site (I use the GAT widget on this site, see right menu).
You should also use the GAT Meta widget not the default one, the default one adds a link to the login forms which wastes link benefit. The GAT one protects link benefit that would go through those links.
David
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Hi
I just installed the talian theme to my wordpress blog. I also have massive passive profits software in the super admin on the side of the page I have a couple of options missing batch create, blog templates and pop overs? how do I activate these please>
See Massive Passive Profits Plugin Setting Up a Sub-Domain Blog Template with Talian 05 for where you can get the Template plugin from (there’s a link on the page), Masscreate is an addon to the Massive Passive Profits Autoblog Plugin which you have to buy on top of the basic plugin (did you pay for the Masscreate part of the plugin?) and no idea about the pop overs question.
Take into account I’m not the developer of the MPP plugin and I don’t use it on any of my live sites yet (plan to when I get the time after releasing Stallion 6 which includes SEO features for that plugin), I have the plugin installed on a development server to check for issues with Talian 5 and Stallion 6 when released. The best place for support for the MPP plugin is Bill McRea’s support system.
David
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How To Customize The Width Of My Blog Header And Footer
Hello,
Please i need help on how to reduce the width of my blog. I’d like mine to be like yours with header and footer aligned with the other components.
I tried tampering with the codes, but was still getting it all wrong.
Please i want mine the same size as yours.
Thank you.
Talian 5 Theme and Stallion 6 Theme Styling
Not sure what you are trying to achieve, but this site now runs on Stallion 6 not Talian 5 like you are using, so it’s a different theme with a similar look.
If you ordered Talian before the release of Stallion 6 you’ll have received an email about updating to Stallion for free. If it didn’t arrive join the Stallion Theme List (on the left menu) and you’ll get access to the Stallion zip file (put your Talian 5 order email address into the Transaction ID Reminder form to obtain your Stallion ID for activating Stallion). If you ordered Talian 5 recently and want the Stallion 6 look you’ll need to Order Stallion 6.
David
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