Yes, if you purchase Talian 05 you get free updates. Originally it was going to be every time I did a major update (full version number change 03 to 04 etc…) I wasn’t going to send out free updates to the previous version, but a couple of years on from Talian 03 I’ve been sending out free updates to everyone (version 03 customers received version 05 for free: too much trouble to keep track of who is who ) Have no plans to change that update system.

The Talian sales/support page is at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-talian-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html (linked to the readme files on that page as well).

Every WordPress site I own (about 70 of them) runs Talian 05. The site you are on now runs Talian 05 with the AdSense and Clickbank ads disabled (tick a couple of boxes on the admin page to turn them off/on).

This site http://www.chileblogs.com/ runs Talian with most of the WordPress plugins recommended at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-seo-plugins

David

Do you provide video tutorial and if I decide to purchase now will there be a free upgrade when you come out with any new versions?

Lastly for time sake can you provide me with a link to one of your site with your latest installed plug ins on a wp? and your order buttom.

Thanks again.

My best WordPress SEO theme is Talian 05, it uses no nofollow links, so whatever you link to will be followed (link benefit passed by Google).

The comment author links on the Talian theme although not nofollow, they do not pass or waste link benefit. I use form post button links for Talian which means users can click on them, but they don’t count as links in Google. It’s the equivalent of what nofollow used to do before Google moved the goal posts a year or two ago and changed nofollow to DELETE link benefit instead of protect it. Socrates uses nofollow so wastes a lot of link benefit!

My older themes are better SEO’d (though they do need an update for better SEO) than the Socrates theme, take a look at the Socrates demo page and note the anchor text “Home” for the home page link (SEO 101 is you don’t use “Home”, “Click Here” for links). If you view the source of the Socrates theme and check the sidebar area you’ll find H2 header for the headings of Categories etc… Unless you are after SERPS related to the keyword Categories you’d never surround the word with a H2 header (again basic SEO 101)! So SEO wise the Socrates theme is rubbish.

Advertising wise I’d say the Socrates theme is better than my older themes (version 03 themes) though harder to use. My old SEO/AdSense themes you added your AdSense pub-####### number to one file and that was it (there was other settings in the file, but not required), AdSense is on every page in good CTR areas. In Socrates you have to create multiple ads in your AdSense account and paste them verbatim, gives you more control over colours (have different colours for different ad units) but harder to setup.

Comparing Talian 05 to Socrates, Talian 05 is on a different level SEO wise, Talian 05 gets almost everything right SEO wise, Socrates gets a lot of things wrong. There’s no comparison, Talian 05 is an SEO theme, Socrates isn’t.

Advertising wise Talian 05 is targeting a slightly different market with overlaps. Talian is aimed at the complete newbie to AdSense who wants to add their pub-####### number and forget about it, placement, colours all preset to good values for most sites, while allowing the more advanced user control over most aspects of the ads. Like Socrates, Talian has Clickbank ads, in future releases I’m planning to have Chitika and Amazon ads as well (mix AdSense, Clickbank, Chitika and Amazon ad units). In Talian the keywords used to generate Clickbank ads are automated (uses the words of the title of posts, tags, categories), I understand in Socrates you can only select the keywords sitewide, so you type a list of keywords and they are used (in the next release of Talian that option is available as well).

So advertising wise there are features in Talian that are better than Socrates and features in Socrates that are better than Talian (I have a lot of new features planned for Talian and always looking for new ideas).

David

I am looking to do a rel=”follow” to all of the post links to my page if it is not a violation, and have it go to DonHayes.truewealthathome.com.

Right now I am looking into In-Text Advertising this is
another income stream for websites, and Socrates themes has CB, and adsense plug ins. Is Socrates themes in the same league as your SEO themes?

Got a feeling it’s not that simple though, more details needed?

Are you looking for a pop up/pop under to the affiliate site with opt in info etc… if so none of my themes have that feature, you’d be looking for a WordPress plugin that adds that feature: not tried any but know they exist.

David