Added Google AdSense very and slightly rounded corners ad border code to Talian with easy options to switch between 3 border versions (very rounded, slightly rounded and square corners on AdSense units). April 2008
Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO theme has been tested on WordPress 2.5 and no issues found. March 31st 2008.
Talian is now a WordPress 2.* compatible theme, in particular the new WordPress 2.3 tag feature works with our Talian theme (the original Talian theme may or may not work with 2.3, not checked). Added WordPress 2.3 compatibility January 2008.
Talian is also 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 Talian. 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.
Talian is the first AdSense WordPress theme for this site, but not my first AdSense ready WordPress theme (made roughly half a dozen AdSense themes).
According to WordPress theme viewer Talian is the most popular theme downloaded from wordpress.net with almost 12,000 downloads (as of mid September 2007). Which is why I converted it to AdSense + SEO.
At first I didn’t like it, but during the LONG process of adding Google AdSense code and SEOing the HTML code it really grew on me! I’m not one for 3 column themes, tend to look cluttered, but this one works which is why I’m trying it on this site and a few others.
Unlike my earlier WordPress theme creations there will be only one version, AdSense + SEO, though there’s a very easy way to turn the AdSense ads off, turning the theme into SEO only.
WordPress Talian theme with Google AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Take a look at Adventure Travel Vacations for a website currently using the Talian theme.
The first screenshot shows a home page of a Talian Theme test site which was 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.
I’ve looked at other WordPress themes that include AdSense and other than a copy cat (someone copied the code of an earlier theme of mine) no one uses this technique of floating an Ad unit within the content of the first post of archive pages. 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). You can see the floating ad unit again and the top of the vertical 160×600 ad unit on the right menu.
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 :-).
Talian with AdSense + SEO Installation Instructions
Make a PayPal payment for £7.99 for Talian using the PayPal button below-
When payment is received you’ll receive a copy of the zipped AdSense theme by email (within 24hrs assuming no payment problems).
1. Unzip the zip file.
2. Edit the file adsense.php within the /talian-adsense-seo/ 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 theme and you are done.
The Talian 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
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 this theme was no different.
The Talian 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).
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). 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. This is the first WordPress theme I’ve edited that I thought to do this and it should result in significant SEO improvements. will be converting all my WordPress themes to use this feature.
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).
Basically optimised everything I could which makes this the most optimised theme I’ve made so far.
BTW if your using the original theme there’s a small code error near the language translations (left menu) that means the language image links aren’t within the box. Pretty easy to fix.
Make a PayPal payment for £7.99 for Talian using the PayPal button below-
When payment is received you’ll receive a copy of the zipped AdSense theme by email (within 24hrs assuming no payment problems).
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33 users commented in " WordPress 2.5 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation "
Follow-up RSS Comments Feed or Leave a TrackbackHi this theme looks great. When is it available for purchase?
Hey Tam,
You can buy the theme now via the PayPal button link above.
Awesome! Thanks for posting the paypal button. I’ve sent payment and email me at the paypal confirm address to verify my payment has been received.
Thanks!
Payment received and the theme has just been emailed out.
Thanks for the order Tam
BTW feel free to post a link to your site here when you’ve installed it. Doh!, that just reminded me of something I forgot to do with the theme
The current version has comment URLs disabled (SPAMMERS won’t gain a author link), meant to put instructions on how to turn it back on.
Very easy to do find comments.php and look for-
/* commented out to stop spam <p><input name=”url” type=”text” value=”<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>”/> Website (*optional)</p> : */
Change to-
<p><input name=”url” type=”text” value=”<?php echo $comment_author_url; ?>”/> Website (*optional)</p> :
and commenter’s can again post their URLs.
Despite using various SPAM blocking tools, because I run so many blogs I still have a lot to go through each day. Hoping this will mess a few of the SPAM bots up.
Your themes are great. When will the new almost spring be out? Why should I have to spend all weekend coding my theme when you do it for me
I do not mind paying for quality.
Working on Blix theme right now, after that will be Almost String theme.
Should have both themes available in a week or so.
David
Dave, You have very wisely change “leave a comment” to “Leave a comment for…” Just an idea for you to Optimize the WordPress themes further, would it be any value to do the same type of thing for the wordpress “more” button under ‘write a post’ - ‘code’ tab? That is “More about….” instead of just “more” Just and idea - your wordpress SEO templates are so good I do not want spoil the broth. Also your ‘no follow’ is not going to be on the archives, I hope, just some of the things you mentioned above such as RSS. I am happy with what you have created in the past, and I hope to be a source of referals to you because I have seen the results on my own blog with your adsense optmized templates.
Code Fix for those using the original Talian theme and want the Translators images (top of left menu) to be within the green box (like other sections). The problem is a <ul> tag is missing, but if you add one it breaks the code validation.
Talian code fix below-
Edit left_sidebar.php
Find
<h3>Translators</h3>
Directly below add
<p>
Find the next </ul> and change to </p>
Save file.
Edit style.css
find-
.sidebar-box ul {
change to-
.sidebar-box ul, .sidebar-box p {
Save and upload both files.
Should now work like you see for my Talian with AdSense and SEO version of this great WordPress theme.
David
Hi Mark,
The More links if I recall correctly are hard coded into the main WordPress files (not part of the theme).
That said there’s 2 ways around this. One is to code a theme to automatically show an excerpt like you see for the home and archive pages on this theme (check the more like links on the home page for example, they are automated).
Second way is to use a plugin like http://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser which I’m using on sites like http://www.morearnings.com/
There are pros and cons for both versions. The first option means no editing by the user (so easy to implement), but unlike the plugin version it stops another plugin I use (Alinks) from linking from keywords within the excerpt of archive pages.
I plan to add a list of useful plugins to use on this site when I get the time and so they’ll need to work with the templates for sale.
If you compare these 2 home pages
Plugin - http://www.morearnings.com/
Non-plugin - http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/
You can see the plugin version has links within the excerpt content (good for SEO reasons).
I’d like to put both options in with the default being plugin free and the plugin version only working when the plugin is installed. So far hit a brick wall with this, but will get it eventually.
BTW if I update a theme someone has paid for I’ll automatically send them the latest version, unless it’s a rewrite like the difference between versions 02 and 03 of my AdSense themes (I don’t see that happening though, the current AdSense code is great).
Not sure what you mean about RSS links on archive pages? Basically RSS links waste PR/link benefit and can mess with SERPs because occasionally the feed page is better optimised than the original posts. Since the feed pages lack clickable links visitors can’t access your blog when they enter your site into a feed!
For this reason it’s best to rel=nofollow as many RSS links as you can. Some are hard coded, so can’t get them all without editing the main WordPress files (I can do it, but many users can’t).
Other than those RSS feed pages all others pages have standard links and so archive pages (monthly, category, daily etc…) should still be fully indexed as long as the theme supports that type of archive (some by default don’t show a daily or yearly archive for example).
David
Have solved the plugin/excerpt problem, can now create WordPress themes that by default create archive pages (like monthly pages and the index) that show a small excerpt of each post rather than the whole posts (which can create enormous pages!!).
If you install my SEO version of the WordPress Post Teaser plugin I mention above (will be available to download for free soon) you’ll get an improved excerpt that works with the Alinks plugin (which I’ll also add my version to the site).
Basically by using my WordPress AdSense/SEO themes you can use the two plugins (and others I use) to generate an SEO’d blog with semi-automated internal linking of important keywords.
Will take me a few days to update the themes currently available and I’m still working on the RSS links problem (think I have a fix) so will do that at the same time. Will then send out the new theme versions to anyone who has bought themes from this site.
David
Hi David,
Thanks for creating such a great theme!
I uploaded Talian on our server and it looks great:
http://kaleo.info
I just a have a few minor problems:
Is it possible to change the RSS feeds titles from blue to white (i.e. Hauula News).
Is there a way to change the Comment icon and reduce the amount of space between articles on the home page?
Is there a way to change the word “Blogroll” to “Links”?
Thanks again!
Aloha from Hawaii,
Christian
The Talian theme used on your site is the original Talian theme (not available from this site). The version I sell includes significant code modifications for SEO reasons and includes AdSense ad units.
If you look on one of your content pages you’ll see two blocks just above the comments box that says-
“The webpage cannot be found”
These are the AdSense ad units the original Talian designer added, they aren’t working because you haven’t gone into the code and added your AdSense publisher ID.
My version has a single file you edit (adsense.php) to include your AdSense publisher code so all ad units on all pages use your ID (much easier to do, one copy and paste and your done).
With regards your questions, all of those things are possible, but some are significant code changes. For example the Blogroll to Link change involves adding an alternative blogroll code because the original Talian theme uses the default WordPress Blogroll code which doesn’t allow you to just change the title of the header (it uses a default header code that’s stored in the main WordPress CMS coding).
I had to change this code on my version because I wanted to remove the H2 header created by the default code. So yes it’s possible to do this through the theme, but you have to make big code changes and it;s beyond the scope of this comments form to explain it (check out the WordPress codex for code or look at other themes until you find one with the right code).
Most of the other changes are probably doable through CSS changes.
David
hi..
i have make a payment to your theme…
how i can get it…
thanks
“When payment is received you’ll receive a copy of the zipped AdSense theme by email (within 24hrs assuming no payment problems).”
Also take into account if it’s a weekend I might be taking a day or two off (rare, but it happens).
Been having a few problems with emails being filtered when I use my seo-gold.com email address!
I think the problem was caused when I left an open email form on that site and got a LOT of spammers using it for about a week before I realised (got the domain added to a blacklist I guess).
Setup a new email address using google-adsense-templates.co.uk which has never been used for email, so SPAM filters catching the theme zip emails should no longer be a problem (I hope).
If you do find your theme isn’t emailed within 48hrs first check your SPAM folder, the email subject will be-
“Payment Received - Theme Attached”
If you don’t find it send an email to
orders (at) google-adsense-templates.co.uk
With the obvious changes to make it work and I’ll check nothing went wrong at this end.
David
I purchased this theme in Oct and it does not work now that I’ve upgraded WP 2.3.1. Will a compatible version be released?
Hey David just checking in to see if there is an updated version of the theme for new the new version of WP.
Here is my site http://tamsheltonreviews.com
We’ve just updated all our themes to be WordPress 2.3 compatible and so you’ll get a copy of the latest version by email (for free) very soon.
BTW the last update did work with 2.3, but lacked support for the tag feature (new to 2.3).
Not added any tags to this blog yet, (current tag folders are really categories, I’ve always renamed the category base to tag) but you can see the tag menu section that’s within this theme on the left menu.
Soon as I think of some tags (covered by categories right now really) will add some. Really need to add some to show the theme in action (really nice feature).
Time to send out some update emails
Tam is there a reason you’ve got no publisher ID added to the site you linked above?
Means you get no revenue, that is if the AdSense ads worked which they don’t when you don’t have a publisher ID (that’s why I have mine as default for testing).
David
Hi Christian.
The Talian theme your using on the site you linked isn’t the one from this site. You’ve got the original Talian that I used to create my AdSense/SEO version from.
The answers to your questions is yes to them all, just a matter of knowing what your doing.
Easiest one is load the sidebar.php file find the word Blogroll and change to Links.
That should do it. That is unless they’ve used the default code then you might have to use the sort of code I use (allows changes). I forget what the original theme formatting was like (made BIG changes and it’s been a while).
Rest would require me looking at the code of the original theme which I don’t offer support for.
Good luck.
David
Just checking up on the Talian theme I ordered yesterday 3/19/08. Tried sending an email but it comes back undeliverable.
Can’t wait to get it.
Thanks
Still have not got my theme! It’s been 6 days.
I’m really beginning to wonder what is up.
Terry
Your Talian theme was sent on the 19th at this time-
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:28:11 +0000
Received this email from you-
Subject: Follow up on Talian (Adsense & SEO) Theme order
Date: Thu, 20 Mar 2008 08:46:00 -0400
Which was responded to on (included the attachment again)-
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:17:12 +0000
Was a delay due to moving dedicated server, might also explain if you got a bounced email.
Next email from you-
Subject: Talian (Adsense & SEO) Theme Order
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:06:19 -0400
Responded (didn’t attach theme this time)
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:21:22 +0000
Next email-
Subject: Please send my Theme.
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 18:30:52 -0400
You read the new home page (explaining the problem with SPAM filters) and said you’ve checked your SPAM folder and not found the theme emails (which would be a first) and had now added the two email addresses to your email whitelist.
Responded (theme attached again)-
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 03:00:22 +0000
Almost forgot one, got this via another sites email from you-
Subject: Cheap Text Links
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2008 12:35:54 -0400
Didn’t respond to that one.
Just moderated this sites comments and found your two comments which I allowed. Then immediately responded to.
Please tell me you got the theme now, it’s been sent three times including CCing to an extra email address?
David
Got it! Thank you very much.
I can’t wait to get it up and running. You did a great job on it.
I love the WordPress 2.3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation.
It’s so nice for someone like me who struggles with modifying Wordpress themes to have it all done for me! And in a way that makes sense.
One of my pet peeves is instructions written as if the reader already understand how to do the task. Grrrrr! If I understood how to do it I wouldn’t need the instructions!
Ah, but that is not a concern with this theme. The instructions are very well-written. I had no problem installing the theme with my Adsense code. I even was able to modify the ads’ colors! (Yes, that’s a big deal for someone like me
Thank you for an excellent theme.
Mark
One suggestion:
consider changing the CSS code for italics along the lines this kind woman suggests:
http://www.blogula-rasa.com/2008/02/23/fixing-css-and-tweaking-the-talian-theme/
Otherwise, italicizing a word or phrase breaks up a post in a most unappealing manner …
Mark
Hi David,
I really love the new theme, but I have two questions I hope maybe you can help me with. I’m new to using WP and no coder, so please be kind.
First, what do I have to do to get the sitemap to show up in the theme?
Second, I am trying to add a small logo picture to the header to the left of the blogname and blog description and am not sure where to add it in the header.php code so it will show up on all the pages?
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Terry
How does these templates work if I want to use for my branding site? I do not want ads on my branding site so how would the SEO optimization work?
What would you consider the best template for using as my main branding site where I will drive traffic to in order to review and purchase my products
Hmm your right Mark about the italics being messed up in the CSS. Just added em around some text in the first line of this post and it’s made a mess.
Will be easy to fix so expect an update within a few days.
Thanks for the heads up.
David
I’ve not used a sitemap with any WordPress blog so don’t know how you use it.
I know there is a sitemap.php file with the original theme and I left it in mine, but I’ve not optimised the code since loading the page results in an error page.
Had a hunch on how to use it and was right.
To create a sitemap create a new page (not a blog post, but a page like an about page). You can call it anything you like, but as it’s a sitemap naming the page Sitemap makes sense
Somewhere (changed in WordPress 2.5) on the WordPress editor page will be a templates section, select the sitemap.php template file and save the page and you’ll have a new page that lists links to up to 1,000 of your posts.
Please note I haven’t optimised this page (going to have to now :-() so won’t have AdSense or SEO code (yet).
With regards adding a small image to the left of the name of the site in the header look to add your code around this area-
div class=”header_site_desc”>
Put it right after that div and it will be close to working.
David
The AdSense ads can be turned off really easily, you edit one page and change a 1 to a 0.
Been asked this before so explained it at another page http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-almost-spring-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html (comment from February 10th, 2008).
Basically change a 1 to a 0 and remove the Advert widget through the widget editor interface (using widgets is the easiest way to do it).
If you remove the AdSense ads you’ll have a fully SEO optimised WordPress site without ads, this makes no difference to how search engines treat the site, so you’ll get the same rankings either way.
The code of my themes are as optimised pretty much to the max, so as long as you use your keywords when creating posts etc… you should get much more traffic than if you used a standard WordPress theme.
Put another way if you name your posts like this-
What Happen to me Today, Life Sucks!
When the post is really about how your car insurance company screwed you out of an insurance claim on your car that was wrote of by no fault of your own. Then you are not going to get a lot of search engine traffic.
A post about the above should be named accordingly like-
Car Insurance Company Will Not Pay My Claim!
This covers many relevant keywords. Then you use the above keywords and related phrases to enforce those SERPs within the content.
You can see a post of mine like this here http://www.morearnings.com/2007/06/07/direct-line-car-insurance-not-good-value/
Currently that page is number 5 for the “Direct Line Car Insurance” search in Google.
My SEO optimised themes help well constructed content in gaining better SERPs, but without a little thought into that content and the themes have nothing to work with.
All my themes are optimised so from an SEO point of view they all work the same way (they all use the same code). which to choose is up to you, which themes look most closely matches your sites content? That’s the one to choose.
The Talian theme is one of my favourites, works well with many sites. I use it on a lot of my own sites. Funny really as didn’t like Talian at first
David
Have fixed the em problem. The CSS code used to style em was not needed and it removed the default italic look of em so completely deleted that part of the css code.
While I was in the main css file cleaned up some more code (removed the css code for calendars to an alternative file).
Have SEO’d and added AdSense to the sitemap.php template file and added a sitemap to this site as an example http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/google-adsense-sitemap Sitemaps are not really needed with these themes, but if someone wants it….
As you may have also noticed this site now uses rounded corners with it’s AdSense ads. Google AdSense recently added this feature and I’ve added it to the Talian theme (will be doing the same to all AdSense/SEO themes).
Just need to double check my work and then will send out an update to all Talian customers (hopefully within the hour of posting this).
The Talian theme looks great. Do you create custom themes? Please contact me if you do. Thank you.
I don’t make custom themes, mainly because adding AdSense/SEO takes so much time (would cost £100s at my SEO rates).
I’m adding more WordPress themes to the site over time (hard to find the time) so if there’s one you want AdSense/SEO added to tell me where to find it and you never know. No promises though, some themes aren’t suitable and I usually** only convert what I’ll use on my own sites.
** two youngest sons persuaded me to convert themes for them for http://www.animal-forum.co.uk/ and http://www.bigfeature.org/. Oh and the wife got me to convert a theme for http://www.3d-images.ws/
David
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