Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO 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, 2.8. 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4, 2.8.5, 2.8.6 and WordPress 2.9 and no issues found. When WordPress updates again (WordPress 2.9.1, 3.0 etc…) it will be tested and any problems will be fixed and all customers who have bought Talian SEO/AdSense theme will receive a free update (this is also the case for all WordPress themes sold on this site). Currently updating Talian to version 4.0, see comments below for details of new features: December 2009.
Talian with AdSense/SEO is widget compatible and uses tags (new feature added to WordPress 2.3).
Targeted AdSense Coding: we’ve Incorporated this feature into all of our WP themes including Talian as of January 2008. The targeted AdSense coding can not be used with popular WordPress AdSense plugins, unless you edit your WP theme manually, so our premium themes are better than using an WP AdSense plugin.
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).
Talian was the first SEO/AdSense Ready WordPress theme for this site, but not my first AdSense ready WordPress theme (made roughly half a dozen SEO/AdSense themes previously).
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.
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.
At first I didn’t like Talian, but during the LONG process of adding search engine optimization HTML code and Google AdSense code it really grew on me! I’m not one for 3 column WP themes, tend to look cluttered, but this one works which is why I’m trying it on this WordPress blog and a few others.
Through rigorous testing I’ve found this to be the best AdSense theme (from a CTR perspective), with a CTR on some sites above 6%. SEO wise there’s little difference between Talian and any other WP theme sold on this site: they are all fully SEO’d.
WordPress Talian theme with Google AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Take a look at Adventure Travel Vacations for a website currently using the Talian theme and a high AdSense CTR.
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 £9.99 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 Talian WP Theme zip file.
2. Edit the file adsense.php within the /talian-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 Talian template to make the theme ready to turn your WordPress blog into an AdSense residual income stream.
3. Upload the entire /talian-adsense-seo-03/ folder to your WordPress themes directory (via FTP, just like any other WP theme you’ve tried out).
4. Log into your blogs dashboard and under Presentation select the new Talian 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 Talian 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 £9.99 for Talian using the PayPal button below-
When payment is received you’ll receive a copy of the zipped Talian SEO/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 2.8 and WordPress 2.9. Will be updated for WordPress 3.0 etc… and sent out for free to all Talian SEO/AdSense Ready WP Theme customers.
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223 responses to WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
does this theme come with a robots.txt file to avoid duplicate content issues, or should purchasers look into this?
With all WordPress themes on my site there are no major duplicate content issues, they are dealt with at theme level as long as you are sensible with how you create your site.
On archive pages rather than use the full content of a post an excerpt is used, this means though you are using content from your single blog post pages to generate archive pages (home page archives, categories, tags) they are not a full copy (just an excerpt) so they are not treated as duplicate content by Google.
The only possible issues you might have with archive pages and duplicate content is in two scenarios.
You have only one category, the content of the category archive pages are going to be exact copies of the home page archives and possibly copies of the monthly archive pages.
You use tags/categories and the content of some tags/categories match categories or other tags. I had this tag issue on this site, if I tagged all the theme pages with WordPress 2.8, WordPress 2.9 etc… for example, those tag pages would be identical to one another and to the “AdSense WordPress Themes” category. All you can do to avoid this is think through what you are tagging and which single blog posts you put in a particular category. If you go over the top with your categories and tags, all my themes for example could be tagged under WordPress, SEO, AdSense, Make Money Online… but the archive type pages created would be practically identical, so I don’t create that many tags (this site doesn’t really have enough posts to be tagged extensively)!
Although not really a duplicate content issue I never use the monthly archive pages because they add nothing SEO wise to a site. Your categories hold all archived content and it is dated within a category format, so monthly archives are not really needed.
In a future version of Talian I’m dealing with potential canonical issues associated with multiple comment pages. This page for example has just generated it’s 4th page of comments and the main content of each of the 4 pages are the full content of this post (duplicated).
I’ve not noticed duplicate content issues per se, but comment pages 2,3,4…. I’m not finding ranking particularly well for potential SERPs based on the comment content. It’s quite wasteful from an SEO resources perspective having all these partially duplicate pages if they don’t generate traffic in their own right, so I’m testing having pages 2,3,4…. as a canonical version of the main blog post page. This will result in all the comment pages spidered, but treated as one page in Google (this will save link benefit).
If you view source of this page and the other archive comment pages for this page you’ll find within the head:
link rel=’canonical’ href=’http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-talian-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html’
I’m testing this now and so far not hit any issues, Google appears to be combining the comment pages into one page as it should.
I’ve been testing a plugin called SEO Super Comments (significantly modified version) with the Talian theme. This plugin creates individual pages for comments (like this comment) that’s linked from these comment pages. The original plugin turns all comments into pages (so a one word comment gets a link!), I’ve modified the plugin to only link to comment pages with a certain number of characters, so a one line comment won’t get it’s own page.
I’m working on this plugin as it’s a real shame to have a site with lots of really good comments and not have them increase traffic to a site. Still at the testing phase, but I’m 99% sure I’ll include the modified plugin with the Talian theme soon. Note: the original SEO Super Comments plugin does not work out the box with Talian, so probably not a good idea trying the original (I couldn’t get it working). I’ve also made other improvements to this plugin.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Hi Dave,
I have uploaded this theme and use it on my web. I want to change the font size and type in my post. The current font is too big for me, I want to make it smaller/same size and same type as used on adsense one, also want to change the current black and yellow background colours with other colour to suit my web topic.
Please let me know how to do that. Thanks
Effendy
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Changing the colours of this theme has been discussed on other comments under this page, you have to edit a few images.
My wife is not very good with computers, but on one of her sites she’s been making custom banner images with PaintShop Pro http://www.chileblogs.com/ and she plans to change the colours herself (I did the last ones for her at http://www.fotoartglamour.com/ to get the blue).
To change font sizes and the font you’ll need to open the style.css file in a text editor and change the font family and font sizes manually.
Unfortunately there’s a lot of fonts sizes within the style.css file so it’s not a straightforward thing to explain what they all do, so it’s a case of change them and see what happens. Search for
font-size
through the style.css file to find them all (about 15 instances). The em value is a relative value, relative to 1, increase the number to make it bigger, decrease it to make it smaller.
The font types or family. Search for
font-family
And change the font family for each one you want changing (about 5 of them).
To match the AdSense font go to Google AdSense control panel and check what fonts you have set at
https://www.google.com/adsense/ad-type-edit
Since the default font for each ad unit type (the difference ad unit sizes) is different, you’ll have to set the default font to one of those available, otherwise they won’t match what you do to the theme.
If you look at the sample ad units at https://www.google.com/adsense/static/en_GB/AdFormats.html you can see the different default fonts used (though they don’t list them).
So if you want the theme and AdSense fonts to match exactly you’ll have to change your default AdSense font to either Arial, Times or Verdana and match the em value to whatever small/medium/large look like.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Do you have any idea why my adsense advertisements would show up blank?
Thank you
I think it’s the lack of unique content on your site, most of the pages of the current site have no content. Looks like this has resulted in only the charitable ads being shown (public services ones) and AdSense is only showing one per page.
Add some content and it should sort itself out (eventually).
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Hi,
I am having a problem with the theme i bought from you.Here is the error.public_html/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-seo-04/404.php on line 15
[13-Feb-2010 20:43:53] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDIF in
Thanks, Billy Ps.the theme looks great.
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
You’ve found a code bug in the 404.php file
I’ve had the Google Toolbar setup not to show the default 404 error pages, so never cropped up for me.
Very easy to fix.
Open the 404.php file in a text editor and find the line with
< ?php endif; ?>It’s about 10-12 lines from the bottom, and delete the entire line.
Save, upload and it will work correctly.
I’m not going to send out a fix right now for this as looking back it’s been in the code for over a year, I’ll include the fix in the next update.
Thinking about it might make sense to change the 404.php page into a short sitemap a bit like http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/google-adsense-sitemap maybe latest 10 comments and 10 posts/pages.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
David,
How much trouble is it to change the pictures at the top of each page to something more niche specific?
Dave
Changing the banners is easy, I include instructions with the theme how to change the banners to your own images and how to change the number of images as well.
My wife struggles with computers, but made the banners for:
http://www.chileblogs.com/
http://www.fotoartglamour.com/
http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/
I think she has made about 150 now!
I’m useless at art, made the ones at http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ from various images I found online.
So as long as you can make or acquire banners, it’s easy.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
David,
Great! I really love the color scheme of the fotoart and skegness-attractions blogs. Is that customizable also within the Talian theme?
I placed an order already!
Thanks!
The blue Talian colour requires a few modifications, though I have no problems with you taking the image files from those sites.
There’s one minor change in the style sheet
http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-04/style.css
I’ve labeled the one change as
#blue (I changed the colour code from #000000 to #191B73)
In that file above, so if anyone wants another colour for the background (original Talian #000000) that’s the one colour to change to match the colour of whatever images you create for the header area (like the ones below headerbg.gif).
and the images
http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-04/images/footerbg.gif
http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-04/images/h2navbg.gif
http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-04/images/headerbg.gif
http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-04/images/navmenubg.gif
Everything else is default theme for http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/.
Feel free to use those images and the style sheet above (download it), upload them over the original files.
If I ever find the time I’ll try to sort out a few alternative colours as downloads or something. I’ve seen a few themes with the ability to change colours from an options page, but the Talian theme is already heavy on code for the AdSense and SEO code, so hesitant to add more.
BTW sent your order out hours ago. The email address you used (a free one) sometimes has problems with my emails getting blocked as SPAM! So if it hasn’t already arrived drop me an email (I can receive your emails from that address) with another email address and I’ll resend.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
David,
Thank you for all of that information. Very kind of you.
I haven’t received the zip file yet. I will try to contact you via email and give you a couple of options to send it to.
Dave
It’s the comcast email address that’s the issue, looks like my emails from my dedicated servers been blocked!
Really irritating as I think the issue is I have a few domains I use email with and because I accept email from any address for those domains (anything@domain.com) from them it’s causing issues with spammers using them as return addresses with the anything@ as random words!
Anyway, have sent the theme again to the first alternative email address, it should get through.
Heading off to sleep now (5am in the UK), if it doesn’t get to you LMK and I’ll temporarily upload it somewhere so you can get it. I’m getting your emails fine BTW.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
David,
I received the Theme today. Thank you so very much for your excellent customer service.
I do share your problem with the catch-all email issues. It’s a very frustrating issue.
Dave
David,
Is there a way to change the top putsomeimage to a banner with a link to advertisment/homepage etc.
ziv
Yes it would be possible and I made it a lot easier to achieve when I put the code for that part of the theme into the landscape-images.php file.
To replace the banner with something else replace the entire contents of the file with whatever code you want to use instead.
You could add a AdSense ad for example. At http://www.free-funny-jokes.com/ (banned from AdSense program) I put a Clicksor ad in that space.
You can also remove the banner bit completely as well, delete the content of the file and upload a blank file.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Hello,
been a while. I was wondering if this is a free upgrade as I brought the older version. I just upgraded to the latest wordpress & now my adsense ads dont show in the right sidebar for new posts. My blog:
http://www.aid-renegade.com
Cheers.
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Can’t think of any reason why version 03 of Talian wouldn’t work in WordPress 2.9 (your site looks OK at first view).
Version 04 of Talian is a free upgrade to all version 03 customers and you should have got the updated theme a while back (might have sent it out twice by now).
Anyway, have resent the theme to the email address you ordered with, LMK if you have any problems.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Cheers! Problem solved! just did a test post to see if the ads were coming through in new posts & they are. this link is one of 2 posts that had problem.
http://www.aid-renegade.com/2010/02/been-a-while-time-for-some-non-pc-jokes/
They were ‘nothing’ posts anyway so not bothered that problem was brought through upgrade. And yes, I did remember to add my google id….. You’re still number one with the customer service!
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Another Talian theme customer reported the same problem with a site that didn’t have much content on it.
What’s happening is Google AdSense is not finding any paying advertisers for the page so showing the charity ads (public service ads). I didn’t realise this until recently, but it appears they will only show one ad on a page where they show the public service ads (so the rest are blank).
You’ll note it’s that floating content ad that’s showing an ad, that’s because code wise it’s the first ad loaded when a page loads.
I really should come up with something so we can have an easy use alternative ad rather than public ads. Maybe a link to the home page of the site or even a blank page or interesting image.
BTW I have some non PC jokes pages with the same issue, or did have until Google AdSense banned my jokes site from the AdSense program. Using Clicksor on it now and not making as much money, from AdSense the site made ~$260 from AdSense in the first 18 days of November, first 18 days of Feb (very similar level of traffic) the sites made ~$210, but I’ve had to make it look more spammy with pop unders (most money from pop unders!). If it wasn’t for pop up blockers the site would be making more money via Clicksor as only about a 1/3 of impressions are allowing a pop under.
Forgot to include Chitika revenue from the site (running those ads as well) which adds $24 more, so not that far of AdSense after all.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Hi David,
I would like to ask a CSS question. I’d want to float down the left sidebar (move it) while the visitor scrolls down the page for making him see the left adverts while scrolling the post.
It could be one of the followings on the sidebarbox , but I’m not sure:
position: fixed bottom: 10px;
or position: relative bottom: 10px;
or something similar.
Any suggestions?
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
The CSS to float an ad over the content isn’t complex as long as you don’t want a Close type link with it. If you do want a Close link you’ll need to look for more complex CSS code and maybe javascript (not sure if you can in just CSS).
Edit functions.php and find the code for the ad unit you want to float. I’d probably use the one below widget_mytheme_myAdvertsClearBG as it doesn’t have a header saying Adverts and has no background (so just the content AdSense ad unit).
If you use that one change the inline CSS code associated with the div from:
<div style="text-align: center;">
To something like
<div style="position:fixed; left:3px; bottom:15px;">
and see how it looks (I didn’t test it, but should work with a 200 x 200 ad unit).
Should be positioned at the bottom left with a little left padding and bottom padding.
If you change the left and bottom numbers you’ll be able to position it exactly where you want it.
Note this is going to hover over your left menu and won’t be removable. I’d use a smallish ad unit size like a 200 x 200 ad unit. To change to that one edit adsense.php and find
$SidebarAd
And change the first number in that line to 12 so you have:
$SidebarAd = array(12,2,0,0,2);
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Hi David,
I want to test something…
1) Is it possible to change the banners (actually remove them) and in place to put adsense? Of course, I’ll have to remove other to avoid more than 3 showing up and be complaint with Google.
2) How difficult is to use channels for each adsense ad? I have a channel for my domain, but was curious about using channel for each ad.
Thanks
Hey, btw great template! I like testing, and I have tested this template in my blog (hey not only using it but I’m testing it) and I’m very satisfied. I highly recommend it.
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Replacing the banner with an AdSense ad unit.
Removing the banners is really easy, edit the landscape-images.php and delete everything.
Easiest way to ad an AdSense content ad unit that matches the theme would be to create an ad the size you want (468 x 60 ad unit would work) for one of the other content ad units on the theme, view source of a page and copy the code to the landscape-images.php file.
Or copy the code below and add your Google AdSense pub id
<div style="text-align:center; padding-bottom:10px;">
<script type="text/javascript">
google_ad_client = "pub-111111111111";
google_alternate_ad_url = "";
google_ad_width = "468";
google_ad_height = "60";
google_ad_format = "468x60_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel = "";
google_color_border = "FFFFFF";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "000000";
google_color_url = "4D4D4D";
google_color_text = "4D4D4D";
google_ui_features = "0";
//-->
</script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div>
Also edit adsense.php and disable one of the content ads so only three are shown (your custom one and two from the theme). If you disable the bottom content ad take into account you’ll have to disable it several times as the ad can be formatted differently for different types of pages (archives etc…)
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Individual AdSense channel IDs for each ad unit isn’t possible with the Talian theme files I’ve sent out so far. You can only have one AdSense channel per installation.
I’ve solved how to achieve individual channels for each ad unit recently (wasn’t easy) and will be adding it to the next Talian update. It wouldn’t be possible for you to add channels to the Talian theme files you have unless you know how to rewrite a lot of code (it was rewrite of some code).
Been really busy with SEO clients recently, so can’t give a firm date for the update, but it’s not just AdSense channels I’m adding.
I worked on a Clickbank version of this theme (first made one with Clickbank, then one with Clickbank and AdSense in one Talian theme). While I was working on the code started adding more features. I want to start a membership site and sell all the themes as part of the membership pack (so all themes on this site for one price), but been really busy so put it on hold.
I plan to add many of the improvements to Talian with AdSense only (so the version you have now) in the meantime, (until I get around to creating a membership site etc….) just need to find the time to do it.
Features include.
AdSense channels for all 6 ad units.
Better canonical URL handling.
Incorporated support for an improved version of a plugin called SEO Super Comments. This plugin + the Talian theme creates links to pages like http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-talian-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html/comment-page-4?cid=21142 my version is better optimised than the original (original plugin didn’t work with Talian!).
If you have a well commented site this plugin turns your bigger comments into pages (there will be a link at the bottom of this comment to this content on it’s own, click it to see). It means your comments can increase traffic to your site in their own right.
So it’s coming, I just need to find time to pull it altogether.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Thank you David,
Brilliant! It works just fine.
Rachel
Hi David
I have a question about targetted adsense ads on the homepage. If you go overto my website you will see that the adsense ads served are related to ‘Reading’ rather than general hobbies which I was expecting. I have just one article (a static page) as my front page entitled ‘Hobby Ideas .. everyone needs a hobby’ and my article is targetted to the Hobby Ideas keyword.
I have done some experimenting and found that if I use the exact same content/article on an inner page and/or post then targetted ads show up. Therefore targetting is working fine on inner pages but not on the homepage even though the article is the same. Any ideas why this night be?
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
The AdSense targeting is based on the content the Google AdSense spider spidered when you added AdSense to the page and loaded it for the first time.
Your site is relatively new and the Google cache shows a page from February with no content using another theme (no AdSense).
If you added AdSense to your blog before adding the current home page content, the AdSense spider will use that content as the basis for ads to serve also at first the ads aren’t always very good anyway.
When you add new content the AdSense spider has to reanalyse the content and determine new ads and it isn’t done in real time. This is why you can have poorly targeted ads on a site at first, takes time for Google AdSense to determine what a page is about and if you change the content of a page it takes time for the spider to pick up the changes and server new ads.
I’m guessing the home page didn’t look like it does now prior to adding AdSense or it’s just because you’ve added AdSense for the first time recently (or a combination of the two).
Sometimes ads aren’t very good, especially in a niche with not a lot of money from the advertisers. Classic literature (a niche I have a lot of content in) is awful AdSense wise, all the cheap ads show up because no advertisers are willing to pay a lot of money for that content.
David
WordPress 2.9 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
David – thank you so much for the detailed reply and taking the time to have a look. Makes perfect sense now I think about it … also explains why a brand new page is well targetted.. you have a customer for life
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