WordPress SEO Theme Talian 05 with optional AdSense/Clickbank ads has been tested on WordPress 3.2 and no major issues found.
When WordPress updates (WordPress 3.2.*, 3.3 etc…) Talian 05 will be tested and any problems will be fixed.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 05 is one of the best WordPress SEO theme available today.
See below and comments for details of new features.
I’ve worked as an SEO consultant for around 10 years and guarantee you will not find better search engine optimization WordPress themes (free or premium WordPress SEO theme) online today than my WordPress SEO themes.
Make a PayPal payment for $50.00 for Talian 05 using the PayPal button. After payment you’ll receive an email (within minutes) with an instant download link of the zipped Talian SEO theme.
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BIG Talian 05 Update Many New Theme Features
New admin menu (screenshot to right) for Talian 05, no more editing the adsense.php file to add your Google AdSense Publisher ID. All major settings are available directly through the WordPress Dashboard.
The screenshot of the new Talian 05 admin page shows just a small sample of the 40+ options available!
Add Clickbank AdSense style ads to your blog.
Talian 05 is the only AdSense ready WordPress theme or even AdSense WordPress plugin that allows the users to set Google AdSense Channels for tracking the performance of specific ads without template file editing. Add up to 6 Google AdSense channels via the new Talian admin page (one for each of the 6 ad units available) and track which AdSense setup works best for your sites.
Set the colour of both the AdSense and Clickbank ads directly from your WordPress Dashboard.
Don’t like the ads floating to the right of the main content, float them to the left instead, same for the Clickbank ads.
Just want to use Talian 05 as an SEO WordPress theme or even SEO CMS, a few clicks on the Talian 05 admin menu and NO AdSense or Clickbank ads will show and you can even remove the date when a post was made (so your site doesn’t look like a blog).
Don’t like the default banner images, no problems, choose from 10 banner sets (100 banner images in total) or why not create your own and choose them from the Talian 05 admin screen.
Banners don’t really work for your site, turn them off completely with two clicks of the mouse.
Bored of the default orange and green Talian colour scheme, choose from 8 preset colour schemes including Red (used on this site), Blue, Blue/Orange, Yellow etc…
Track your sites traffic with Google Analytics, just add the UA code (supplied by Google Analytics for each domain you register) for the domain to the admin screen and the rest is dealt with by Talian 05.
Above is just a sample of the new options available with the built in admin panel.
Talian 05 Feature List Overview
- Search Engine Optimized Code (second best SEO WordPress theme in the world today!).
- Built in AdSense ads with easy to use options (no editing multiple theme files) : one click to turn on/off.
- Built in Clickbank ads (they look like AdSense ads) with easy to use options (no editing multiple theme files) : one click to turn on/off.
- Fully widgetized theme.
- Targeted AdSense Coding.
- Multiple theme colour schemes.
- Multiple banner schemes with easy to use customisation.
- Built in Google Analytics Code : just add your Google Analytics UA code (no template editing).
- Ability to change comments into search engine indexable ‘blog like posts’ using a customised version of the SEO Super Comments plugin (only works with Talian 05).
- Custom widget template file: add your own widgets (sidebar menu items) without touching the functions.php file making it easier to customise your site without the hassle of lots of code work when a new update is released.
- Two sitemap options, basic sitemap listing blog posts and blog pages and an advanced sitemap with the above plus links to the latest 100 comments (used on this site in the top navigation menu).
- Navigation menu looking messy, turn it off completely or exclude some blog pages.
- Turn the ability of your commenter’s to add an author link on/off and turn current author links on/off.
- Turn the date you made a post on or off, particularly useful if you use WordPress as an SEO CMS (content management system) rather than a blog.
Talian 05 Colour Scheme Screenshots
Below is a selection (there are more) of the available Talian 05 colour schemes, click an image for full size view.
Through rigorous testing I’ve found Talian to be the best AdSense theme from a CTR (click through rate) perspective, with a CTR on some sites above 6%. Talian is the ONLY WordPress theme I currently use on my own WordPress websites, it’s that good (I have over 70 WordPress installations: slowly updating to Stallion 6).
WordPress Talian theme with Google AdSense, Clickbank and SEO Optimisation
Take a look at Adventure Travel Vacations for a website currently using the Talian theme with a high AdSense CTR (recently update the site to the Stallion SEO Theme).
The first screenshot shows a home page of a Talian 05 theme running site. You can see one of the three Google AdSense ad units in the screenshot, this is the ad unit that floats to the right (or left, change via the admin menu) at the top of the content of the first post only. You can also see the sidebar AdSense widget that can be placed anywhere on the two sidebars (I find the top left works best for this AdSense ad unit).
I’ve looked at many other WordPress themes that include AdSense and other than a copy cat (someone copied the code of an earlier version of Blix 02 with AdSense/SEO theme of mine and called it BlixKrieg) no one uses this technique of floating an Ad unit within the content of the first post of archive pages (home page, category, tag and search pages). This location is one of the most clicked areas (AdSense hot zone), 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.
Further down the page (not on the screenshot) is the third and final ad unit, out the box the Talian 05 AdSense ad unit is set at 468×60, the size of all ad units can be changed manually via the adsense.php file in a text editor, so changing the size doesn’t need a PHP programmer or anything 
.
Talian with AdSense/Clickbank + SEO Installation Instructions
Make a PayPal payment for $50.00 for Talian 05 using the PayPal button. After payment you’ll receive an email (within minutes) with an instant download link of the zipped Talian SEO theme.
1. Unzip the Talian WP Theme zip file.
2. Upload the entire /talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05/ folder to your WordPress themes directory (via FTP, just like any other WP theme you’ve used).
2. Log into your blogs dashboard and under “Appearance” >> “Themes” select the new “Talian AdSense and Clickbank + SEO 05″ theme.
3. Log into the new Talian 05 admin page under “Appearance” >> “Talian AdSense and Clickbank + SEO”
4. Copy your Google AdSense Publisher ID into the “AdSense Publisher ID” box and click the “Store Options” button.
Your WordPress blog is now running Talian 05 and any AdSense clicks will be credited to your AdSense account.
All other options are optional including running Clickbank ads that is turned off by default.
Enjoy.
The Talian AdSense/Clickbank + SEO theme out the box uses blended ad unit colours for maximum CTR/AdSense revenue. If you wish to change unit colours it’s very easy to achieve via the Talian 05 menu.
There are full instructions for using the Talian 05 SEO theme to it’s full potential within the folder /talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05/readme/ (there are 10 instructional readme files). You can also read these files online:
** Talian AdSense Install Instructions
** Talian Clickbank Install Instructions
** Creating Custom Talian Widgets
** Changing Talian Banner Images Instructions
** Using Talian and WordPress as an SEO CMS
** Changing the Talian Colour Scheme
** WordPress Nofollow Problems and Talian Solutions
** Talian and Google analytics Tracking
** Excluding Pages From Talian’s Navigation Menu
Search Engine Optimization Information
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/Clickbank + 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 that I thought to do this and it results in significant SEO improvements.
Optimised anchor text of almost all automatically generated links.
Links to unimportant pages (from an SEO perspective) like the log in links (those links waste a LOT of PR/link benefit) are no longer wasting link benefit.
Basically optimised everything I could which makes this the most optimised WordPress theme I’ve edited so far.
Make a PayPal payment for $50.00 for Talian 05 using the PayPal button. After payment you’ll receive an email (within minutes) with an instant download link of the zipped Talian SEO theme.
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, WordPress 2.9, WordPress 3, WordPress 3.1 and WordPress 3.2. Will be updated for WordPress 3.* etc… and will be available for free to all Talian SEO/AdSense/Clickbank Ready WP Theme customers.
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574 responses to Talian WordPress SEO Theme
Hi David,
Can I create optin page in Stalion by writing the html code in a text widget? Like a pop up optin box on the site?
Do you recomend any site wich helps in programing optin pages or selling optin html codes?
Regards, Gabor
You can put almost any code in a text widget, so if you have the code I don’t see why not.
I’ve not used optin pages, so no idea. Been meaning to signup for Aweber that does optin forms etc…, time I started a list. No idea if Aweber has pop up optin forms.
David
Hi David,
Thank you. I check out Aweber.
Regards, Gabor
Hi Dave,
I was wondering whether you (or somebody reading the comment), could please give me some ideas with two challenges I’m dealing with:
(1) What’s the best way to publish tables of data?
I have a website, about lists of related words (let’s say I’m publishing tables with several data classified by topic), when I want to publish a post, I create a table which is 7 or 8 columns width. I use Excel, but when I paste it on wordpress (the columns lose their width and are not properly formatted), so I have to re-size them within the post area, etc, etc (it’s a lot of work). My workaround has been using the same table in Excel, but then I create an image, and I post the image (too much work though).
(2) The second thing has to do with SEO and the impact when publishing these many tables of releated-data (but not keyword-wise data) on my blog. Let’s say my keyword is “pink cars”, but in my post there is a brief comment introducing the “pink cars” information that I’m goind to present (5 lines max), then the rest of the post will be only statistical data about “pink cars” that will be useful for my readers. What’s the best why to handle it and still keep good seo practices? The workaround I’m thinking is also about using images with the alt tag, names using my keyword. Any ideas?
Thanks
Héctor
btw: you got my email, let me know when/if you open an Affiliate program. Your themes are really, really, really good stuff.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
SEO Tip : Hide Text You Don't want Indexed as an Image
Can’t help with problem 1, not tried to do something like that.
The SEO question is an easy one, if you don’t want the data as indexable text because it will add nothing SEO wise use images. Like you said you can add relevant alt text to the images which will add to the pages SEO.
Another solution would be to use an iframe to serve the data, but it’s more work to setup. You’d make a stand alone HTML page that contains the table and show it on any page you like via an iframe.
I used this technique over 5 years ago when I was building a network of classic literature sites with a book like format. Each book could have hundreds of pages and had I included links within every page with anchor text Page 1, Page 2, Page… Page 100 you can imagine how damaging SEO wise all that anchor text would be!
Example Arthur Conan Doyle -- The Mystery of Sasassa Valley, the “Pages Of this Ebook.” menu item is within an iframe. That books only 6 pages, but some are hundreds of pages.
Thinking about it that could also help solve your problem 1, you’d format/style the table outside of WordPress (wouldn’t use the styling of the theme), so as long as you style the table data to fit in an iframe that works with the theme layout (around 500px in width) it should work with no problems.
I don’t think I received an email from you, if it was more than 24 hours ago I’d have responded by now (responding to emails within 24 hours).
If it was about the Stallion Clickbank affiliate problem I should have that running within a week. The update (Stallion) is pretty much complete, just finalising some protection so the theme can’t be easily edited and sold by others and make it so only customers can use it (I’ll be able to put the zip file on the site for a free download, but only paying customers can activate it). Plan is to test the theme on 20+ of my domains and if no problems send the theme to all Talian customers. If no major issues are reported activate a Clickbank affiliate program (it’s setup, just need to activate it). If things go wrong end of the month, if everything goes well within the week.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi Hector.
I would use Google docs to publish data. It’s virtually the same as an Excel spreadsheet and all you have to do is publish a link for someone to browse it.
I created some in Excel and then just copied the cell formulas into the Google doc.
Read about it here: https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=writely&passive=1209600&continue=https://docs.google.com/&followup=https://docs.google.com/<mpl=homepage
Good luck.
Nigel
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Typical, I come up with a really complicated solution and didn’t think of the easy/obvious way
David
Hi Dave & Nigel,
thanks for your feedback:
Nigel’s suggestion it’s easier, my concern about it is that I’m sending the readers out of my blog, which I don’t want to. I’d prefer keeping them on my blog.
Dave’s iframe suggestion, it’s more complicated, but more practical than using images. So what I did:
- I created a new page-template, and after
I added
Where test3.htm is an html page where I’m pasting the information from Excel.
The only issue I’m having (need to google about it) is when formatting the excel table! which sometimes is wider than 550px
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi Dave,
Thanks for the info, I checked out Aweber. It’s really cool service, I strongly recommend any one who wants to build a list. They have great tools to build opt-in pages too. I did and put it on my Wp Talian site. Works great! One more way to keep in touch with people who visited your site
Here is a detailed video I found on youtube how to create opt-in with Aweber:
Have fun and lots of subscribers!
Gabor
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi!
I am having trouble with the comment page, I followed your instruction, (Template Creator) but its not working, subscribers just ignore the Aweber form and fill in the comment form with their details. (they always like to comment! and their feedback helps)
I need to have them in the autoresponder.
Is there no way the aweber form can be integrated with the comment template such that they just fill in the comment form but their details goes to my aweber autoresponder?
Please help!!
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Aweber Lists and Collecting Email Addresses
You have to appreciate most visitors won’t want to sign up to be added to your list, most visitors won’t even make a comment which can help a site grow. for example I do no work at Conspiracy Theories and Hoaxes, but there’s a ‘community’ developing there in the comments discussing conspiracy theories.
I’ve not used Aweber (plan to) but think what you describe would probably not fall into acceptable use. If a visitor tries to comment and instead is signed up for an Aweber mailing list, Aweber’s going to get complaints.
BTW You’ll find a lot of email addresses used for comments are fake. You might also find if you collect email addresses in an unethical way your email address (used for sending your Aweber emails) will get listed on email SPAM blacklists. For example one of my theme customers added my email address to their list (send me the usual buy this SPAM). Sent the person a warning after which marked all emails received as SPAM and now I don’t see them. If this person does this to enough people who have the same approach I have, their email address will be blacklisted.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Thanks Dave,
That puts me on my turf and on the right track!
I appreciate it!
Hi, David:
I am planning on creating a chinese recipes blog, it will have lots of videos(my own) and photos. Does Talian 05 work well with this type of blog or any other suggestions?
Thanks
WordPress Recipe Sites
I run a couple of recipe sites and they do quite well traffic wise. I’m lazy and not added photos or videos
Depending on how you organise it, it will probably look a bit like one of my wife’s sites Happy People Good Karma Blog assuming you use YouTube to host the videos.
For sites where we add YouTube videos we use the Smart YouTube Plugin by Vladimir Prelovac http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins, makes it easier to add the videos and allows you to add some formatting without messing around with the YouTube embed code.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
You are the most efficient person I have ever met online.
Cheers, Dave.
Recipies
Haiyan.
talian theme is great, Stallion will be even better plus the support you get from david is the best on the net.
make sure you post your blog URL when it’s up and running so we can see what you’ve done with it.
Regards
Nigel
Aweber opt-in box
Hi Dave
I put Aweber code into a text widged on Thanlian 05, and it works fine to sign up to mailing list, just when I return to the site it pops up the opt-in box again to sign up. I have to click the X to close it, not a big deal, but might be a little confusing for a visitor and less professional. I was switching settings but it always come back to this. How can I go around it, so when some one signed up, gets returned to the actual page?
Regards, Gabor
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Related Articles WordPress Plugin
Hi David
I have just noticed a new fascinating “Related Articles’ plugin that you use (hereunder).
I guess it comes with a CSS div class.
Can you please direct me on how to find this plugin or is it your own development?
Thanks
Contextual Related Posts Plugin SEO Version
That’s the Contextual Related Posts Plugin SEO Version (my version).
Found that plugin a couple of months ago, had a bug with the new WordPress custom navigation menus which I’ve fixed. The plugin is available for a free download on the WordPress SEO Plugins page.
My youngest son Caleb made the animated gif, it’s a blinking panda
David
Hi David,
I’ve visited the Adventure Travel Vacations website you mentioned but it looks not like Talian 05 theme.
Do you have any demo site using Talian 05 theme so I can take a look of it?
Thanks!
Talian 05 Theme
Hi Blue fall.
Here’s one of my sites using Talian 05 which I haven’t converted to Stallion because it is a multi user site, ie lots of mini-sites. Too complicated to update at the moment as i have lots going on.
If you are only just considering Talian then you should really only be considering David’s new Stallion theme and not Talian. Wjilst David will support Talian it won’t have any further development.
Hope this helps.
Nigel
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Updating Talian 5 to Stallion 6
I’m in the process of updating all my sites from Talian 5 to Stallion 6.
This Free Recipe site is still currently running Talian 5, but will be updating soon. Takes a while to update over 70 WordPress installations.
Stallion 6 is the updated version of Talian 5. The Stallion code is completly rewrote so it’s a new theme, but is based on Talian 5.
There’s a lot of new features with Stallion compared to Talian. The main changes in the look are:
Stallion includes
Header images.
More widget areas.
More ad networks (Chitika, Kontera, Infolinks, Linkwords and the ability to add custom ads easily).
Loads of new stuff.
If you join the Stallion Mailing List http://archive.aweber.com/stalliontheme you can download the Stallion theme and install it to see what it looks like, but you need a valid Stallion ID to fully activate so you can add your AdSense ID etc… If anyone runs it without adding a valid Stallion ID I’ll get their sites AdSense earnings.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Question on adsense
David,
I purchased and installed the Talian adsense template at www.wealthcreationsnetwork.stockingprofits.com
The floating adsense in the post content doesn’t seem to be working. It’s leaving the space open for them but it just leaves a blank.
Thanks for your help,
AdSense Publisher ID Broken Due to space
You’ve added a space after your AdSense pub-###### number on the Talian options page.
Remove the space and it will work.
David
Talian Theme Blog Signup
Hi Dave,
Lately I have been receiving complaints from current and new subscribers to my blog http://www.duplicatemysuccess.com, that when they signed up and/or tried to login to comment, they’re getting the following messages: “Sorry, but you have no permissions to change settings.”
Not only current or new subscriber, but when I tried to login through Admin: http://www.duplicatemysuccess.com/wp-admin to see what the problem might be, I got the same message as well, which means, I am unable to access my Admin panel.
Is there something I can do to correct this problem? I am not sure exactly when, but this problem started right after I upgraded to one of the following: Talian6 or WordPress.
Thanks,
Henry
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
WordPress Socrates Theme not Talian 5 WordPress Theme
The WordPress site you’ve linked to is running the Socrates WordPress theme not Talian 5 or Stallion 6. According to the Google cache your sites been running the Socrates theme for at least the past 10 days, so assuming you’ve mixed up who you bought your current WordPress theme from.
I’ve also not received any reports on an issue related to comments and an error relating to “Sorry, but you have no permissions to change settings” with Talian 5 or Stallion 6.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Thanks Dave,
“My bad!”
I also have Talian 05 and I regularly switch between themes to keep my site looking fresh.
Henry
Homepage Problems?
David,
I’m getting this message on my homepage of Talian 05 and I’m not sure what to do to correct this. Any ideas?
“Warning: in_array() [function.in-array]: Wrong datatype for second argument in /home/searand/public_html/myprivategame.com/wp-content/plugins/wpec_magic_template/magic_template_inc.php(1) : eval()’d code on line 3″
Thanks,
Randy
Broken WordPress Plugin not Theme
That would be a broken plugin issue.
Also you asked this question at Stallion SEO WordPress Theme Reviews in March 2011?
David
NOINDEX, FOLLOW meta on actegories
Hi Dave
One of the key things in the Google Panda update was the issues with too many site’s pages that do not have SEO value (such as category/tag pages -- pages 2 to ~) and lower the overal site ranking.
Is there a php tricky way to add a NOINDEX, FOLLOW meta tag to all the tags and category pages except the first ones -- i.e. except page no. 1.
Also, to prevent indexing the [domain]/page2, [doamin]/page3 and so on.
Please read this -- http://www.labnol.org/internet/google-traffic-after-panda/18914/
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Google Panda Update and Noindex, Nofollow
Your first assumption is what you’ve read online in forums etc… about the Google Panda update is verified/true. Without that verification that takes time to test it’s guess work.
Google changes it’s search engine algorithm all the time, sometimes it’s a small change and other times it’s big. Either way what worked that was SEO whitehat a few years ago generally still works for the most part today, Google does not throw the baby out with the bath water, it tweaks the search algorithm over time for better results for it’s users.
The domains the author of the article you linked to are pretty much duplicate content sites (they are content farms). Google is renowned for hating thin content sites like these, and though those particular sites do add value (tiny amount) to the duplicate content it still is duplicate content. Why should a copied version of an article rank higher than the original?
Since Google is always trying to improve it’s results I can see a very strong argument for downgrading that type of site (have you seen http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/finding-more-high-quality-sites-in.html) and just a small downgrade for finding duplicate content can have a major impact on SERPs (dropping from top 5 to top 10 is a big deal). You also find with the bigger Google updates if a change has resulted in a lot of good sites loosing their rankings the algorithm is presumably re-tweaked so the negative impacts aren’t as severe (sites go down in rankings with the first change and back up with the re-tweak). Occasionally Google is going to go too severe in an algo change and have to dial it back a bit.
The reason for those sites being downgraded is because they are content farms and that was what the Panda update was targeting. Do you run content farms? I don’t, so shouldn’t be affected negatively by Panda (which my network wasn’t).
Some of the SEO advice within the article is bad SEO advice.
Nofollow deletes link benefit.
Noindex wastes link benefit.
Never use nofollow or noindex unless you absolutely have to. The general rule should be if you have a page you don’t want indexing it really shouldn’t exist or at least avoid linking to it. Monthly archive pages for example, what do they add to a website?
Fortunately for the three domains he analyses they are not short of backlinks, so though it will have a negative impact it’s to some degree mitigated by the number of backlinks.
Deleting tags/categories/archives that are not useful is damn good SEO advice. You should aim for a site that every page on the site is targeting one or more SERPs so the link benefit flowing to those pages are doing something useful. In practice this isn’t always practical, but if you keep it in mind you’ll do far better in Google than if you create pages for the sake of it. If you follow this advice there should be no need to nofollow/noindex categories/tags etc… Never nofollow links to pages on your own sites, that’s dumb because it deletes the link benefit, I’d rather have the link benefit flow through a monthly archive page than delete the link benefit completely.
Unfortunately there’s no easy way to have multiple archive pages (page 2, 3, 4… of a category/tag) and not pass link benefit through them. If you nofollow them the link benefit is deleted (that’s nuts) and if you noindex them the link benefit though not deleted isn’t working on the pages that are noindexed (the link benefit is wasted). Why noindex a page that potentially could rank for something? Google doesn’t penalize sites for having good navigation and without good navigation how will Google naturally find your deeper content? However it doesn’t reward sites for have multiple archives that add nothing to a site, I never use monthly archives and generally if there’s an argument for having a tag there’s a better argument for having a category (my sites tend to only have category archives : there’s no real difference between a tag and a category).
Fixing broken links and redirecting pages that are no longer present but have backlinks to them, very good SEO advice, it stops the link benefit from being wasted.
Blocking the indexing of WordPress login pages not really necessary with the current blocking options available in all WordPress themes except Talian and Stallion. The choice is do you leave the link as is and it’s wasted link benefit or do you nofollow/noindex the login page and the link benefit is wasted? Not a lot to gain SEO wise either way for most WordPress users, though some login pages do link back to the home page so not all the link benefit is wasted: note for my Talian and Stallion users I’ve hidden the login/admin links from search engines, so not an issue for those users.
Although I don’t recommend using nofollow/noindex, I do have a way to block the wasting of SEO benefit through archive pages, but need to find the time to make it into an SEO plugin or part of Stallion. My plans are along the lines of noindex, but the link benefit isn’t wasted on the archives that are not indexed.
Regarding the three domains the author of the article analysed can you think of any reason why deleting link benefit (nofollow) and wasting link benefit (noindex) would result in better Google rankings?
BTW Traffic to my network of sites went up after the Panda update, so the SEO techniques I use and recommend appear to work better after the Panda update. I have never used noindex and have been removing nofollow links from my sites, had loads of nofollow links when Google didn’t delete link benefit, takes time to remove them from around 100 domains. One domain had a fair number of nofollow links, removed them all recently and traffic is up a bit since.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Google Panda Update and Noindex, Nofollow
Thank you Dave
I must read your explanation once more to fully understand your apporoach.
I agree with what you’ve added that “The general rule should be if you have a page you don’t want indexing it really shouldn’t exist or at least avoid linking to it.”
BTW -- the author of the site I refer to made a meta tag of NOINDEX, FOLLOW not a NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW to pages/2 to ~.
I think (am not sure yet) is that the best bet could be to check the WordPress admin option of Settings/Reading settings of ‘Blog pages show at most’ and opt for ‘high number’ (some hundreds posts) in order that all posts filed in a category will be listed on the same category page thus ensure indexing a single cat/tag page rather than several (with the same title and meta description).
Of course, archives pages and author pages are not useful pages and I recall that Talian theme eliminates these to be created in the first place.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Noindex Always Wastes Link Benefit
Doesn’t matter how you use noindex it wastes link benefit.
Here’s an extreme for you, you noindex but follow links from your home page. All those hard earned backlinks do ZERO SEO work on your home page, does that sound like a good SEO tip?
Is there much difference between your home page and a category page, do you not want all your link benefit as it flows through your site (through links) to work on every page it passes through?
I have plenty of SERPs from category pages, I’d never noindex them.
Each page link benefit passes through uses link benefit: if you are familiar with the PageRank formula it’s the dampening factor and it’s estimated 15% of the link benefit is ‘used’ on each page the link benefit passes through. If you noindex a page 15% of the link benefit passing though that page does no SEO work (that’s bad SEO wise).
From a link benefit perspective it makes no sense at all to ever use noindex, there’s no SEO benefit from a link benefit perspective to use noindex since it wastes a sites most valuable SEO resource.
There are arguments for not wanting some pages of a site indexed, the best way to achieve this is not create pages you don’t want indexed. Second best solution is don’t link to them as there’s no easy way to stop link benefit passing through a standard link without deleting (nofollow deletes it) or wasting it (noindex wastes it).
I’m working on a WordPress SEO plugin that will do what noindex does, but does not waste link benefit. The SEO plugin stops archive pages from being indexed (like noindex), but rather than waste the link benefit it redirects it back to the home page.
So far with the SEO plugin all archive types can be independently not indexed in their entirety (so all date archives, all categories, all tags, all search etc…) and working on the ability to have only the first page of an archive set (first page of category for example) indexed with the paged archives redirected back to the first page (currently have it working with it redirecting the link benefit back to home, want to redirect back to the first page of an archive set).
Also almost got it working with individual static pages and blog posts, you select a list of page/post IDs you don’t want indexing (got a problem to solve in the code to get it fully working).
In my tests (not with this exact plugin setup, but same concept: built into a part of Stallion) it works well. Surprised no one has thought of an SEO plugin like this before as noindex and nofollow are anti-SEO and should be avoided.
Currently plan to give the SEO plugin away for free to support Stallion sales (it will work with most WordPress themes).
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Thank you,
I fully understand why noindex (or nofollow) is a waste/delete of link juice.
The labnol.org guy was so convinced that I believed he was right..
Have you used Robots Meta Plugin?(http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/robots-meta/) I think it provides some of the features you’ve mentioned.
I’ve decided to file (present) all posts related to a specific category in a single page (in the specific category page).
It just make sense to me that readers will see all the ingredients at once (scrolling down the page) rather than sitting and browsing pages after pages.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Robots Meta WordPress Plugin
I’m familiar with the Robots Meta WordPress Plugin, it uses noindex and nofollow, so not a plugin I’d recommend.
I’m close to finishing a true WordPress SEO Plugin, you can read about it at Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin. I believe it does everything you mentioned in your first comment.
With a bit of luck will have it released in a week or two.
BTW you might be mixing up rel=”nofollow” and nofollow added to a robots meta tag. rel=”nofollow” is basically what I’ve been talking about (mostly) when talking about nofollow, you can add this attribute to individual text links and the link benefit that would pass through the link is deleted.
A nofollow added to a robots meta tag results in all links on that page not being followed, this means the link benefit hits a dead end and is wasted (like a page with no links off it at all, basically deleted). A nofollow robots meta tag is worse than a rel=”nofollow” attribute.
When talking about noindex I’d been referring to a “noindex, follow” robots meta tag combination. The noindex part wastes the link benefit (as described earlier) that should be used on the noindexed page, but the remaining link benefit (it’s believed 85% of link benefit passes through a page via it’s links) continues on it’s way, so link benefit is wasted not deleted, you could argue 15% of the link benefit is deleted because it does no SEO work, but because it’s a follow tag the remaining 85% passes through the links.
Clearly a “noindex, nofollow” robots meta tag combination is the worst SEO choice, all the link benefit that should pass through the noindexed page is deleted.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Robot.txt
If not Meta Robot plugin that generates robot.txt what robot.txt file your would recommend using, if at all(meanwhile)?
There is an example robots.txt file available here:
http://www.askapache.com/seo/updated-robotstxt-for-wordpress.html
And I got that link from SEO wordpress codex page:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress
In addition, I am still a Tallian 03 user and there’s an issue that the theme files can’t be edited thru the dashboard.
Have you managed to locate the problem and fix it?
Thanks
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
WordPress Search Engine Optimization and robots.txt File
When using a robots.txt file the first question to ask is what are you trying to achieve?
Lets go through the example robots.txt file you found:
User-agent: *Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /wp-admin
Disallow: /wp-includes
Disallow: /wp-content
Disallow: /tag
Disallow: /author
Disallow: /wget/
Disallow: /httpd/
Disallow: /i/
Disallow: /f/
Disallow: /t/
Disallow: /c/
Disallow: /j/
User-agent: * means all bots should obey this set of rules, doesn’t mean they will (all my robots.txt files include “Crawl-Delay: 20″ but Google ignores it).
Anything starting disallow means you don’t want it spidered. Are you having specific problems with some sections of a site being indexed you don’t want indexed (not much point using “Disallow: /cgi-bin” if you don’t even have a cgi-bin directory for example)?
If not there’s no need to have anything here. I will add never use a robots.txt file to hide files you don’t want visitors to see, it’s real easy to load http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/robots.txt and if I were dumb enough to add files that I wanted to keep secret, not much of a secret
As a side note most of my robots.txt files are identical to the one for this site, just the crawl delay (supposed to slow down spidering : my sites are constantly hammered by bots) and I only have a robots.txt file to stop a 404 error code when bots look for a robots.txt file.
If you were trying to stop WordPress tags from being indexed adding “Disallow: /tag” would stop them from being spidered, BUT it would waste a lot of link benefit! The new WordPress SEO plugin I mentioned above that I was working on has been released at Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin and it can achieve the equivalent of the WordPress relevant disallows above without wasting link benefit.
User-agent: Mediapartners-GoogleAllow: /
User-agent: Adsbot-Google
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Allow: /
User-agent: Googlebot-Mobile
Allow: /
Specifying a specific user-agent and allowing it is a complete waste of time. By default they are allowed to spider your site and adding the above won’t increase or decrease the number of visits a user agent will make.
User-agent: ia_archiver-web.archive.orgDisallow: /
Specifying a user-agent and disallowing it can be useful. If you are having a problem with a spider you can set this to stop it spidering completely, but be aware if you are having a problem with a bot it probably isn’t a good one one that will follow the rule!
Sitemap: http://www.askapache.com/sitemap.xmlUseful if you have a sitemap file.
As you can see the robots.txt file is basically useful for stopping spiders doing things you don’t want them to do, but they don’t all follow the rules and when you do disallow a section of a WordPress site it can come at the cost of link benefit.
BTW some of the information at http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_WordPress is wrong.
Search Engine Site Submissions complete BS, total waste of time submitting a site to a search engine like Google, only way to get a site indexed long term and increase rankings is through backlinks that are not rel=”nofollow” or on a noindex page.
Meta Tags have zero ranking value.
Robots.txt Optimization, the example robots.txt file is awful, that could seriously damage a sites SEO, would damage my sites for certain!!!
Talian 3 was never broken, that’s a permissions issue you have. If you want to edit your files online they have to have the correct permissions, depending on your server you’ll want the files set to 666 for full access, but I would strongly advise setting them back to 644 for added security after editing. I find it more secure to edit the files offline and upload using FTP (tendency to forget to change the permissions back).
As a Talian 3 customer you’ll be entitled to both a Talian 5 upgrade and Stallion 6 upgrade. Drop me an email from the email address you used to order and I’ll give you the upgrade details.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Caching plugins like WP Super cache or W3 total cache
Hello David
What is your view regarding caching plugins such as -- WP Super cache or W3 total cache?
Do we really need them to speed up the site? do you think these two plugin are necessary?
Thanks
WP Super Cache vs W3 Total Cache
WordPress Cache Plugins are a must use WordPress plugin for most sites and which one WP Super Cache vs W3 Total Cache is a very good question and I’m afraid I don’t know the answer
I use WP Super Cache because it’s the first WordPress caching plugin I tired (never tried W3 Total Cache) and WP Super Cache plugin is working well on my sites.
I’ll have to find the time to test WP Super Cache vs W3 Total Cache since if there’s a big difference it means your sites run faster if you use the right one.
I can say if you are torn between the two and currently not running caching plugins on your sites pick one of them and see how it goes because what is certain, whether WP Super Cache or W3 Total Cache you should be using caching plugins.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Header Font
How do you change the Font in the Banner or Header?
Can you center the Banner or Header if so how is this done?
Thank you,
Donald Green
Changing Talian 5 Theme Fonts
All the font sizes are located in the style.css file.
For example
.header_site_desc h1, .header_site_desc span {margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
width: 640px;
font-size: 1.2em;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-weight: normal;
}
Controls the home page link in the header area, if you change
font-size: 1.2em;
It will change the font size.
Not sure if centering would work particularly well. You could try changing the padding to make it look centered.
Try adding
padding-left: 20px;
Below font-weight: normal; and see what it looks like. Increase/decrease the number to put it where you want it.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
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