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.
Note: if you pay by PayPal eCheque your order will be delayed, eCheques take 3-5 working days to clear (your download won’t be instant).
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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How to Build a WordPress Squeeze Page Template
Hi David,
I’ve had your template for a couple of months now, but only just took the time to read this very useful series of comments.
My idea for using your template was to assist in getting some good ranking for my sites as I build them. Planning on perhaps swapping to a more visually appealing template once traffic is established (a magazine theme like the Revolution ones, etc).
At the same time as building content and links to the site, I promote affilaite offers. One of the best ways of doing this, I decided, is to create a static page with a landing page/squeeze page.
WordPress isn’t ideal for this sort of thing so what I’ve done is create a custom page, and strip as much of the WordPress code as possible without breaking it -- so I can still use the WordPress html editor to create the page I want.
This is what I’ve done, I wonder if you might comment on it:
?php
commenting
Template Name: TalianSalespage
commenting
?
div id=”content_talia”
div id=”post-entry”
?php if(have_posts()) : ?
?php while(have_posts()) : the_post(); ?
div class=”post-meta” id=”post- ?php the_ID(); ? ”
div class=”post-content”
?php the_content() ;?
/div
/div
div class=”post-fixed”
/div
?php endwhile; ?
?php else: ?
?php endif; ?
/div
/div
When I use this as a custom page, I am able to add html code to the page editor and get what looks like a standalone landing page/squeeze page with some low key links back to the home page just to keep the SEs happy.
I believe that ‘standalone pages’ are less SEO friendly so I thought this might be a good way ahead. I’d be interested in your expert opinion on this -- and have I stripped the page code properly (it seems to work!).
Finally, I’m assuming you don’t load each of those recipes individually -- and somewhere you mention ‘fed’ content -- what do you recommend for this? I am currently trying a plugin called caffeinated Content which pulls from article directories -- do you have any experience with this or similar ‘Content trawlers’?
Many thanks for a great wordpress theme.
Phil
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
WordPress Squeeze Page Theme Template
Hi Phil,
I can see what you are aiming for and I’ve considered trying something like this myself. Basically what you are doing is creating a custom template that can be accessed as a static Page. It’s similar in concept to the Sitemap.php template file supplied with Talian.
Anyway, a standard sort of squeeze page would lack a lot of the elements associated with a WordPress page and I can see from your code you’ve removed a lot of that code. Looks good to me, obviously as you removed the header, footer and sidebar code you loose all the SEO parts there. So you’ll have to add your own SEO’d title element etc…
I’ve not tried this (just had the thought), but you could in theory use an almost blank template file (no code to be used from a template, just the content function) and paste an entire HTML page as WordPress page.
This would use no template elements from Talian (any theme) so would be a completely stand alone page, but it would still be linked like any other page from the menu etc… so gain internal links automatically.
If I tried this I’d write a unique excerpt since otherwise your pages top HTML elements will probably be used as an excerpt on the related posts plugin etc…
Would be useful for adding squeeze pages etc… provided by affiliates, though you’d have to SEO the entire page from scratch as this way you’d get no optimization from the theme at all.
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi David,
thanks for your reply -- and so soon after I posted too!
It may appear that I know more than I do, though. So while your answer is interesting, I would need more detail to achieve what you seem to be suggesting.
I know my way around html and css -- but when it comes to php, javascript and WordPress structure I resort to guessing what something does then performing trial and error until I get somewhere. Hence, the code pasted above became the solution simply because whenever I tried to take more away the whole thing collapsed.
As for SEO on the ‘blank page’, it would, of course, be nice to be able to do some -- if you come up with a solution I’d be glad to hear it. Currently, I intend direct linking so organic listing for the sales page will have to suffer until I figure out how to do what you suggest.
By the way, for anyone interested -- I wanted to change the ‘someimage.gif’ not only to another image but, due to its prime position, to a banner ad for an affiliate offer.
I’d love to say I came up with the solution but, as usual, I simply came up with the right google search -- and this is what I did: http://webdevnews.net/2007/01/css-trick-turning-a-background-image-into-a-clickable-link/
- it works perfectly.
By the way -- any thoughts on Caffeinated Content or that kind of plugin?
Thanks again,
Phil
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
I’ve played around with plugins like caffeinated Content (not tried that one), but so far they always get penalised in Google long term (lots and lots of SEO tests).
I have some sites running that add content automatically from Google news (rss feed), but the traffic is pathetic. So currently not looking at adding more (waste of resources on my servers).
My recipe site I bought a WordPress script (WordPress Datafeed Import Script) that allows you to import datafeeds (csv format only) into WordPress. I had my eldest son (goes to University this year to study a Computer Programming degree) to write a PHP script to convert 100,000+ recipes in a weird format into csv format and then used the WordPress Datafeed Import Script to import them into WordPress.
I’ve not used the WordPress Datafeed Import Script since about WordPress 2.6 and it looks like the author is no longer supporting this product, so no idea if it will work in WP 2.8 and looks like it will break eventually. I personally wouldn’t buy the script today because of the lack of current support. Doesn’t help that the author used security PHP coding so you can’t edit the scripts code yourself (so if it breaks, you’ll never be able to fix it).
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
To create a template page that will only show the content of a page and nothing else (no theme parts) try this code:
< ?php
/*
Template Name: Blank SEO
*/
?>
< ?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
< ?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
< ?php the_content() ;?>
< ?php endwhile; ?>
< ?php else : ?>
< ?php endif; ?>
This is the minimum code needed to show the content of a page.
Name it something like blank-seo.php and upload it to your themes folder (this will work for any WordPress theme).
Create a new page (only works with WordPress Pages, not Blog Posts) and select the Blank SEO template for that page.
Name the Page something relevant and add your squeeze page as the content.
Save it and it should create a page that uses all the HTML elements of your squeeze page and have no WordPress theme elements at all (no header, sidebar, footer etc….). The page will also be linked fro menus etc… like any other page.
I tested this on this site earlier, made a page called SEO Test which could be found at
google-adsense-templates.co.uk/seo-test
After testing I set it to Draft, which interestingly means it’s removed from menus etc… (so no links to it), but still exists (can be loaded, so you can see it yourself).
As you can see it shows a single line of text (all I added to the content) plus some text related to a Popularity Plugin I use on this site. Some plugins are added to the end of the content function and this plugin does that.
Had I added a full HTML based page to that page (and disabled the Popularity plugin) it should look like any other static HTML page.
Not the most useful thing to do with WordPress, but shows it works
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Thanks for the amended blank page code -- that’s a much cleaner solution than mine.
Phil
Hello,
Call me 5 months slow on this one but I just realised, as per this comment form I’m using now, that you cant leave an optional url with your comment post. I cant find an option for it in the dashboard discussions section. Can you help with this? Is this just a standard thing for WP?
PS -- Last week I used the WordPress automatic update to WP2.8 without any problems that I’m aware of.
Thanks!
David Elton,
http://www.aid-renegade.com
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
I assume you mean you can’t add a URL to comments with the Talian theme. If so it’s something I added (well removed to be precise) to reduce comment SPAM for links).
By default Talian like all the WordPress themes on this site will not show the URL options for those posting comments on your WordPress blogs. The benefit of this is, it removes an incentive for link spammers to comment on your blogs. Some people only post on comments for links and quite frankly the vast majority of their posts are very low quality (over my WordPress blogs I delete at least 20 low quality comments a day despite no link being available!).
I’ve been running the themes this way for ages and have pages with hundreds of user comments since the vast majority of real website users who want to comment don’t care if they get a link or not.
That being said if you want the URL option look in the /alt-files/ folder of the Talian theme and you’ll find a comments.php file that includes the URL coding. Copy comments.php over the current file and you’ll see the URL box on comments again and author names will be links again (removed that as well).
I have a Yo Mammas So Fat jokes page http://www.free-funny-jokes.com/yo-mamas-so-fat-jokes-part-1.html with over 600 comments! The site as a whole has over 2,000 approved comments (I had to read them all and many are racist unfortunately!).
A page on the Apollo Moon Landing Hoax (or not) http://www.conspiracy-theories-hoax.com/apollo-moon-landing-hoax.html has 80+ comments. That site has only 18 posts with over 400 approved comments.
So you don’t need an incentive to get people to comment on a site. This site has over 200 comments spread over 28 posts/pages.
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hello,
When I upload the alt-files/comments.php file I see the following error message:
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘<' in /hsphere/local/home/dibna1/aid-renegade.com/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-seo-03/comments.php on line 69
I looked at the file in notepad (full page) & there isn't a line 69. Currently I've reloaded the original comments.php
Hi David,
Your comment was tagged as SPAM by Akismet, no idea why.
You found a code bug.
When I made the default comments.php files (for all themes) I added some PHP code around the HTML code to comment it out.
< ?php /* HTML code to comment out : */ ?>
When I had the idea to add the alternative files I was meant to remove all this PHP code, but left some of it in so it looked like this
< ?php HTML code to comment out : ?>
Should be
HTML code to comment out
Took me 15 minutes looking at the code to figure out what I’d done wrong as at first glance it looks fine.
Not had anyone else point this out, so looks like you are the first to use the alternate comment.php file
I’ve attached a working comments.php file that I’ve tested to an email. Sorry about that.
I’m working on adding the Link unit ads (the text link like ones) to the themes. I don’t think they will increase AdSense revenue by much, but good to have the option (each ad, soon to be 6 can be turned off). You can see my online test at http://www.musicred.com/, there’s three new Google link unit ads, one just below the header area, one at the bottom of the first post and one on right menu (title “Related Searches”). On single post it’s a bit different, still not set on exact location yet (more testing needed).
I also want to incorporate Google custom search into the themes as well, but so far stumped on how to, Google AdSense has made it’s code so much harder to use for themes used by multiple publishers since changing the way it codes the ads (I have to use the old type of code), adding the three new link unit ads was hard enough!
Will update the comments.php files when I get the above into all themes and send out new zips to all customers. If anyone else in the mean time wants the fixed alt comments file let me know and I’ll email it.
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Great job David, new alt/files comments file works fine. I also use Akismet which is why I’m not too bothered about spam links as I still approve comments to to show on my site. I Recommend Akismet to any other WP bloggers.
I just found this, I am curious, because I’m using the orginal theme and it seems to be a problem when viewing the site with explorer. Like for my blog the sides are missing. Would this solve the issue?
I’ve fixed a lot of issues that’s developed with Talian as WordPress has upgraded. As you can see from this site it works as expected in all major browsers including Internet Explorer.
If this version of Talian breaks when WordPress or a major browser FireFox, Internet Explorer, Opera etc… updates I’ll do my best to fix it and send out a free update: I use the themes for sale on this site on over 50 of my own domain, so if a theme breaks multiple sites of mine break just like yours!
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Just a quick update. It has been several months since I purchased this WordPress Google Adsense Template. This has been the single most important purchase that I have made for my online business. CTR has doubled, traffic has doubled and continues to grow with each new post. Google finds each new post of mine and if my post titles have good keywords, Google puts them right to the top of the first page.
Of course I have done a little SEM work but I couldn’t have done it without this awesome WordPress Template.
Thanks David. Hope things are going well in the for you.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
I am enjoying this adsense templates, I think David really knows what he’s doing, I intend using templates from here for my other websites in the future.
I will like to know how I can space out the links in my categories section (kind of ) just like we have in this website, mine are too close to one another, there by making the green buttons beside the links partially visible
I know what you are referring to as I have the same look on www.hikingtrailshome.info but the only difference is that the menu items on this page and a few menu items on my site have longer titles that require the menu item to use two lines. There are different menu widgets and plugins to try but I haven’t liked any yet. Let me know if you find one that works well. Remember that you do not want a menu with code that hides the text which may have a negative effect on SEO.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
The original Talian theme didn’t take into account child categories, so when you have
Parent Category
Child Category
Child Category
…
The Child Categories aren’t spaced correctly.
I’ll fix it in the next update.
Quick fix add this to the style.css file:
.sidebar-box ul li ul li a:link, .sidebar-box ul li ul li a:visited, .sidebar-box ul li ul li a:hover, .sidebar-box ul li ul li a:active {
margin: 0px;
float: left;
display: block;
width: 170px;
font-size: 13px;
padding: 3px 0px 3px 18px;
font-size: 13px;
background-image: url(images/bullet.gif);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: left 4px;
}
Trying to incorporate the new WordPress commenting functions into the themes, but WordPress development have added an unnecessary nofollow attribute to the new “Reply to comment” links function within WordPress core files and this potentially results in hundreds of nofollow links on pages with a lot of comments.
Since Google no longer honors the nofollow attribute as it used to (now it deletes the PR/link benefit a nofollow link used to protect!) so I have to remove the nofollow attribute before adding the new commenting functions and so far no joy.
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
The current users of Talian with SEO/AdSense version 03 will have noticed I’ve changed the Talian theme on this site quite a bit over the last few days (been testing the changes here).
Not quite finished the updates yet, need to clean up the code a bit, but almost got all the features I want.
Biggest change is a complete rewrite of the commenting code. Since WordPress 2.7 came out I’ve been wanting to add the paginated commenting and the ability to respond to specific comments in a threaded format (activated on this site now). You can see what this looks like on this page. I currently have it set to show 30 comments per page. There is a problem with activating this in WordPress 2.7 to 2.8.3 which I’ll explain in a reply to this comment to show the Reply to feature
You will notice my comments are highlighted with an orange dashed border. When the admin posts it now gets highlighted. Considered putting a different background colour, but having three background colours was confusing.
Have edited the css significantly, for example have removed all the font-size=Xpx which is not very good for usability, switched to em. Fixed various css issues with headers (H1 to H6), original Talian had left floated them for no obvious reason, floats removed now.
Increased the width of the Talian theme (now 1,000 px) to allow for the use of the 336x280 AdSense ad unit within the posts content. Gives us a little more space to play with.
Added a random image selector for the banner like image near the top of a post, so far made 6 new images that are randomly selected (refresh the page to see it change). Very easy to add more or switch to less images. I got the idea from the Cutline theme an SEO/AdSense version of which I sell as well.
Removed the Translation links from the menu: unfortunately Google has changed the way it treats nofollow links and since we don’t want to send 7 links to Google translator site I had them as nofollow links. Nofollow links now destroy PR/link benefit (for the Google search engine) so should be avoided at all costs now!!
Removed all nofollow links I could from the theme. Login links are now created by using a form button, since Google doesn’t follow form buttons of the type I used they won’t treat them as links. This will protect a lot of lost link benefit.
I also removed the RSS comment links from specific post, for two reasons. 1. I had them as nofollow links before Google made the nofollow changes, so I had to remove the nofollow. 2. If we allowed Google to index this links we’d be wasting a lot of link benefit for little gain. I don’t know of many people of follow comments on specific post and there’s always the main RSS comments feed which shows all recent comments.
Speaking of which I removed nofollow from the main RSS links (comment and posts feeds). There’s a small risk of SERPs damage doing this, so if you notice your comments feeds ranking better than your main posts let me know (happened to me once a while back).
Have reinstated the ability for our blog readers to add their URL to a comment, but have replaced the author link with a form button link (as described above). This means our commenter’s can have a clickable link, but we don’t loose link benefit. Default WordPress themes use nofollow on comment links, so the PR/link benefit associated with comment links is lost!! You can see these links in action on this comment, my link is a form link.
Still got a fair amount to do, so not sure when I’ll release this. Because I’ve made so many changes I’m going to consider this version 04, don’t worry though will be sending it out free to all version 03 customers. When I finally get this finished ideally you’d install it from scratch as a new theme and rebuild your widgets menu since I’ve renamed the widgets to make it easier to setup a blog wit SEO/AdSense in mind (easier to copy what I do).
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
As mentioned in the post above there’s a problem with using the Reply to comments function (comment_reply_link).
It’s nofollow again, WordPress development has for reasons I don’t understand added a nofollow attribute to the Reply to links. This means if you have a heavily commented blog you could have hundreds if not thousands of these Reply links! I have a site on jokes that’s got almost 700 comments on just one of the jokes pages! You could very easily throw away half your link benefit through these links!
I have a temporary solution, you edit a core WordPress file which removes the nofollow attributes. I’ve been hesitant to release a themes with the Reply to comments functions enabled because currently (WordPress 2.8.3) it will require a WordPress hack of the main core files, but I have to update the themes, so have no choice.
When I release this theme I’ll include the hacked file (just one file needs changing).
I’ve been trying to get WordPress development team to change this bug, but no luck so far, tried 3 ways:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/287704?replies=1
http://codex.wordpress.org/Talk:Template_Tags/comment_reply_link
http://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/10550
If filosofo in the trac ticket creates a patch to remove the nofollow hopefully it will be incorporated into WordPress 2.8.4, until then to use the comment_reply_link function it is strongly advised to hack the core WordPress file wp-includes/comment-template.php to remove the nofollow attribute.
I also have a few other things I want to add to my themes, since links within comments are nofollow I’m going to take a crack at turning them into form button links. I can definitely do it by hacking core WordPress files, but for you guys I like to keep it all at theme level.
Hopefully I’ll get this release out later this month.
Wish me luck
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Another comment to show the new nesting of comments I’ve added to Talian with AdSense /SEO version 4.
Been working on the new code for the Talian theme for days now and you would not believe the pain in the … it’s been! I’m trying to keep to the original Talian theme look as much as possible since it’s a nice WordPress theme design, this makes it far harder to add new WordPress features than compared to dealing with a theme that was no set look.
Had real trouble getting the alternating colours on the comments to work in a way I was happy with, I wanted them to look slightly different to how they are now, but there was no way to achieve this: I wanted the white/mustard colour blocks to end as the next child comment started, currently the colour surrounds all child comments (looking online all other WordPress themes do it this way, so guess there’s no easy way to get a different look).
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Also I’ve had MAJOR issues with the form/button links background colour on comments (like the Template Creator links) because Internet Explorer is rubbish at CSS! I want what it looks like now, the links background colours blend into the comments background (white or mustard).
Now with with FireFox it’s easy, just use inherit to inherit the background colour of the Li element the form/button link is within.
Internet Explorer is so crap it ignores inherit and so it gave the standard grey background colour for a button link!
In the end I had to write 30 lines of CSS code instead of 4 lines! Had to repeat the CSS code for each child comment depth, which leads to a small problem (that I bet no one will notice, but I’m a perfectionist!).
If you set “Enable threaded (nested) comments X levels deep” and X is 6 or more some author links will have the wrong background colour (white when it should be mustard and mustard when it should be white).
I could add more lines of CSS code to deal with levels 6, 7, 8 etc… but it bloats the CSS file, so I suggest you stick to the default 5 nested comments like you see on this site.
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Just went to a LOT of hassle to convert the comments about the Talian theme into how they probably would have been threaded if comment threading was available 2+ years ago.
This took editing the database directly, loads of fun searching for specific comment IDs then working out which comments should be related to each other and linking them together.
I must be MAD!
You can truly see how the nested comments feature works now.
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Wasn’t happy with the top navigation links for the Talian theme. Basically original Talian had the header area split in two (via CSS floats), on the left was the name of the site and the blog description and on the right the search box and the orange navigation button links.
This meant only half the width of the theme could be used for the navigation links, which didn’t make sense.
So rewrote the code and now the orange navigation buttons can stretch across the entire Talian themes width (almost anyway, about 990px in total). With Talian with SEO/AdSense version 4.0 we can now add 8 to 10 navigation links depending on the anchor text on those links.
Can’t get over how many CSS floats are used in the original Talian theme, I must have already deleted 20 to 30 CSS floats that aren’t really needed!
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
This update sounds awesome! Just to make sure I did not miss the email, Can you post the last date the Talian was upgraded? Then I’ll go check my email to make sure I am up to date. Thanks
Wow! Looks like you’ve been busy since my last visit! I’ve tried to remove the ‘register’ link from the meta section but no luck. I want people to register so must keep it optioned in the WP dashboard but don’t want it on view to the general public, just those I invite.
In left_sidebar.php I removed this:
but it didn’t make any difference. Help please!
Also I did’nt know about the google nofollow thing so I’m looking forward to your updated version 4! I’m always running latest wordpress & as far as I know I’ve had no problems with the automatic upgrade option & my current theme.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
The code didn’t come through, but if you are using widgets for your menu (most people do now) the sidebar files are not where the code you need to edit is.
Assuming you are using widgets edit functions.php, look for-
And delete it.
That’s my SEO version of the register link which in Talian version 3 is nofollow. In Talian version 4 (which I hope to release this month) it’s a post form which should help with the automated spam bots that signup to WordPress blogs via register links showing. Since it’s a post form they shouldn’t find it anymore.
For pasting code snippets on a page using the code tag (without the spaces I added below) like this:
< code>
code here
< /code>
Is meant to work, but it fails a lot of the time. For the above PHP code I used pre tags (again minus the spaces):
< pre>
code here
< /pre>
to surround the PHP code and it seems to work better, pre will add spaces sometimes like there was no space before the ? in the code above.
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hello again, not using any widgets but tried your functions fix without luck. Here’s the left sidebar code I deleted with spaces, located almost at bottom of page:
Any other ideas?
Try adding pre /pre (with the > signs) tags around the code you want to show, should come through then.
I took a look at your site and I only see a login link (wp-login.php, will be the Site Admin link when logged in) which you’d still expect to see after removing the register link code.
If you don’t want the login link either, remove the login link code as well (remove the entire meta code if you like and remember to type wp-login.php after your domain name to login).
Regarding widgets I strongly advise learning how to use them (very easy). You could then remove the meta code completely without having to ever edit your code. The only major issue for you as someone who edits the Talian theme is you might have to create some custom widgets for the stuff you’ve added to the sidebars. Rather than the sidebar files holding the code it’s in the function.php file when you use widgets.
I customize the themes all the time for specific sites, which makes updating a site a pain in the ass! In Talian version 4 I’ve made adding custom widgets much easier to make my life easier when updating 50+ WordPress installations.
Instead of editing the functions.php file (where you would put a widget and a lot of other code) I’ve added an extra file custom-widgets.php which holds only custom widgets. By using this file when Talian is updated it won’t remove custom sidebar coding since it will be in a separate file.
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi, just wondered how the new version is coming along & if you are closer to a release date. I’ve noticed a dip in rankings for my blog posts!
Been a bit busy with SEO clients, so not been able to find the time to pull it altogether yet.
Going to try to get it completed for the weekend, but can’t promise 100% though.
David Law
First of all, I’d like to thank you for this great theme.
I know the SEO job -- many components at the theme work wonder for the search engines ranking – so, as a satisfied customer, I recommend using this theme.
My questions –
* Do I have to buy the new version or do you send it as an update? How do I get it?
* Popularity Contest SEO Plugin doesn’t work properly nor the new popular post plugin with the theme version that I use – does the new version overcome this problem. Please advice.
* I have noticed a change you made to the font size (a good change). Have you also changed the central column width or the overall theme width? does this change go to the new version?
Please advice,
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi Nissam thanks for your kind words,
When I’ve fully tested Talian version 04 it will be sent out for free to all Talian version 03 customers automatically.
I’ve added some new features and need to write out detailed readme files that’s taking a while. Also need to clean up the code a bit. If I released it today it would work, but I’ll probably get a load of support requests, so holding on until I get those readme files written.
As WordPress has updated, some of the Plugins are playing up. The Popularity one works on some sites, but not others! I’ve found on a few sites if I’ve been using it for months through multiple upgrades as long as I don’t deactivate it, it works OK, but deactivate it or use it for the first time and I sometimes get an error! Been meaning to try to find an alternative that’s kept up to date, seems all the good plugins aren’t being updated!
Yes I changed the font size on Talian version 04, original Talian used fixed fonts which isn’t good for usability, so changed all fonts to fluid. I also made the theme wider, sidebars are the same, it’s as you’ve noticed the content area is wider.
What you see on this site is Talian 04 pretty much as it will be in the zip file I’ll send out (no Twitter widget on the sidebar, that’s manually added).
This http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/ is Talian 04 out the box, but with my wife creating 41 banners from Skegness images! As you can see the banner image changes as you change page or refresh. Default Talian 04 currently has 6 banner images which you can easily replace/add to or even reduce to one file (still got to explain how in the readme file).
This one http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ I did (got a little obsessed with UK politics) has 5 unique banner images. Everything is default Talian 04.
I’m going to try my best to get the theme zip file ready this week. Might pinch a few of my wife’s banners for the theme as well
David Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi David,
After visiting your wife’s blog, really I just feel like .. I can’t wait to get the 04.
+ I have some remarks:
I don’t like writing this to visitors here but anyway -- after 4 months, my blog is having 120k visits a month (even more) and sponsors are interested to advertise.
The most popular banners they want is the 125X125, in addition to some others at the sidebars.
The 125x125 banners come in 2 columns / 5 rows (you might see these in many blogs).
Can you include a manual option (or an explanation on how) to widen one/both sidebars + the theme?
P.S. Changing-banners is a great feature.
Another point is regarding the Meta categories descriptions -- I think it could be wise to include the WP description in addition to repeating the Category title. Just as the post Meta’s are presented.
Another point is about the pages:
It would be good to have an option not to include pages in the header -- not that critical.
Another idea is the option to replace the site picture with an advertizing banner (changing banner etc.) -- this can be great.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
P.S.
I managed to widen the sidebars and the content colums for the 03 version -- it wasn’t an easy task..still, 04 has many important features that I am waiting for.
Good news finally got Talian version 04 in a form I was happy to email out. Sorry about taking so long, had some personal things to deal with that’s really taken up my time recently (don’t worry no one died, just life getting in the way).
I’ve sent the update emails just now, so unless it gets filtered or something everyone who bought Talian 03 should have Talian 04 for free. If you don’t get it (getting some emails bouncing back, people changed email addresses) drop me an email with the email you used to order and I’ll change the email address for updates.
Please read the new readme files under the /readme/ folder, I’ve expanded out some explanations and tried to explain new features like the ability to add custom widgets for easier updates.
There’s also a zip file in that folder with a core WordPress file that you’d ideally use with WordPress 2.8.5 (only use with 2.8.5). It removes the nofollow links from the new “Reply to Comment” links (like you see below this comment): Google no longer honors nofollow, Google now deletes the link benefit nofollow used to conserve, so we have to avoid using nofollow from now on!
And in weird news
)
You may have noticed this site no longer has AdSense ads, Google AdSense banned this domain from the AdSense program because of the URL (Google AdSense is their trademark)!! I’ve emailed them a few times about it, but they haven’t even emailed back!!
Makes me want to incorporate another ad system into my themes, Chikita or something.
David Cameron Law
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Happy New Year David,
A quick question –
Can you suggest me on how to use wrapper in the CSS?
I’d like To get a fixed width “page wrapper” element to center at all window resolutions and in all modern browsers.
Thanks
Do you mean a CSS class that when you add the code to a post it centers?
Create a class like postcenter and add it to the end of the style.css file.
.postcenter {
width: 200px;
text-align: center;
}
Edit the width to the size you want.
And use the class in a post
Merry Christmas
David
Hi again!
Love the new Talian 04!
I think one of my plug-ins did something weird. And I now do not have a right sidebar on my home page at TracksAndTrails.ca -- I have uninstalled and reinstalled the theme, WordPress, Plugins, and even went to my host -- GoDaddy and rolled back the files a day. But I still do not have a right side bar….weird. All the other pages are fine.
One more thing, the google adsens 460 X 90 shows up but there is no linkage…weird -- I just disabled it.
I don’t expect you to have a solution but any thoughts are helpful
Thanks
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Looking at your site it appears one of the sidebars has dropped to the bottom of the page.
This can happen if something you’ve added to the sidebar is too wide, so look a those image links to see if they are too wide.
If not something like that and you’ve been doing custom code work run the site through a HTML validator (the W3C ones good:http://validator.w3.org/). If you have a lot of plugins, you’ll probably get a lot of errors and warnings, but most won’t be an issue. Look for things like closing div’s missing.
ran your page through the validator, take a look at:
Line 592, Column 5: start tag was here
You might have an extra opening div (difficult to tell without looking directly at any edited code). Might be a case of you’ve added an extra open div or missed a closing /div (easy mistake to make, done it myself a few times
).
The AdSense ad not showing is probably Google AdSense not having a relevant ad to show at the time. Probably would have shown ads eventually, 6 ad units now, sometimes there’s not enough ads to show.
Glad you like version 04 of Talian, I think it’s my best SEO work yet for WordPress by far.
BTW Tested Talian 04 on WordPress 2.9 and not found any issues.
Have a good Christmas and New Year.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Dear David,
I cannot thank you enough for the validating tip. A simple thing for you but priceless for me.
Everything is all better now.
Thank you so much!!!
In the least, such awesome service convinces me to keep your link on my site.
First, I want to appreciate you for this wonderful Talian wordpress theme.
I’m just trying it on a local server with wp 2.9
Once comment,
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Blogroll hover seems doesn’t work.
anyway, thank u you
Don’t understand what you mean by “Blogroll hover seems doesn’t work”?
David
Bought your new Talian 04 series theme last month and I saw a big improvement on my site. Your themes are the best. Sincere thanks.
Hey Mark,
Glad it helped make you more money.
Hope you had a good Christmas and New Year
David
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