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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574 responses to Talian WordPress SEO Theme
Hello,
I would appreciate knowing how to change the colors of this template, I feel it’s too dark for my particular niches and want to change the black into other lighter colors. I have tried through the wordpress theme editor as well as my cpanel but no changes happened. Please advice. Thanks.
Best regards,
Nasma
Didn’t you get my email answering this question yesterday?
There’s images under the themes folder /images/ that will need changing colour. Load them in something like Paintshop Pro and mess around until you get the colours you want. I did something for my wife’s site here http://www.fotoartglamour.com/
Then you’d need to edit the style.css file changing any colours, though I don’t think there’s much CSS to change (maybe none, might be all images). I don’t recall having to edit css for http://www.fotoartglamour.com/
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hello,
Thanks for your response. I didn’t receive the email you sent, I don’t know why. Anyway, I tried to change the colors, it’s just not working, so I was wondering whether you could do it for me for a fee? Please let me know as I would like to use this theme in most of my sites but would like different colors in all of them. Thanks.
Best regards,
Nasma
I don’t do custom work on the themes.
It’s not hard to change the image colours, they are pretty basic. Have you tried editing them in something like Paintshop Pro? They are really easy to change.
David
Hello,
I have tried changing the colors of the black header, but have not been able to, how is it done?. I was wondering if you can do it for me for a fee? Maybe you can offer different color options of the talian theme for sale? As the black and grey does not go with every niche. Please let me know if this is possible.Thanks.
Best regards,
Nasma
Your site http://fitnslim.org/ hasn’t got changed images, so though you’ve made CSS changes (edited the style.css file) you’ve not changed the actual image files to get a different look like I did at http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/
You have to go into the theme folder that you unzipped onto your computer.
Find the images under (this is offline, not on your website, probably on your C:\ drive),
\talian-adsense-seo-04\images\
In the folder on your hard drive you’ll find over 20 images. The important ones are:
headerbg.gif : the image for the header, black background with an orange and green stripe
footerbg.gif : the image for the footer, black background
h2navbg.gif : the image for the sidebar headings, black background with an orange and green stripe
You’ll need image editing software like PainshopPro or Photoshop (any program that can edit gif images) load these images into an image editing program and edit them.
The images are really simple, the footer one is all black, so replace the black with your choice of colour. The other two have a block of green at the top and orange at the bottom, rest is black with a little colour grading on the header image. Replace the black, green and orange bits with your choice of colour.
Save the three files and upload them over the images online using FTP (upload the whole theme, it’s easier). Make sure you refresh the page to check it’s worked in a browser (CTRL F5 usually works, if not clear your browser cache).
You could also change search_button.gif (the orange search button image). commented_v.gif the number of comments button.
Any other colour changes are through the style.css file that it looks like you’ve already figured out how to edit.
BTW if you want to pinch the blue images at http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/ feel free, easy to do download the images one by one from
http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-seo-04/images/
Wouldn’t bother me, but my wife (it’s her site) might slap you
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Thanks David! I will give it a go. I hope you will consider in the future to make the talian theme in different colors, will gladly buy several from you! Thanks again.
Bset wishes,
Nasma
For the Talian theme, would I be able to use it on multiple blogs once I purchased it?
Thanks.
You can use the theme on as many blogs as you like.
David
Question for current Talian 04 customers.
As you know I use Talian on a lot of my own sites, one is http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ that’s getting a lot of comments (over 3,000 and counting and it’s my newest site!).
If you’ve played around with comment threading (added in WordPress 2.7) you’ll find a comment thread can go as deep as 10 comments. Now before the above site I’d never had a thread go beyond 5 levels deep, on the above site I’ve got it set to 10 deep (max setting and threads are going 10 deep!).
With a comment thread that goes beyond about 5 levels deep using the default style.css file included with the Talian 04 theme the comments are way too cramped, so on the general election site I’ve made the border between comments a lot narrower and it works, but now the threading is less obvious.
Do many of you have sites like the one above with really deep comment threads and so would prefer the narrow styling by default or do you prefer the wider settings currently used?
Like I say I’ve only had this issue on the one site and currently running Talian 04 on every WordPress blog installation. So there’s a good chance no one else needs the narrow styling.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi David,
I’m just starting to use your theme. So far, so good. I seem to start loving this theme
(I’ve not seen Adsense results though).
I have an issue with my site in IE6 (I did not want to bother, but I noticed considerable amount of visitors using IE6). The issue is when using IE6 “the right sidebar drops to the bottom of the page.” (This does not happen with Firefox)
I used the validator you mentioned and I got this message:
‘Sorry, I am unable to validate this document because on line 529 it contained one or more bytes that I cannot interpret as utf-8 (in other words, the bytes found are not valid values in the specified Character Encoding). Please check both the content of the file and the character encoding indication. The error was: utf8 “\xC3″ does not map to Unicode’
I suspect that’s not the root of the issue, and these messages are because my site is in Spanish and it’s complaining for the accents (I’ll figure it out later)
Anyways, I thought creating another file called ie6.css then adding an extraline in the header.php (I’m not sure it’s the most educated solution but it was what I found in google and helped me out with another theme time ago). This is the extraline:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/ie6.css” media=”screen” type=”text/css” />
The ie6.css file would be a modified version of style.css where I’d be playing with the width of the right-sidebar or right-margin or right-whatever… this is where I need your help, please. I’m no sure what parameter I should play with. So the Q is: What parameter (in the style.css) could I play with in order to accomodate my right-side bar and prevent it from moving down?
Thanks in advance
Héctor
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
No problem “bothering me”
I no longer have IE6 installed, so I run the Talian theme through emulator programs like http://swedishfika.com/2009/03/29/need-to-test-your-website-in-ie6-its-easy-with-ietester/ and the only browser that I’ve had serious issues with is IE5.5 and as that’s really old, didn’t worry about it.
Based on your validator error it sounds like you might have something in one of your posts, a plugin or some custom code that’s throwing things off.
I get it myself from time to time when I try a new WordPress plugin and have to make minor code tweaks to make it work correctly with the theme.
You can sometimes narrow a problem down by checking the home page, multiple categories, multiple posts, multiple pages and if some work correctly and others don’t it’s probably one of your posts/pages. After that disabling plugins to rule out those.
If you’ve made custom changes to the Talian theme try uploading the unaltered theme files and see if the issue is resolved.
If you paste your URL that’s got the problem happy to take a look.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Found it! Thanks for your ideas. This is what I did in case can help somebody else.
1) Disabled all the plugins = problem remains.
2) Installed new fresh copy of the template = problem remains.
3) Then, moved my thought-problematic-template onto other site that I’m just starting = no problems in the other site. This was key
4) Back to my site: I made all my pages “draft” = problem remains
5) I started with widgets. Removing one by one, I noticed that a specific-widget I had added with a search-box in it, was causing my problem. This is the content of that search form (I have to fix it up, so I can add a search form in the side-bar instead of the header).
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="”>
Thanks
Héctor
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
So the issue is with the default search box widget.
I never use a widget search box with this theme, if I was going to I’d create a custom widget so the formatting didn’t mess up the sidebar.
David
I bought your new Talian theme last month and experienced a big jump in traffic. I am sure it was in a good part because of your theme. Hats off for a job well done. There is not reason anyone should not have your themes up and running on their blog. I am not saying that for any other reason than they work. Thank you.
Howdy Mr. Law.
My last issues are all worked out. Love the template.
Next question should be easier.
On the sitemap.php file what do I need to change to make it list the posts in alphabetical order. I have a lot of trails listed in each title of my posts and I would like visitors to be able to scroll down and spot a trail quickly.
Actually I would like my search function to list the results alphabetically instead of by date as well.
Cheerio then, have an awesome day!
oh one more thing, can you set this comment system so the commentor will be emailed when a new comment on this page is made. (I set my comments up on my site that way)
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Not too many questions then
Sitemap:
You’ll need to replace some of the code within sitemaps.php.
Find the code:
<?php $archive_query = new WP_Query('showposts=1000');
while ($archive_query->have_posts()) : $archive_query->the_post(); ?>
<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a> (<?php comments_number('0', '1', '%'); ?>)</li>
<?php endwhile; ?>
Replace with:
<?php wp_get_archives('type=alpha&limit=1000'); ?>
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
I don’t think it’s possible to order a search page alphabetically because it uses the same code that creates the home and other archive type pages. They are designed to order the results by date.
So if it is possible you’d have to use different code than the standard WordPress code I’ve used.
I tried a subscribe to comments type plugin not long ago (tested on another site), but when comments got past page one on a threaded comment page it broke! So it was OK as long as the page didn’t have more than one page of comments
I would like to use a subscribe to comments plugin as well, so if you use one that works let me know and I’ll set it up.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi David,
I ordered your theme yesterday but I still haven’t got the zip files yet. I think it has been 24 hours already, please do send me the files since I really like your work.
Thanks
Hi Daryl,
Theme was posted
Subject: Payment Received -- Theme Attached
From: AdSense Templates < ######google-adsense-templates.co.uk>
Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 07:13:48 +0000
I’ll send it again after writing this comment, if you don’t receive it, it would suggest my emails are being filtered at your end (happens way too often, keep getting PayPal disputes because of it!).
For anyone else that doesn’t receive their theme if your email address is blocking my emails I can’t contact you to inform you to supply an alternative email address. It’s rare for me not to get a theme out within 24 hours, so if you have a problem feel free to post a comment here so I can easily respond to you without needing email: you could also supply an alternative email address (by email, not a comment) indicating the original email address you used to order so I know you definitely ordered.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi David,
I finally got the email, thank you!
I really love your works, keep it up!
David, I’ve been using WP a long time, and just stumbled across your site. It is a shame it took me so long to find. You certainly know your SEO, and I commend you for giving so much valuable information away for free.
I have one question:
I am making a new site, that ordinarily I would have set up through Joomla. It is more based around static pages rather than posts. I was thinking of setting up a static homepage, and directing visitors to my other pages. The reason I am doing this is because I think that with this template and other SEO tips you give about WP my site will be very successful. Would few posts and very strong pages rank well, or should I go with Joomla?
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
I’ve not used Joomla extensively (tried it, preferred WordPress).
What you describe is similar to what I’m doing with this site. If you look at the home page I’ve got a static like home page which links to the WordPress themes. The links and images are added manually, but having a static home page is a WordPress option.
Regarding blog posts vs static pages, there’s not really a great deal of difference between them. Although WordPress is blogging software if you remove the date references (on this page you see “Posted on September 23rd, 2007″ near the top) it’s just like any other general CMS.
Quite easy to remove the date references, so you can use WordPress blog posts to create a non blog like site: to remove dates you’d use Widgets and not add the monthly archive widget, edit pages like single.php and page.php and remove the date reference (I should create a post about it).
WordPress also has the static like page posts as well (WordPress didn’t make it easy to describe the 2 types, ones called pages and the other posts!).
On the right menu of this site is a section “Pages” which lists all the sites static pages like the WordPress SEO Tutorial pages, with this type of page you can setup child pages under a page, for example under http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/seo-tutorial-for-wordpress I’ve so far added 4 child pages.
So as long as you understand how WordPress works there’s a lot you can achieve.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Clickbank Version of Talian WordPress SEO theme is in the works.
Over the weekend I started work on a Clickbank version of the Talian 04 theme, wrote a new post about it http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/clickbank-ready-wordpress-theme.html
I’ve got it running on this site since Google AdSense banned this domain for trademark reasons!
Will be very interesting to see which makes more money, Clickbank or AdSense, I suspect it’s going to be Clickbank IF the niche is right. I think a Clickbank theme will do really well on a site about making money online, SEO, AdSense, WordPress etc… niches that Clickbank covers well.
Will be installing the Clickbank theme on various domains to test out how well it does relative to AdSense.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
David,
I’d like to note that according to many experiments I made lately–
Combining AdSense with any sort of advertisement is a sure-fire way to lose CTR and therefore CPC.
I wouldn’t even consider using direct ads or CPM ads on the same boat.
Readers should be “concentrated” on your goal – clicks!
If using Affiliate like clikcbank or CJ, then I believe the blog should be focused only on these kinds of adverts, otherwise readers will be confused and leave.
What do you think?
Did you use the same method?
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
I’ve not extensively tested what happens when you mix say AdSense with Clickbank since I’ve tended to put AdSense on everything.
I’m currently working on a combined version of Talian 04 with AdSense and Clickbank which you can see a working example at http://www.warcraft-world.co.uk/
World of Warcraft is a pretty good Clickbank niche, so having themed Clickbank ads similar to AdSense ads might work out well, then again might work better to drop AdSense completely (plan to test). I think it’s going to come a lot down to niche, for example I don’t think I’d put Clickbank ads on a travel site as AdSense ads do really well, but I have some high traffic site with pathetic AdSense income (7 cents a click AND a low CTR because the ads don’t match well!!!) where Clickbank might blow AdSense income out of the water.
It’s about testing each site one by one, I expect some will work better with just AdSense others just Clickbank and others with both. The new Talian version I’m working on will give all three options in one theme.
I guess long term I could move towards having one theme with all the major advertising platforms available.
I think I’m the first to create a theme with integrated Clickbank and AdSense ads AND it’s really easy to setup by the user.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Talian WordPress SEO Theme Review
Hi David,
Today I passed 12,500 visitors a day with Talian version adsense/SEO 03!!
I have started working on the blog on may2009, so it’s only 7 months since – barely a toddler blog.
With so many CSS style changes I have made with version 03, I have to spend weeks moving/adapting to 04.. but it is only my fault. I couldn’t wait for the 04.
I strongly recommend readers using this theme because of it’s SEO wise (also AdSense placement, but the drawback of lacking the channels tracking made me use adsense differently).
My blog is made following many of your SEO guidance/tricks and I am grateful.
Cheers,
Ziv
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Just bought the Talian, everything is working very smoothly. I also checked out the SEO plugins page as suggested in the email you sent. I was wondering what you think of All-in-One SEO Package. I have used it in the past, and have not been all that pleased….maybe I do not configure it well.
Would you suggest I use it?
WordPress All in One SEO Plugin and Other SEO Plugins
The WordPress All in One SEO Plugin is not needed with this theme, there’s nothing important in the plugin not already included by default.
If you do use the All in One SEO Plugin you’ll need to delete the default themes Meta Keywords and Meta Description tags in the header.php file otherwise you get two sets (won’t break anything, just a waste of bandwidth).
The WordPress SEO Plugins list is soon to be updated, completely rewritten as some of the plugins I recommend are no longer supported by their original authors.
Found a really good replacement for the Alinks plugin for example called SEO Smart Links from http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-smart-links (found a bug in the plugin, but it’s not major). Take a look at the pages with comments at http://www.seo-gold.com/ and http://www.seo-consultant-services.co.uk/ you’ll find the SEO Smart Links plugin can replace keywords within comments to your pages (the Alinks plugin only added links to posts and pages).
If any of you want a quick heads up of which plugins I’ll probably be recommending, (not 100% set on the list yet) here’s a quick list:
http://www.wesg.ca/2008/08/wordpress-widget-most-popular/ (I’ve had to edit the plugin code to make it work with this theme though as the widget it creates doesn’t use the themes formatting). The replaces the Popular Posts plugin that is no longer updated and doesn’t always work.
https://redmine.sproutventure.com/projects/show/search-everything : a WordPress search will find the words in comments etc… A feature that really should be core WordPress.
http://ducedo.com/remove-links-in-comments/ this is pretty good SEO wise, (a must have now) it turns links in comments to just text (as you can see with the links in this comment). This is very important now as WordPress by default converts the links above into text links with a rel=nofollow tag that DESTROYS link benefit (stupid Google).
http://www.nkuttler.de/wordpress/nkmovecomments/ Useful for moving your comments around and putting them in the right threads.
http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-pagenavi I’ve edited version 04 of Talian to work with the original authors plugin code, so no need to use my version anymore, which though sill works fine is not up to date.
http://lesterchan.net/portfolio/programming/php/#wp-sticky Useful if you want to sticky important blog posts so they are always at the top of a category page etc… I use it on http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ the election poll is sticky so it’s always at the top of the home page.
http://tweetmeme.com/about/plugins Allows you to post to Twitter with a single button click, not sure why but the Tweetme button doesn’t show on blog posts and pages with my Talian theme. I have a fix which I need to include in an update. The fix is add <?php echo tm_generate_button();?> to the page.php and single.php just above the code <?php the_content() ;?>
http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/smart-youtube makes adding YouTube videos much easier to add to your own posts and gives your users the ability to add videos to comments. Requires teaching your visitors how to use the plugin, as I did here http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/add-youtube-video-comments but it can work, see http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/political-videos.html for it in action.
Still using my versions of SEO Post-Teaser and SEO Related Posts, have not found better alternatives and I’ve not had any problems with them.
I might not include all this in the SEO Plugins page since they aren’t all related to SEO, they are plugins I currently use on multiple sites.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Thanks for all that information David. I look forward to you updating the plugin list. Will you provide downloads with the adjustments built-in to the plugins?
Thank you for your great customer service.
WordPress SEO Popular Posts Plugin
Yes I’ll upload zip files to the site for the plugins I have to edit.
I’ve listed above the ones that will need some adjustment by me, the rest can be downloaded from the original author and they should work fine with Talian 04 now.
So from the list above it’s just this one http://www.wesg.ca/2008/08/wordpress-widget-most-popular/ that needs editing by me first and that’s because the original author hasn’t used the correct widget coding (it assumes you use a H2 header and not what is actually used as a header for widgets: most themes use H2, Talian 04 uses span for SEO reasons). Also with the version of Talian 04 I last sent out the css clashes with the formatting of the number of comments listed (drops to the next line), fix is in the works for an update.
I’ve been playing around with another plugin called SEO Super Comments http://www.prelovac.com/vladimir/wordpress-plugins/seo-super-comments with this I’ve made some MAJOR code changes to the SEO Super Comments plugin to get it how I want it (big SEO improvements over the original) to make pages like this http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/who-will-you-vote-for-in-the-2010-general-election-poll.html?cid=3839
Basically comments get their own page, it’s far from perfect SEO wise for example the title is created from the first words of the comment, but on a well commented site it can add a lot of new pages.
I plan to incorporate this plugin into the next update of Talian 04. It’s so highly customised the plugin code I use would only work with Talian 04, so I’ll bundle it in with the zip file as it’s only usable by Talian 04 customers.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Is there an easy way to accommodate a large number of pages? If I have a site with say 20 pages what is the best solution: 1) change the css so there is not overlap across the top? 2) change the code to have only three or four pages (or none) and the rest represented on the side bar?
WordPress Exclude Pages From Navigation Menu
I use option 2 Mark.
If you load the header.php file into a text editor and find:
wp_list_pages(‘sort_column=menu_order&title_li=&depth=1&exclude=’)
The exclude= bit can be used to exclude pages from the top navigation menu.
You read of the Page IDs from the edit page section under your Dashboard, what I do is hover over the edit link to read the ID numbers and add them like:
exclude=1,17,34
Those Page IDs won’t show on the navigation menu.
I’ve also got it setup so child pages are not shown (thanks to the depth=1 bit) on the navigation menu, so if pages are under a parent they won’t show up by default.
I then have the Pages widget on one of the sidebars to list the excluded and child pages. I’m thinking about added a third sidebar that will go above the footer, some of my sidebars get a bit crowded and would be nice to have a place to put some over flow: not high priority feature.
The WordPress SEO Tutorial pages are created that way http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/seo-tutorial-for-wordpress there’s four child pages under it.
When I made Talian 04 I made it so the navigation menu could hold more links than before, Talian 03 it was around 4 links if the anchor text wasn’t too big, with Talian 04 it’s around 7 links. If you plan to have LOTS of pages you might want to consider deleting the automatic navigation menu and create it manually. I Use a combination of automated navigation links and manual at http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ for example (the poll link isn’t even a Page, it’s a normal Blog Post and the Forum link is added manually).
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi,
I’d like to start an experiment of using clickbank hopfeed. I have the code and it works OK.
I have noticed that you change/use the hopfeed clickbank keyword per the title of the page (where the hopfeed is presented).
Can you please guide me how you implement this technique?
I sthere an online hopfeed generator?
Thanks,
does this theme come with a robots.txt file to avoid duplicate content issues, or should purchasers look into this?
WordPress Duplicate Content and Canonical URLS
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 SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
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 SEO Talian 5 Theme Custom Colours
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 SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
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