Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme

Nathan Roe

Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 12th, 2010 at 23:20)

Do you have any idea why my adsense advertisements would show up blank?

Thank you

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 12th, 2010 at 23:57)

I think it’s the lack of unique content on your site, most of the pages of the current site have no content. Looks like this has resulted in only the charitable ads being shown (public services ones) and AdSense is only showing one per page.

Add some content and it should sort itself out (eventually).

David

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Billy Roberts

Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 15th, 2010 at 06:39)

Hi,
I am having a problem with the theme i bought from you.Here is the error.public_html/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-seo-04/404.php on line 15
[13-Feb-2010 20:43:53] PHP Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_ENDIF in

Thanks, Billy Ps.the theme looks great.

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 15th, 2010 at 16:57)

You’ve found a code bug in the 404.php file

I’ve had the Google Toolbar setup not to show the default 404 error pages, so never cropped up for me.

Very easy to fix.

Open the 404.php file in a text editor and find the line with

< ?php endif; ?>

It’s about 10-12 lines from the bottom, and delete the entire line.

Save, upload and it will work correctly.

I’m not going to send out a fix right now for this as looking back it’s been in the code for over a year, I’ll include the fix in the next update.

Thinking about it might make sense to change the 404.php page into a short sitemap a bit like http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/google-adsense-sitemap maybe latest 10 comments and 10 posts/pages.

David

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- Dana Bincer
  Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (May 27th, 2010 at 03:31)
  
  Awesome. Thanks for posting this fix. Beautiful!
  
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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 17th, 2010 at 21:54)

David,

How much trouble is it to change the pictures at the top of each page to something more niche specific?

Dave

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 17th, 2010 at 23:40)

Changing the banners is easy, I include instructions with the theme how to change the banners to your own images and how to change the number of images as well.

My wife struggles with computers, but made the banners for:

http://www.chileblogs.com/
http://www.fotoartglamour.com/
http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/

I think she has made about 150 now!

I’m useless at art, made the ones at http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ from various images I found online.

So as long as you can make or acquire banners, it’s easy.

David

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- Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 17th, 2010 at 23:55)
  
  David,
  
  Great! I really love the color scheme of the fotoart and skegness-attractions blogs. Is that customizable also within the Talian theme?
  
  I placed an order already!
  
  Thanks!
  
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    Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 18th, 2010 at 02:09)
    
    The blue Talian colour requires a few modifications, though I have no problems with you taking the image files from those sites.
    
    There’s one minor change in the style sheet
    
    http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-04/style.css
    
    I’ve labeled the one change as
    
    #blue (I changed the colour code from #000000 to #191B73)
    
    In that file above, so if anyone wants another colour for the background (original Talian #000000) that’s the one colour to change to match the colour of whatever images you create for the header area (like the ones below headerbg.gif).
    
    and the images
    
    http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-04/images/footerbg.gif
    http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-04/images/h2navbg.gif
    http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-04/images/headerbg.gif
    http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/wp-content/themes/talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-04/images/navmenubg.gif
    
    Everything else is default theme for http://www.skegness-attractions.co.uk/.
    
    Feel free to use those images and the style sheet above (download it), upload them over the original files.
    
    If I ever find the time I’ll try to sort out a few alternative colours as downloads or something. I’ve seen a few themes with the ability to change colours from an options page, but the Talian theme is already heavy on code for the AdSense and SEO code, so hesitant to add more.
    
    BTW sent your order out hours ago. The email address you used (a free one) sometimes has problems with my emails getting blocked as SPAM! So if it hasn’t already arrived drop me an email (I can receive your emails from that address) with another email address and I’ll resend.
    
    David
    
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    - Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 18th, 2010 at 03:06)
      
      David,
      
      Thank you for all of that information. Very kind of you.
      
      I haven’t received the zip file yet. I will try to contact you via email and give you a couple of options to send it to.
      
      Dave
      
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        Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 18th, 2010 at 05:19)
        
        It’s the comcast email address that’s the issue, looks like my emails from my dedicated servers been blocked!
        
        Really irritating as I think the issue is I have a few domains I use email with and because I accept email from any address for those domains (anything@domain.com) from them it’s causing issues with spammers using them as return addresses with the anything@ as random words!
        
        Anyway, have sent the theme again to the first alternative email address, it should get through.
        
        Heading off to sleep now (5am in the UK), if it doesn’t get to you LMK and I’ll temporarily upload it somewhere so you can get it. I’m getting your emails fine BTW.
        
        David
        
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        Dave
        Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 18th, 2010 at 20:51)
        
        David,
        
        I received the Theme today. Thank you so very much for your excellent customer service.
        
        I do share your problem with the catch-all email issues. It’s a very frustrating issue.
        
        Dave
        
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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 18th, 2010 at 06:09)

David,
Is there a way to change the top putsomeimage to a banner with a link to advertisment/homepage etc.
ziv

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 19th, 2010 at 01:10)

Yes it would be possible and I made it a lot easier to achieve when I put the code for that part of the theme into the landscape-images.php file.

To replace the banner with something else replace the entire contents of the file with whatever code you want to use instead.

You could add a AdSense ad for example. At http://www.free-funny-jokes.com/ (banned from AdSense program) I put a Clicksor ad in that space.

You can also remove the banner bit completely as well, delete the content of the file and upload a blank file.

David

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 18th, 2010 at 20:53)

Hello,
been a while. I was wondering if this is a free upgrade as I brought the older version. I just upgraded to the latest wordpress & now my adsense ads dont show in the right sidebar for new posts. My blog:
http://www.aid-renegade.com

Cheers.

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 18th, 2010 at 21:04)

Can’t think of any reason why version 03 of Talian wouldn’t work in WordPress 2.9 (your site looks OK at first view).

Version 04 of Talian is a free upgrade to all version 03 customers and you should have got the updated theme a while back (might have sent it out twice by now).

Anyway, have resent the theme to the email address you ordered with, LMK if you have any problems.

David

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- Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 18th, 2010 at 22:49)
  
  Cheers! Problem solved! just did a test post to see if the ads were coming through in new posts & they are. this link is one of 2 posts that had problem.
  
  http://www.aid-renegade.com/2010/02/been-a-while-time-for-some-non-pc-jokes/
  
  They were ‘nothing’ posts anyway so not bothered that problem was brought through upgrade. And yes, I did remember to add my google id….. You’re still number one with the customer service!
  
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    Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (February 19th, 2010 at 00:25)
    
    Another Talian theme customer reported the same problem with a site that didn’t have much content on it.
    
    What’s happening is Google AdSense is not finding any paying advertisers for the page so showing the charity ads (public service ads). I didn’t realise this until recently, but it appears they will only show one ad on a page where they show the public service ads (so the rest are blank).
    
    You’ll note it’s that floating content ad that’s showing an ad, that’s because code wise it’s the first ad loaded when a page loads.
    
    I really should come up with something so we can have an easy use alternative ad rather than public ads. Maybe a link to the home page of the site or even a blank page or interesting image.
    
    BTW I have some non PC jokes pages with the same issue, or did have until Google AdSense banned my jokes site from the AdSense program. Using Clicksor on it now and not making as much money, from AdSense the site made ~$260 from AdSense in the first 18 days of November, first 18 days of Feb (very similar level of traffic) the sites made ~$210, but I’ve had to make it look more spammy with pop unders (most money from pop unders!). If it wasn’t for pop up blockers the site would be making more money via Clicksor as only about a 1/3 of impressions are allowing a pop under.
    
    Forgot to include Chitika revenue from the site (running those ads as well) which adds $24 more, so not that far of AdSense after all.
    
    David
    
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Rachel

Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 4th, 2010 at 09:44)

Hi David,
I would like to ask a CSS question. I’d want to float down the left sidebar (move it) while the visitor scrolls down the page for making him see the left adverts while scrolling the post.

It could be one of the followings on the sidebarbox , but I’m not sure:
position: fixed bottom: 10px;
or position: relative bottom: 10px;
or something similar.
Any suggestions?

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 5th, 2010 at 04:48)

The CSS to float an ad over the content isn’t complex as long as you don’t want a Close type link with it. If you do want a Close link you’ll need to look for more complex CSS code and maybe javascript (not sure if you can in just CSS).

Edit functions.php and find the code for the ad unit you want to float. I’d probably use the one below widget_mytheme_myAdvertsClearBG as it doesn’t have a header saying Adverts and has no background (so just the content AdSense ad unit).

If you use that one change the inline CSS code associated with the div from:

<div style="text-align: center;">

To something like

<div style="position:fixed; left:3px; bottom:15px;">

and see how it looks (I didn’t test it, but should work with a 200 x 200 ad unit).

Should be positioned at the bottom left with a little left padding and bottom padding.

If you change the left and bottom numbers you’ll be able to position it exactly where you want it.

Note this is going to hover over your left menu and won’t be removable. I’d use a smallish ad unit size like a 200 x 200 ad unit. To change to that one edit adsense.php and find

$SidebarAd

And change the first number in that line to 12 so you have:

$SidebarAd = array(12,2,0,0,2);

David

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 5th, 2010 at 03:04)

Hi David,

I want to test something…

1) Is it possible to change the banners (actually remove them) and in place to put adsense? Of course, I’ll have to remove other to avoid more than 3 showing up and be complaint with Google.

2) How difficult is to use channels for each adsense ad? I have a channel for my domain, but was curious about using channel for each ad.

Thanks

Hey, btw great template! I like testing, and I have tested this template in my blog (hey not only using it but I’m testing it) and I’m very satisfied. I highly recommend it.

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 5th, 2010 at 03:42)

Replacing the banner with an AdSense ad unit.

Removing the banners is really easy, edit the landscape-images.php and delete everything.

Easiest way to ad an AdSense content ad unit that matches the theme would be to create an ad the size you want (468 x 60 ad unit would work) for one of the other content ad units on the theme, view source of a page and copy the code to the landscape-images.php file.

Or copy the code below and add your Google AdSense pub id

<div style="text-align:center; padding-bottom:10px;"> <script type="text/javascript"> google_ad_client = "pub-111111111111"; google_alternate_ad_url = ""; google_ad_width = "468"; google_ad_height = "60"; google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; google_ad_type = "text_image"; google_ad_channel = ""; google_color_border = "FFFFFF"; google_color_bg = "FFFFFF"; google_color_link = "000000"; google_color_url = "4D4D4D"; google_color_text = "4D4D4D"; google_ui_features = "0"; //--> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div>

Also edit adsense.php and disable one of the content ads so only three are shown (your custom one and two from the theme). If you disable the bottom content ad take into account you’ll have to disable it several times as the ad can be formatted differently for different types of pages (archives etc…)

David

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 5th, 2010 at 04:03)

Individual AdSense channel IDs for each ad unit isn’t possible with the Talian theme files I’ve sent out so far. You can only have one AdSense channel per installation.

I’ve solved how to achieve individual channels for each ad unit recently (wasn’t easy) and will be adding it to the next Talian update. It wouldn’t be possible for you to add channels to the Talian theme files you have unless you know how to rewrite a lot of code (it was rewrite of some code).

Been really busy with SEO clients recently, so can’t give a firm date for the update, but it’s not just AdSense channels I’m adding.

I worked on a Clickbank version of this theme (first made one with Clickbank, then one with Clickbank and AdSense in one Talian theme). While I was working on the code started adding more features. I want to start a membership site and sell all the themes as part of the membership pack (so all themes on this site for one price), but been really busy so put it on hold.

I plan to add many of the improvements to Talian with AdSense only (so the version you have now) in the meantime, (until I get around to creating a membership site etc….) just need to find the time to do it.

Features include.

AdSense channels for all 6 ad units.

Better canonical URL handling.

Incorporated support for an improved version of a plugin called SEO Super Comments. This plugin + the Talian theme creates links to pages like http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-talian-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html/comment-page-4?cid=21142 my version is better optimised than the original (original plugin didn’t work with Talian!).

If you have a well commented site this plugin turns your bigger comments into pages (there will be a link at the bottom of this comment to this content on it’s own, click it to see). It means your comments can increase traffic to your site in their own right.

So it’s coming, I just need to find time to pull it altogether.

David

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Rachel

Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 5th, 2010 at 12:06)

Thank you David,
Brilliant! It works just fine.
Rachel

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Andy

Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 6th, 2010 at 10:41)

Hi David

I have a question about targetted adsense ads on the homepage. If you go overto my website you will see that the adsense ads served are related to ‘Reading’ rather than general hobbies which I was expecting. I have just one article (a static page) as my front page entitled ‘Hobby Ideas .. everyone needs a hobby’ and my article is targetted to the Hobby Ideas keyword.
I have done some experimenting and found that if I use the exact same content/article on an inner page and/or post then targetted ads show up. Therefore targetting is working fine on inner pages but not on the homepage even though the article is the same. Any ideas why this night be?

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 6th, 2010 at 15:31)

The AdSense targeting is based on the content the Google AdSense spider spidered when you added AdSense to the page and loaded it for the first time.

Your site is relatively new and the Google cache shows a page from February with no content using another theme (no AdSense).

If you added AdSense to your blog before adding the current home page content, the AdSense spider will use that content as the basis for ads to serve also at first the ads aren’t always very good anyway.

When you add new content the AdSense spider has to reanalyse the content and determine new ads and it isn’t done in real time. This is why you can have poorly targeted ads on a site at first, takes time for Google AdSense to determine what a page is about and if you change the content of a page it takes time for the spider to pick up the changes and server new ads.

I’m guessing the home page didn’t look like it does now prior to adding AdSense or it’s just because you’ve added AdSense for the first time recently (or a combination of the two).

Sometimes ads aren’t very good, especially in a niche with not a lot of money from the advertisers. Classic literature (a niche I have a lot of content in) is awful AdSense wise, all the cheap ads show up because no advertisers are willing to pay a lot of money for that content.

David

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- Andy
  Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 6th, 2010 at 20:44)
  
  David -- thank you so much for the detailed reply and taking the time to have a look. Makes perfect sense now I think about it … also explains why a brand new page is well targetted.. you have a customer for life
  
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Rachel

Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 15th, 2010 at 05:24)

Hi David,
for SEO prospective -- what is the reason for inserting the blog name & description between span and p rather then H1/H2.

see here:
<a href=”http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk”>SEO/AdSense Ready WordPress 2.9 Themes</a> AdSense templates and themes for WordPress and Blogspot blogs
wouldn’t it be better using H1 (in addition to the title of post).
thnaks

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 15th, 2010 at 12:24)

That’s a major SEO feature of the WordPress themes I sell.

If you’ve done a little bit of SEO research you’ll probably understand H1 is important SEO wise and it should ideally be used once on a page and include the main SERPs for that page ONLY (not main SERPs for the site, but the SERPs for the page you are on).

So this page we are on now should have a H1 header that says something about Talian, SEO, WordPress Themes, AdSense… as those are the main SERPs.

If you view source of this page you’ll find the H1 header (only one of them) is the title of the post. This is true of every blog post and blog page for all my SEO themes, so as long as you include your keywords in the title of a page/post it’s added to the H1 header.

This is generally not true of other WordPress themes (there’s the odd one or two now that do this as well, but they are very rare).

However, since the name of a blog is usually the SERPs the home page of the blog is aimed at, you still want the name of the blog as a H1 header on the home page. If you view source of the home page of http://www.45-year-old-millionaire.co.uk/ (which uses a standard WordPress archived home page, latest 10 posts, the Google AdSense home page uses a WordPress feature that takes a WordPress Static Page as the home page) you will find the name of the blog is within a H1 header. This is also true of monthly archive pages if you use them with Talian with SEO/AdSense theme (I never use monthly archives for SEO reasons).

Since you only want one H1 header with your main keywords for that page only, the usual WordPress theme design with the name of the blog as a H1 header on every page and post names in H2 is a bad SEO design (Talian was originally designed this way).

With a bit of complex WordPress theme coding and CSS you can achieve what you see with version 04 of Talian. One H1 header per page, with all themes on this site the H1 header is:

Home page -- name of blog
Monthly archive pages -- name of blog
Category -- name of category
Tags -- name of tag
Search -- search query
Page -- title of page
Post -- title of post

The only way to improve this would be to remove the H1 header from the theme for Page and Posts and manually add a custom H1 header on all pages and posts, but the idea of using a CMS like WordPress is to automate as much as possible. Talian 04 is the best SEO setup you can get in an automated way.

On most WordPress themes the H1 is

Home page -- name of blog
Monthly archive pages -- name of blog
Category -- name of blog
Tags -- name of blog
Search -- name of blog
Page -- name of blog
Post -- name of blog

With the real SERPs in a H2 (if you are lucky) for most page types, which is not good SEO wise.

BTW Good SEO question, it’s a shame WordPress development (the themes shipped with WordPress have the H1 issue) and WordPress theme creators don’t ask these questions. That being said if everyone knew what I know and used that info there would be no need for my SEO themes

David

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Nathan Roe

Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 19th, 2010 at 01:10)

David, I am very pleased with the template! I do have a couple of questions though…..

In my “related searches” adsense section, the adsense box is a different color than the back ground. How do I make those colors the same?

Currently I have my permalinks set to /%category%/%postname%/ This makes my keywords repeat alot…is that possible made. ie “http://painupper.com/arm-pain-upper/pain-upper-back-shoulder/” Does this possibly dilute the keywords in it? Would you suggest just “/%postname%/”?

Finally: I noticed that you have pages that are not on the top tabs of your site. How do you do this?

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 19th, 2010 at 01:34)

The AdSense background colour can be changed via the adsense.php file.

Specifically this line:
```
$Googlebg = "FFFFFF"; #Background colour
```
Currently this changes all the AdSense ad units backgrounds, so if you changed it to match the sidebar mustard like colour, the ad units within the main content would have that background colour as well.

It’s on the list of improvements I want to add, so the sidebar ad units can have a different colour scheme.

I have provided sidebar ad units with no header and background at all, so the “Related Searches” ad unit won’t have the “Related Searches” heading or the mustard colour background (just white background). You can use a heading free/white background ad unit via the widgets menu.

You can see an example on the left menu of http://www.elvincountry.com/ where the content ad unit has no heading.

Will answer the permalinks question in another comment.

David

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 19th, 2010 at 02:05)

Your WordPress permalinks setup could have a slight negative SEO impact on deep pages main SERPs, all depends on each pages SERPs and if they are related to the categories.

It is a small impact and if you’ve got a setup like you have, not worth changing it now.

In a perfect world when targeting a SERP the URL would include just that SERP, extreme example would be something like if you was after a SERP like “Google AdSense Templates” the ideal URL would be

google-adsense-templates.tld

After you go deeper than the home page your ideal URL setup would be for a SERP like “SEO WordPress Themes” on the above domain:

google-adsense-templates.tld/seo-wordpress-themes

Basicaly as short as what covers the main SERP, IF you are concentrating mostly on one SERP per page.

I target more than one SERP per page quite a bit, I’ll target a main SERP like “SEO WordPress Themes” and some related SERPs like “Premium SEO WordPress Themes” and so I might go with a URL like:

google-adsense-templates.tld/premium-seo-wordpress-themes

The problem with your setup (as you’ve suspected) it has the potential to add words within the URL not that related to the pages SERP.

If my example above was in the category “Products” the URL would be:

google-adsense-templates.tld/products/premium-seo-wordpress-themes

Admittedly I wouldn’t have a category called just products, but you get the idea We’ve now got the word Products in the URL and it doesn’t really help gain SERPs like “Premium SEO WordPress Themes”.

On the other hand it could be used for trying to obtain more secondary SERPs, but it will mean you are diluting the main keywords within the URL to gain secondary SERPs.

For example if you wanted to keep your page titles short, so rather than a page title like “Premium SEO WordPress Themes” we used “WordPress Themes” by having a category like “Premium SEO Products” we add the Premium to the URL:

google-adsense-templates.tld/premium-seo-products/wordpress-themes

and get all the keywords as before.

The amount of SEO benefit you gain/loose from this is not worth loosing sleep over.

I tend to avoid having the category as part of the URL because it targets all the SEO benefit from a URL into the keywords within the title of a page/post. I do tend to go with relatively long titles that target more than one SERP though**, so don’t need the added keywords from a category within a URL.

** I target multiple related SERPs because it’s so much easier to obtain lots of relatively easy long tail like SERPs than add up to a LOT of traffic than trying for a smaller number of harder SERPs. Overall it’s easier and you can get more traffic.

See this comment http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-talian-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html/comment-page-3#comment-19870 for how to exclude pages from your header navigation menu.

David

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Rachel

Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 21st, 2010 at 17:48)

Hi David,
Thank you for your answer to my last comment. After reading many of your posts, I believe you’re one of the best SEOs on the web.

I am interested in installing forum software.
Have you tested any forum s/w with the blog theme? Which one do you recommend?
P.S. My biggest concern is related to security issues -- spammers, hackers etc.
Thanks

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 21st, 2010 at 20:29)

“I believe you’re one of the best SEOs on the web.”

Thank you very much

I’ve not used forums extensively, played around a bit with PHPBB and bbPress a bit, so not converted Talian to work with a forum yet.

bbPress http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/politics/

PHPBB http://www.star-forums.net/

I put a bit of effort into SEOing the PHPBB default template, but I just don’t like PHPBB. It is such a pain in the butt to manage SPAM posts etc… Where you can easily delete a comment in WordPress in one click, PHPBB requires about 5 clicks, click to view the post, click to delete it, click to remove inform the poster its as illegal software or something, click to delete it and then your redirected to the wrong page for more moderating!!!

It’s also a pain to setup SEO features, (requires editing core PHPBB files) removing session IDs etc… and even with the best SEO PHP mods it’s still not fully SEO’d. So I had enough of PHPBB and looked for an alternative. PHPBB is always getting exploited, so you have to keep up to date.

Playing around recently with bbPress, WordPress like format, much easier to work with from an SEO perspective, BUT I get the impression the developers are not doing much with it. So long term maybe not a good choice. It is pretty good SEO wise, but feature wise it’s lacking. No idea how secure it is, not many people use it relative to PHPBB, so guess hackers haven’t put much effort into it.

I’ve SEO’d the templates I’m using, but not to a great degree like I have with Talian because I don’t have many forum installations. Forums are so hard to get a user base.

David

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 22nd, 2010 at 00:38)

Hi
When I pay the £9.99 can I use the theme as often as I like or is that for just one blog? I think adsense sites should be made in three’s to maximise the ROI.
I’ll come back tomorrow to buy if one purchase can be applied to unlimited sites.
All the best
Sam

PS cool theme by the way!

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 22nd, 2010 at 00:56)

You can use the AdSense/SEO WordPress theme on as many of your domains as you like.

Really winds me up when I buy a script or something and I’m only allowed to use it on one domain, so I’d never do that with anything I sell.

I’m curious to know why you “think adsense sites should be made in three’s to maximise the ROI.”?

All my traffic comes from organic search (mostly Google). Although at times I’ve made more than one site on a niche, (I have several search engine optimisation domains for example) I generally aim for one site per niche.

About the only reason I can think of for having more than one site in a niche is for linking purposes, but then it’s a costly way to generate links when you consider the extra content, having to find links for three sites to make their links worthwhile.

The Google sandbox effect (Google delays link benefit of new links for about 9 months) alone is a good reason to stick to as few domains as possible: that is unless you are building a large network of sites as part of a business plan, then long term it can be worth the extra effort.

This assumes you rely on organic search engine traffic.

David

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- Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 22nd, 2010 at 09:17)
  
  David,
  
  Wow, didnt expect a reply for a week or so (from my previous experience of posting on blogs). Thanks for the nearly immediate responses. Good and timely service speaks volumes to me.
  
  That’s great I can use it over and over -- I will buy the theme from you shortly -- (I just woke up!)
  
  I like what you do with the 250x250 box mostly. Even though i think they look ugly, they are effective and you have positioned yours in an unavoidable, yet not all too overly dominating position with the thin colum of text to the side.
  
  About the 3 sites -- My gameplan is to go after high paying adsense keywords -- ones that pay between $4 and $10 per click. I use Market Samurai to find them.
  
  If you want to go after a seemingly impossibly tough keyword (with maybe 1 million completing pages or more) the way to go is build 3 sites each with 4 articles on them.
  
  Find the tough (very high CPC) keyword (A), then find 3 associated (high CPC) keywords (B,C,D) --
  
  The “three adsense blogs” plan --
  
  First (optimised) blog has 2 articles about A and 2 articles about B
  Second has 2 articles about A and 2 articles about C
  Third has 2 articles about A and 2 articles about D
  
  Then build backlinks like crazy for all three.
  
  I dont worry about sandboxing. I dont agree it takes 9 months to come back -- 3 at most is my experience. They all do come back soon enough and when they do -- you’ve still been building backlinks so they are all set to shoot to the top.
  
  This takes patience, persistence and perseverence, but the three P’s are what SEO is all about.
  
  Hope this helps people and they try it as it works like gangbusters for those who know how to build backlinks effectively (or are willing to back themselves and outsource the work).
  
  Will get back to you later on today to buy the theme.
  
  All the best
  
  Sam
  GoogleLove.info
  
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    Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 22nd, 2010 at 12:00)
    
    Got your AdSense/SEO theme order and it’s been emailed out.
    
    Your question was time sensitive, so should be answered promptly, also if I don’t respond to a comment right away with 50+ WordPress installations each with comments enabled, I never get around to a comment I plan to respond to later!
    
    I wrote an article on the Google sandbox a while back: http://www.seo-gold.com/seo-tutorial/google-sandbox-effect
    
    The research I did at the time still stands up to most sites I’ve created since, been the odd exception like my general election site that by about 5 months was where I’d expect it to have been at 9 months, but then it might have been I over estimated the difficulty of the niche (I left it a bit late (11 months before the election) for targeting the 2010 general election SERPs, but looking back others like major news sources left it even later (many didn’t start until January)) and did more SEO work (link building) than it needed to achieve what I wanted. Just started a site on the 2012 Summer Olympics, started very early on that one, so will be interesting to see how it does: straight in at number 1 for “Summer Olympics 2012 Forum”, which is the name of the site, but there’s no real competition, so the real SERPs are like “Summer Olympics 2012″ (not in the top 100).
    
    What’s certain is a new link to any site/page takes about 9 months to pass full benefit and a site that’s got those aged links is given a sort of trust status in Google. The trust status is hard to build in any domain, basically for a domain to be trusted it needs it’s backlinks to have been live for over a year and to have a reasonable number of backlinks: there’s probably going to be a factor related to the trust of the domains the backlinks are from as well, but that was hard to test, so can’t be sure.
    
    When you have a trusted domain new content tends to rank relatively high with only a small number of internal links, how high depends on how trusted the domain is. When a site like the BBC adds a new page, it will tend to rank quite high because the BBCs domain is very trusted. This initial ranking can then be built on with new incoming links from both more internal links (which pass full link benefit immediately) and links from external sources that take about 9 months to pass full link benefit.
    
    By understanding this you can see splitting similar content over three domains might not be the best way to use that content. You’ve got to find links for three domains and by splitting your links between three domains, none of them will achieve maximum trust status (relative to if the links went to one domain). If your three domains do get to a trust status and you make backlinks changes, lets say you add a new article to each and link the three new articles together, those non internal links are not going to pass full SEO benefit for about 9 months. If all three articles was on the one domain, they’d have full link benefit from the internal links immediately and pass full link benefit via internal links immediately.
    
    All that being said, I don’t always take this into account and you can with more effort get over these hurdles, but it is a lot more SEO effort.
    
    You should be careful with interlinking three domains, I’ve tested this and it can go wrong. I’ve had sites with excessive interlinking not downgraded and others downgraded. Did some SEO tests that suggested inter linking related domains was safe as long as the links made sense, so rolled out what I’d learnt in the test to real sites.
    
    I own a set of classic literature domains which includes multiple sub domains and I used to have them all linked to one another from the menu as in effect they were part of the same site (based on my SEO tests should have been safe to interlink a lot). In this example the domains were not downgraded, but when I tried similar with search engine optimization niche domains, where though the niche was the same, the sites had separate identities and the domains lost Google rankings!
    
    Google gives the impression almost everything they do is automated, but over the years some of the domains (SEO test sites and non test sites) I’ve had hit by Google pushes me to believe they do a fair amount of manual downgrading. In the examples above the classic literature linking together was acceptable (they were pretty much the same site), but the SEO domains wasn’t acceptable, deemed gaming the search engines!
    
    So be careful, I tend towards a very small amount of interlinking as it’s not worth the risk.
    
    David
    
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    - Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 22nd, 2010 at 17:12)
      
      David,
      
      Thanks -- I can see you are doing good work in your SEO research.
      
      I think you misread me. I did not have any intention of actually linking the three sites together. I’m wanting to merely get all three to the top of google for their “phrase match” -- What that does is it forces adsense ads/encourages Google to place adsense ads onto the page for the top priced adsense keyword/ads. Google charges the top prices and pays out the difference at top rates.
      
      I am not linking any of these pages at all. Doing three sites covers all bases. Using my GoogleLove backlinking method, I will surely be on the top page within 2-4 months. Getting it right to the top will bring in roughly £300-500 per month thereafter. These are figures that can be verified.
      
      If you want to find out about the GoogleLove service, it only costs £400 for 4 months all in. All details are on the site. Didnt want to promote it but it may be useful info for you and your readers?
      
      All the best -- will be building my first Talian site shortly -- looking forward to seeing the results.
      
      All the best
      
      Sam
      GoogleLove.info
      
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        Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (March 22nd, 2010 at 18:48)
        
        “Using my GoogleLove backlinking method, I will surely be on the top page within 2-4 months.”
        
        That’s highly ambitious and completely unrealistic if you are talking Google organic search engine results (not paying for AdWords) and relatively difficult SERPs and not easy ones: for example http://www.summer-olympics-2012.co.uk/ registered 2 weeks ago, started work on it 5 days ago (added a small number of links, not many yet) and it’s ranked number one out of 100K pages in Google for the SERP “Summer Olympics 2012 Forum”, (without speech marks) but it’s not a hard SERP, not even a mildly difficult SERP so doesn’t tell anyone anything about my SEO abilities, but some SEO consultants would use an easy SERP like that as a way to show they are super duper SEO consultants.
        
        I don’t expect that site to rank for harder SERPs like Summer Olympics for many months (6+ months). Now a SERP like AdSense Templates is a relatively hard SERP and this site is number 2 in Google, but it took well over a year to get that high.
        
        So if you are talking relatively hard preferably two word SERPs (like AdSense Templates) feel free to mention a SERP or two you expect to have in 4 months time with new domains and we can all check the results in July 2010. Would “right to the top” be top 5 in Google?
        
        Or maybe you have some current examples where you are making £300-500 per month from AdSense after 4 months?
        
        Looking at your main site, it’s poorly optimised, many basic SEO mistakes like using Home as anchor text for home page links and the home page lacks a title element: guessing you’ve been messing around with the WordPress theme to remove the name of the blog from deeper pages and it’s gone a little wrong.
        
        I’m afraid your SEO SERPs examples falls in the realm of not being very hard.
        
        See http://www.seo-gold.com/seo-tutorial/serps-competition for determining how hard a SERP is.
        
        video games systems
        solar power for homes
        buy jewelry pendants
        
        Basically relatively easy SERPs and adding speech marks around a 4 word SERP like “solar power for homes” is so misleading since few searches use speech marks in real searches.
        
        Searching for video games systems (no speech marks) I don’t see the example site in the top 100 in Google and that’s not even a highly competitive SERP. SERPs change, but it’s only 11 days ago since you made that page about those SERPs. If you check for “video games systems” (with speech marks) you can see the top results are not highly optimised for the phrase (generally not used in the title of the top results) and your site is around 25th.
        
        Then there’s “buy jewelry pendants” without speech marks, take a look at the search with speech marks, only 44 pages found without expanding the search. This tells us barely anyone is targeting this SERP, basically less than 100 domains use the exact phrase “buy jewelry pendants” on pages Google deems worthy of ranking for that specific search.
        
        I could list over 1,000 SERPs like these from my sites, but they don’t generate much traffic and don’t really prove anything. Personally speaking I no longer target really hard SERPs, they are so much effort for traffic that can be obtained so much easier in the form of lots of long tail SERPs.
        
        BTW I don’t have a problem with commenter’s mentioning their services as part of a comment (if it’s relevant to the comment), but if it’s trying to potentially sell an SEO service I’ll almost certainly look into it and give an honest comment about what I see. Hence this comment, it’s nothing personal, if I thought you had something I’d say so as well: I’m currently not looking for new SEO clients (take on the odd one when they have a site that’s really interesting to work with), so have nothing to loose letting others promote their SEO services (it’s just got to be good what they offer).
        
        David
        
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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (April 12th, 2010 at 00:38)

Hello,
I just found out that a blog post I deleted a week ago is still available online! Not good, alcohol was talking! It doesn’t show if you just visit my homepage but google had already caught it. Not going to post the link here, please email me & I’ll reply with the link. I deleted it over a week ago so did not expect the google link to still be valid. I don’t know if this is a wordpress problem or your otherwise great theme.

Thanks.

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (April 12th, 2010 at 00:45)

In regards to my last post, I didn’t know posts deleted are moved to trash and still viewable! I thought posts deleted were deleted. Don’t think its your themes problem. WordPress users beware! I deleted my trash & now the post is history.

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  Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (April 12th, 2010 at 01:40)
  
  WordPress doesn’t delete a post straight away now, as you’ve found it goes to trash. Will eventually. So you are right it’s not the theme, it’s WordPress.
  
  I would suggest changing the posts status to either Password protected or Private. I’d go with Password protected.
  
  You could also recover the post and delete the entire contents of the post, save it and trash it again, when Google spiders it again it will be blank. Or setup a 301 redirect or block it via your robots.txt file and make it nocache.
  
  Post a comment for what works as I’ve not tried the Password protected option exactly.
  
  What I have done is turn a load of posts (about 750) that I no longer wanted indexed (jokes added to a site via an RSS feed, so copied content), but didn’t want a load of 404 errors or wasted traffic so changed the status of the posts to draft.
  
  WordPress takes these posts out of the navigation (so no wasted links to them), but they can still be loaded if you know the URL. Long term as Google etc… respiders the site over 6 plus months it won’t find links to these draft posts and will slowly deindex them wasting no link benefit and I didn’t have to setup up hundreds of 301 redirects
  
  Moral of the story, don’t write on the Internet under the influence. That being said would be a pretty boring place if everyone followed that little rule
  
  David
  
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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (April 18th, 2010 at 10:16)

Hi David,
Is there an option to use the “search form” in a single.php file in a way that directs readers to other articles.
As it is seen in jobsearch.com (the top links, where it is written “see more about”)- http://jobsearch.about.com/od/thankyouletters/a/samplethankyou.htm

I would want to include a link to the search results for a specific term that I choose to display (for boosting this term) -- See more about [the term]
Is there a way to make it?
I see that the ‘search’ provides wide range of articles that contain the term in their content rather than those with the ‘term in the title’.
How to search for [term] in the title?

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Comment on Talian 5 WordPress SEO Theme (April 19th, 2010 at 10:08)

I don’t understand exactly what you mean?

If you are looking to use the built in WordPress search function the format is

http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/index.php?&s=WordPress+3

You could link to a URL like the above and it will find articles on your site for that search phrase (“WordPress 3″ in the example above).

You could create a post that you add links like the above to and your visitors will be able to load the search phrases you want them to use on your site.

I’ve used this concept on http://www.elvincountry.com/ plug

site:http://www.elvincountry.com/index.php

Into a Google search to see the indexed pages. Not all of those pages are because of my links, so are natural links: not sure why sites link in for searches like “wildland”, but they do.

David

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