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.
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BIG Talian 05 Update Many New Theme Features
New admin menu (screenshot to right) for Talian 05, no more editing the adsense.php file to add your Google AdSense Publisher ID. All major settings are available directly through the WordPress Dashboard.
The screenshot of the new Talian 05 admin page shows just a small sample of the 40+ options available!
Add Clickbank AdSense style ads to your blog.
Talian 05 is the only AdSense ready WordPress theme or even AdSense WordPress plugin that allows the users to set Google AdSense Channels for tracking the performance of specific ads without template file editing. Add up to 6 Google AdSense channels via the new Talian admin page (one for each of the 6 ad units available) and track which AdSense setup works best for your sites.
Set the colour of both the AdSense and Clickbank ads directly from your WordPress Dashboard.
Don’t like the ads floating to the right of the main content, float them to the left instead, same for the Clickbank ads.
Just want to use Talian 05 as an SEO WordPress theme or even SEO CMS, a few clicks on the Talian 05 admin menu and NO AdSense or Clickbank ads will show and you can even remove the date when a post was made (so your site doesn’t look like a blog).
Don’t like the default banner images, no problems, choose from 10 banner sets (100 banner images in total) or why not create your own and choose them from the Talian 05 admin screen.
Banners don’t really work for your site, turn them off completely with two clicks of the mouse.
Bored of the default orange and green Talian colour scheme, choose from 8 preset colour schemes including Red (used on this site), Blue, Blue/Orange, Yellow etc…
Track your sites traffic with Google Analytics, just add the UA code (supplied by Google Analytics for each domain you register) for the domain to the admin screen and the rest is dealt with by Talian 05.
Above is just a sample of the new options available with the built in admin panel.
Talian 05 Feature List Overview
- Search Engine Optimized Code (second best SEO WordPress theme in the world today!).
- Built in AdSense ads with easy to use options (no editing multiple theme files) : one click to turn on/off.
- Built in Clickbank ads (they look like AdSense ads) with easy to use options (no editing multiple theme files) : one click to turn on/off.
- Fully widgetized theme.
- Targeted AdSense Coding.
- Multiple theme colour schemes.
- Multiple banner schemes with easy to use customisation.
- Built in Google Analytics Code : just add your Google Analytics UA code (no template editing).
- Ability to change comments into search engine indexable ‘blog like posts’ using a customised version of the SEO Super Comments plugin (only works with Talian 05).
- Custom widget template file: add your own widgets (sidebar menu items) without touching the functions.php file making it easier to customise your site without the hassle of lots of code work when a new update is released.
- Two sitemap options, basic sitemap listing blog posts and blog pages and an advanced sitemap with the above plus links to the latest 100 comments (used on this site in the top navigation menu).
- Navigation menu looking messy, turn it off completely or exclude some blog pages.
- Turn the ability of your commenter’s to add an author link on/off and turn current author links on/off.
- Turn the date you made a post on or off, particularly useful if you use WordPress as an SEO CMS (content management system) rather than a blog.
Talian 05 Colour Scheme Screenshots
Below is a selection (there are more) of the available Talian 05 colour schemes, click an image for full size view.
Through rigorous testing I’ve found Talian to be the best AdSense theme from a CTR (click through rate) perspective, with a CTR on some sites above 6%. Talian is the ONLY WordPress theme I currently use on my own WordPress websites, it’s that good (I have over 70 WordPress installations: slowly updating to Stallion 6).
WordPress Talian theme with Google AdSense, Clickbank and SEO Optimisation
Take a look at Adventure Travel Vacations for a website currently using the Talian theme with a high AdSense CTR (recently update the site to the Stallion SEO Theme).
The first screenshot shows a home page of a Talian 05 theme running site. You can see one of the three Google AdSense ad units in the screenshot, this is the ad unit that floats to the right (or left, change via the admin menu) at the top of the content of the first post only. You can also see the sidebar AdSense widget that can be placed anywhere on the two sidebars (I find the top left works best for this AdSense ad unit).
I’ve looked at many other WordPress themes that include AdSense and other than a copy cat (someone copied the code of an earlier version of Blix 02 with AdSense/SEO theme of mine and called it BlixKrieg) no one uses this technique of floating an Ad unit within the content of the first post of archive pages (home page, category, tag and search pages). This location is one of the most clicked areas (AdSense hot zone), by utilising this location this ad unit almost always performs well.
You will find the same ad units and placement for all pages of the blog, which will maximise AdSense revenue.
Further down the page (not on the screenshot) is the third and final ad unit, out the box the Talian 05 AdSense ad unit is set at 468×60, the size of all ad units can be changed manually via the adsense.php file in a text editor, so changing the size doesn’t need a PHP programmer or anything 
.
Talian with AdSense/Clickbank + SEO Installation Instructions
Make a PayPal payment for $50.00 for Talian 05 using the PayPal button. After payment you’ll receive an email (within minutes) with an instant download link of the zipped Talian SEO theme.
1. Unzip the Talian WP Theme zip file.
2. Upload the entire /talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05/ folder to your WordPress themes directory (via FTP, just like any other WP theme you’ve used).
2. Log into your blogs dashboard and under “Appearance” >> “Themes” select the new “Talian AdSense and Clickbank + SEO 05″ theme.
3. Log into the new Talian 05 admin page under “Appearance” >> “Talian AdSense and Clickbank + SEO”
4. Copy your Google AdSense Publisher ID into the “AdSense Publisher ID” box and click the “Store Options” button.
Your WordPress blog is now running Talian 05 and any AdSense clicks will be credited to your AdSense account.
All other options are optional including running Clickbank ads that is turned off by default.
Enjoy.
The Talian AdSense/Clickbank + SEO theme out the box uses blended ad unit colours for maximum CTR/AdSense revenue. If you wish to change unit colours it’s very easy to achieve via the Talian 05 menu.
There are full instructions for using the Talian 05 SEO theme to it’s full potential within the folder /talian-adsense-clickbank-seo-05/readme/ (there are 10 instructional readme files). You can also read these files online:
** Talian AdSense Install Instructions
** Talian Clickbank Install Instructions
** Creating Custom Talian Widgets
** Changing Talian Banner Images Instructions
** Using Talian and WordPress as an SEO CMS
** Changing the Talian Colour Scheme
** WordPress Nofollow Problems and Talian Solutions
** Talian and Google analytics Tracking
** Excluding Pages From Talian’s Navigation Menu
Search Engine Optimization Information
Most WordPress themes aren’t too bad SEO wise when downloaded directly from their original creators, but there are always improvements that can be made for maximum SEO impact and this theme was no different.
The Talian AdSense/Clickbank + SEO theme includes-
Optimized title elements (and meta tags, though they aren’t very important these days). Take a look at the title of this page, note it’s keyword rich and lacks the name of the site (for SEO reasons).
Optimised headers, for example on blog post pages like this one the name of the blog is NOT within a H1 header, (every theme I’ve used has a H1 header that holds a link to home page). Instead the title of the post is within the H1 header and the link to home is only a H1 header on pages that lack a true keyword focus like the monthly archive pages. This is the first WordPress theme that I thought to do this and it results in significant SEO improvements.
Optimised anchor text of almost all automatically generated links.
Links to unimportant pages (from an SEO perspective) like the log in links (those links waste a LOT of PR/link benefit) are no longer wasting link benefit.
Basically optimised everything I could which makes this the most optimised WordPress theme I’ve edited so far.
Make a PayPal payment for $50.00 for Talian 05 using the PayPal button. After payment you’ll receive an email (within minutes) with an instant download link of the zipped Talian SEO theme.
Compatible with WordPress 2.0, WordPress 2.1, WordPress 2.2, WordPress 2.3, WordPress 2.5, WordPress 2.6, WordPress 2.7, WordPress 2.8, WordPress 2.9, WordPress 3, WordPress 3.1 and WordPress 3.2. Will be updated for WordPress 3.* etc… and will be available for free to all Talian SEO/AdSense/Clickbank Ready WP Theme customers.
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574 responses to Talian WordPress SEO Theme
I am testing your theme on a few of my WP 3.0 (beta) sites and so far so good.
I have a couple of WordPress 3 beta sites running Talian and no issues found.
I’ll have some updating to do when WordPress 3 is released to take into account new features, but so far looks like nothing going to break.
On one of the sites was hoping to test out the equivalent of WordPress MU )supposed to be part of WordPress 3), but it doesn’t appear to be part of the beta release yet.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Dave I am already running WordPress 3 MU. SU and MU are installed on one even in the beta. It really could take WP to the next level if you it is that type of site that is kind of a community. But I am testing it before I put it on a larger site.
All you have to do is add one small line of code in the wp-config->>
(‘WP_ALLOW_MULTISITE’, true);
Then you are all set go to your dashboard ->> tools ->> networks and you will be all set.
MU/buddypress has its own theme. A couple of extra files.
Oh Again I had a site giving you income as I was so busy last month I overlooked changing the code when I was playing around with my site
I looked for a solution to FTP one WP set of files to many sites all at once -- but did not find it -- yet- but I use core FTP and can take one set of files and upload them to multi sites, one at a time.
I know you must be busy as I heard there was an election or something in the UK? I am not sure.
But anyway I always swing back to this site now and then as you always have some innovative ideas on SEO making money online. Your always testing and trying to improve.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Thanks Mark, got WordPress 3 beta working with the option for others to register their own blogs (basically WordPress MU).
I was thinking about using WordPress 3 when the full release is out on http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ after the UK general election (May 6th), but on a test site running WordPress 3 beta http://www.glee-tv-show.co.uk/ resulted in the main installation adding /blog/ to the URLs!
For example http://www.glee-tv-show.co.uk/blog/glee-tv-show-which-song-is-your-favorite/ was originally http://www.glee-tv-show.co.uk/glee-tv-show-which-song-is-your-favorite/
If I converted a current WordPress 2.9.2 installation to WordPress 3 AND converted it to run like WordPress MU it would mess up the vast majority of the main installation!!!
Looks like on old sites I will of course be able to upgrade to WordPress 3, but not to WordPress 3 with the MU feature without causing major headaches, which is a real shame.
I wonder why WordPress development added the /blog/ bit? Admittedly I’ve not looked for a work around.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
I was thinking the exact same things about MU. Why /blog/? I was thinking of writing WP development as its still in beta1 but have not time.
If you do not want to go MU you can BuddyPress without MU, just the SU install. Therefore, users can have messaging features etc without the ability to create their own blogs, rather just profiles.
There is also a plug-in called Mingle.It is simpler but It also makes a site a community site.
Community sites are the ultimate dream, but they will only work with some ideas.
To get people to sign up and fill out a registration often a disincentive.
Your UK Election site is a stellar. It even out ranks the BBC!I will be looking forward when you have ‘election results’ pages maybe even with some maps of the UK, or projected results pages.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi,
Just a quick one, i’ve paid via paypal. I did not enter an e-mail address anywhere, will the template be sent to the paypal e-mail registered?
Many thanks
Cris
Orders are only sent to the PayPal email address unless there’s a problem and the customer can prove they control the PayPal email address (to reduce fraudulent orders).
Lucky you sent this comment as my dedicated server that runs SpamAssassin Filter Server to filter out SPAM before email is delivered marked the email from PayPal (which uses the customers email as the send email address) as SPAM (in other words I didn’t get it until I looked for it through 38,000 SPAM email from the last month or so!).
You might want to look into this as it suggests your email address is flagging up a SPAM warning at least with SpamAssassin.
I have a similar problem with my main two domains that I use email on, so many email spammers are using a return email address to anything@mydomains.com email addresses, my email addresses are on lots of SPAM filter lists, despite the fact I’ve never sent a single SPAM email in my life!!! It’s such a problem even my test emails to myself are marked as SPAM on my own dedicated server! I’ve recently moved to using a Gmail email account for sending out the themes!
Anyway, you should have your theme now, sent to your PayPal email address.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
I am having trouble with the Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation theme on http://www.justingermino.com no comments are displaying when users leave them, it shows the # of comments in the bubble, but won’t display comments. I did not change or alter the single.php at all that would have affected comments. Need help with this, it didn’t work even when I rolled back to vanilla Talian theme.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
The theme comment system works fine on my sites, I’ve got around 15,000 comments on my sites. No other customer has reported a similar issue.
I tried to post a comment and looks like it didn’t work.
When I load the page I see a javascript error reported in Firefox.
I would start with disabling all comment related plugins and see if that fixes it, if it does reinitialise them one by one until it breaks the comments. If it doesn’t fix it disable all plugins and see if it works then.
If you work out which plugin it’s clashing with (if it is a plugin) if it’s a popular plugin I’ll look into it.
I can tell you now the subscribe to comments plugin doesn’t work correctly if you use threaded and multiple page comments. The plugin is way out of date (made before paged and threaded comments) and if you have lots of comments and someone tries to post a threaded comment on a paged comment, the comment posts fine, but the page doesn’t redirect to the place it should go to (I used to get a blank page). I’m reasonably confident the issue is with an out of date plugin not the theme per se, though I doubt this is related to your problem.
If it isn’t a plugin I’d look at what’s causing the javascript error.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
A friend of mine does SEO for a living and is quite busy. He asked me to convert his old site into a WordPress based site. He bought your theme…and I’ve loaded it on my test site and I’m struggling with adsense. This is new to me. How do I delete the adsense that is directly below the page content? the one that is five words across and directly under the content. I tried to delete some php and it did remove the adsense bu it it also relocated the left sidebar. I was able to delete the adsense code from above the graphic…but not below the page.
Thanks for your help.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Disabling one AdSense ad is really easy.
Load the adsense.php file in a text editor and down at the bottom are lines of text like:
$SingleAdLink = array(29,1,0,0,4);
Find the line related to the ad you want to disable and change the third number from 0 to 1
$SingleAdLink = array(29,1,1,0,4);
Save and upload over the original adsense.php file (or you could edit it online via the WordPress built in template editor).
You can see in the adsense.php file there’s a description for which each of the lines represent ad wise. The one I’ve listed above is the one you want to change.
You can also disable all ads. At the top of the file you’ll find:
define(AdsenseOn,1);
change it to
#define(AdsenseOn,1);
And all ads will be turned off.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Thanks for the detailed explanation. It’s still not working for me. I see how easy it should be. After reading your comment, the adsesnse.php file makes a lot of sense. However, nothing seems to be working. I only have 4 digits in my theme…not 5. Regardless, I have changed the 3rd number because that’s what the directions in the adsense.php file say.
I changed the code to the following:
#Single blog posts ad below the Comment area.
$SingleAdLink = array(29,1,1,0);
?>
Actually, I also put a 1 in the adsense line that you say is your biggest ad -- the one in the content. It’s still showing up as well.
Here’s what I’ve changed:
$FirstAd = array(8,2,1,0);
Changing the third digit doesn’t seem to have an effect on the ads.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Are you sure you are editing the right adsense.php file?
There’s a second one under the /alt-files/ directory that is an example of smaller ad sizes, for customers who don’t want the large ad sizes.
If you’ve edited that file and not moved it to the main folder it will do nothing.
When I view source of your site I see my Google AdSense publisher ID ending 67078, so if you changed the publisher ID to yours (as you have to to get the AdSense revenue) it pretty much confirms you are editing the wrong file (are you editing online in the WordPress editor?).
I always advise editing the adsense.php file offline on your PC in a text editor like Notepad so it’s less likely to make a mistake (or edit both of them to be sure).
BTW when I said 4 numbers I meant 29, was one number not two (it’s 29 not 2 and 9).
If you made the changes you listed above to the right adsense.php file it would have an effect on the ads.
At the top of the right adsense.php file it says:
Talian Google AdSense Code
The alternate adsense.php file says:
Talian Google AdSense Code Alt
The file under the directory /talian-adsense-seo-04/alt-files/ only works if you move it to /talian-adsense-seo-04/ copying it over the other adsense.php file.
I’ve had a few customers make this mistake so in the next update I won’t be including an extra adsense.php file with smaller ad sizes (was meant to be for convenience for trying out a different ad size quickly).
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Ah, yes. I was updating the alt files. They are the only ones I see in the Appearance/Editor/adsense.php
Are the adsense.php files not available through wordpress side?
I guess you solved the problems then.
Yes the adsense.php files should be visible in the built in WordPress editor.
David
I usually install “Yet Another Related Post” plugin when I create wordpress sites. I was looking through the page.php file and noticed that you have something for related posts. I just want to confirm that I don’t need to install a separate plugin because your theme already has that hard coded in.
Thanks,
Dana
The related post plugin I use can be found at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-seo-plugins (one of the link on the top navigation) and it’s supported by the theme.
David
Dave, In your experience do you find websites using the Talian theme earn more with or without landscapes.jpg?
Further, do the self-created landscapes work better than the ones that come with your theme?
I am testing a few websites now, however, I curious what you and other people here have experienced.
I’ve not tested it as such with vs without the landscape images. Did try replacing the image with an AdSense ad and wasn’t impressed relative to the default setup.
At http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ I’ve replaced the images with a few text links to try to send traffic to other parts of the site, despite having over 100,000 visitors in one day (election day) to that site still can’t get the forum really started!!!
I’ve only made one set of custom images, my wife’s made a load, but not tested if they result in more AdSense revenue.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Dave, to get a forum or social networking site going is something that is a mystery, but has a big payoff.
I actually worked briefly a few years back, for an acquaintance who has one of the largest dating site in Ireland. He knows nothing about SEO or websites, however, and it would suffice as to say he is all set.
This is because people keep coming to his site and creating content and using it. When it was started it was a real niche. They have launched smaller niche sites and they seem to do well.
The take away is a forum or community site must be niche.
In retrospect I think forums or social sites do better on a stand alone sites maybe?
I think the biggest problem is people do not want to register. I do not. I want to just leave a comment and move on. To get people to register is the real reason I think some forums do not do well. But if they do take off, it is better than a normal site.
I know a person that runs a niche forum and that is all he has to do. Is have his forum and he is all set. When I say all set this means really all set.
I know of a couple of guys that run a social networking site and they are all set.
How to get people to register and use a forum over and over is the real trick.
I think maybe it is having pages people find on organic search and they just leave a comment like a blog, no registration. So it is just like a blog, but they have the ability to create their own pages and topics.
I have two sites I am experimenting on myself.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Maybe the answer is continue to make a blog function somewhat like a forum or social network. With recent comments, avatars etc. I think Prelovac has a comment plug-in that makes comments as pages. I think some of the success of your blogs is people keep coming back to comment.
I am looking how to also take this a step further.
Sorry for using your template page to think out-loud on this.
I use a customised version of the SEO Super Comments WordPress plugin you’ve mentioned running on several highly commented sites (including this one) and it makes for a lot of extra indexed pages.
The Talian theme for me didn’t work out the box with the SEO Super Comments plugin so I had to make a fair amount of edits to the theme to get it working. I also made some significant improvements to the plugin, much better than the original plugin SEO wise. For example the title of a comment page uses the first X number of characters of the comment rather than the title of the page the comment is from: there’s not a lot of point having a highly commented page (say 100 comments) and then have those comments create 100 pages with the exact same title, which is how the original SEO Super Comments plugin works (I personally wouldn’t use the original).
When I get the time to create a Talian update I’ll be including my edited version of the plugin with the update.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi Dave,
I’m having problems for centering my images (you can see in this post)
http://blogcanadiense.com/esto-solo-pasa-en-canada-justo-cuando-pensaba-q-podia-escribir-en-mi-blog/
I’ve tried to center it while I’m writing my posts but it always shows up on the left.
Any idea on what could be happening?
Is there any specific procedure for adding images?
Thanks
Héctor
Not sure why your images aren’t centering, I never use the built in image upload feature within WordPress as I like full control over everything (also in early WordPress 2.* it was broken and didn’t add linked images correctly, didn’t add the end A tag!).
It’s highly unlikely to be the Talian theme per se, though maybe you’ve added an error during the customisations (easy to do, made the same mistake myself
).
Take a look at the validation errors at http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fblogcanadiense.com%2Festo-solo-pasa-en-canada-justo-cuando-pensaba-q-podia-escribir-en-mi-blog%2F&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0
I’d first look at
Line 468, Column 6: end tag for element “div” which is not open
As you shouldn’t have mismatched div’s: you’ve either added an extra opening div or deleted one by mistake and it could override the built in centering if the mixed up div layout is text-align left.
When I looked at your code I saw the nofollow attribute added to your category and tag links, this is REALLY, REALLY, REALLY bad SEO wise.
I see you use All in One SEO Pack plugin which I understand has the option to nofollow archives, categories, tags etc… this is so bad for SEO reasons it should not be a feature of an SEO plugin (I advise anyone reading this not to use that plugin if you use my Talian theme, it adds no SEO value to your site)!!!
I can not over emphasise how bad this is for your site, every nofollow link is treated by Google as a real link, but the link benefit that would normally go to the page the link is pointed to (in this case one of your pages) is deleted! What this means is if you have tags on every post you are throwing away a significant amount of your hard work in gaining backlinks to your site.
I counted 25 nofollow links on that page, you are probably throwing away 25%-50% of your hard earned link benefit away by using the All in One SEO Pack plugin!
BTW it’s a good idea to keep your version of WordPress up to day, 2.8.4 is a bit out of date and could have vulnerabilities. My eldest son never bothered to update his WordPress blogs (version 2.7.*) and they were hacked! WordPress 2.9.2 is the current stable release, so there’s quite a few upgrades since 2.8.4, also the image problem could be an old bug in 2.8.4 and maybe an upgrade will fix it: like I said the image feature used to have some major bugs in the earlier 2.* releases (I never used it for that reason, so no idea how it works now).
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
David,
I’ve browsed your comments and this one seems to address two topics I’m very interested in.
1)text is not wrapping around my images. This is a new site, so I only have one image is on the About page. I’m using the wordpress option for text wrapping. I saw your comment that you are managing your own. Can you tell me the process to wrap text?
2)I have installed All in One SEO Pack because I like to create my own meta text….not text pulled directly from content. Is there a way to accomplish this with the current theme?
Thanks!
Dana
PS: got the adsense.php stuff figured out -- thanks for your help earlier. Waiting for a number from Google on this new site.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
The images not wrapping text around them correctly I wrongly believed was an error in customising the theme. Realised after looking at your about page for the alignment to work it needs CSS classes added to the CSS stylesheet.
Felt sure the alignment code used to be inline CSS so it would work with any theme, WordPress development must have changed it forcing theme developers to add the code to their CSS files. Should be very easy to fix, so will post a solution soon.
The All In One SEO Plugin question is an easy one
You can create a custom meta description with the Talian theme without the need for any plugins (I believe Talian with AdSense/SEO is the only WordPress theme you can do this).
When you create or edit a post there’s an Excerpt form on the page. I’ve setup the Talian theme so it uses the excerpt for the meta description, followed by the sites tag line (if you have one).
The page you are on now for example I’ve set a Excerpt of:
Talian is a very popular Premium WordPress theme including AdSense Ready and Search Engine Optimization coding.And since the tag line for this site is:
AdSense templates and themes for WordPress and Blogspot blogsWe get a meta description for this page of:
Talian is a very popular Premium WordPress theme including AdSense Ready and Search Engine Optimization coding. , AdSense templates and themes for WordPress and Blogspot blogsView source and you can see it.
If you don’t set an excerpt with Talian an automated snippet of the post is used, the first X number of characters of the post.
Since meta tags are all but irrelevant SEO wise (they don’t increase rankings) I have one page where I’ve gone to the trouble of creating a customised excerpt (this page as an example).
There’s no option to create a custom keywords meta tag with this theme, no major search engine uses the keywords meta tag for anything important, (the meta keywords tag was so abused in a blackhat SEO way they now ignore it) so it’s a waste of time creating custom keyword meta tags. If only I used this theme I’d not even include it, but as customers expect it, I’ve copied the title of a post for the meta keywords tag (waste of space though).
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
WordPress align images fix code.
Got a quick fix for the current Talian theme.
Edit the style.css file in a text editor or via the built in WordPress theme editor and add the following code to the bottom of the file.
.content_talia img {
margin: 0 0 24px 0;
max-width: 640px;
}
.alignleft, img.alignleft {
display: inline;
float: left;
margin-right: 24px;
margin-top: 4px;
}
.alignright, img.alignright {
display: inline;
float: right;
margin-left: 24px;
margin-top: 4px;
}
.aligncenter, img.aligncenter {
clear: both;
display: block;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
img.alignleft, img.alignright, img.aligncenter {
margin-bottom: 12px;
}
#content_talia .wp-caption {
background: #f1f1f1;
color: #888;
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 18px;
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 20px;
padding: 4px;
}
#content_talia .wp-caption img {
margin: 5px;
}
#content_talia .wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
margin: 0 0 4px;
}
#content_talia .wp-smiley {
margin:0;
}
#content_talia .gallery {
margin: auto;
}
#content_talia .gallery .gallery-item {
float: left;
margin-top: 10px;
text-align: center;
width: 33%;
}
#content_talia .gallery img {
border: 2px solid #cfcfcf;
}
#content_talia .gallery .gallery-caption {
margin-left: 0;
}
#content_talia .gallery dl {
margin: 0;
}
#content_talia .gallery img {
border: 10px solid #f1f1f1;
}
#content_talia .gallery-caption {
color: #888;
font-size: 12px;
margin:-24px 0 24px 0;
}
#content_talia .gallery br+br {
display: none;
}
Save and upload etc… and it should work right away. I don’t use the built in WordPress image functions, but made a test post on a domain I don’t use anymore : http://www.pro-racing-tickets.com/skegness-so-festival-2010.html
I’ve added two images, one centered and one aligned right and they work fine.
I got the code from the new default WordPress 3 theme called Twenty Ten, so this is the latest features of WordPress 3. I took the gallery code as well since that’s a newish feature (not tried adding a gallery to WordPress though, so untested). I’ll take a look if there’s anything else moved from inline CSS to the main CSS file in WordPress 3 and update accordingly and also any new features I’ve missed. I plan to go through Talian when WordPress 3.0 is released to add any new features etc… there’s quite a few nice updates coming, so expect some major changes.
I’ve tested Talian with the latest WordPress 3 release candidate 1 and it works fine: http://www.glee-tv-show.co.uk/, so updating to WordPress 3.0 when released shouldn’t need an immediate update of Talian, but obviously any new WP3 features won’t be in the code yet.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Can you hear the Hallelujah Chorus in the background? Text is wrapping around my photo! Thank you.
With all the time and energy you give your clients…do you have a way we can donate to you? Or should I simply purchase another theme?! =)
I do appreciate that your theme is making meta text more automated. I do love the All in One SEO pack because it allows me to modify the title and menu button. I can live with the title…but any solution for allowing users to create a specific menu name different than the title?
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi Dave,
I was going to see if i can add ebay partners to my site, they have requested me to complete the following. Is this straightforward or is it best reload the theme again and where about should i place it. Also would this overwrite all the google adsense adverts entirely?
Many thanks
Cris
Create a plain text file from a text editor and in the contents put only your unique identifier (provided below).
Save the file as ‘epndomain.txt’.
Upload the file to the base directory of each of your domains that you would like to register.
Example: If your website is www.ebay.com, your file would be located in http://www.ebay.com/epndomain.txt.
Visit the Domain Confirmation Page when your domains are ready to be validated and click on the ‘Confirm Domains’ button.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hi Dave
Any thoughts on the above article about ebay?
Cheers
Crispian
I’ve not used eBay on any of my sites so not familiar with the setup process on a WordPress blog.
The instructions you’ve copied above are very easy to do, but I’m guessing that’s just getting a domain registered with them (proving you own the domain by uploading a file), not actually getting it working on your site.
Sorry I couldn’t be more helpful.
David
About plug-ins I would second what Dave said above.
My plug-in philosphy -
Before I used Dave’s themes I had scores of plug-ins to try to SEO my blogs.
Now I just let the theme do the work (with a few plug-ins like related posts and sitemap).
I found my pages load faster and less conflicts, with a good theme. When you load up with every plug-in under the sun there is a lot of extra code on your pages and potential for conflict or wrong SEO moves like mentioned above with no-follow. That is why it is better to use a well coded theme. Talian works very well.
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
With WordPress plugins you should aim to use as few plugins as possible.
There’s quite a few that are VERY anti-SEO, for example most of the WordPress plugins that add Digg and similar links to your WordPress blogs are awful SEO wise because the majority use links to Digg, Facebook, Twitter etc… that Google can read (basically a text link), so if you have an article with half a dozen links to Digg, Facebook, Twitter etc… it’s costing you a LOT of link benefit!
I was trying a popular one out a few weeks back and it added loads of text links that were hidden with javascript, but Google could read the text links! Some add nofollow links which is just as bad as that deletes link benefit now!
Then there’s the WordPress plugin authors that add a hidden link to their site from the plugin. I use a Comment rating plugin on some of my sites like http://www.general-election-2010.co.uk/ (creates thumb links to click). If you install the comment rating plugin with the default settings it starts hiding comments that are marked down a few times (very low threshold) and creates a show hidden comment link PLUS a link to the comment authors website! I removed the code from the plugin I use (so not an issue for me), but if you leave the default settings you will send loads of links to the author of the plugins site without realising it. Only way to disable it is to set the threshold really high so it’s highly unlikely a comment will ever be hidden, though it does remove the hide feature!
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
I will be looking forward to your updated list of best WordPress plugins.
Do you do anything about rel=”canonical”?
Today (It changes all the time) my list right now is:
Admin Management Xtended (when I want to change things)
Sitemap (choose one)
wp-stats
wp-polls
tweetmeme
SEO related posts
most commented
privacy policy
I’ve just noticed that the google ads above the banner arn’t clickable on my 04 version installed last year. Is there a litle code adjustment necessary or did I miss an update?
Thanks for your help in advance.
Regarding the Banner landscape images: I have uploaded an image and opted to have just one. It’s working great.
My husband is asking about SEO value and the image name. He was expecting there to be some php magic that would name the image whatever the H1 is on each page. So, on the page http://www.usemydroid.com/droid-battery-life-video/ he was expecting the image to be named “droid-battery-life-video.jpg”. And likewise on the http://www.usemydroid.com/about/ page he was expecting the image to magically be called “about.jpg”.
He’s currently using a custom CMS at his place of employment that does magically rename images. So he’s pulling from that experience. I have no experience with this kind of magic. Is it even possible within WordPress?
He also inquired about the alt tag for the image. Not sure if there’s a way to program that, as well. Perhaps in the landscape-images.php file?
Thanks!
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Nice to see your husband is thinking SEO.
The landscape image code is generated as a background image (it’s CSS code), so there’s no value in SEOing them, they won’t increase (or decrease) a pages rankings as they aren’t indexed by Google.
You could easily change the code from being a background image using CSS to a standard image (so it would be counted SEO wise), but it wouldn’t be easy to change the name of the image to match the content of the post with WordPress (this is part of the template and something like that would have to be plugin generated and not related to the theme per se), but it would be easy to add an alt attribute using the title of a post etc…
I considered using banner images that are indexable etc… in the theme and adding relevant alt text to those images, but decided against it as it’s going a little greyhat SEO since the landscape images have nothing to do with the content of each post, so it would be adding more SEO because we can and not because we should (if you know what I mean
).
You have to be careful with this type of SEO, it’s easy to get carried away, for example I could have smiles (which can be images in WordPress
) to have relevant alt text, but it’s crossing into that grey area of SEO and though you might get away with a couple of iffy things like this, do too many or get a manual Google reviewer on a bad day or before they’ve had their coffee and you might get a penalty! I’ve had sites penalised where I thought I was 100% whitehat SEO, so better keep one step away from the grey areas.
If you have posts with no images you could add images from a set of images, like a money image for posts about money and give it relevant anchor text (I see this sort of thing on some sites) and there might be plugins to automate this. I tend to shy away from that sort of SEO as it’s a grey area that I could see a Google manual reviewer not seeing it as whitehat SEO: I see it as greyhat SEO and I’ve broken plenty of Google’s guidelines to test SEO ideas to see just how close to the line we can safely go: I’ve found a BIG step from the line is advisable, if it’s iffy don’t do it unless you are happy to have the site banned by Google forever.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
Hmmm…forever is a long time. I think I’ll stick with white hat.
Thanks!
If this theme is 100% valid html: http://www.elvincountry.com/
i will buy it. can I test it if the theme will be valid?
Yes the Talian themes HTML code validates, as you can see from my site you linked to it validates.
If you look at the site you are on now you’ll see there’s validation errors related to the Twitter Updates menu item. This is not part of the Talian theme files, I added it manually and the code doesn’t validate.
So like with my Twitter widget if you run WordPress plugins that generate code that doesn’t validate or you create posts with code that doesn’t validate, the theme will validate, but your pages won’t.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Talian 5 with AdSense/Clickbank Ads
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