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

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?

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

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

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

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.