Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO theme has been tested on WordPress 2.* including 2.0 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 2.5, 2.6, 2.6.5, 2.7, 2.7.1, 2.8. 2.8.1, 2.8.2, 2.8.3, 2.8.4, 2.8.5, 2.8.6, 2,9, 2.91, 2.92, 3.0 and WordPress 3.0.1 and no issues found. When WordPress updates again (WordPress 3.0, 3.1 etc…) it will be tested and any problems will be fixed and all customers who have bought Talian SEO/AdSense theme will receive a free update (this is also the case for all WordPress themes sold on this site). See comments below for details of new features: August 2010.
Talian with AdSense/SEO is widget compatible and uses tags (new feature added to WordPress 2.3).
Targeted AdSense Coding: we’ve Incorporated this feature into all of our WP themes including Talian as of January 2008. The targeted AdSense coding can not be used with popular WordPress AdSense plugins, unless you edit your WP theme manually, so our premium themes are better than using an WP AdSense plugin.
Google AdSense very and slightly rounded corners ad border code to Talian with easy options to switch between 3 border versions (very rounded, slightly rounded and square corners on AdSense units).
Talian was the first SEO/AdSense Ready WordPress theme for this site, but not my first AdSense ready WordPress theme (made roughly half a dozen SEO/AdSense themes previously).
According to WordPress theme viewer Talian is the most popular theme downloaded from wordpress.net with almost 12,000 downloads (as of mid September 2007). Which is why I converted it to AdSense + SEO.
Unlike my earlier WordPress theme creations there will be only one version, AdSense + SEO, though there’s a very easy way to turn the AdSense ads off, turning the theme into SEO only.
At first I didn’t like Talian, but during the LONG process of adding search engine optimization HTML code and Google AdSense code it really grew on me! I’m not one for 3 column WP themes, tend to look cluttered, but this one works which is why I’m trying it on this WordPress blog and a few others.
Through rigorous testing I’ve found this to be the best AdSense theme (from a CTR perspective), with a CTR on some sites above 6%. SEO wise there’s little difference between Talian and any other WP theme sold on this site: they are all fully SEO’d.
WordPress Talian theme with Google AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Take a look at Adventure Travel Vacations for a website currently using the Talian theme and a high AdSense CTR.
The first screenshot shows a home page of a Talian Theme test site which was used to edit the templates. You can see one of the three Google AdSense ad units in the screenshot, this is a 250×250 ad unit that floats to the right at the top of the content of the first post only.
I’ve looked at other WordPress themes that include AdSense and other than a copy cat (someone copied the code of an earlier theme of mine) no one uses this technique of floating an Ad unit within the content of the first post of archive pages. This location is one of the most clicked areas (AdSense hot zone) and so 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.
The second screenshot shows a single post page, this is where individual posts are shown (like the page you are reading now). You can see the floating ad unit again and the top of the vertical 160×600 ad unit on the right menu.
In my experience it’s these pages that will create most AdSense revenue, especially the 250×250 square unit within the main blog post content (it’s a real hot area).
Further down the page is the third and final ad unit, out the box it’s set at 336×280 (large rectangle to catch leaving visitors), but there’s an easy to use options page where ad unit sizes and colours can be changed, so changing the size doesn’t need a PHP programmer or anything 
.
Talian with AdSense + SEO Installation Instructions
Make a PayPal payment for £9.99 for Talian using the PayPal button below-
When payment is received you’ll receive a copy of the zipped AdSense theme by email (within 24hrs assuming no payment problems).
1. Unzip the Talian WP Theme zip file.
2. Edit the file adsense.php within the /talian-adsense-seo-03/ folder to include your Google AdSense code (read the readme.txt file for more details, very easy to do).
Note: Adding your unique Google AdSense publisher code (your pub-##### number) is the ONLY required change needed to the entire Talian template to make the theme ready to turn your WordPress blog into an AdSense residual income stream.
3. Upload the entire /talian-adsense-seo-03/ folder to your WordPress themes directory (via FTP, just like any other WP theme you’ve tried out).
4. Log into your blogs dashboard and under Presentation select the new Talian theme and you are done.
The Talian AdSense + SEO theme out the box uses blended ad unit colours and large ad units for maximum CTR/AdSense revenue. If you wish to change unit colours and/or ad unit dimensions this can be achieved by editing just one file. If you don’t like the 250×250 sized ad unit for example, no problem a few minor changes and you could have a smaller 180×150 ad unit. Don’t like image ads, again no problem specify text only ads.
Search Engine Optimization
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 + 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 I’ve edited that I thought to do this and it should result in significant SEO improvements. will be converting all my WordPress themes to use this feature.
Optimised anchor text of links and rel=nofollow links to unimportant pages (from an SEO perspective) like the trackback and RSS feed pages (those links waste a LOT of PR/link benefit).
Basically optimised everything I could which makes this the most optimised theme I’ve made so far.
BTW if your using the original Talian theme there’s a small code error near the language translations (left menu) that means the language image links aren’t within the box. Pretty easy to fix.
Make a PayPal payment for £9.99 for Talian using the PayPal button below-
When payment is received you’ll receive a copy of the zipped Talian SEO/AdSense theme by email (within 24hrs assuming no payment problems).
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 and WordPress 3.0.1. Will be updated for WordPress 3.* etc… and sent out for free to all Talian SEO/AdSense Ready WP Theme customers.
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284 responses to WordPress 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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.
WordPress 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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
WordPress 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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
WordPress 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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
WordPress 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
I have had Blix SEO + AdSense 02 on this blog since whenever and always liked the layout. The site now runs wp 3.0 and I wanted to upgrade to a theme so I can use widgets and have more control over some layout. I looked at your site for your latest and greatest, but am confused where your product update is and how to evaluate it. Any help would be appreciated. It would be nice to have a clean targeted site or page to go to where just the theme or themes are covered.
WordPress 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
Dave, is there a simple way to make 4 clear adsense widgets? Right now you have OGAT link Adverts and OGAT link Adverts clear BG 01. Also the same for the 02 ads. I was hoping to make all 4 widgets clear. I do not need the ‘adverts’ or ‘related searches’ style on a few of my blogs.
I took a stab at it myself but got errors. I am sure it is a simple thing to do.
Also is there an easy way to make a rectangle in the center of the post. The top square is very effective but on a couple of my blogs I want to move it down in the middle of the post.
No problem if you do not have the time to answer this.
By the way, your Talian theme is very flexible in terms of design. One of my friends who bought it from you modified the code for his personal blog to you would not recognize it.
One of my ideas is if you, gave this theme a few design options, you could drop your other themes and just market this like the guy who created the Thesis Theme and the pricing could be different. But you know the business better than I, just a brainstorming idea.
WordPress 3 Theme Talian with Targeted AdSense and SEO Optimisation
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