WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense

29 Comments for WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense

• 1. » Add AdSense to a &hellip  |  September 10th, 2006 at 8:17 am

  […] If you are feeling lazy check out the WordPress Themes category on this site, you’ll find WordPress themes with AdSense already added. Popular themes like Blix, Connections and Almost Spring all with AdSense added. […]

• 2. Arthur  |  September 12th, 2006 at 9:37 pm

  Hi Dave,

  Nice work, but I think it is better for the ads to have the same border color as the ad background so that it dissolves into the content.

• 3. SEO Dave  |  September 12th, 2006 at 10:24 pm

  Hey Arthur,

  I prefer the border with colour, think it fits with the look better. You’ll be happy to know in the next version I’ve added the ability to change every ad units colours via the adsense.php file.

  Added those 5 variables to that file, so no need to edit all the template files individually if you want to change the border for example. So what you want would take about a minute for you to accomplish.

  Done one theme this way so far Ocadia.

  Will covert the first three WordPress themes to this format soon, when they are called version 2 you’ll know they are updated.

  David

• 4. SEO Dave  |  September 23rd, 2006 at 8:51 pm

  Have updated the Almost Spring theme to use the version 2 format, better AdSense ad placement and easy way to change the ad unit colours blog wide.

  Enjoy

• 5. CIO Jerry  |  January 18th, 2007 at 11:20 pm

  hi, Dave,
  I experimented with all four adsense-spiked wordpress.org themes. I had some problem displaying static pages with all except almost-springs. So, for now, I settled down with almost-springs. Question:
  * can you assign category/tag for static pages, just as you do with posts?
  * any SEO reason not to use Google Adsense search box to replace the regular wordpress.org’s search box?

• 6. SEO Dave  |  January 19th, 2007 at 12:15 am

  The category tag question, I don’t think so. Closest I can think of is to put a set of related pages as sub-pages to a main parent page.

  What that can do is use the name of the parent page as a directory that holds all the child pages -

  example.com/parent/
  example.com/parent/child1/
  example.com/parent/child2/
  example.com/parent/child3/

  If that’s what you are after.

  Google AdSense search box: Didn’t think of it

  I assume you mean something along the lines of the Google search box I use at http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/ when I made that I recall you aren’t supposed to edit the search box code (I did though).

  Just had a quick look at what the code looks like now when making a new Google search box and it’s still a mess of tables!! At least they’ve removed the text link to google.com, cheek on it expecting a link back as well

  Anyway, I don’t see any reason why it couldn’t be done, but I’ve found the money from this is very low so not a priority to try, especially as it could add another level of complexity to those using the themes (trying to keep it really simple, can’t get simpler than changing one number).

  Also if it is still a terms violation to change the code (I didn’t check) I wouldn’t add it to a theme that I’m giving to others because of the theoretical risk of having their AdSense accounts closed.

  David

• 7. CIO Jerry  |  January 19th, 2007 at 11:38 am

  I pasted the Google search box as is, thus no ‘code change’. For sure, the forms are clumsy. Worse, it still doesn’t work on Google’s own Blogger yet

  I follows the parent-child page relation. To me, ability to tag a page would be simply a neat feature of Wordpress.org. I’ll check with their dev forum to see whether it is a task small enough for myself to tackle. Assume the tagging helping blog search engines and such to find your static pages by category/tag. In your opinion, does tagging help?

• 8. IT Support Small Medium B&hellip  |  January 23rd, 2007 at 9:38 am

  […] I replaced the regular wordpress.org search box with Google AdSense search box in sidebar.php, a file from SEO Dave’s almost-spring-adsense-02 theme. You can see the resultant Google AdSensesearch box on the top right corner of this site, replacing the default wordpress.org search box at the bottom. I meant to go back to his site to leave him a note reporting progress, since I stated my wish before on his blog. However, I couldn’t reach his site at all tonight. Bookmark to: […]

• 9. Kat  |  April 25th, 2007 at 4:21 am

  I’ve tried the Almost Spring with adsense and its working great. How come I can’t see the google ads on your site though?

• 10. SEO Dave  |  April 26th, 2007 at 9:31 pm

  The Google AdSense ads are currently not working on any of our sites because Google AdSense disabled our account!

  About a month back another site owner complained we’d copied their content on one of our test sites. I’d been running a test and used their RSS feed for quick content, long story short fell foul of a DMCA complaint.

  Removed the content and sent in a counter notification by snail mail to Google AdSense (exactly what they asked for), but because we are in the UK and Google is in the US it didn’t arrive in time (10 days from the first DMCA notification email) and they disabled the account!!

  Didn’t get a warning of this, just one repeated email that they needed the notification, no information that they’d be disabling the account in X days or anything) and despite me stating it’s in the post, but don’t know how long it will take to arrive, so they will have to be patient. They then sent a email saying I should email a copy of the notification as an attachment.

  Unfortunately living in a partially renovated house with no fax, printer or scanner unpacked (bare minimum needed to work basically).

  Sent an email explaining this and asking if they needed a signature (what exactly will they accept) but received no response and the account was disabled in under 24hrs. Sent the email 3 times now and well over a week on still no response.

  Have signed up for Yahoo Ads since this isn’t how you treat good customers, but after two sign up attempts still not heard anything from them either!!!!!

  When I sort all this out I’ll be moving away from using AdSense and will write a nice review of all this. Iwonder if we’ll get our last months revenue? The site with the problem made no revenue.

  Really pisses me off since we have 50+ sites with AdSense with no problems and this was a test site with no traffic to speak of. Basically forgot to delete the RSS feed content afterwards and needed patience while the mail service did it’s thing. All they had to do was disable that one site and we wouldn’t have cared.

  One Christmas AdSense send us some free gear (good publishers) and then this.

  Not impressed at all.

  David

• 11. Blog Dude  |  May 13th, 2007 at 4:57 am

  first time saw this theme at matt cutt weblog, and attracted by its simplicity and cleanliness of design. The blog load very fast and capable of serving large viewers. I use it in my weblog now, and its look just nice. content is easy to read as well.

  thanks.

• 12. khairilz  |  May 27th, 2007 at 12:36 am

  hye..i just wanna says thankz u so much coz this theme has help me improve my adsense..thankz a lot..u can check it out my web site at http://internet.speakerz.net

• 13. Samuel Herrick  |  June 2nd, 2007 at 1:24 am

  Hi,

  I want publish google ads on my blog, but my blog is free. is it possible to publish ads on blog. If yes, please guide me with complete details and steps, so that i can easily do that.

  Waiting for reply!

  Thanks

• 14. Satish Talim  |  June 14th, 2007 at 8:11 pm

  I have just started using your Theme with Adsense and SEO. I like it. A few suggestions -

  a. In the next version please do give the user the ability to add Adsense Linked Units.

  b. Don’y you think, we need to add the following tags in header.php?

  Thanks again for a good theme.

• 15. SEO Dave  |  June 15th, 2007 at 7:39 am

  It’s made to be easy to install with no configuration changes needed, basically add your AdSense ID and it works. I’ve considered adding options, but don’t want to complicate things for users that find things like FTP hard!

  You could add your own AdSense units to any part of the code. The first version of the theme had text link AdSense units, but I’ve found they make so little money they aren’t worth using.

  Your header tags didn’t survive commenting

  David

• 16. Mark Biernat  |  September 11th, 2007 at 5:47 pm

  Thank you very much for creating this useful high quality theme. I installed it but only see two google ads per page, so I added my own at the footer. I guess you did not universally include the side bar google ad, which is google as it allows other to choose the placement of their third. Unless I am missing something, I hope not then I would have 4. (: My blog gets about 2000 unque hits a day but I only make about 20 cents a day. I hope with your theme I can improve that. I have not idea why my CTR is so low. Bests, Mark

• 17. SEO Dave  |  September 12th, 2007 at 12:15 am

  Glad you like the theme

  It does have a sidebar AdSense ad, but I think it’s not widget compatible which is probably why it’s not showing.

  Not sure how to use widgets (looked at the plugin once, didn’t like/need it), though I assume there’s a way to ad an AdSense ad to the sidebar that will show.

  David

• 18. Justin  |  October 19th, 2007 at 8:03 am

  cool. I’ve been using your adsense theme for quite awhile. Just have a question. What if I want to include alternate ads in my google adsense ads (to replace those irritating PSA).
  Any idea if i can integrate them into the existing adsense wordpress template?

  -Justin

• 19. SEO Dave  |  October 20th, 2007 at 2:58 am

  Good Question Justin

  Not used alternate ads to AdSense be honest (I really should as well), but shouldn’t be a problem adding them.

  What you’ll have to do is find all the ad units you want alternate ads to be shown for and add some code, assuming you want it for every AdSense ad shown this will be real easy.

  I use a text editor called Crimson Editor (it’s free, search for it on Google) which has a search files for text strings function (many text editors have this ability). What I would do is search the folder that holds one of my themes for this text-

  google_ad_width (or any text found in an ad unit)

  This will find every theme page that has an AdSense ad placed within it and the readme.txt file.

  Open the files one at a time and paste this-

  google_alternate_ad_url = “http://www.morearnings.com/”;

  Into the code so it looks something like this-

  google_ad_client = “pub-###############”;
  google_alternate_ad_url = “http://www.morearnings.com/”;
  google_ad_width = 728;

  Obviously you want to use your alt ad URL, not the URL above.

  In the version 02 AdSense themes that are free from this site there’s quite a lot of copies of the Google AdSense ad units code (can be over a dozen) so you’ll need to do this with several template pages.

  Good news is you could theoretically choose a different alternative ad URL for each ad, with the code used in version 03 (AdSense themes from http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/ for a fee) this isn’t possible.

  I like the idea of alt ads, so will see into adding this as an option for the version 03 themes, shouldn’t be too difficult.

  Thanks for the feedback.

  David

• 20. Bill  |  November 16th, 2007 at 11:29 pm

  Is there a way to easily add a channel id to the adsense ads?

• 21. Robert Niche Affiliate And Adsense Site Builder  |  December 1st, 2007 at 10:39 pm

  Hey Dave,

  Thanks for sharing your AdSense converted WordPress theme(s), which I think looks pretty sweet

  Keep it up!
  Robert

• 22. Seo Specialist  |  December 8th, 2007 at 2:29 pm

  Looks good i am planning a AdSence test early next year so may use this to make things easier.

• 23. Steve K. Gets Google Ads Free  |  December 11th, 2007 at 3:25 pm

  I’m having much better success with the new rounded corners ads. They really look nice and getting better click thrus.
  Steve

• 24. Jayakanthan  |  December 18th, 2007 at 2:22 am

  Yesterday I added this theme on one of my site, before the ctr is around 2% and now with this theme today my adsense stats shows 15%… thanks for the theme.. great work.. cheers..

• 25. Ton  |  January 20th, 2008 at 7:07 am

  I have tried Almost-Spring-With-Adsense, but the site doesn’t look good in Firefox, although in Internet Explorer, everything looks ok.

  I have returned to regular Almost Spring now. Any idea what could be wrong?

• 26. Suresh  |  January 29th, 2008 at 9:15 am

  Ton: “I have tried Almost-Spring-With-Adsense, but the site doesn’t look good in Firefox, although in Internet Explorer, everything looks ok.”

  Suresh: Design of theme may be not firefox compatible, therefor its was not a good look.

• 27. SEO Services UK  |  April 4th, 2008 at 6:10 pm

  “this is where single blog posts are displayed. You can see the three ad units. One at the top within the content, one on the menu and the third at the bottom to catch users who might leave your site after reading a post.”

  The third block at the bottom gives me a great CTR, thanks! Overall, Im getting around 12% for the site, which Im more than happy with.
  Jay

• 28. Johnny Johansson  |  April 8th, 2008 at 1:45 pm

  Hello.

  I have just installed your almost-spring-adsense-seo-02 theme. I think your theme seems to be on-page optimized. Nice and clean touch. Will it work with various SEO-plugins like All-in-one-SEoPack and sitemap-plugins respectively?

  One more thing. What is the correct robots.txt?

• 29. Free Website Content  |  April 12th, 2008 at 5:23 am

  Ho this is really wonderful. I am really happy wiith the theme… My CTR has really shot out very high… Great work.
  Thanks a lot. Keep Providing such great professional templates.

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