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Almost Spring is my third AdSense converted WordPress theme. Like the first two themes I converted, Blix and Connections, it uses 3 blended Google AdSense units per page

WordPress Almost Spring theme with Google AdSense Ads

The screenshot below is the home page of Music Red which was used to edit the theme. You can see the top AdSense ad units and the menu ad unit in the screenshot, the final AdSense unit is located at the base of the page (336×280 rectangle unit).

Click for large screenshot of theme

All archive type pages use the same ad units and placement.

This post is based on a thread (Re: My Google Page Rank is 4) in the NG alt.internet.search-engines and a request for help in the comments at SEO Expert page.

Original poster asked about his 3-4 month old site www.cre8ivemind.com, with a PR4 home page, but no pages indexed in Google despite using Google site map.

Confirmed with the Google toolbar the home page was indeed PR4.

Click for large PR4 screenshot

Confirmed with a link:http://www.domain.com/ search in Google that the site had backlinks (5 backlinks) did the same with Yahoo, though Yahoo has changed it’s link: format recently and sometimes it doesn’t work (used to work with any site including deleted ones!)! Yahoo showed 113 backlinks.

Update: I no longer update Connections on this site, however I’ve created a new much better theme at Connections Reloaded with AdSense/SEO. Connections Reloaded with AdSense/SEO includes better SEO Optimization, better AdSense options and full widget and tag support. February 2009

Connections is my second AdSense converted WordPress theme. Like the first theme I converted, Blix, it uses 3 blended Google AdSense units per page in what I think are the best locations (without ruining the feel of a blog).

WordPress Connections theme with Google AdSense Ads

The first screenshot shows the home page of Internet PT which I used to edit this WordPress theme (may not be using it now). You can see two of the three AdSense ad units in the screenshot, the third unit is located at the bottom (336×280 rectangle ad unit).

Against my better judgement I’ve updated my old version 02 of Blix with AdSense and SEO to WordPress 2.5 compatible. Added widget support, tag support and fixed several code bugs that ruins the original Blix theme when used with WordPress 2.5 (WordPress 2.3+ actually).

Although I’ve updated the SEO version of the Blix theme (download link below) to work with WordPress 2.5 I’ve not added the same SEO improvements I added to my paid for AdSense themes at Google AdSense SEO Themes and Templates. Also the AdSense options are not as good.

Comparatively speaking the new Blix with AdSense/SEO version 03 is as SEO optimized as a WordPress theme can be, version 02 of Blix with AdSense/SEO is around 80% optimized (still really good, but I learnt a lot in the years between version 02 and version 03).

There’s a discussion in the NG alt.internet.search-engines “comparing seo techniques [was: To hyphen or not to hyphen]” partially based on this web page How to get IE6 to apply image border styles on hover (mouseover)?.

The owner of the Locus Optimus (Els) is a web designer who focuses on accessibility based web design, a growing niche market due to recent web site accessibility legislation.

Some Free SEO Advice

If she came to me as a client with the primary goal of accessibility since that’s her niche market in web design and compromising accessibility would damage the sites credibility (I have SEO clients with similar needs, and you are a pain in the neck :-)) my optimization advice would be as follows.

Updated March 2009 for adding Google AdSense to WordPress 2.8 themes. Works with WordPress 2.7 and WordPress 2.7.1.

As you can see I use the AdSense program on this the Make Money Online Guide. This post will explain how other WordPress 2.8 users can achieve a similar use of AdSense on their WordPress blogs.

If you are feeling lazy check out the WordPress 2.8 Themes on this site, you’ll find WordPress 2.8 themes with AdSense already added and SEO optimized code (better search engine rankings as well as money from AdSense).

Popular WordPress themes like Blix, Talian, Almost Spring and many more all with AdSense added and SEO optimization and updated to work in WordPress 2.8.

Are you looking for an SEO expert to help achieve high search engine rankings in Google, Yahoo and MSN?

Here’s how you find that SEO Expert, your own SEO Guru.

What is an SEO Expert?

Before we find an SEO expert, we first need to decide what an SEO expert is. There are many self proclaimed experts out there, some call themselves ethical SEO experts, others whitehat SEO experts, a few even admit to being blackhat SEO experts and the rest just plain old SEO expert or consultant.

Since search engine optimization is a relatively new industry there are no regulations covering the SEO sector like there are for say electricians or plumbers anyone with no training and no clue can setup an SEO company and start offering SEO services overnight.

Was reading a post on alt.internet.search-engines (newsgroup) called “SEO certification” which had gone a little off topic, had gone on to basically how to show you are a good SEO consultant by showing your rankings (SERPs). I started to respond, but thought it would be better on the SEO section of the blog (some new much needed SEO content)-

Someone said to show you are a good SEO consultant make a site that ranks well for some SERPs. Another poster (a self proclaimed ethical SEO expert) agreed rankings is the way to go giving a easy SERP as an example and that got me started-

I’m not a big fan of football in general (don’t support a team for example), but when the World Cup comes around I try to watch every match I can (never miss an England match)..

Going to BOLD the ones I manage to watch this year from the list (which I got from http://www.worldcupkickoff.com/)below-

Fri 09/06/06 5:00PM Germany v Costa Rica Munich Group A Match

No big surprise with that result.

Fri 09/06/06 8:00PM Poland v Ecuador Gelsenkirchen Group A Match

Already forgot that match (doh!).

Sat 10/06/06 2:00PM England v Paraguay Frankfurt Group B Match

Phentermine, Xanax and Blackjack is apparently what most of my readers are into according to the comments “Spam Karma 2″ and “Akismet” (two Wordpress comment spam plugins) are catching :-)

Here’s a recent one I find funny-

Name: phentermine online | E-mail: phentermine @ mail.uk | URI: ####### phentermine-online-swicki.eurekster.com/ | IP: 82.146.42.206 | Date: May 29, 2006

I found your work a little stiff, you need to involve your acute artistic sensibilities, that you indeed have, and, your photos reflects, the dicipline of composicion, an important tool that will make you master of your skills. rosa maria

I could see someone missing this as spam, but both Wordpress plugins caught this one which is presumably because of the keyword phentermine in the URI.

Time I gave some AdSense tips.

I own a quite a lot of web sites running AdSense ads, but most of them are relatively new (like this site as I type this) or not fully developed yet (creating content etc… takes time). Even so I make quite a bit of money from Google’s AdSense program and I expect this to increase significantly over the next 12 months as new sites climb out of the Google sandbox.

I started with AdSense end of Feb 2004 with my literature sites. I did everything WRONG because I didn’t consider AdSense revenue important.

AdSense Tip: take some time to research how the AdSense program works for others.

MSN’s search market share dropped from 14 percent to 11 percent

Google and Yahoo increased their market share in the online search arena as Microsoft’s MSN slipped, according to Web research firm Nielsen//NetRatings.

Growth in use of Google and Yahoo is outpacing the overall growth in the search engine market during the past year, according to Nielsen//NetRatings.

The number of searches at Yahoo.com grew 47 percent, and searches at Google.com grew 41 percent between March 2005 and this March, Nielsen//NetRatings said. Overall, online searches grew 36 percent in the past year.

Google’s searches increased from 2.1 billion in March 2005 to 2.9 billion this March, while Yahoo’s searches increased from 907.8 million to 1.3 billion. The third largest search provider, MSN, grew 9 percent, from 592.2 million to 643.8 million, Nielsen//NetRatings said.

We had a toolbar PR update around Feb 18th and the next one is due around the end of May/beginning of June, so toolbar PR should be stable right now.

Some pages are showing pre toolbar update PR values (so what we saw prior to the Feb 18th update) and others are showing the new toolbar PR value (what we saw after Feb 18th). This is a first for me!

For example

http://www.classic-literature.co.uk/ updated to PR6 during the last PR toolbar update from a PR7. Yet sometimes it still shows a toolbar PR of 7, other times PR6.

right now the above is PR7 (old value).

I’m a paid SEO Consultant with SEO Gold where we don’t generally offer free search engine optimization advice since that wouldn’t be good business.

However, to generate some interest in my new blog for a limited period of time I’m offering free SEO advice here from an SEO consultant.

If you have a question regarding search engine optimization (SEO) post it as a comment below and I’ll try to create a new post to answer your question.

Links from a page are very important to it’s rankings, if you want a SERP like Search Engine Rankings the best web pages you can link to from the page that targets this SERP should be about Search Engine Rankings and the anchor text should include the SERP or similar derivative. A derivative phrase might be “Google Rankings” or “Top 10 Search Engine Rankings” all that matters is some of the anchor text uses some/all of the same words as the main SERPs.

So you’d ideally link to the top resources on the subject matter using relevant keyword rich anchor text. Those resources can be on external sites or on the same site, both help.