WordPress SEO Theme Almost Spring with AdSense

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

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

WordPress SEO Theme Almost Spring with AdSense

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

WordPress SEO Theme Almost Spring with AdSense

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

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

WordPress SEO Theme Almost Spring with AdSense

Hi Scam Hunter,

Thanks for the heads up, but I own the site you linked to :)

The site you are on gives away the free versions of the themes and the other site supplies the updated (better) versions of the themes, they have better control over the AdSense coding and much better SEO optimization.

David

Hi Florentina,

Looks like you are using widgets and have only added one widget. I didn’t add widget support per se on this theme, though the original code had widgets. This was pre WordPress 2.3 when widget support was added to core WordPress.

I made the themes on this site years ago and haven’t used or updated the code in ages as now sell and use better themes (with full widget support) at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/ for example a better version of Almost Spring at http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-almost-spring-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.html which I offer good support for.

David Law

WordPress SEO Theme Almost Spring with AdSense

Matt it’s not the theme that does this, it will be the .htaccess file in the root of your domain.

There will be a redirect line in the file somewehre, either delete it or change it. I wrote an article on redirects at http://www.seo-consultant-services.co.uk/301-redirects-www-non-www-canonical-problems.html

David Law