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).
All archive type pages use the same ad units and placement.
The second Almost Spring screenshot shows a single post, 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.
Almost Spring Theme with AdSense Installation Instructions
Download the almost-spring-adsense-02.zip file below
Download Almost Spring with AdSense WordPress Theme
Unzip and edit the file adsense.php within the /almost-spring-adsense-02/ directory to include your Google AdSense code (read the readme.txt file for more details). Upload, select theme “Almost Spring AdSense 02″ and you are done.
Search Engine Optimization Almost Spring Theme
If you’d also like to improve your search engine rankings try my SEO (search engine optimization) version of the Almost Spring with AdSense WordPress theme. Not only do you get AdSense ads on your WordPress blog for free with little effort you also get an search engine optimized WordPress theme as well.
Download the zip file below
Download Almost Spring SEO with AdSense WordPress Theme
Unzip and edit the file adsense.php within the /almost-spring-adsense-seo-02/ to include your Google AdSense code (read the readme.txt file for more details). Upload, select theme and you are done.
Drop a quick comment below if you installed this theme, I’d really like to know what you think.
37 responses to WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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.
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
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google 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
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?
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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 Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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?
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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?
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
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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.
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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
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
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.
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google 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 Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google 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
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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 Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
Is there a way to easily add a channel id to the adsense ads?
Hey Dave,
Thanks for sharing your AdSense converted WordPress theme(s), which I think looks pretty sweet ;)
Keep it up!
Robert
Looks good i am planning a AdSence test early next year so may use this to make things easier.
I’m having much better success with the new rounded corners ads. They really look nice and getting better click thrus.
Steve
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..
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?
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.
“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
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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?
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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.
apparently a bastard sold you template here :
http://www.google-adsense-templates.co.uk/wordpress-theme-almost-spring-with-adsense-and-seo-optimisation.htm
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
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
Thanks for a great theme! Looks nice and clean. I just have a little problem with it : it doesn’t display the entire sidebar, only the archives. Here : http://www.acnetreatmentcreams.com/.
How to fix this? Thanks for your help.
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 Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
Hello and thanks for the great theme! One question, why does it redirect to the URL without the ‘www’? And what do I need to change in the htaccess file to make it not do this?
Thanks!
Matt
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
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
Thanks Dave!
It looks good but I want to know if it will work with the various widgets?
Dave,
I’m looking for a copy of the WordPress Theme Almost Spring without the AdSense mods.
I don’t want to use AdSense. Just the Theme so I can use it.
Do you know who might be able to email me a copy of the theme files?
Hey Dave,
I love the way the site looks, sleek and clean. I need some help if you do not mind. I would like to setup pics like on the site at the top.
http://leathermessengerbag.net/
the 150 x 150 but I do not know how.
I would appreciate your help so very much.
Thanks
WordPress Theme Almost Spring with Google AdSense
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