David Cameron Law

There used to be a limit of 101KB for Google, but that’s no longer the case so size doesn’t matter ??

I mostly use Almost Spring https://www.morearnings.com/2006/08/30/wordpress-theme-almost-spring-with-google-adsense/

And Blix https://www.morearnings.com/2006/08/13/wordpress-theme-blix-with-google-adsense/

they both have right menus with the code for the menu below main content (that’s why I use them).

Both links above are to the versions I use, they include AdSense ads as well.

I must create some SEO only versions!!

Got about 500 downloads of themes from that site this month so far and the pages aren’t really ranking that great for relevant SERPs , so looks like a lot of people want SEO’d WordPress templates!

David

Darren if the site you want to show in Google is this one https://darran.digital-pulse.net/ you already have over 650 pages indexed in Google-

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&rls=EGLC%2CEGLC%3A2006-13%2CEGLC%3Aen&q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fdarran.digital-pulse.net%2F

Check your log files I’m sure you’ll see Google searches visiting your site even if rarely.

I’m an SEO consultant and spme of the info in this thread isn’t up to date ??

Don’t use a 302 redirect, this is a temporary redirect and has been known to really mess with SERPs. There was a bit of a 302 problem not that long ago that by the use of a 302 redirect you could steal a pages SERPs (the page the 302 goes to)! A client of mine used a host who used 302s for parked pages and one of his parked domains page jacked his main business sites main highly competitive SERP that took us ages to gain!! The site still hasn’t recovered.

So if moving blogs setup a 301 redirect which tells the search engines the move is permanent and all search engine benefits from links etc… should be passed on to the new site. That said Google considers sites with old links more important than new sites, https://www.seo-gold.com/tutorial/google-sandbox-effect.html so I would avoid moving a site that’s got links as you will be looking at about a year for any competitive SERPs (assuming you gain links fast).

Submitting a site to the major search engines is a waste of time, the way to get indexed is links, links and more links. Note links from www.ads-software.com are nofollow’d https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2005/01/preventing-comment-spam.html so do not count. Basically to Google etc… links from here don’t exist.

Google sitemaps could get a site indexed, but it won’t rank for anything. To rank for even the easiest phrases a page needs links to keep the page indexed in Google and to tell Google others think this page/site is important (a link is a vote).

Did I mention links ??

Looking at the OPs site I see lots of supplemental Results (see the site search I posted at the top). This can happen when a site is penalised or lacks links. In the latter case Google indexes the site, but because there are few links to the site doesn’t come back for a long time and so the pages are considered unimportant and are labeled supplemental, if Google’s spiders can’t find them on a regular basis (via links) why should it consider them important.

So if you do manage to get a site indexed that has very few links it’s liable to be dropped from Google over time.

Looking deeper Yahoo https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fdarran.digital-pulse.net%2F&bwm=i&bwms=p&bwmf=u&fr=yfp-t-501&fr2=seo-rd-se says the site has over 3,000 (that’s good). Google says 0 backlinks and reports PR0 (PageRank). With the supplemental listings it looks like a penalized site, didn’t check further, so don’t know why.

With regards the meta tags they don’t add anything to Google rankings (won’t get better SERPs), that said the description can be shown on relevant SERPs and result in a higher CTR from google search results so I’ve made up some AdSense/SEO versions of popular WordPress templates at https://www.morearnings.com/category/wordpress-themes/ that include optimised title, and meta tags. The description lists the sites description (added at the dashboard) and the pages title.

Download the Blix SEO version at https://www.morearnings.com/2006/08/13/wordpress-theme-blix-with-google-adsense/ (last zip file near the bottom) and take a look at the header.tpl file. Then copy the title element and both meta tags to your themes header template page and you’ll get titles and meta tags like you see on the morearnings.com blog above.

I’ve been meaning to make up some SEO only templates (no AdSense), but never find the time.

David

Yes HandySolo I am trying to use nextpage stuff.

The problem with post-name/ and post-name/1/ showing the same content is it results in duplicate pages indexed by search engines which is bad.

spencerp I’m not using it on a blog because it results in duplicate content, but would like to use it.

Thanks

David

Saw this thread via the SEO tag https://www.ads-software.com/tags/seo and thought it was relevant (I don’t see any true SEO themes around).

Also half the post wasn’t about the Blix AdSense/SEO theme, see the bit about editing themes/WordPress and the recommended plugin, so think you are over the top to suggest this is a duplicate post of the fourth post at https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/83320?replies=4

C’mon it’s not even close to a duplicate!

And just in case you think I’m posting here for links – I understand the links from here are rel=”nofollow” so I gain nothing from an SEO perspective posting here. I’ll gain direct traffic ONLY if the post is relevant (for example if WordPress users want an SEO theme) and the last post IS very relevant IMHO to this thread.

David

I’m an SEO consultant and you can both improve a theme and improve WordPress (I’ve done both). Take a look at https://www.morearnings.com/ that’s the first optimised theme I did, but I also edited the WordPress software so not possible to release it in that form.

Just finished optimizing Blix in a way that doesn’t need a hacked version of WordPress (see bottom of https://www.morearnings.com/2006/08/13/wordpress-theme-blix-with-google-adsense/ for download).

The above also includes AdSense ads though they are relatively easy to remove if you don’t want them. I guess I should do an AdSense free SEO version next ??

Will be releasing many more SEO’d templates as I find the time.

I also use a plugin to aid SEO-

Post Teaser – https://dev.wp-plugins.org/wiki/PostTeaser this results in an excerpt of a post shown on archive pages, means less chance of duplicate content problems.

David

I’ve updated the Blix with AdSense theme at https://www.morearnings.com/2006/08/13/wordpress-theme-blix-with-google-adsense/ today.

The first version which was based on the Blix zip from https://www.ads-software.com/extend/themes/ had corrupt images!! Got a new version direct from the authors site that included the images and started again.

Made some more improvements, the AdSense ads are better placed, figured out how to add ad units to the first post only on an archive page so could add a square ad to those pages in a hot area (area where visitors tend to look/click).

It’s now possible to change the colour of the ads (border etc…) globally via editing just one file. in version 01 you had to edit every template file (around about half a dozen files) that had the ad unit code if you wanted to change the scheme from blended.

Also made an SEO version of Blix (this includes the AdSense ads as well). Made SEO improvements including removing the calendar (this created duplicate content) and other changes I’ve found help gain better rankings.

There are other themes on the site including Almost Spring, Connections and Ocadia (so far all non SEO versions). Plan to add many more, see https://www.morearnings.com/category/wordpress-themes/ for new additions as I add them.

David

Hi Vkaryl,

Are you referring to the planned SEO version of the theme or the AdSense version?

I don’t see a problem with making it easier for users to add AdSense to their blogs, it’s taken me the best part of an afternoon to convert the next theme in the series and I’m not too bad at editing code, so doing this well for a lot of WordPress users is beyond their skill set. Not to mention if I do it it saves others their time even if they have the skills.

With regards SEO, WordPress from an SEO perspective is very good (it’s why I use it). Out the box it has the basics down (as long as you don’t use a terrible theme) and so most people using WordPress has an advantage over many other CMS blog packages (I’ve checked about half a dozen of them and WordPress blows the rest away).

So by using WordPress you are already gaming the search engines to a degree as you’ve picked the best SEO’d blog software. You don’t need static looking URLs for the search engines to spider now, but WordPress has the option to have static looking URLs with hyphens as well (best for gaining relevant SERPs).

What I want to do is take it to another level to give WordPress users a little bit more of an edge. I can’t change WordPress so every post is highly optimized (that would mean editing every one’s content!) but you can optimize a theme (the template: menu, header and footer mainly) to give the content the best possible chance in the search engines. You cam also prevent wasted links as well.

For example right now search engines can follow the login link which means a lot of pages are indexed in Google etc… that are pointless (who wants to find these)-

https://www.google.com/search?num=100&hl=en&lr=&newwindow=1&rls=EGLC%2CEGLC%3A2006-13%2CEGLC%3Aen&q=%22wordpress+login%22+%22Back+to+blog%22+%22Lost+your+password%3F%22&btnG=Search

A simple nofollow to that link (the link is hard coded, not part of the themes) and this waste of links (link benefit shouldn’t be wasted on a page like this) and the problem is solved.

Then there is targeting single page posts, right now the title element for these pages is “Blogname » “ Title of Page” which is OK, but if you want these pages to do well in search engines better as- “Title of Page” (I use “» “ Title of Page” because I like those symbols ??

So it’s about making something that is already very good a little better.

BTW Blix isn’t a theme I’d natural choose for SEO use either (the daily calendar adds duplicate pages almost!), but it’s in the list of popular blogs so a lot use it.

David

I got that error on my blogs a couple of months back, the HD on the server was full!

A script I was using on some sites was creating a lot of PHP warnings which bloated (understatement to say the least here!!) the error log files. Had about 100GB of error logs on a 120GB HD!

Anyway, removed the error logs and the blogs worked correctly (so not WordPress at fault).

Apparently earlier versions of Worpress had a button for this called Page. There’s some out of date info (points to the wrong files for version 2 installations) on how to add this function back in to the write a post pages (works when you don’t use the visual rich editor only though).

Find quicktags.js

It’s under

\wp-includes\js\

At around line 134 you see-


/*
edButtons[edButtons.length] =
new edButton('ed_next'
,'page'
,'<!--nextpage-->'
,''
,'p'
,-1
);
*/

change to-

edButtons[edButtons.length] =
new edButton('ed_next'
,'page'
,'<!--nextpage-->'
,''
,'p'
,-1
);

save and upload.

now when creating a post you have a Page button, push it and it adds-

<!–nextpage–>

to the post, which is where the page will split. Alternatively ignore the above and just type <!–nextpage–> anywhere you want the split ??

Not what you asked for, but I have an ulterior motive ??

I’m trying to get pagination added automatically to a blog, say every 10,000 characters, but the two plugins for this-

Page Post (https://blog.coolcode.cn/?p=27)
This plugin allows long post to be split across multiple pages.

Page Post 2 (https://www.coolcode.cn/?p=115)
This plugin allows long post to be split across multiple pages and switch the post page without refresh the whole page.

Don’t appear to work, documentation is also not in English.

I was hoping since you have an interest in this and appear to understand plugins a little (looked at your site) you might be able to get this working and will hopefully solve both our problems.

I’ve got it working in the same way you are trying at a test site here https://www.mommysvillage.com/ (top post uses it).

My settings are-

/%postname%

and /- for cat

I’ve tried your URL structure /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%hour%%minute% and it doesn’t work, the links to page 2 etc… are no longer present. Ah, I know why, it’s because it lacks %postname% you need it for pagination to work (didn’t check why).

This works /%year%/%monthnum%/%day%/%hour%%minute%/%postname%

As a side note I’m an SEO consultant and if you want search engines to rank your posts high for relevant search terms you are much better of using %postname% as part of your URL structure. Personally I use /%postname% or /%postname%.html since the date doesn’t help with search engine rankings. You can read about the basic concept here http ://www. seo-gold.com/tutorial/domain-name-choice.html domain name and file names are basically treated the same way by Google.

WordPress from an SEO perspective is very, very good. I looked at several CMS packages and WordPress is the best by far for search engine friendliness.

I’m still stuck on this problem, if anyone even has an incling of an idea of how to do this it might help with the research?

I’m learning PHP (can edit it, but not write it from scratch) and have been looking at ways to insert a charachter set like <!–nextpage–> into a database entry, but not got very far. My thought is to use a script that automatically adds <!–nextpage–> into the appropriate WordPress table at every X number of charachters (with a few safegaurds to prevent insertion in the middle of a word!).

Basically know what I want, but don’t know how to do it ??

Thanks

I’m an SEO consultant and out the box WordPress is very good if you have the rewrote URLs. I have several blogs and https://www.morearnings.com/ has a reasonably well optimised template (minor editing really). Still got a few things to do.

Have rel=”nofollow” any links I don’t want indexing like the login links (basically everything under Meta on the menu). Just look for links that point to things you don’t want indexing like login and rel=”nofollow” them.

Also removed the name of the blog from posts so here https://www.morearnings.com/2006/05/08/adsense-revenue/ the title is >> Adsense Revenue rather than Name of Blog >> Adsense Revenue. This means the title is better optimised. To do this I created a new template page (header2.php) removed the blog name in the title and referenced it rather than header.php for the single post pages (this means all the other pages get the name of the blog in the title).

With regards adding Adsense to posts I added the code directly to the template. So editing singlepost.php I added-


<div style="float:right;">
<script type="text/javascript"><!--
google_ad_client = "pub-8325072546567078";
google_ad_width = 250;
google_ad_height = 250;
google_ad_format = "250x250_as";
google_ad_type = "text_image";
google_ad_channel ="";
google_color_border = "E8E7D0";
google_color_bg = "FFFFFF";
google_color_link = "B96F17";
google_color_url = "B96F17";
google_color_text = "000000";
//--></script>
<script type="text/javascript"
src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js">
</script>
</div>


Directly below


<div class="postentry"


This means the Ad is within the text as the OP wants floated to the right. Should work on most templates and this means you only see the ad on the post pages, not index or archive pages.

David

I was looking for help with the PagePosts 2 plugin which I think is suppossed to automatically split posts that are long into multiple pages. I found the plugin under https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Plugins/Posts_Formatting

Like astereo above I’ve installed the plugin, but nothing happened (I tried both versions of the plugin). So checked out the associated webhsite, but it’s in Chinese, so no help their.

I’ve also tried <!– nextpage –> which does what I want, but not automated. I need it automating because some of the posts I plan to add will result in a lot of pages (over 30) and I’d like them all roughly the same size without having to work it out manually (adding the <!– nextpage –> at X number of charachters would be time consuming!).

So has anyone got pagepost2 plugin working with WP version 2.0.2 or know of another solution?

Thanks.

Thanks for the quick replies, I’ll check out Spam Karma2 later.

Scot you get your API key here https://wordpress.com/signup/

Signup for free blog hosting with WordPress and they send the API by email. You don’t have to use the blog you signed up for. Then under plugins add it via Akismet Configuration that’s next to the Plugin Editor link.

I’ve no idea if there is another way to gain an API key, but that’s how I got mine earlier today (actually got two by accident :-).

David

I’ve had the same problem, have installed over 300 templates at my test site https://www.lilyblog.com/ to see what I like and the preview image is missing on well over 1/3rds of templates making it slow progress determing which templates to use (still it’s better than most other blogging tools template systems)

From what I can tell there needs to have been a screenshot of the template made by the author and saved as-

screenshot.png

within the template folder. If the file is missing no preview. You then have to select that template and view your blog to see what it looks like.

Seems the older a template is more likely it will be missing it’s screenshot. I’m new to WordPress, so no idea about the history of the screenshot preview thing, maybe it’s a relatively new feature.

I don’t suppose anyone has gone to the trouble of creating an archive of templates including screenshots?

The screenshots are easy to make, but time consuming when doing a lot. I thought about making my own like here-

https://www.lilyblog.com/wp-content/themes/abstrakt/screenshot.png

but it’s a lot of work when dealing with hundreds of templates.

David

I didn’t solve the problem with the first verion of WordPress 2.0, but the updated version 2.0.1 Release installed first time. Finally got my test site at https://www.lilyblog.com/ working.

In between having the problem listed before I tried a few other CMS/blogging tools (textpattern, Nucleus CMS are two I almost went with) and none come close to how good WordPress is.

From an SEO stand point it’s grwat, clean code, hyphenated keyword rich filenames, plenty of interlinking with keyword rich anchor text between sections etc… Hats off to whoever got these things added to WordPress.

David