Wordpress @ Ralf Engel dot Com » WPMU Themes http://wordpress.ralfengel.com Wordpress and Wordpress Multi User (MU) Tips and Tricks Thu, 27 Oct 2011 20:45:26 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 AdSense Optimized WordPress Theme http://wordpress.ralfengel.com/wpmu-themes/adsense-optimized-wordpress-theme http://wordpress.ralfengel.com/wpmu-themes/adsense-optimized-wordpress-theme#comments Wed, 25 Feb 2009 12:43:39 +0000 admin http://wordpress.ralfengel.com/?p=52 Thousands of WordPress Themes are out there on the world wide web. Many are quite pretty, support widgets and are AdSense ready. At least that is what they state on the info page where they are posted. But when you download the theme, upload it to your server and activate it, you find out that the “AdSense ready” is quite an exaggeration. Most AdSense ready themes display only one ad on a Sidebar, and, worst of all, they will not display this ad until you edit php code on the corresponding sidebar.php.
Then you navigate on that new theme, and, there is only this tiny little AdSense ad on your sidebar, nothing else there. Now, with that little strategy your click through rate will stay rather low.
I’ve Goggled AdSense Optimized themes and did find a good reference on Ad placement for WordPress themes at Dosh Dosh and the wrong advices (hehe).

On their site you’ll find several (I think 18) AdSense Optimized themes. I’m using the AdSense Prosense theme in blue… that is the only one I liked.

adsene optimized darkshades theme

adsene optimized darkshades theme

I did find hundreds of not so AdSense ready themes though. Thus I decided to make my favorite “not so AdSense” ready theme a truly AdSense optimized theme. After half a morning of coding it was ready. It will display AdSense ads in pages and posts and on the sidebar. It will always limit the maximum number of displayed ads to three.

Top Banner, right Sidebar 250×250 block, bottom banner on
- Single Post pages
- Search results
- Categories
- Archives
- main Index

Top Banner right Sidebar on all pages.
Download the Plated Theme AdSense Optimized here.
You will have to do change your publisher ID on all the adsense_ pages and on the sidebar page, sorry wasn’t able to make a plugin for that. Open the files in any text editor, look for PUB-xxxxxxxx and paste your Publisher ID there. That is all, you are ready to go.
Please let me know if you had any trouble…

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]]> http://wordpress.ralfengel.com/wpmu-themes/adsense-optimized-wordpress-theme/feed 2 WordPress ProSense Theme translated German, French, Spanish http://wordpress.ralfengel.com/wpmu-themes/wordpress-prosense-theme-translated-german-french-spanish http://wordpress.ralfengel.com/wpmu-themes/wordpress-prosense-theme-translated-german-french-spanish#comments Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:14:32 +0000 admin http://wordpress.ralfengel.com/?p=20 If you are running a WordPress Blog in German, Spanish or French and are using Adsense to make some money blogging, then the translated version of the WordPress ProSense Adsense Theme might be worth having a look at.

I am running a WordPress Blog since quite a while now. It used to be hosted on a free server. Since I always liked to publish in my four favourite languages, I decided to get my own Website Host at Hostloco.com with a proper domain name and subdomains to run an individual language version for English, Spanish, German and French.

Since Im using Adsense to monetize my Blog a little, I was looking around for a really well working, easy to use (no need for php or html code programming) theme, Adsense ready.

With the ProSense theme I found exactly what I wanted. Header, Footer, Sidebar, all ready with Adsense code integrated. The only thing left to do was to change my Adsense Publisher ID, that was all.

This is the list of the most important features of ProSense:

    Separate and Distinct Ad Blocks. The use of distinct theme files for ad codes allows for easy editing and insertion of Adsense units. These ad blocks can also be used to insert other types of advertisements as well and are not solely limited to Adsense use.
    Multiple Ad Display Options. Unlike other Adsense Ready themes, ProSense allows you to choose between either banner or rectangle ads for the single post page, thus allowing you more flexibility when it comes to ad blending.
    Hassle-free convenience and ease of use. Youll only have to insert your AdSense publisher ID in the default ad units and youre done. It should only take a minute or two to set up ProSense perfectly.
    Integrated Ad placement on the homepage. Unlike most AdSense ready themes currently available, ProSense blends a 468 x 60 banner unit between the second and third post on the blog homepage.
    This enables you to display relevant ads to search visitors who arrive at your homepage, as they are more likely to scroll and scan through your posts. The inclusion of a well-blended horizontal link unit near the top of the homepage also attracts navigational-style visitor clicks.
    Highly Optimized Ad units on post pages. There are two types of ad blocks on both the top and bottom of the single post page. You can choose between using a 468 x 60 banner and 300 x 250 rectangle at the top of the post or a 468 x 60 banner and 336 x 280 large rectangle at the bottom of the post.
    The ability to designate and match different ad units is exclusive to ProSense and is currently not available for other AdSense Ready themes.
    Pre-blended AdSense unit colours. All AdSense unit colours are tweaked to match the blogs link and background colours. There is absolutely no need for you to spend time picking the appropriate ad colours.
    Search Engine Optimized site structure. ProSense is built from good, clean code that validates well. The CSS positioning is written so that your blog content is prioritized in the source code as this may help to improve search engine crawling and ranking. Dynamic and descriptive title tags are also used for each blog page.
    Compatible with WordPress 2.0+. ProSense has been tested with the latest 2.2 Getz version of WordPress and no problems were experienced.
    Widget-Ready. If youre a widget lover, youll be happy to know that ProSense allows you to easily install and use widgets to complement your content and advertising scheme.

For now I have only translated the Basic ProSense Theme (Brown Colour). If I find the time Ill have a look at the other ProSense colour schemes.
Download AdSense Prosense German Theme!
Download AdSense Prosense Spanish Theme!
Download AdSense Prosense French Theme!

If you find any translation errors please send me a feedback using my Contact page.

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