Blix WordPress SEO Theme version 3 was last tested on WordPress 3.1 and no issues found. Update June 2014, the free Blix AdSense WordPress theme hasn’t been updated for around 4 years, have no plans to update it in the near future. If you are looking for a free AdSense WordPress theme use the Talian 5 AdSense theme, looking for a WP theme with AdSense, Chitika, Kontera, Infolinks and custom ads built in, plus awesome SEO features see the Stallion Responsive Premium theme (not free). Consider Blix as an archived WP AdSense theme, will probably have issues with latest version of WordPress. AdSense Ready WordPress Theme Blix The Fresh design is a popular WordPress theme, apparently ported from another popular […]
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SEO H1 Benefit
The SEO optimisation of the new theme is much better, the first H1 header is no longer the blogs name, but the title of the post (from an SEO perspective much better).
View source of the home page or a monthly archive page and you get the original H1 type header (linking to the main page). These pages have no real keyword focus (home page should focus on the keywords used to name the blog). Category pages have the category name as the H1 header since that’s the main keyword/phrase those pages should be targeting.
I never liked how WordPress themes used a H1 header on all pages this way (not a good SEO use of them), but a solution didn’t come to me until recently.
I had similar misgivings about using headers on the menu as well, usually you’ll find a H2 (sometimes H3 or H4) headers used for sections on the menu. Unfortunately the sections names aren’t keywords (Pages, Archives, Categories, Blogroll, Meta etc…) and so the header SEO benefit was wasted.
This SEO problem is fixed in the new Blix theme (03) and all version 03 themes on the site above. Now menu sections receive no SEO benefit from headers allowing us to use a full set of headers within our posts for maximum SEO benefit.
David
SEO H1 Benefit
WordPress Themes Portfolio?
Hi,
I can’t see any information about the aesthetic features. The theme test site is in a different color scheme and has a modified header design compared to the screen shots. Is the theme packaged as in the screen shots or the test site?
Also, how easy have you made it to change the design colors and the text size and/or fonts. The text size seems smaller than most sites, and I find it is a strain to read. Do you have a fully functional demo site for the way the theme comes packaged?
I appreciate the work you put into the SEO and the Adsense optimization. That is super-important to me, but design, readability, image handling, etc, are what will showcase the content, that will cause people to be there in the first place. It would help to have some detailed info on all of that.
Thanks,
John
WordPress Themes Portfolio?
Adding PayPal Donate Button to WordPress
I purchased the template last weekend after reading about Blix on Problogger.net. I’m brand new to blogging, and have been working on getting my site ready to launch for the last few weeks. I had already done quite a bit of work with another WP theme, but decided to go with Blix because of the AdSense and SEO work that was already done. I’m not a programmer, so this is well worth the money.
The only glitch I’ve experienced is adding a PayPal donate button. Regardless of the size button I attach to my Donate page, the .gif graphic is distorted – its rendering 3 to 4 times the size it should be. It works fine, just looks a little funny. Not sure if anyone else has experienced this and/or has suggestions…
Other than that small item, the rest of the process has been flawless.
Dave was kind enough to answer a few questions also – great support above and beyond the call and cost of the product.
Thanks Dave – I look forward to working with you in the future.
Adding PayPal Donate Button to WordPress
Violating My Copyrights
Besides duplicating my content to make money off of my efforts, violating my copyrights, and possibly eliminating my site from the search engines as duplicate content, exactly what is it that you’re doing?
WebSites Infringing Copyright
Don what are you referring to exactly?
Everything on this site is created by me except for the original code from the themes (which I don’t think you mean) that I used to make the AdSense themes.
Edit: If you find one of my AdSense themes being used on a site that is infringing copyright that’s not one of my sites. Thousands of webmasters have downloaded this theme and I’m sure some have used them to scrape content from other blogs like yours ignoring copyright notices. That is not the same as me setting up a blog to scrape content though.
David (confused)
WebSites Infringing Copyright
WordPress Tagline
I would like the tagline displayed under the title. How do I do that? I type it into the box, yet it doesn’t display on my site.
Blix WordPress Theme Support
Bit behind on comments, had a major dedicated server problem and had to find a new one (took over a month to move!!).
Blix with AdSense/SEO is based on the original Blix theme (which is quite old now) with various updates I’ve collected from the Internet and code problems I solved myself.
is running the version you get when you pay using the PayPal link above.
I’ve made no edits to the theme shown on that site. Recently added full widget support so no need for me to manually edit a theme now (just use the new built in Widget editor page).
Most font sizes are the same that came with the original Blix except for the header text which I reduced in size a little if I recall correctly because with long blog names it wrapped. If you understand CSS a little pretty easy to increase font size.
The theme does work without an AdSense account since you can turn adds off by editing a file (change a 1 to a 0 which is in the documentation). Leaves one minor issue though, the Advert menu section is still visible, (though lacks the ad, so an empty small box) but since the theme is fully Widget compatible it’s easy to build a menu that lacks that menu section (just add the menu items you want and leave that one out). If you create an AdSense account add that menu item back in and change that 0 to a 1 :-)
The original Blix lacked the tagline code and I haven’t added it. In hindsight I should so when I get some time will see if it works with a tagline in the header somewhere and if it does send out an update. If you want to take a crack at it yourself this is the sort of code to add to header.php-
<p><?php bloginfo(‘description’); ?></p>
Without seeing the code of the page displaying the PayPal button I’d guess you’ve specified a height/width that makes it look 3 times bigger than it really is.
David
Blix WordPress Theme Support