As recently promised at How to Make Money Online with Blogspot, AdSense and Clickbank for Free below I provide a free Blogspot SEO/AdSense Template called Rounders 2 (one of the original Blogger templates).
The free BlogSpot AdSense template is pretty much what I use on my blogger blogs and are reasonably well search engine optimized: not as much control over the SEO with blogger as with WordPress (my preferred content management system CMS).
Free Blogspot AdSense Template Txt File
Blogspot Template Search Engine Optimization Features
I’ve been using this Blogger template myself for quite sometime (I own a few Blogspot blogs :-)). SEO/AdSense Template Rounders 2 is fully search engine optimised.
Like with my WordPress AdSense/SEO themes only the home page and archive pages uses a H1 header for the name of the blog in the header area (the big blue block at the top) on single blog posts the name of the blog is within span tags instead of H1 headers (no SEO benefit wasted).
Headers are not wasted on the sidebar menu, (most Blogspot themes use a H2 header which is such a waste of SEO benefit!) on the home and archive pages the name of each blog post is within a H2 header as a link to the single post, (or archive page if you have single posts disabled: recommend you have single posts on).
On single blog post pages the title of the post is within a H1 header (on most Blogspot themes it’s a H2 because the blog name is in the H1).
This is all basic SEO 101 for me, but 99 out of 100 times missed on other templates (that’s for Blogspot and WordPress themes).
The title tag is formed with SEO in mind, home page and archive pages the name of the blog is used for the title element (so ideally name your blog with a keyword or two). On single blog posts the name of the post is used as the title element: name your blog posts with SEO in mind (that’s keyword rich titles) and you’ll do well in the search engines.
Although meta tags hold no real value these days I’ve included the description meta tag and keywords meta tags. Trust me from an SEO perspective they are worth no more time discussing.
Things I don’t like about Blogger/Blogspot as an SEO expert.
Since there’s no Categories in Blogger/Blogspot you have to use the monthly archives to get your blog fully indexed, these pages are not very good SEO wise (in WordPress I never use them, I use Categories which add SEO value). With Blogger we are stuck with them as otherwise the site won’t be fully spidered and indexed!
Unfortunately the anchor text to the archive links are useless (the anchor text format is 01/01/2010 – 02/01/2010), so you should treat the archive pages as a sitemap (they will not pull in much traffic). To protect link benefit AND more importantly reduce SEO damage caused by the poor anchor text I set the SEO/AdSense Template Rounders 2 to only show the archive links on the home page and other monthly archive pages. In this way your single blogs posts (which should pull in most search engine traffic) are not damaged by a dozen or more text links with poor date related anchor text.
AdSense Features
I’m happy with the AdSense placement etc… of this theme, if you’ve used my WordPress AdSense/SEO themes you might be a little disappointed with the lack of easy option changes, but it’s Blogger and their template code is not as easy to manipulate as WordPress code is.
I have the AdSense code set to blend the colours with the theme, there are 6 AdSense code sections and if you wanted to change the colour scheme or ad sizes you’d have to manually edit all 6. If you are happy with the ad sizes and colour scheme all you have to do is search and replace my Google AdSense publisher ID with yours, You must do this on all 6 code sections, easiest way is load the template file into a text editor and run a simple search and replace.
Not a great deal I can add about the AdSense ads, they are placed in key locations that I’ve found works well.
Download the Free Blogspot SEO/AdSense Template Rounders 2
Most visitors probably saw the header above and jumped straight to this section skipping all my well thought out advice, well, if you don’t want to know the meaning of life here’s the download link :-)
Free Blogspot AdSense Template Txt File
Free Blogspot Template Install Instructions
The Blogspot theme is fully search engine optimized and AdSense optimized and requires one simple search and replace in a text editor to replace my Google AdSense publisher ID with yours.
The theme uses the old Blogspot legacy code which means your Blog has to use the original Blogger coding (can’t use their new widgets/gadgets), but it’s a small price to pay for an SEO/AdSense ready Blogspot theme (especially a free one).
To install the SEO/AdSense themes code, log into your Blogger account and under your accounts Dashboard click the “Layout” link, followed by the “Edit HTML” link and near the bottom of the page click the “Revert to Classic Template” link, click OK on the warning box and on the next page paste the free Blogspot SEO/AdSense theme code (that you’ve already replaced my AdSense publisher ID with yours).
Click the “Save Template Changes” button and you have an SEO/AdSense Ready Blogspot Blog just waiting for new content.
David Law
Website - SEO Gold
Free Blogger Blogs Deleted as SPAM Blogs
I have had several of my free Blogger blogs deleted as spam blogs. They are getting harsh.
Not as harsh as WordPress I guess but harsh just the same.
I guess they don’t want advertizing on their blogs.
Rick
Blogger Template XML Error
So i got excited about this but when i tried to upload the file here is what it said.
“Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed. Please make sure that all XML elements are closed properly.
XML error message: The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data or markup.”
That’s exactly what it said I’m in the old version
Any ideas ?
Blogger Template XML Error
Blogspot Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed error
The Blogspot error:
Means you are installing the Free Blogspot SEO/AdSense Template Rounders 2 in the new template format.
When you’ve logged into Blogspot click the Template link for the site you are working on and at the bottom of the page is a link to “Revert to classic templates”, click the link and paste the code into the template form.
David
Blogspot Your template could not be parsed as it is not well-formed error
SEO Blogger Template
Hi there
Iv been looking for a theme like this for ages.
Its took me that long to find one, iv already
added content to my blog. Iv done the SEO myself
Its took me a good couple of months. I wondered
is it possible to add this template to my blog.
I wont to have all the same content as iv got now
though.
Thanks
Louise
Problem with "enable float alignment"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xTid9MUrXP0
Blogger adds before and after this tag . And I can’t disable the float alignment bc the new dashboard does not have the option. How can i fix this?
wow, it works
this is great, the adsense works right ahead, when you use a default blogger theme, you have to wait 30 days to be able to put adds in your blog, this is too silly they let this happen, haha, thanks
Did Blogger change the classic mode
hi Dave,
it looks like classic mode is gone? I just edited there with your template but I don’t see the option to return to classic mode. I do see a field to put in html.
Greetings, Elza