The Stallion Responsive WordPress SEO Theme is the best All In One SEO package for WP blogs and WP powered websites. Stallion is much more than a WordPress theme, the WP SEO package protects your hard earned off-site SEO using advanced on-site SEO techniques like no other WordPress SEO solution.
Stallion WordPress SEO Package
WordPress On-Page SEO
There are two elements to search engine optimization, on-page or on-site SEO and off-site SEO or off-page SEO.
On-page or on-site search engine optimization: What we do on our websites, we have full control over this aspect of search engine optimization and Stallion includes dozens of SEO features to increase search engine traffic.
Off-site or off-page SEO search engine optimization: Any off-site promotion that has an SEO benefit like building backlinks, social network activity, press releases, syndicating content, guest posts etc… we have a lot less control over off-site SEO. Stallion protects your hard fought off-site SEO benefit as it flows through your WordPress powered website.
The Stallion SEO theme removes the vast majority of core WordPress on-site SEO and on-page SEO damaging issues protecting your hard earned off-site SEO you’ve worked so hard to build.
Yes, WordPress out the box causes SEO damage, in particular adds a lot of link benefit deleting rel nofollow links which only Stallion Responsive fixes.
ALL popular WordPress themes and WordPress SEO plugins including Yoast WordPress SEO and All In One WP SEO Pack plugins make matters worse by adding even more rel nofollow links (and noindex features)!
Yes, the self proclaimed best WordPress SEO plugins damage your on-site SEO which wastes your valuable off-site SEO promotion!
Protect your off-page SEO with the Stallion SEO theme.
Yoast SEO vs All In One SEO vs Stallion WordPress SEO
This is not a marketing ploy to sell Stallion Responsive, as of April 2015 there are no other WordPress themes, plugins (any WordPress package) that removes ALL rel nofollow links from a WordPress powered site. By attacking Yoast and All In One for using nofollow I’m going against the current WordPress consensus (the majority of WordPress users think these SEO plugins are awesome, millions of users). By going against the WP SEO consensus I loose potential SEO theme buyers.
I’ve integrated the most important Yoast SEO and All In One SEO data into Stallion Responsive: Stallion works with Yoast and/or All In One SEO data, in fact Stallion’s SEO data uses the same database names as the All In One SEO plugin SEO data so Stallion SEO data works with the All In One SEO plugin and it’s SEO data works with Stallion. With a few clicks of the mouse Stallion will use Yoast’s SEO data and Yoast can use Stallion’s SEO data.
SEO Plugin Data
I’d make more theme sales if I ignored the SEO plugins damaging nofollow SEO features and promoted Stallion Responsive as the theme to use with Yoast and All In One SEO to fully use the Yoast and All In One SEO data: Stallion is the ONLY theme to use this SEO data for anything beyond the title tags.
For example the H1 header of this article (the H1 is “WordPress SEO Theme”) is using the All In One SEO Title Tag SEO Data (could use the Yoast SEO data format with a few clicks of the mouse), as are some of the internal links anchor text to this article. Go to the home page and look at the link back here from the Popular Posts widget, it’s anchor text is also “WordPress SEO Theme” which is the All In One SEO Title Tag data.
WP SEO Data
Try to find another WordPress theme which uses Yoast and/or All In One SEO title tags this way (Stallion can use them both at the same time).
Had I not attacked the SEO plugins maybe by now they’d recommend Stallion Responsive as the go to theme for taking full advantage of their SEO title tags data. I’m too ethical to work this way, the only SEO solution to the damaging WP nofollow issue is Stallion.
Stallion Theme Layouts
There are 12 built-in Stallion Responsive layouts, each one just a couple of clicks of the mouse away, all the Stallion layouts are search engine optimized (main content is high in the HTML code) and are all mobile responsive.
This website uses the Left 310px Layout (3 – Main Content 660px : Left Sidebar 310px).
On every WordPress post and page edit screen you can select one of the 12 layouts just for that post/page (yes, every post can have a different layout).
1 – Main Content 760px : Left Sidebar 210px
Two column layout with one 210px wide sidebar on the left
2 – Main Content 760px : Right Sidebar 210px
Two column layout with one 210px wide sidebar on the right
3 – Main Content 660px : Left Sidebar 310px
Two column layout with one 310px wide sidebar on the left
4 – Main Content 660px : Right Sidebar 310px
Two column layout with one 310px wide sidebar on the right
5 – Main Content 560px : Left Sidebar 410px
Two column layout with one 410px wide sidebar on the left
6 – Main Content 560px : Right Sidebar 410px
Two column layout with one 410px wide sidebar on the right
Click the image below to see a screenshot of the 6 two column Stallion Theme Layouts above.
WordPress 2 Column Layouts
7 – Main Content 560px : Left Sidebar 200px : Right Sidebar 200px
Three column layout with two 200px wide sidebars
8 – Main Content 560px : Left Sidebar 200px : Left Sidebar 200px
Three column layout with two 200px wide sidebars on the left
9 – Main Content 560px : Right Sidebar 200px : Right Sidebar 200px
Three column layout with two 200px wide sidebars on the right
10 – Main Content 550px : Left Sidebar 255px : Left Sidebar 165px
Three column layout with one 255px wide sidebar and one 165px sidebar both on the left
11 – Main Content 550px : Right Sidebar 165px : Right Sidebar 165px
Three column layout with one 255px wide sidebar and one 165px sidebar both on the right
12 – Main Content : No Sidebars
One column (main content) layout, the left and right sidebars and the footer sidebars are loaded below the main content (add blank text widgets to have blank)
Each Stallion Layout can also be used on a post by post basis.
Click the image below to see a screenshot of the 6 three column Stallion Theme Layouts above.
WordPress 3 Column Layouts
There’s also a two column version that splits the archive page layout into two columns and the ability to order posts by date, comment count, modified date, alphabetical and by post ID.
If Stallion had a middle name it would be FEATURE RICH :-)
Stallion WP Theme Font Schemes
Choose from 26 built-in font schemes.
- Georgia, serif
- Georgia, serif Rounded Corners
- Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif
- Palatino Linotype, Book Antiqua, Palatino, serif Rounded Corners
- Times New Roman, Times, serif
- Times New Roman, Times, serif Rounded Corners
- Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
- Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif Rounded Corners
- Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif
- Arial Black, Gadget, sans-serif Rounded Corners
- Comic Sans MS, cursive, sans-serif
- Comic Sans MS, cursive, sans-serif Rounded Corners
- Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif
- Impact, Charcoal, sans-serif Rounded Corners
- Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif
- Lucida Sans Unicode, Lucida Grande, sans-serif Rounded Corners
- Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif
- Tahoma, Geneva, sans-serif Rounded Corners
- Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif
- Trebuchet MS, Helvetica, sans-serif Rounded Corners
- Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif
- Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif Rounded Corners
- Courier New, Courier, monospace
- Courier New, Courier, monospace Rounded Corners
- Lucida Console, Monaco, monospace
- Lucida Console, Monaco, monospace Rounded Corners
Each Stallion Font Scheme can also be used on a post by post basis.
Stallion WP Theme Colour Schemes
Choose from 112 built-in colour schemes.
- Blue – Airy Blue
- Blue – Airy Blue Plus
- Blue – Blue Izis
- Blue – Blue Izis Plus
- Blue – Cosmic Cobalt
- Blue – Cosmic Cobalt Plus
- Blue – Dazzling Blue and Cayenne
- Blue – Dazzling Blue and Cayenne Plus
- Blue – Facebook Blue
- Blue – Facebook Blue Plus
- Blue – Limpet Shell
- Blue – Limpet Shell Plus
- Blue – Riverside
- Blue – Riverside Plus
- Blue – Serenity
- Blue – Serenity Plus
- Brown – Burlywood
- Brown – Burlywood Plus
- Brown – Iced Coffee
- Brown – Iced Coffee Plus
- Brown – Maroon
- Brown – Maroon Plus
- Brown – Marsala
- Brown – Marsala Plus
- Brown – Potters Clay
- Brown – Potters Clay Plus
- Brown – Warm Taupe
- Brown – Warm Taupe Plus
- Cyan – Turquoise
- Cyan – Turquoise Plus
- Gray – Dark Slate Gray
- Gray – Dark Slate Gray Plus
- Gray – Light Slate Gray
- Gray – Light Slate Gray Plus
- Green – Emerald
- Green – Emerald Plus
- Green – Forest Green
- Green – Forest Green Plus
- Green – Green Flash
- Green – Green Flash Plus
- Green – Lush Meadow
- Green – Lush Meadow Plus
- Green – Light Sea Green
- Green – Light Sea Green Plus
- Orange – Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly
- Orange – Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly Plus
- Orange – Spring Tangerine
- Orange – Spring Tangerine Plus
- Orange-Red – Tangerine Tango
- Orange-Red – Tangerine Tango Plus
- Pink – Bodacious
- Pink – Bodacious Plus
- Pink – Honeysuckle
- Pink – Honeysuckle Plus
- Pink – Peach Echo
- Pink – Peach Echo Plus
- Pink – Radiant Orchard
- Pink – Radiant Orchard Plus
- Pink – Rose Quartz and Serenity
- Pink – Rose Quartz and Serenity Plus
- Purple – Rebecca Purple
- Purple – Rebecca Purple Plus
- Red – Aurora Red
- Red – Aurora Red Plus
- Red – Big Dip O Ruby
- Red – Big Dip O Ruby Plus
- Red – Dusty Cedar
- Red – Dusty Cedar Plus
- Red – Fire Brick Red
- Red – Fire Brick Red Plus
- Yellow – Mimosa
- Yellow – Mimosa Plus
- Yellow – Spicy Mustard
- Yellow – Spicy Mustard Plus
- White BG – Clean White n Hint of Blue
- White BG – Clean White n Hint of Red
- White BG – Clean White n Hint of Rebecca Purple
- White BG – Clean White n Hint of Sea Green
- Light BG – Light
- Light BG – Light n Hint of Classic Blue
- Light BG – Light n Hint of Marsala
- Light BG – Light n Hint of Sinopia
- Light BG – Light n Hint of Treetop Green
- Light BG – White n Red
- Light Blue BG – White n Light Blue
- Dark Blue BG – White n Dark Blue
- Marsala BG – White n Marsala
- Dark BG – Dark
- Dark BG – Black n White
- Dark BG – Black n Blue
- Dark BG – Black n Red
- Dark BG – Black n Green
- Dark BG – Neon Green
- Dark BG – Neon Pink
- Dark BG – Neon Purple
- Dark BG – Neon Red
- Dark BG – Neon Yellow
- Dark BG – Charcoal n Orange
- Dark BG – 50 Shades of Grey
- Dark BG – Cyan vs Gray
- Dark BG – Midnight Slate
- Blue BG – Blue Door Tones by Marie
- Blue BG – Night Sky by Marie
- Brown BG – Coffee Cup
- Green BG – Green Tea Tones by Marie
- Light BG – Fresh n Green by Marie
- Yellow BG – Celebrate by Marie
- Blue – The Tale of Peter Rabbit
- Blue – The Tale of Peter Rabbit Plus
- Brown BG – PB I Want My Hat Back
- Brown BG – PB I Want My Hat Back Plus
- Basic Defaults – Light BG – Blue n Red Links
Each Stallion Colour Scheme can also be used on a post by post basis.
With 12 layouts, 26 font schemes and 112 colour schemes there are 34,944 (12 x 26 x 112) possible combinations of layout/font/colour scheme. If you own a site with 34,944 posts each one could have a different combination: yes, every WordPress post on your site can have a different layout, font and colour schemes.
Stallion Responsive also includes built-in WordPress colour scheme and font scheme creators which with no CSS knowledge (CSS is how WordPress colour/font schemes are created) anyone can modify any of the built in colour schemes or create their own unique look.
Stallion Responsive Colour Scheme CSS File Creator Header Options
Stallion Theme Ad Networks
Stallion includes 5 ad networks and custom ads. For AdSense, Chitika, Kontera, Infolinks the ad code is built into Stallion, all you have to do is add your AdSense publisher ID or username to the easy to use Stallion options page and your site is monetized.
Very easy to use.
- 125px x 125px Banner Ads Widget
- Custom Banner Ads Widget
WP SEO Theme Features
Here’s a list of some of the WordPress SEO features in no particular order.
- Stallion All In One SEO – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- WP SEO Optimized Title Tag
- Four WP SEO Optimized Keyword Phrases on EVERY Post/Page – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- Stallion SEO Posts Widget – Take SEO Control Over Widgets – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- Stallion Silo SEO Widget Options – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- Automated/Custom Meta Description Tag
- Automated Meta Keywords Tags
- DMOZ/Yahoo Directory Robots Meta Tag
- Cleaner Head Code Area
- WP SEO Optimized Header Tags
- WP SEO Optimized H1 Header Tags
- WP SEO Optimized Search Results Pages
- WP SEO Optimized Sitemap Page Templates
- WP SEO Optimized Recent Comments Page Template
- WP SEO Optimized Comment Headings
- WP SEO Optimized Recent Comments Widget – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- WP SEO Optimized Thumbnails
- WP SEO Optimized Random Thumbnails – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- WP SEO Optimized Gravatar Images – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- WP SEO Optimized Continue Reading Anchor Text
- Stallion SEO Super Comments Built in Plugin – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- WP SEO Optimized Comment Titles Built in Plugin – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- Stallion Built in Link Cloaking Script – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- Comment Author Links Control – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- All WordPress Nofollow Links Removed – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- WordPress SEO Friendly Login Links – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- WordPress SEO Friendly Code Layout
- WordPress SEO Neutral Sidebar Headings
- Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Warnings – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- All In One WordPress SEO Plugin Warnings – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- WordPress SEO Support for the WPRobot Autoblog Plugin – Unique WordPress SEO feature
- WordPress SEO Support for the Massive Passive Profits Autoblog Plugin – Unique WordPress SEO feature
This is a taste of the built-in All In One SEO WordPress features of the Stallion theme, there’s even more going on behind the scenes you’ll not even notice, but it works for your WordPress sites search engine rankings.
Stallion Social Network Promotion
There’s an options page devoted to promotion based features.
- Facebook Like Button
- Twitter Tweet Button
- Google +1 Button
- Pintrest Button
- Stumbleupon Button
- Linkedin Button
- Reddit Button
- Flickr Widget
- YouTube RSS Feed Widget
- Google Translation Widget
- Social Network Profile Links – See them floating on the right of this page.
- Google Analytics including AdSense Tracking
- Google Authorship
- Google Site Verification
- Bing Site Verification
- Alexa Site Verification
- Pinterest Site Verification
- Verification of any Service
- Author Biography Box – See in action at the bottom of this page.
WordPress Author Biography
Stallion SEO Theme V8.* License
Each purchase entitles the user to use Stallion V8.* on as many of their own domains as they like.
There’s no developer license. If I find a customer selling sites with the same Stallion V8.* ID that Stallion ID will be disabled.
If you own 10,000 sites you need one Stallion V8.* ID for your entire private network.
If you sell sites running Stallion each site needs its own ID.
Basically one Stallion ID per user.
Stallion SEO Theme Support and Comments
By purchasing a Stallion Responsive 8.* ID you are entitled to free V8.* updates and support (all support via comments on this website) for as long as I develop Stallion Responsive.
This website is not only for selling the Stallion WordPress SEO theme, it’s also the support site via the comments.
No matter what you think of the Stallion theme or the support offered as long as a comment is constructive (not abusive) it won’t be deleted, I think a quality service is measured not when everything is working as expected, but how issues are dealt with when it all goes pear-shaped.
David Law
Website - SEO Gold
Full Width Screen
Hi David.
With the current trend to have full screen width websites is there any way to do that with Stallion?
I’m just about to build out a directory site along these lines http://www.glasscompanynearme.com/ and wondered if I could recreate something like that using the power of Stallion SEO theme.
Looking at the theme layout options it seems that 760 is the largest content width.
I’ve had Stallion for years but haven’t been active for some time (stupidly ceased all my sites a couple of years ago) and am only just getting back into using Adsense sites for potential Rank and Rent.
Just feel that the expectation from visitors these days are full width sites.
Thanks David
Full Width Screen
Stallion Responsive The Holy Grail SEO Layout
The quick answer is no, the max width is the 1,000px wide no sidebars layout set under the “Layout Options” : “Sidebar Layout” – “12 – Main Content : No Sidebars”.
With this setting in a Desktop device the main content width is around 1,000px and the left and right widget areas drop below the main content into two widget areas: two side by side footer widget areas.
There are several reasons why there isn’t say a 1,300px wide layout or a fluid layout.
To have 12 desktop layouts with varying types of left/right sidebars and main content widths whilst using the exact same SEO HTML output (the main content loads high in the code no matter which layout is set) is REALLY difficult to achieve: look up the “Holy Grail Layout”, Stallion Responsive uses a custom SEO version of the holy grail layout (took me weeks to iron out all the CSS layout problems, was a huge achievement getting it to work for 12 layouts). I doubt any other theme can achieve the same as the Stallion Responsive Holy Grail SEO Layout for so many different layout sizes.
If you compare the code source (the HTML output in a browser) of a Stallion Responsive left sidebar layout vs a Stallion Responsive right sidebar layout you will find they are identical : achieved using different CSS files only.
The Stallion Responsive HTML output is:
Head Area : Home Page Link, Tagline…
Main Content : Most Important Content (we want this high in the HTML code)
Left/Right Sidebar : Widgets, Sitewide Content Not Important (we want this low in the HTML code)
Footer : Widgets, Sitewide Content Not Important (we want this low in the HTML code)
Navigation Menu : Sitewide Links, Not Important (we want this low in the HTML code)
Social Network Links : Stallion loads an iFrame with Facebook, Twitter links… for SEO reasons
The above is important SEO wise, main content is high in the code source and less important content is pushed to the bottom (loads last).
If you use a random WordPress theme with a left sidebar layout, the vast majority of the time you’ll find the HTML code for the left sidebar loads above the main content.
Head Area : Home Page Link, Tagline…
Navigation Menu
Left Sidebar
Main Content : This is in the wrong place
Footer
If you use a random WordPress theme with a right sidebar layout, the vast majority of the time you’ll find the HTML code for the right sidebar loads below the main content.
Head Area : Home Page Link, Tagline…
Navigation Menu : Ideally would be lower
Main Content : This is almost in the right place
Right Sidebar
Footer
If you use a random WordPress theme with a left and right sidebar layout, the vast majority of the time you’ll find the HTML code for the left sidebar loads above the main content and the right sidebar loads below the main content.
Head Area : Home Page Link, Tagline…
Navigation Menu : Ideally would be lower
Left Sidebar
Main Content : This is in the wrong place
Right Sidebar
Footer
The Stallion Responsive Holy Grail SEO Layout is as good as it gets SEO wise, doesn’t matter which layout is set the HTML output is always the SEO version and to achieve this requires a fixed width and I had to choose a maximum width due to header/banner image sizes. For non Stallion Responsive theme users you might take always from this is avoid using themes with a left sidebar, they aren’t as SEO friendly.
All the Stallion Responsive headers and banner images have a maximum width of 1,000px. This a compromise between having flashy features (big image at the top of a page) and image size (smaller image sizes are better SEO wise). Had we started with a 1,300px wide header image rather than 1,000px wide it would have a negative SEO impact.
On Layout Width Trends
The trend has moved towards mobile first design (smaller layout widths), not wide layouts per se (Desktop output is becoming secondary) as more users are accessing the web using mobile and tablet devices.
Stallion Responsive has 12 mobile/tablet device sizes covered to account for the vast majority of mobile phones and tablets on the market today. Any device width below 800px on the screen has the browser output (what you see on the webpage):
Head : title of site, Header/Banner Image, responsive navigation menu
Main Content
Sidebar Widgets
Footer Widgets
It still uses the same SEO HTML output listed earlier, the CSS code outputs all the different layouts without changing the HTML output that Google cares about.
Since mobile first design is the new norm I’m planing in the future to start again from scratch (not planned exactly what to do yet and it’s a while away).
Currently working on pulling out a LOT of the SEO features from the Stallion Responsive theme to put them in the Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin (which is free) and other plugins. In the next Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin release (working on version 3.1.0) the meta boxes (found on Post Edit screens etc…) for Stallion Responsive SEO titles (and Yoast SEO and All In One SEO titles/meta descriptions etc…) and Stallion Responsive Keyphrases (1-4) are part of the plugin.
The current plan is to remove those meta boxes from Stallion Responsive 8.5 (the next theme update) so users can install the Stallion SEO Plugin to access those SEO features.
Other theme developers will also be able to create new themes which use the Stallion WordPress SEO Plugin features that are currently only available in Stallion Responsive.
The plan is to do the same with other SEO features, for example the Stallion Responsive Layout Option : Display Widgets has been significantly improved and added to a new plugin called Display Widgets SEO Plus (it’s free). The new plugin has a lot more widget logic options, works with the WPML language plugin, BuddyPress/bbPress and WooCommerce (it’s much better than the Stallion Responsive built in version).
By breaking Stallion Responsive up into modules (stand alone plugins) will make updates far easier for me. I currently have to do huge theme updates and though Stallion Responsive is awesome SEO wise, the SEO features are all locked into one SEO theme.
When it’s all broken up it will be possible to create new themes (or modify current themes) to use Stallion Responsive features (via plugins) without using Stallion Responsive: a fluid width design with a right sidebar layout for example wouldn’t need the full Stallion Responsive Holy Grail SEO layout code as it wouldn’t have a left sidebar version: could then have a wider (fluid) main content area.
Don’t ask when, it’ a huge amount of work as it’s taken about 10 years to put all the SEO features into one theme :-)
David
Stallion Responsive The Holy Grail SEO Layout
Full Width Screen - Now I Understand Why Not!
Thank you David for, as always, a comprehensive response to my query.
With the recent announcement from Google that they are creating separate indexes for mobile searches (https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/oct/14/google-desktop-search-out-of-date-mobile) and the %age of searches on mobile overtaking desktop searches it makes perfect sense to optimise for that, so I’ll sacrifice full width for full SEO optimisation.
The reason I’m going to try and use Stallion for this project is Adsense and SEO, so I’m certainly not going to jeopardise that.
I’m sure I’ll find a way to present the pages as I want them within the 1000 limit.
Also look forward to future developments when you get time to separate out and put them into Stallion SEO WordPress plugin, which I use on all my other sites.
One final thing. I use Project Supremacy (PS) SEO plugin on my sites (it’s along the lines of Yoast and AIO but incorporates Schema and page content optimisation within their Projects module.
Because of the flexibility within PS I’m able to turn off most of the SEO functions and allow Stallion to “do it’s thing” whilst still allowing me to use other key features.
Fingers crossed for this when I get there.
Thanks again.
Nigel
Full Width Screen - Now I Understand Why Not!