Wordpress Themes - Frequently Asked Questions

[BigNorm]

I use Heatmap extensively and a big fan of it. If your in the process of adding new features, I would like to suggest the ability to turn ads on and off on individual pages and posts in the window itself. The ability to disable ads only in the content window not the sidebar as this can be done in the widgets area.

Originally Posted by Stuart Wider

Thanks Guys for the nice comments about HeatMap here on this thread. Much appreciated.

Hey Allesandro, If you like your ad themes minimal without many distractions you are going to love the new version of HeatMap I've got in alpha test right now. Its going to be a substantial upgrade, with options that allow you to go super minimal (less distractions for your ads), but also with lots more ad placement options.

I expect it to go into Heatmap Insider Members beta in the next couple of weeks.

[BigNorm]

Originally Posted by yukon

Good luck with a manual Adsense review (content).

If you look at the page long enough a picture pops out. lol......thats a joke for anyone else reading in case you go there and stare at it for 15 minutes.

[miranon]

Hello!
I'm looking for good adsense css/html templates for mini-sites. The templates must have a modern look and have a good ctr. Any suggestions?
Thanks.

[miranon]

Originally Posted by olalinks

Try this : free adsense theme - Tìm v

Thank you captain obvious. I already tried google, oswd.org and freecsstemplates.org

I want a clean, simple and modern (themeforest.net design standards) template for a mini site ( 10-15 pages ) with good ctr.

[miranon]

Any suggestions?
Looks like i will have to design my own, but I'm not so good with modern design etc. :/

[packerfan]

Thesis is the best theme I've ever seen. You can do whatever you want with it.

There's no such thing as an Adsense theme. CTR is largely determined by niche, regardless of what people selling themes will tell you.

That being said, people rave about Clickbump for adsense.

Good luck.

[wlivegeorge]

Sure. But many these themes are so expensive.

[packerfan]

Originally Posted by clickbump

Thanks Packerfan. Wish I'd have gotten to you before you purchased Thesis, but nevertheless, I'll keep trying to win you over

I'm sure I'd be a raving fan if you did. I just need to spend more time with clickbump. You know how it is. You just get used to something. It's not like Thesis is exactly user friendly right out of the box.

[debroy66]

I'l vote for woo canvas theme

[debroy66]

I love canvas theme. It is the best theme.

[papamo44]

Prosense blue has been working very well for me. I am getting over 20% ctr. One add above the fold over the content and one skyscraper sidebar that it. I also have a site using clickbump xfactor and it is getting around 15% ctr.

[papamo44]

I really think that it depends on what your topic is about too. My clickbump site that gets 15% ctr is in a shopping niche and I have another one about learning a foreign language, it uses the same theme and I am getting about 1%.

[cornerstones]

I want to change my profile background in Wordpress. How is it possible? I want to use my own theme not the selected themes of Wordpress.

[pennystocks]

Originally Posted by hashbury

Prosense is an oldie but goodie.

ProSense is not free, there are other similar themes available for free!

[pennystocks]

Originally Posted by packerfan

Thesis is the best theme I've ever seen. You can do whatever you want with it.

There's no such thing as an Adsense theme. CTR is largely determined by niche, regardless of what people selling themes will tell you.

That being said, people rave about Clickbump for adsense.

Good luck.

Thanks, checking Clickbum, but its too is not Free.........any better free themes & plugins!

[fortony]

You have to pay every year with Clickbump for updates, and I had a bad experience with it causing my sites to go nofollow after I applied an update.

Regardless, I now think ad placement and ad design must be much bigger factors than the theme for CTR. With my next theme, I am going to select one with the most options for ad placement. Or, just go with a free theme and select a good plugin that allows for a lot of easy ad experimentation. That should help me find what works best.

What works for one site and niche is not necessarily going to work for another. Therefore, everyone needs to experiment.

[jficarro]

Originally Posted by barry dixon

I reckon Clickbump is the Bomb - it has everything you need and it is so easy to use albeit a few little quirks with images. But it seems to work well for me with my adsense websites - example is www.screenresolutionstatistics.com

Sorry, but that just looks so plain and I can't see why any old free theme couldn't put two ad blocks in the widget area?

My highest paying adsense site uses heatmap. I have another site I custom built that "should" be better than heatmap - but has less traffic so it's hard to say (even using CTR percentages)

I would love to hear about CTR because that's how I found this thread. I want to get the theme and wonder if it's worth the price, especially when I can develop or customize any theme. It looks like a real time saver and I like how it rotates ad placement.

Never thought about footprints... only one comment on that so far. Good point, but I am not sure if it's true.

[peatermead]

Why you need an adsense theme? There is no magical theme. Just use a plain and simple theme with large ad blocks and you would be fine.

No need to buy any BS!

[pennystocks]

Originally Posted by D Baker

No one here checked out the HeatMap Adsense theme?

I really find it as the best theme for Adsense.

I used HeatMap Adsense theme & I highly recommended it.

[xxxJamesxxx]

Although it's not designed for the sole purpose of getting high CTR, I've had a lot of success with Thesis.

It's very versatile Wordpress theme.

James Scholes

[jficarro]

Originally Posted by clickbump

That site is using a bare bones niche site template, as opposed to one like this, this, this or this.

ClickBump theme supports over 50 premium template skins that are installed with one click.



ClickBump 5 allows you to rotate ads, randomly position ads and insert ads after X paragraphs to leverage Google's latest page layout algorithm.

Now those are some good looking sites.

Wondering if anyone has done any A/B testing (would be kind of hard to do a real A/B with an entire theme)

[pbbiet]

Try CTR its a best theme made only for adsense, but Heatmap is a balance of both style and adsene. So if you want a little more catchy presence then go for heatmap else you can go with CTR.

[faceblogger]

Can somebody suggest me a good and professional adsense theme.

Used CTRtheme, Clickbump, Bluesense,etc already and just trying to find some other ones.

Thanks!

[MaroshIS]

Try HeatMap v4 or v5 theme. It's great !

[Dev!l]

Try to avoid using CTR boosting themes. I've heard nightmarish stories from people that have used these themes. Use professional and SEO friendly themes such as Thesis.

[AdvancedSamurai]

Try also Yoo themes. Not exactly a dedicated adsense theme but some work fine for me.

[Threaver]

I use clickbump, and thesis, but you will need to do a little coding to get thesis like you want it.

[wabrielleSierra]

prosense is good. But it is not free at all.

[SEOForceOne]

I have had success with the CTRtheme. Unfortunately, you have to pay for it though,

[jficarro]

Originally Posted by sceptre00

I want optimized themes to achieve HIGH rankings - and maintain them. Not a footprint theme for high CTR. Besides, you achieve high CTR with high rankings - not the opposite. So why ask for a high CTR theme?

You are the second person to make this comment, but I don't know if it's correct at all. The highest CTR I have is with "heatmap reloaded", and it's ranked on page one of G for many very competitive words (6 that I check regularly). It is consistently better than 6% CTR.

So, I am not saying you are wrong, just that there is no evidence of a "footprint".

I designed my own site and it's so much better than heatmap. The ads are placed in the most awesome position and the look is so natural and good. BUT, it doesn't have as good a CTR as heatmap. I just don't have the heart to change it out and keep hoping there is some other factor at play (perhaps the niche or audience).

But, I am ready to swap out at least heatmap for some of my other low performing CTR sites. I'd like to try CTR theme and Clickbump, but I want to make sure it is actually the design that is lowering the CTR on these sites first.

[jeppa123]

I'm using the Heatmap as well...didn't had such good results before. My CTR nearly doubled!

[KBrown]

Thanks to all for great recomends ... saved a lil work. Have Great day!!


KBrown
Rock Adsense~

[jayzmartins]

I have a good source of HTML templates from Themeforest .. PM me if you want some mates

[spymobiles]

Originally Posted by D Baker

No one here checked out the HeatMap Adsense theme?

It is a great theme that was created for use of Adsense and ads.

Just check out all the built in ad placements you get with it:



You can see a live demo site that runs this theme at - Live Demo site for Heatmap Theme - HeatMapTheme.net

I really find it as the best theme for Adsense.

Thanks for sharing, it looks nice. Surely like to try it

[heavens9002]

if you ask me, my clients had good success with adsesne pro ultimate wordpress theme....

[bfullmer]

I purchased and tested it. It took be about half a day to go through all the features and tune everything just the way I liked it. I think its great, but the problem I have is that most of my sites were munched by Google panda and I simply shelved hundreds of sites.

How do you get an old site back and getting traffic post-panda? Will this theme help?

[stebout]

Need help with adding a Google News Feed to my Wordpress Site.

I am using version 3.3.1 of wordpress and added the RSS widget to my blog. When I try to add a google news feed I get the following error:

RSS Error: A feed could not be found at http[colon]//news[dot]google[dot]com/news?gl=ca&pz=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=coupons

Am I doing something wrong or does this not work with the latest version of wordpress?


Cheers,

Steve

[LeoTran]

I prefer a simple wordpress theme than a fantastic theme with alot images and js. We can easily modify the theme to embed our ads, it will load fast. Thats good.

[Simin]

Originally Posted by clickbump

Here are a few:

Foothills Clothing Co., Legal Office 24/7
Template > "Alligator Sky"

Oval Diamonds
Template Skin > "Amaze"

Acid Reflux Rescue
Template Skin > "Authority"

All Inclusive Honeymoons
Template Skin > "Canvas"

Ask Dr. Sarah - The Health Expert
Template Skin > "DebtBuster"

Unwired Promotions, Spanish Motivation Posters, Destin Demo Site
Template Skin > "Destin"

The Wisconsin Mad Man
Template Skin > "Salespage"

Real or Fake Videos?
Template Skin > "Sticky Reviews"

The Indispensable Guide to Diabetes
Template Skin > "WikiClicks"

Beyond MDs, Physical Therapy Assistant
Template Skin > "XFactored 2.0"

Here's the Clickbump engine guy. . . I think Clickbump theme, very recommended to adsense... and remember to provide quality contents on your site.

[dean fergusson]

The best one i've used as someone else has menchaned above is the heatMap theme

[bloation]

IS clickbump wordpress theme a paid theme like ctrtheme?

[dncserv]

Just to repeat some of what has already been said.

I use the heatmap theme and find it very easy to use, the help provided is quite impressive as well, lots of faq's plus pages of specific help for setting up your site.

I started with a free version but quickly went to the paid one. To get the best from this theme you need the paid one.

I have tried a few others like woo themes and stallion, then got heatmap and have stayed with it.

Hope that helps !

[FaisalZamanInfo]

I use this CTR Theme - the Ultimate AdSense Theme | Internet Marketing Product Reviews & Ratings

[themesplice]

I have been using adsense pro ultimate for one of my clients and I am getting CTR over 5%. Is someone else getting such good results from this theme?

[heavens9002]

I am getting excellent results using adsense pro ultimate... above 3% on most of the sites

[nickbrander]

Somebody here using theme from Woo Themes?

[megaquests]

Originally Posted by heavens9002

I am getting excellent results using adsense pro ultimate... above 3% on most of the sites

does 3% make a big difference?

[hiqasim]

get thesis for wordpress its best seo optimized and adsense ready

[RobsAssistant]

Thanks everyone for these Word Press theme tips. I will certainly check these out. Am learning how to use Word Press and appreciate all this info. If anyone has any other information on how to use it, please feel free to let me know.

Cheers

Wen

[McCoy]

Hey GeorgR. I saw a lot of Wordpress Themes in clickbank,, you might wanna try there, there's a lot of choices and trials you can try..
hope this one helps..