You should have mentioned in the post. You are putting extra links without user's consent. What else shall I call you when you are posting wordpress theme on adsense forum!!? I'll say it's adsense related, but go and have a look at the themes forums. There are so many *adsense optimized* themes and they all belongs in themes section.
Ok, don't listen to me. I've only been with adsense for about 4yrs or so. Next time I see the "hey, I got banned but will I get the earning that were already in my adsense account" I'll know who it is. The CTR has nothing to do with getting banned. You won't be getting banned for that. You'll be getting banned for that stupid link unit on the left panel that is identical to the menu right under it. Publishers may not ask others to click their ads or use deceptive implementation methods to obtain clicks. This includes, but is not limited to, offering compensation to users for viewing ads or performing searches, promising to raise money for third parties for such behavior or placing images next to individual ads. The red is you right there.
Can you show me a theme which has designed for only increasing adsense ctr in theme forum? This topic is completely related with google adsene. it is an advice to increase CTR and adsense earnings. it could be, don't expect a premium theme, it is only designed for google adsense. You don't have to use the link unit on the left panel, you can easily remove it, lol. i dont know if it is seo friendly, i will ask the creator of the theme.
Let me allow to disagree. It's no way related to a discussion on increase a CTR in Adsense. It's a pure give away and should belong to either Templates forum or Cheap Stuff forum. @davidja and kappa84.. There's no harm in encrypting footer credits. In fact, almost all free theme developers do that to make sure they get the deserved credit. When I downloaded the theme, I noticed that the footer is encrypted and a quick thought of a link spamming came. I decoded it and saw two extra links added to the original developer's link. runelgna said, he has the permission of the original developer. Fine, but his download package has no instances of such permission, not even in the readme file. Isn't the prove my theory? May be I am wrong, but there was no questions asked if he mentioned his permissions in his post and in the theme's readme file. I guess the theme developers will also agree with me.
You couldn't show a theme like this in the theme forum? Why didn't you answer my that question? i got permission from the theme's creator before publishing it, i said i would translate it to English and put my link and his link to the footer, he saw the demo and the download file, also readme file has the original url of the theme's creator. (Although it has not in the other language version). I respect to labor. In spite of all this facts, why does it care you so much? because of your envy? Anyway, i wont get in more polemic with you anymore. Other users don't have to see our quarrel. This theme is well designed for google adsense, layout increases the CTR.
Hello Digitech Thanks for your comments and for making it alot clearer for me to understand , (me - being an old newbie) , I am not fully aware of the problems that "encrypting links" of any sort will bring to anyone on the Internet. The main thrust is that no one knows who is "good" nor who is "bad". For me , there is only one thing - Confusion. Digitech , Thank You for your answer, it has cleared it up for me. Cheers David
The theme itself is pretty ugly, you have to admit. But the ad placement is sure to bring in high ctr, so it's a theme that one can inspire himself from.
Exactly. The theme itself can serve well as a starting point (meaning it should be changed up design-wise & not just left like that), but to just throw AdSense all over it like that is dumb. This is why some people continue to make pennies because they're more concerned about how many ads they can fit into a page instead of focusing on the actual content.