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Free SEO Friendly Wordpress Theme.

Discussion in 'WordPress' started by grantmoney, Oct 23, 2006.

  1. #1
    Hi Guys,

    So I thought I'd start releasing Wordpress themes as all the cool kids are doing it! This is my first attempt at one, but I think it went ok. It's still fairly simple, but is very SEO friendly. It's obviously a work in progress, but everything seems to work fine out of the box (except the breadcrumb code up the top seems flakey, so I'll try to sort that out soon).

    How is it SEO friendly? In quite a number of ways. I've set it out the way I would normally set up a site. H1 and H2 tags come up first. Second is the content. Side Bars are displayed third. Navigation, Form Elements, Breadcrumbs, footer all come in last. H2 tag changes to whatever the page name is.

    It's Adsense ready, so just remove the 2 comment lines in the sidebar.php to enable adsense. Also make sure you add your google client number!

    There's a link in the footer to one of my sites. If you do decide to use it, remove it or keep it there. People will do that sort of thing anyway, but just to let you know, I don't really mind either way :)

    It's also validates XHTML1.0 Strict if you care about that sort of thing.

    I figured I'd see what people thought of it before I put it on any Wordpress Theme type sites, iron out any bugs or add any suggestions I might get.

    You can see a working demo of it here or you can download it here.

    I guess check it out and if anyone has time, offer some advice on how to better it!

    Thanks.

    Grant
     
    grantmoney, Oct 23, 2006 IP
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  2. Scriptona

    Scriptona Notable Member

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    I like it, maybe you can make the body more wide and make the 2 side columns less wide


    also, you can make more of this theme using more colors

    one red and one blue etc ....
     
    Scriptona, Oct 23, 2006 IP
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    Very good work for your first one. You might want to consider doing custom work for a price.
     
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    grantmoney Well-Known Member

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    Thanks for the feedback guys!

    Yeah I'll probably release a bunch of different themes based off of it (different colours, background image, header, etc) once I get the one right. Easier to fix one template rather than a whole bunch of them.

    I'll give the larger body area a go.

    Thanks again :)
     
    grantmoney, Oct 24, 2006 IP
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    Nice theme Grant. I like what you have done with the left side bar and something tells me this theme could really help with Adsense.

    Bookmarked to test on my next project :cool:


    Dont forget to submit your theme to all the major resource sites out there ;)
     
    cormac, Oct 25, 2006 IP
  6. grantmoney

    grantmoney Well-Known Member

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    Hope this doesn't look like I'm bumping my own post (I can't edit older posts honest!), but I've moved my blog and file over to another domain as it made sense to use a domain I wasn't actually doing anything with!

    You can now find the demo of it here and it can be downloaded here.
     
    grantmoney, Oct 28, 2006 IP
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    i think the download link isn't working man
     
    Scriptona, Oct 28, 2006 IP
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    grantmoney Well-Known Member

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    don't worry about me. i'm an idiot! it should be downloadable now!
     
    grantmoney, Oct 28, 2006 IP
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    I already downloaded it few days ago, but just wanted to let you know about the broken link so others can download it

    waiting for more releases of that good template
     
    Scriptona, Oct 28, 2006 IP
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    Did you remove it? I cant download it now :(
     
    cormac, Nov 23, 2006 IP
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    Yup seems to be gone, same with the demo :(
     
    FanAddict, Nov 23, 2006 IP
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    Pity as I never got the chance to download it and I really liked that template.
     
    cormac, Nov 24, 2006 IP
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    Looks really nice Grantmoney!

    But what do you mean by SEO friendly?
     
    peicom, Nov 25, 2006 IP
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    good theme but it is better for you to create more column in the right sidebar
     
    googlecrawl, Apr 12, 2010 IP
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    May be you can improve on the header...the footer is nice.
     
    jinmin, Apr 12, 2010 IP
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    #16
    Nice colors but you should have add sidebars to it. This will make your theme more pretty.
     
    vishal_gupta, Apr 20, 2010 IP
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    Honestly, I don't like this design. The background color makes the text hard to read. It causes also bad contrast of website. And the layout of this is too simple and looks like old-fashion type. I really want to see a clean interface with usability WP theme.
     
    rilwis, Apr 21, 2010 IP
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    looks great, but i can't download it. the download link isn't working
     
    masud7827, Apr 25, 2010 IP
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    Why is that if I may ask?
     
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    SEO friendly plugin? Yoast. It's the best
     
    nufox, Oct 13, 2012 IP