Stallion SEO WordPress Theme support page, also take a look at the various Stallion Tutorials before making a support comment:
Stallion Theme Tutorials and Features
Stallion Theme AdSense Setup
Stallion Theme Chitika Setup
Stallion Theme Clickbank Setup
Stallion Theme Kontera In-Text Ads Tutorial
Stallion Theme InfoLinks In Text Adverts Tutorial
Stallion Theme LinkWords InText Advertising Tutorial incomplete
Stallion Theme Layout/Design Options
Stallion Theme WordPress Navigation Menu Tutorial
WordPress Menu Manager Stallion Theme Feature
Stallion Theme Colours, Banners and Header Image Options
Stallion Theme Promotion Options
Stallion Theme Cloak Affiliate Links Tutorial
Stallion Theme SEO Advanced Options incomplete
Stallion SEO Super Comments Plugin Feature
Stallion Theme Comment Title Feature
Stallion Theme : Meta Tags and Custom Title Element incomplete
Stallion WordPress Theme Featured Image and Auto Thumbnails incomplete
Stallion Theme Comment Links SEO Features incomplete
Massive Passive Profits Autoblog Plugin Stallion Features
Stallion Theme WordPress SEO Plugin Support
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421 responses to SEO WordPress Theme Support
I have not received the download link.
I have not received the download link. when i click the link sent to me by email. i am just brought back to the sales page
How can i download the theme, i just paid for?
Stallion SEO Theme Download
Responded to the Clickbank support request you made.
Looks like the callback to this site failed so your details wasn’t added to the database, added them manually as described in the Clickbank support request.
David
Stallion question
Hi.
Any restriction with your theme?
Like how many site I can install it?
(I mean is there a restriction on installing on my websites, website I own..of course not on clients or anyone else websites).
Is Stallion the best for Adsense and Clickbank?
Thanks
Fred
Stallion SEO Theme License and Ad Networks
Each purchase entitles the user to use Stallion on as many of their own domains as they like. There’s currently no developer license. If I find a customer selling sites with the same Stallion ID that Stallion ID will be disabled.
If you own 1,000 sites you need one Stallion ID for your entire network.
If you sell sites running Stallion each site needs it’s own ID.
Basically one Stallion ID per user.
Stallion is great for AdSense ads, the placements are varied and easy to use.
Clickbank isn’t as good, though the placements are similar to AdSense the Clickbank contextual ads platform doesn’t perform anywhere near as well as AdSense or Chitika.
I am really disappointed in how contextual Clickbank ads perform, I think the problem is three fold.
1st it’s not a cost per click (like AdSense) but cost per action model, so you need your visitor to click the ad and buy the Clickbank product to make money and with no preselling (essential for Clickbank affiliate sales IME) the click through rate is OK, but the purchase rate is very low.
2nd Clickbank doesn’t clean out it’s old users, some ads go to products/sites that no longer exist, worse others no longer use Clickbank as a payment processor!
3rd The ads aren’t actually ads per se, they are generated from the Clickbank marketplace data, so the Clickbank sellers didn’t write the text like an ad as such.
Clickbank basically hasn’t taken this ad model seriously.
I recommend using AdSense 1st, Chitika 2nd if you can’t use AdSense on a site and Clickbank if you can’t use AdSense and Chitika ads.
I planned to add other ad networks like Clicksor but they didn’t scan their pop ups etc… for malware and when I tested them on a popular jokes site (thousands of visitors a day) the site was penalised in Google for I believe linking to malware via the pop ups!!! After removing Clicksor the site recovered in no time at all. Tested Bidvertiser and left the ads running for 100,000 impressions on the jokes site and earnt ~$3!!! It was a WTF moment when I checked the earnings!
If anyone knows of good ad networks suitable for adding to Stallion (AdSense type layout) let me know. Plan to do something with Amazon when I get around to it (so many things I want to do, so little time
).
David
Stallion SEO Theme Support
Hi David.
Thanks for your detailed reply.
I try to figure out what to do with ClickBank……:), or how to make a use of it right in the site…..
So right now….I’m just not sure if I just want to do Adsense alone..I have to think – or as I said – figure some things out.
And yes…of course…I would never try to sell or even give it to clients……that’s why I said it in my orig, post.
Thanks again David!
WordPress SEO Theme Support
How to add css code for Style-black-stallion.CSS?
I want to change my website color from Delicate to Black Stallion, but I have to add some codes in style-black-stallion.css. I can’t find it in my Stallion Theme editor. How to add css code for Style-black-stallion.CSS?
If I still use this Delicate color, the footer links are aligned to the right. How to align them at center just like Black Stallion color? Where to add the code: in footer-menu.php or style-delicate.css? What codes should I add?
Thanks a lot
Kind Regards,
Russell
SEO WordPress Theme Support
WordPress Theme Editor
The Stallion SEO Theme has a lot of files, the style-black-gradients.css file will be in amongst the files.
I don’t use the online WordPress theme editor because it’s a pain to keep track of changes during testing. If you are planning to a do a lot of changes best to work offline in a text editor and a local install of WordPress so when something goes wrong (nearly always does) it doesn’t break your site.
I guess you wouldn’t know how to install WordPress on your PC so the compromise is work offline and upload the changed files using FTP. In this way you can have an offline backup as well for when things go wrong AND when you update Stallion and have to make the code changes again you have the changes in a file on your PC: all code changes are over written when you update. I’ve also made changes to the css files in the next update so you’ll want to add the changes again to Stallion 6.3 files not keep the edited Stallion 6.2 files.
Edit style-delicate.css find
#footer_stallion {height: 50px;
padding-top: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
border-top: 2px solid #EDEEEF;
text-align: right;
color: #808080;
font-size: 0.8em;
clear: both;
}
Change right to center
Untested, so probably won’t work exactly how you want it.
You’ll probably need the padding-right: 20px; line edited as well otherwise the centering will be off a bit (test first with 20px then try 0px).
Might be an idea for a blank css file adding to Stallion in a future update so these sorts of CSS changes can be held in a separate file, would make updates easier. Hmm, in Stallion 6.3 I’ve added the All In One SEO Pack Plugin to Stallion, I’ve kept the area where extra header code can be added.
Theoretically you could add these changes inline like this (this won’t work in Stallion 6.2 since the All In One SEO Pack Plugin isn’t part of Stallion 6.2):
<style type="text/css">#footer_stallion {
padding-right: 0px;
text-align: center;
}
</style>
This would be unaffected by Stallion updates. I’ll check if this will work for the next update as looks like the All In One SEO Pack Plugin header code options doesn’t have a sitewide option (which is strange, you’d think a sitewide option would be the starting point).
LOL, before you try any of the above, go to Appearance >> Widgets, add a text widget to the Fifth Footer Area, add the code below to the main form box, add nothing to the title part.
<style type="text/css">#footer_stallion {
padding-right: 0px;
text-align: center;
}
</style>
It should work the same as making the changes suggested above and will survive updates.
David
Stallion SEO Theme Support
Hi David,
I was not sure on which section to post these questions:
1) I’m creating a site in French, I wonder, how could I change the language of the theme to make it more pleasant for French readers? I don’t want to change the language for me as admin (although if it changes it does not bother me), but only for the readers.
For example change “Continue Reading” into “Lire la suite”, and so on…
I remember in the past I used to go to each file and simply translate (change the labels) the words from English into the language I wanted. I thought doing the same, but I got lost in the code.
2) If you visit the site www.paulysson.com you will notice this site is for cartoon strips. The question here is, how could I add “non-visible” searcheable text to the image (which btw is going to be the same text featured in the cartoon strip on each given post) so that readers can “search” for related words and will get as result the posts containing that “searched term” (I hope it’s clear)
Thanks a lot
Héctor
SEO WordPress Theme Support
WordPress Theme Language Translations
Adding language support to Stallion is on the list of things to look into, I’ve had a quick look into adding language support and looks like it’s a real pain to manage since the pot and mo files (language files) are based on line numbers: so if you take a Stallion template file like comments.php, find English text that’s shown in a browser like
This post is password protected. Enter the password to view commentsWhich is on line 9.
As I understand it you add this text and info to an English language file and create other language files like French to convert the text.
Problem with this approach is updates, if I change the above English text or the line number changes all the language files need updating. Fine for a few sentences, but Stallion has a LOT of text, especially on the options pages and I’m fluent in one language, so wouldn’t be able to edit a Chinese language file to take into account updates!
I’ve been thinking about tackling this another way, replace the text with an option and have it on a Stallion Language options page where the user can add anything they like in any language. As long as all text that is visible to the end user is covered it wouldn’t be too difficult to create specific language based default options sets (like you see on the main Stallion Options page for my defaults and my SEO defaults) which would be a heck of a lot easier to maintain than the current language translations theme and plugin developers use.
If I try this it will start with what our visitors see not what’s on the Stallion options pages etc… generate (way too much text to translate). Not perfect for those who don’t read English, but if stage one works who knows.
Anyway, right now I’m afraid it would be a case of editing the template files manually to how you want them. I’m working on the Stallion 6.3 update and it’s a BIG update so I wouldn’t start it yet since you’d have to start it again after the update.
I might give the language translation options page a try for this update as ignoring the language translation possibilities would be great to be able to change the English text for some sites.
With regard the searchable text you don’t see on page related to images.
You have two options and one is greyhat SEO.
SEO safe is use alt text, put the text in the alt attribute for the image. Not only is this SEO safe, search engines like Google use the alt text for ranking purposes. It’s also searchable via the WordPress search facility.
Greyhat SEO use noscript. Noscript is for when information is hidden behind say javascript or flash and you add the text in noscript tags. For visitors with javascript turned off see the noscript tags, not checked if WordPress search facility reads noscript, I would assume it does. Problem with noscript is it’s abused by blackhat SEO’s, perfect place for stuffing keywords, so if you use it inappropriately you could get a penalty. Since alt text is designed for what you want to achieve it’s SEO greyhat to use noscript unless you have a really good reason for using it like a LOT of text and even then it’s pushing it.
David
Stallion SEO Theme Support
Hi David,
thank you. I’ll use Alt Text, and will translate the text directly from the template.
Héctor
Backlinks
Hi David
I really love your themes, I have a great time creating websites and you make so very easy.
Been a while since I have worked on my websites and ready to do some more work for a few days. My question is: What do you recommend as a utility for auto backlinking. I find this very tedious and would like for it to be easier. Is there some way I can optimize the theme to help with the backlinking process?
I have tried a few plugins but they are not working well. Have you thought of creating one?
Another question is: I find my sites are getting spammed on comments how do I prevent this from happening?
Thanks for your time. Rebecca
SEO WordPress Theme Support
WordPress Automated Backlink Plugins
Automating backlinking isn’t generally a good idea, tends to stray into the blackhat SEO arena which is why I don’t use any automated backlink plugins.
I do use the ©Feed Plugin : SEO Version from WordPress SEO Plugins. This adds links to your content on RSS feeds which tend to be scraped, so when scrapers steal your content they link back to your site.
I use Akismet for comment SPAM with comment moderation of new commenters turned on, this catches most comment SPAM.
David
Stallion SEO Theme Support
Thanks
Thanks David as usual a very quick response.
Rebecca
Can't Activate Theme.
Help David,
I got this theme Yesterday, and have tried both my Paypal Transaction ID and the Order ID from Clickbank, and they don’t allow the theme to activate. Please Advise.
Activating Stallion WordPress SEO Theme
Checked your site and see it’s working now.
I guess you were copying and pasting your ID from the Clickbank order email and was inadvertantly copying extra characters (spaces). If you run into the issue again copy and paste the ID into a text editor and recopy only the ID from the text editor into Stallion.
You can also confirm your ID by adding your order email address to the reminder form and you’ll have the correct ID emailed.
David
Stallion SEO Theme Support
Not Seeing the V7 update link
Hello,
I’m not seeing any update link to update my V6.2 to V7 in my wordpess blog admin. I do see 1 update available on the dashboard but no update showing under ‘dashboard / updates’ or ‘appearance / themes’. I’m running the latest wordpress version. Any ideas?
David, Reading, UK.
Found a link that does'nt work
In my WP admin top bar is a little link that says ’1 theme update’ but it doesn’t link to an update. I tried reinstalling latest WP version but with no luck. Will I have to download V7 and install it manually?
David
Stallion Automated WordPress Theme Updates
What do you see under?
http://www.example.com/wp-admin/update-core.php
Replacing example.com with your domain.
If it says 1 update available is another theme or plugin available for update under the update pages? If so it can take a little while for the update to show after logging in as the update isn’t via the standard WordPress updater. I’ve had this issue myself, going back an hour or two later has always worked so far.
Are you running multisite WordPress? Multisite requires updating via the network admin (easy to get lost in multisite).
Since Stallion isn’t part of the WordPress theme repository the automated update feature is via a plugin that hooks into the WordPress theme updater. You can never be 100% sure a plugin is going to work for all setups.
The alternative is using the zip file and FTP.
David
WordPress SEO Theme Support
license and spanish translation
Hello Davis , i like buy your template , bue i had 2 questions about this:
can i install 20 blogs whit 1 license (70$)?
Is possible and easy transalate to spanish? any .mo .po file?.
Thanks in advance.
Stallion Theme Language Translations
I’m not using the standard po/mo file language translations, I use an options page for translations where a user can change pretty much all words/phrases that’s part of Stallion that a visitor sees. Used in combination with a WordPress language pack for WordPress core words and phrases you can create a fully translated site.
For example where you see this text near the comment box below
Leave a reply to Stallion SEO WordPress Theme Support
The “Leave a reply to” part can be changed within the Stallion Language Options page.
This test site http://www.talian-theme.co.uk/ is running with a Stallion Chinese translation. If I installed the Chinese WordPress language pack and could write posts in Chinese (which I can’t
) the entire site would be in Chinese.
The benefit of this system over the po/mo system is there’s only 36 unique words/phrases that’s part of the Stallion theme template files that a website visitor sees, so to create a translation it’s changing 36 words/phrases on an options page. With po/mo files every update requires all the language translations updating if the text is changed slightly.
I haven’t added any translations for text within the WordPress Dashboard, so the Stallion options pages will be in English. I was looking into adding a Google translator button on the Dashboard backend during the Stallion 7.0 update, but couldn’t get it working quickly so left it for a future update. When I get it working this will allow logged in users to use the Google translator to translate the WordPress Dashboard in all languages supported by Google translator (same as you can on this site when you use the translator under the “Stallion Google Translation” widget on the right menu).
There’s also language sets, currently
English : (Defaults)
Chinese : (Google Translation)
German : (Google Translation)
French : (Google Translation)
Norwegian : (User Translation)
Polish : (User Translation)
Two clicks of the mouse and all Stallion theme words/phrases seen by a visitor are changed to another language.
I have a Spanish translation (User Translation) that’s included with the latest Stallion zip file, but not incorporated into the options page settings: a customer supplied the translation and I added it to the French file by mistake, it will be added to the next update for easy access via the options page or can be used as a custom translation now by renaming a file. Under the folder /stallion-seo-theme/languages/ rename es_ES-spanish.php to zz-custom-language.php after deleting the original zz-custom-language.php file. Then select “Custom Language : zz-custom-language.php” on the Stallion Language options page. I’ll have this fixed in the next update (working on it now, just added the TwentyEleven theme colour scheme as a Stallion colour scheme).
I add the language feature in Stallion 7.0 so not added many translations, I’m looking for more user translations (the Google translations are OK, but not perfect). I will be adding more Google Translator translations (probably be over a dozen) in the next update which can then be improved on by users.
Stallion SEO Theme License
Each purchase entitles the user to use Stallion 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 ID that Stallion ID will be disabled.
If you own 1,000 sites you need one Stallion ID for your entire network.
If you sell sites running Stallion each site needs its own ID.
Basically one Stallion ID per user.
David
Stallion SEO Theme Support
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