Basically this theme is a copy of the theme Grizzly uses on his How to Make Money Online for Beginners. It's ugly, no color at all except for the blue links, but it is optimized for SEO and has a bunch of widget spots configured exactly like Grizzly has.
So, you can see from the screenshot this theme is ugly, the only thing worth seeing is the way I've copied Grizzly's description just to make the screenshot a little bit more interesting. In the screenshot I haven't added extra widgets, but they can be added above the blog title, below the description, above the posts, in the sidebar, and in the footer. Pretty cool.
SEO Optimized Blogger Template
Why would you use this theme, well it's quite simple. Grizzly believes that search engines put a premium on sites that are all content, not all good looks, and the content on this template is right up at the top of the HTML.
The first thing the spider sees is the title, then the description, then the first post, then the sidebar, then the footer; it doesn't get more optimized than that.
Grizzly recommends this type of blogger template for niche sites that target specific keywords, it can be a site you make money online from, or a not for profit site, or just a personal blog, doesn't matter, it's designed to be optimized for the Google Spider, and you know what, the font is bigger, and easy for people to read as well.
To install my Grizzly Ugly Blogger Template, download the zipfile, extract the xml file, then in your Blogger Layout screen click 'Edit HTML' and browse to the file, then click upload. It doesn't get easier than that. Download Blogger Template.
If you want to know why to use this theme, you really need to check out Janet Smith Nomad's Guide to Make Money Online book. She's been making serious money from AdSense and affiliate programs by learning everything Grizzly has to teach.
Her 170 page ebook gives you step by step instructions on what you need to do to research searched keywords, then write quality content that earns you money. I bought the book last week and it's already helping me increase my earnings.
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Thursday, November 12. 2009 at 18:49 (Reply)
Every now and again I find an old school page from 99 or thereabouts and it uses nothing but the default colors for links, black Times new roman text etc.
And in those days, people didn't want the "complication" of several pages - they used to stuff everything on a single page! No doubt might be excellent for SEO though?
The only thing I wonder is that some SPAM sites or SPLOGs also go for simplicity in an effort to get you to click Adsense ads. So I wonder how Google differentiates the good meaning from the bad?
Chris
Carl said,
Thursday, November 12. 2009 at 21:13 (Reply)
We have grammar and spelling checkers in office software, and Wordpress .com have incorporated it into their text editor, perhaps Google have also incorporated something similar into the search spiders. If we can tell the difference between splogs I'm guessing the Google algo probably can as well. Actually puts those of us who are prepared to invest time into our websites in a really strong position long term.
Carl
Samrat P said,
Monday, November 16. 2009 at 18:00 (Reply)
Carl said,
Monday, November 16. 2009 at 21:30 (Reply)
Do you have stats that show the conversion difference between ugly and attractive sites? I'd be willing to bet that my ugly sites get a higher click through rate than your attractive site.
Warren Buffett said,
Wednesday, February 17. 2010 at 17:48 (Reply)