Comment posted to Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin Review by Mike Johnson.
I understand you are trying to sell your theme here and I appreciate that, but I have been doing this a long time. Not just a few weeks, months, or even a few years. I have been doing this for over 10 years. Auto Blogging heavily since Blog and Ping with Google Adsense worked.
I used themes that look just like the Talian theme you have here. The big difference is I used these type of themes because they produced a lot of Adsense clicks.
Why?
Because they are plain looking and most people clicked on the Adsense Ads to find a better site. This was regardless of content and SEO. I built my sites (and still do) to have the best SEO and Content possible, but the fact remains that while I could always do very well with Adsense with these types of Themes, they never did well with other types of Affiliate Product promotions. The top of the page is what people first look at on a site and while the SEO may bring you in tons of visitors, it is not the number of visitors I am concerned with. It is the number of targeted buyers who like what they see, trust my content, and then click and buy what I want them to buy. SEO won’t pay the bills by itself.
And Yes, I like the SEO system that focuses the GoogleBot and other Search Engines to quickly index the Content that I WANT to be indexed. I want to define the Posts and Pages on my site that I WANT Google to spider and index because by doing this, I target my visitors and I target my affiliate and advertising campaigns.
You want to know the most important part of this equation? This works and IS WORKING right NOW. I fully understand your methodology on SEO, but you have to understand mine and why I do what I am doing. I am not trying to sell a theme here. I am creating keyword focused sites where Google knows where to go because I am telling it where to go and where I want it to go is to the Posts and Pages on my WordPress Blogs that are built to make money. All the other Posts and Pages I create are nothing but spider food that help direct the flow of Google and the visitors that come from it to exactly where I want them to and they buy. If they didn’t, I would be out of a job and my Members wouldn’t be very happy with me right now.
Mike
