Court’s Keyword Sniper 1.0 WordPress Theme
December 26th, 2007 by CourtMy ‘Introduction To Keyword Sniping‘ post quickly became the all-time most popular post on Court’s Internet Marketing School. Keyword sniping by creating niche blogs is what will take you to your financial goals and I feel very content right now that you guys have recognized the truths in that post.
That post was released as an introduction for a reason - I’m not finished covering keyword sniping, in fact we’re just getting started. If you don’t want to miss the series on keyword sniping, subscribe to my RSS feed. The next step in my keyword sniping series is the release of the Keyword Sniper 1.0 WordPress theme.
I based Keyword Sniper 1.0 on the Modern Paper theme by Performancing because it can be used in almost any niche - perfect for sniping. I’ll explain to you what I did to make this theme the ultimate keyword sniper, but let’s first have a look:
In order to turn Modern Paper into the ultimate theme for keyword sniping, I made some very heavy modifications.
Keyword Sniper 1.0 Mods
- I added a dynamic, h1 keyword section above the RSS icon. This will allow you to have a unique h1 section on every url in your site - each containing the main keyword for your site, followed by the post or page titles of the pages they’re on. I hard-coded this in to happen automatically.
- I changed the site title to not use the h1 tag. This will ensure that you have a unique h1 for each url on your site.
- I altered the code for the sidebars to allow for maximum SEO benefit with or without widgets. With Keyword Sniper 1.0, you can use any WordPress widgets you please without losing any SEO benefit whatsoever.
- I altered the coding to make it valid HTML and CSS, with or without widgets. There were a few errors prior to my modifications.
- I added a dynamic link section to the footer file that allows Keyword Sniper 1.0 to make a site-wide, anchor text link back to your homepage.
Browser Compatibility
I’ve tested Keyword Sniper 1.0 on the following browsers:
- Firefox 1.0+
- Firefox 2.0+
- Internet Explorer 6
- Internet Explored 7
- Safari
- Opera
Installation
- Download
- Extract by right-clicking your mouse and selecting ‘Extract All’ or ‘Extract Here’.
- Add your keyword on line 27 of the header.php - you will replace ‘Your Keyword Here’ with the keyword you’re trying to target. Use caps for the first letter of each word.
- Upload via FTP to your ‘wp-content/themes/’ folder.
- In your WordPress admin, go to ‘Presentation’ and then select ‘Keyword Sniper 1.0′.
- In your WordPress admin, go to ‘Options’ and add in your keyword as the Blog Title. Use caps for the first letter of each word.
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December 26th, 2007 at 11:17 am
Great idea. I just got into creating Wordpress themes. This is cool concept. Wish I would have heard of it before I created mine. I guess there is always the next one.
December 26th, 2007 at 12:08 pm
Simply and amazingly powerful Court! Can’t wait to update a couple of my niche sites with it!
Thanks!
December 26th, 2007 at 3:57 pm
Thanks for the excellent resource, Court. Not only is this a great tool to use for my keyword sniping experiments, but your explainations of the modifications are also good pointers to us SEO dabblers and junkies.
Looking forward to reading the rest of your continuing series. Keep up the good work.
December 26th, 2007 at 10:11 pm
Hi Court,
Cool stuff, I intend to use that theme on some of my newer niche sites that will develop over time since I used a new domain (dumb move)
But not all is lost I guess. Thanks for doing this.
December 27th, 2007 at 1:04 am
I’ve noticed a lot of new visitors using mobile browsers.
I’m assuming this theme doesn’t take advantage of mobile browsers by default — which is a shame since the mobile browsers seem to be increasing.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:45 am
Hi, Court,
Thanks, great job.
I recently changed all my niche blogs (More than 10 blogs) to Modern Paper 1.0 after you released those 48 SEO WordPress Themes.
All these blogs use the same Modern Paper 1.0, thus saving time and hassle when it comes to installing Google AdSense and other programs. I don’t have to crack my head changing the colors of ads.Before that, I was so silly to use different WordPress themes for all my blogs….wasting time.
Now, I will definitely use this latest Keyword Sniper by you…;D
December 27th, 2007 at 8:47 am
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December 27th, 2007 at 1:08 pm
Great stuff, Court. The Modern Paper theme is simple and neat to do the job. You guys (and Vic) are awakening the blogosphere. In the coming weeks or months, more and more folks will be talking about niche blogging. The ball is rolling into your court.
December 27th, 2007 at 2:38 pm
Thanks for updating this theme, Court.
We will definitely use it for our niche blogs!
-Marshall
December 27th, 2007 at 3:45 pm
Hi Court,
Forgive my ignorance on the techie part, but will your theme work on wordpress 2.1.3?
Or, do we even use wordpress 2.1.3 anyway in order to use your theme?
Forgive me if I’m asking the wrong queston.
December 27th, 2007 at 4:12 pm
I haven’t tried it on 2.1.3 but it should work it without any problem. It works perfectly on the latest WordPress version, which is 2.3.1.
December 28th, 2007 at 1:21 pm
Just activated it for BloggingNotes, so we’ll see if it has some impact. I’m not going to change the title, though, as BloggingNotes is what the site has been since day 1.
Thanks for a great theme, Court.
December 28th, 2007 at 2:07 pm
Courtney, This works fantastic. I changed the look a lot, but the keyword thingy is great! Like the rollovers?
December 28th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
That’s a very cool effect with the rollovers - I love it!
December 29th, 2007 at 7:06 am
Court, I take it with this new theme we won’t need to install the All-In-One SEO plug in?
December 29th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
I would install it anyway because that will generate meta descriptions and HTML title tags for you.
December 30th, 2007 at 9:19 pm
Court,
Just to clarify, if we install All in One SEO plugin on the Keyword Sniper theme, we would still fill out the Home Title, Home Description, and Home Keywords on the Options>All in One SEO page, right?
Also, can you please explain the feature of “I added a dynamic link section to the footer file that allows Keyword Sniper 1.0 to make a site-wide, anchor text link back to your homepage” that you mention in your post. Is this footer link the name of your site in the copyright notice?
Thanks!
-Marshall
December 29th, 2007 at 7:49 am
I used it without the SEO Plug-In, works fine.
December 29th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Nice work Court, I like the theme but I can’t seem to get indexed quick with it. I used Vics advice on other blogs and all my posts are up in 10 minutes or less.
With this theme I have only been able to get the trick post indexed and none others. Is there something in the theme we need to modify to get this to work? Thanks.
December 29th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Stan that couldn’t possibly have anything to do with the theme. It’s either coincidence or you have something wrong with your settings. If you want to give me the URL I’ll have a look.
December 29th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Worked fine for me Stan.
December 29th, 2007 at 8:40 pm
Hi, Court,
I need your help…;P
You see, under the RSS Button, I have About and Contact. How do I add Home there ?
Thanks and A Happy New Year
December 29th, 2007 at 8:42 pm
Oops….Court, ignore my previous comment…;P
Silly me.. clicking on the Title of my blog actually leads me to the Home Page.
December 30th, 2007 at 8:29 am
Hello Court,
Could you do a post explaining how to add google adsense to this theme? It would be great if you explained how to add it to each of the different areas of the theme that you might want to add adsense to.
Thanks,
Fred
December 31st, 2007 at 7:32 am
Hi Court,
Great modifications you have done to your theme there!
I had a query. Hope you can help.
In place of “Your Keyword” in the h1 section in the header, is it possible for me to define that individually for each post?
[What I am trying to do is - get the title of the page and the “your keyword” part to be the same. I am using All-in-one-SEO plugin to define custom titles for each page, but I don’t know how to define custom “Your Keyword” for each page.]
Thanks a lot for putting in the effort.
Your help shall be greatly appreciated.
Thanks again.
December 31st, 2007 at 7:51 am
I used the theme in two places. In the link here to my usage, the theme automatically adds the title to the keyword. It has to do with the version you use, just like the widgets feature.
I hope I’m right on that I’m sure Court will let us know.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:28 pm
The way I have set it up it automatically defines a custom one for each post.
January 10th, 2008 at 7:13 pm
Any way you would be willing to share that code?
December 31st, 2007 at 7:55 am
I’m using it at Masked-Dispatcher dot com and it looks great. Does it support tags? I’d like to add tags to the site, but I don’t know if it’s already setup for tag support?
Thanks!
December 31st, 2007 at 1:30 pm
Yes it does support tags. The easiest way to install them is by using widgest. Go to ‘Presentation’ and widgets in your WordPress admin.
December 31st, 2007 at 1:42 pm
Court,
Just so you know. I tried the theme with wordpress 2.0.2 on one of my sites and widgets are not part of that version.
Keep up the great work.
Thanks for all your help.
December 31st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
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January 2nd, 2008 at 10:49 am
Thanks for the download. This post is could help me when i want to setup my own blog later on. Still working on to get my on hosting and domain name. have the money but my online income is still not enough very promising yet.
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:24 pm
Nice one Court, thanks.
I don’t want to take the mic, but if you (or anyone) could advise me on how to put up my own picture/logo where the big black, sexy title bar is, I’d appreciate it.
I worked it out on other themes, but whatever is right in front of my nose is invisible to me right now, and I’m already doing 14 hour days on net stuff.
No worries if not, I love your blog.
Chris
January 2nd, 2008 at 4:39 pm
Are you talking about the blue letters?
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:34 pm
Yeah
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:00 pm
I see black background on
Headliner, header and header right. Then you have an image in the background of navbar.
To put an image on the entire header and navbar background you might have to divide your image into four parts. Then you have to worry about the type being read.
If you look at my css you can see all the background information in one place.
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:11 pm
Sorry….headerright is image as background, and navbar is image as background.
If you look at my site I turned the headliner and header left to ugly color. I’ll leave like that for a little while.
January 2nd, 2008 at 6:18 pm
OK - I did it….
Tool the image out of header right and navbar
Then changed all to that ugly background color…..HUCK! I can’t leave that up like that long! Ha ha!!!!
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:12 pm
Yes - the blue letters, or more to the point the black background behind it.
I can’t see where to change that.
Thanks
January 2nd, 2008 at 5:16 pm
The header background is determined by .headerright and .headerleft in the stylesheet (style.css).
Not sure how to put an image there as my CSS skills are very basic.
January 4th, 2008 at 7:05 pm
Thanks for this great Wordpress theme. I have just downloaded it and I am giving it a try!
January 7th, 2008 at 1:05 am
Hi, this is a great theme! Just one question. When I put in images it always seems to want to align left, making the text wrap around the image. I just want the image to stand alone without text wrapping around the image. How do I make that happen?
January 7th, 2008 at 8:12 am
check Check the source code of this
code after img worked for me.
January 16th, 2008 at 7:19 am
Anyone else having problems with the comments widget being weired?
January 17th, 2008 at 2:59 am
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January 23rd, 2008 at 5:08 am
Hey Court
Was looking through your theme. Not sure if this is on purpose or something you’ll want to change.
The 404 file uses the h1 tag, so the 404 does not have a unique h1 tag.
Not sure how much this matter.
Other than that, thanks. Used its as a basis for my new sites design.
February 2nd, 2008 at 11:10 am
Courtney,
I was getting an invalid html validation on this theme from WC3 validation services. I was using the widgets on the sidebar.
The search form needs <form instead of <form in file
widgets.php
after I changed it, I got valid html from WC3.
Finally, I can pay you back! Ha ha!
February 5th, 2008 at 2:54 am
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May 8th, 2008 at 12:40 pm
Hey Court,
Just downloaded then uploaded the template but in my WordPress admin panel it says:
“Broken Themes
The following themes are installed but incomplete. Themes must have a stylesheet and a template.
Name Description
Stylesheet is missing.”
Any ideas what I’ve done wrong? Everything else in WordPress seems to be working OK. I downloaded WordPress for the first time so maybe I have a different version than this template was designed for.
Ray
May 8th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
Should have said I’m using ver 2.5.1
Ray