Ok listen up people. I have to say this because a lot of my traffic lately seems to be from people that have googled “xfactor’s adsense template” or “get xfactor’s template for free” or worse yet… “Free Xfactor Micro Niche Book”.
The Template
If you are looking for someone to just hand you over the template you won’t find it. There is a specific reason why John doesn’t sell a template. If you want a reminder, log into the members area and watch the video called “adding pages”. In short John says “Shame on you!”.
Can you imagine what would happen?The flood gates would open and there would be thousands of sites put up every week with the exact same template. There would be a huge footprint. People will be able to copy and paste text from your “contact page” and they will then be able to find all your sites which will give them your key words and they will overtake your keywords and now your hard work was a waste of time and money. People are even more clever than that. If your template is using an image file anywhere in the coding, they can track all your sites by image file names.
There is a website that is offering an “Xfactor template” for sale but you need to think carefully before buying that template. Now all I have seen is the sales page but before you purchase it, I would ask the developer if has prevented a footprint and made the template possible for each customer to easily change file names etc to make the footprint less easy to find.
Outsource The Template
Have A Template Created For You. Either hire someone from the list John has provided or hire someone on oDesk to create the template for you. Ruth has said that she is using Artiseer and was able to make a similar template. Just make sure whatever you do, your template is unique from the rest of the masses.
I personally change the image file names in every site I make. I also do not use the same text in my about me or contact pages. I’m making my footprint less detectable but to take even greater precautions, I am thinking about creating different templates every 10-12 sites.
Just get smart people! It’s not worth it to save a few bucks by either stealing someone else’s template or to buy a cheap cookie cutter version that the masses can also purchase. Just fork out the $20-100.00, whatever the cost is to get a template made or purchase Xsitepro or Dreamweaver for $200.00. (Honestly you probably could get a template made through oDesk for as cheap as $20.00.)
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This is a good blog post. I’m also getting a lot of searches to my blog with the same thing. I have been changing around colours and always changing the image names and text of the pages too. It took me a good few hours of tweaking but I’ve finally got to the stage where I can quickly change things like that, and I think it’s very important.
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I haven’t started changing the colors on my templates but that is another step to take to minimize the footprint.
Not sure if this helps, but on my contact, about and privacy pages I’m adding a nofollow link so the main article pages retain any PR (if they get any), not sure if this will help but we’ll wait and see.
Great blog Sara, keep it up!
Zaheer
i thought its free template
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Very well written post…
I don’t agree compleatly with you when you say just pay for someone to make you template. The thing is, if you can’t follow John’s examples you really need to change profession. Xsite pro and Xheader pro it’s the tool you need to invest in, so don’t pay for anyone and invest in those programs.
I’ve been looking to raise my CTR, but thanks god, i haven’t installed the xfactor template. I heard a lot of stories about people getting banned from Adsense for using such a template.