Initially when I setup Thesis as a test on some of my phpbay sites, I pretty much just used an out of the box layout. It seemed to perform great from the beginning.

I did also notice an increase in organic search traffic when I changed themes to Thesis so that’s definitely been nice. It’s nice to have these SEO features automatically built into the theme instead of having to upload plugins to accomplish them.

I’ve not used Adsense on any of my sites in about 3 years now. I mainly run different affiliate programs on my sites in addition to the Ebay Partner Network and I have seen increase in revenue from them.

Right now I’ve got about 10 sites running off Thesis and a couple of client sites as well and I really enjoy working with the theme. With each release of Thesis it continues to get better and the new beta version has built in support for drop down menus and so much else. I’d definitely recommend picking up the theme, the developer version was some of the best $164 that I’ve spent in a long time.

Hopefully I answered all of your questions, but if you have anymore just let me know.

Thanks,
Clarke

The decrease in bounce rate, as well as substantial increase in PhpBay revenue is quite stunning. Did you do any A/B testing with the layout of your theme on the site(s) that you deployed Thesis on, or did it work that well out of the box?

Also, I’ve heard of people getting an increase in organic search traffic courtesy of Thesis since it has several built-in SEO tricks as well as the fact that the page that it generates tends to be cleaner than a lot of the other themes out there. Have you seen an increase in search engine traffic as well?

I’m seriously considering purchasing it for my computer repair site and if what I hear about the effectiveness of its SEO is true then that’d be the clincher. Obviously, I’ll make a point to purchase it through your affiliate link.

One last question – assuming you have AdSense sites as well, did you see an increase in that revenue stream as well? I use AdSense primarily on my sites, although I’m going to look into this PhpBay plugin now that you’ve brought it to my attention.

Thanks for the post!

-Kevin Souter

This is Clarke, not quite sure who Drew is? Anyway it didn’t take a whole lot to convert my sites over to Thesis. If you know some CSS it makes it much easier to build out a nicely customized version of Thesis.

As far as the dropdown menus go it doesn’t have anything built into it yet, but there has been talk of adding a dropdown menu option to Thesis down the road. You could integrate the following plugin to achieve your desired results though and I don’t think it would be that hard. http://pixopoint.com/suckerfish-wordpress-plugin/

How easy was it to convert your customised PHPbay site themes to thesis? Is there any ability for drop-down menus?

Cheers,

A.

Thanks so much for stopping by and making a purchase through my link. I hope that you enjoy the same success with Thesis as well. How well do you like BayRSS? I’ve never used it as I’m a hardcore PhpBay user.

One thing that I must stress is a lot of testing with layouts on Thesis. I tried some different things before I found a combination that works. Also different niches often warrant different layouts.

It’s definitely a great theme though and hasn’t take me long to get my purchase price back out of it. One thing I highly recommend is to go through the forums, because there is a wealth of information there and everyone is extremely helpful.

Thanks again for stopping by and I’m glad you found my information about Thesis helpful.

I’ll use your link to make the purchase!

Now it’s just a matter of finding the time to do it.