Wow! This is an awesome theme. I’m really excited about it and installed it right away today. Still playing around with it, but the possibilities are endless.
What I really like is that you can customize this theme any way you want to, and then, in a few months do it all over again and it appears to be a completely new theme. It’s very user-friendly, too.
The only tip I have is to set your background color before setting the header or the header doesn’t stick.
But this theme is totally worth the price! The layout is great, very SEO friendly, and I’m really pleased to be a new owner.
Smart move putting your products in here, but I have NO problem offering them to my audience. They’re great. So, who doesn’t want to make some money, eh?
Keep this stuff coming! You guys are always coming up with the cutting edge stuff. You totally rock and I love it!
Thanks to you both for what is already a good theme, and looks like it’s going to evolve into a great one for Internet Marketers and online marketing of all sorts.
This is a great theme, I’m gonna use it on all my affiliate niche sites.
The only things, maybe someone knows, when I put a table in the post ( I want to have 2 columns of benefits with checkmarks next to each) each of the cells has a border and the background is grey, although I set everything at 0, and background is blank, which works on a regular site.
Any ideas or suggestions on how to fix this, would be appreciated.
Hi Joel and Dan – I’ve set up Socrates at DiscoverDAP.com, which is a site teaching people how to use the Digital Access Pass membership software with WordPress.
I’m enjoying the specific targets of the navigation bar, although I would like the option to have nested menus for the main menu.
Thanks for your help with the forms appearance issue from the bottom of the CSS file.
Just got the new theme installed on my personal blog I just recently started. Figured it out pretty well and it’s easy to use. Will likely be switching some of my business blogs over to it as well..
Wish the rotating ad space picked up context-sensitive products, though. It would be nice to have some rotating hard products, like from Commission Junction or the like.
Lin – not sure if this would do the trick for you, but you can use the HTML Block 1 and 2 in the ad rotation area to put in any HTML that then rotates. Conceivably, you could put in a single Google Ad block there, and it would rotate contextually with the other ads. Just be sure you haven’t gone over your limit with ad blocks on the same page.
Lin, I’ll be adding the Clickbank hop ad builder which will rotate ads based off keywords you enter. As far as CJ/Linkshare we’re looking into options. One thing about contextual ads is you have to be careful not to violate Google’s TOS about google-like contextual ad displays.
Quick note, our developer thought it would be cute to make the bullet numbers in roman numerals. I will change that in next release, but if you want to change bullet numbers from roman to decimal, goto style.css in theme editor and do search for: upper-roman replace it with: decimal
Used Easy Adsense to embed 336×280 ad units and Clickbank Hop Ad Builder to post CB products in sidebar widget. Site’s made over $30.00 in last 24 hours.
I used Socrates to put up two sites in the last two days and these are my first sites ever using a WordPress theme, so there was a bit of a learning curve involved, but this theme made things fast and easy.
Took about 10 minutes to create the WordPress / Socrates site structure, 2 days to integrate GD Star Rating (not all that easy) and 4 days to copy the content over from the old site.
Already seeing a big improvement in user engagement (i.e. reviews, ratings etc)
Before Socrates came along, I was put off updating the old site (proprietary design in ASP.NET) as the last update in 2005 took almost 4 months! With WP+Socrates it ended up taking just more than a week.
I now have the strong marketing and SEO orientated design of Socrates, flexible CMS and a great review platform (GD Star Rating is very good once you figure out how it works and get over the Eastern European / English translated tech documentation).
I looked long and hard at WP themes for over a year and was almost going to buy the “Heat Map” theme (elsewhere). However, Socrates came along and is the only one that delivers on SEO, advertising integration etc IMHO.
Socrates is a theme created by / for business people rather than 99% of WP themes created by graphic designers (with lots of ideas for fancy scrollers but no clue about online marketing).
However, not everything can be perfect and there are a number of minor bugs in the theme (e.g. search form “action” attribute incorrectly defined and some CSS howlers) but these took about 2 minutes to identify(with Firebug) and fix in custom CSS and some small changes to header.php. There needs to be a stuctured process for feeding back these fixes to Dan so they can be included in the next updates.
Fantastic job on the site.. Just so our customers know, looks like you used two installs to generate the unique look and setup. Very clever.
I do have the Feedback form on the dashboard splash page, but I might be moving that to it’s own tab in the next update. We’ll definitely be fixing some of these minor issues in the next update. Which I hope to have out mid-month.
Quickly changed my “green blog” over to Socrates a few weeks back. Am very happy with the ease of use and “cleanliness” of these themes…you guys are the best.
In my review of “Thesis” on my marketing blog, I even added an addendum stating that I have changed my theme from Thesis to Socrates and why!
Still workin’ on the marketing blog, but couldn’t be happier! No more dreading how to get the theme to “do” what I want.
Nice job… one suggestion, in the background panel, change background to repeat-x and then in style panel change background color to #338ab7. This will make the bottom color of background image extend all the way to bottom of page.
dan, looks like I was bumped out of the system, said my user name was not valid when trying to log in. Could you check on this? You can delete this post too, its the only way I thought to contact you.
If I was to add something to the feature wishlist it would be for more than two configured ads for the rotator. On the site I have for my wife’s financial advice we have a number of clickbank products I would love to have in the rotator.
I have recently uploaded Socrates theme on my website http://www.younghrmanager.com and frankly telling you I am amazed with the results. Definitely this theme gives you a so much flexibility that even a kid can install and make a website running in 5 minutes.
I actually want to use the 3 columns layout on the second site but it seems that one of the sidebar looks too small making it looks a bit weird. So, I have to switch to two columns.
It took me sometimes to create the header to the correct size in GIMP but I finally got them right
http://www.docmurdock.com/blog is my new site set up in just a few minutes. Love the template, love the concept, would like to see some additional social network “links” be added in, but I know you guys are thinking along the same lines so will send them telepathically
This sure does make it a lot easier to get a blog up and running. I changed my already existing blog to the Socrates Theme and tweaked it accordingly. I’m very happy with it. I’m glad I purchased the unlimited domain license, as I plan to create many other blogs, so this will save me a lot of time and effort using Socrates Theme.
Here is my current blog: http://www.snapfingerblog.com
I’ve had my web site up for a little over a week using the Socrates theme and the Adsense plugin, but every time I check my site, I see none of the 300×250 Adsense ads appearing on the page. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
On my other site which I built in the same way, the ads appear fine. You’d think there would be a lot of Adsense ads for a fitness-related site, so I don’t think lack of ad inventory is an issue.
You can only display 3 Adsense ads at a time. First, change your easy adsense settings for this 3 max display (and you can remove their link too) and remove the second “sponsors” section from your sidebar.
I’m a clinical hypnotherapist based in the UK and have an online shop that’s just been established and wanted a blog page as well. Having found socrates I’m using that on the blog and may well use it in future to create other pages for new products too.
The site and shop were developed with a web designer and database designer especially for my emotional eater on line course – it seemed very complicated. I’d looked at wordpress themes and then came across Socrates its easy to use. The blog is at http://www.hypnosisselfhelp.co.uk/blog I’d welcome any comments on how to improve the shop or the blog
Greetings from a fellow UK resident! Like yourself, I’m a big Socrates fan and have a number of sites running the theme now.
As far a specific comments go, here’s my 2 cents worth.
Whilst it’s not really my niche, I found your blog to have a lot of well written (unique?) content. However, I think that the blog could be changed in a few ways to drive more sales and traffic. Here are some suggestions:
1) Keyword research and Tags
Not sure if you’ve done this already, but there might be some value in organising your tags into the key phrases that you are trying to attract from search engines.
2) Titles
Again on search engines, you might like to re-arrange your titles. At the moment, your articles are showing something like “Hypnosis Self Help – Your Self Help Blog » anxious about exams:”. If you are trying to target keywords “anxious about exams”, your title is in the wrong order. Fortunately, there is a plugin that can help (Extreme SEO).
3) Lead capture and engagement
Maybe think about adding the RSS (feed me) and Twitter buttons back into the header?
Also it might be a good idea to include a “sign up by email” box? You can do this easily in Feedburner and with the Feedburner FD WP plugin.
4) Message
I had to go digging in your blog to find your hypnosis course. It’s in 2 places: one on the link “Anne Morrisons website” and at the bottom of the page called “coaching”. Perhaps a simple change to let visitors know that you offer professional courses? I’d suggest doing some keyword analysis (e.g. in Wordtracker) and changing your links to match the phrases that are most sought in search engines for your niche.
Just a few ideas that I hope help you out.
BTW, one of my new sites (http://www.bright-reviews.com) is in the Health niche and I’m adding content daily. Perhaps there are some ways that we could work together for content, links etc? Drop me a line on the bright-reviews contact form if interested.
Like the template. Up until now, I have used joomla because I couldn’t find any wordpress templates that were set up to do what I wanted to do. Socrates fixed that, so now I actually have a wordpress site. Thanks a bunch! James Cross Jr. http://www.metaldetectorpulse.com
I just swapped out all three blogs I have just recently started, found it mostly easy to navigate and exceptionally better looking and easier to work with than anything else out there I have searched through. Have a quick peak at them and let me know where I can jas them up some more..!
Thanks to Socrates this is my first blog. I wish this came out a couple of years ago, I would have earned so much more. I look forward to learning how to customize Socrates even more. I would definitely recommend this WP theme.
Regards,
Von James
Best-Selling Author &
Hollywood’s Body Transformation Expert http://extremeburnbootcamp.com
I own loads of domains that ive just sat on for years and never done anything with! By using the Socrates theme ive been able to put sites together really quickly. Monetizing them has been very simple too!
Thanks!
One of my socrates that is very simple and basic has climbed to top of page 2 on google search for its keyword. Trying to make a final push to get page 1.
Even follow me and come back to see what I have to offer. Loads of stuff! And that is the beauty of this theme, so user friendly. And can be used for any niche.
Proud to say that for keywords “daily coupon code” Im on page 1 of google and have noticed a spike in traffic. Over 22 million results and I got page 1, slot 6.
This is making life so much easier. But, how do I get the posts to follow the “read more” format? The code is there in the php files, but the posts scroll all the way to the end. Must I set it up somewhere else?
I’m still in shock at this product & the ease-of-use is ridiculous! I still can’t believe that it so easy to use & that I, not a “Techie”, actually got it done. I can’t wait to see what else you guys come up with. And customer service doesn’t begin to describe how helpful you are…Thank You so much, Dan!!! Anyway, have a look at my baby! I still have product & services to add, but I’m loving it so far and have 5 more sites to do, but its not so intimidating anymore…Thanks Again! http://www.thedancedoctor.net
Im so surprised how easy it is to use. Like everyone says it is very intuitive and has all the feature you would need to write. All you need to do is fill it with content. Hope you like my site and any feedback would be great if anyone has any suggestions
I just quickly changed out one of my sites, and we say OMG! I love socrates! Amazing, so much more to learn but okay, it’s functioning. I was listening to Brian’s webinar and changing the theme at the same time! Whoa!
Dean there is but it’s not recommended for duplicate content issues.. better to use excerpt. Feel free to post questions like this in the forum. http://www.socratestheme.com/forum
What a great comment section! I have to commend everyone on such great sites! I am still tweaking my site, but I can see that once rolling, this template will be a breeze to create new sites on the fly. Any comments will be helpful. Thank you.
My 62 year old brain appreciate the power of Socrates. This tool has minimized the tearing out of the hair stage of blog creation for me, since the tutorials are perfect for my level of experience. I have one problem though, my blog, http://www.logan-counseling.com, and please take a look if you have time, is designed to maximize lead creations for my wife’s therapy practice, so I want to to link to local charities in the blogroll, and the blogroll is populated with some other “stuff”, so I have missed the training that says how to delete the “stuff” so I can put in the YWCA, women’s shelter, ect. links? I anticipate lots of iterations of Socrates themed blogs since it is so easy and economical to use. Thanks. Mike Logan
Socrates is a Fantastic Addition to WordPress! We run many sites which have a full blown Content Management System as the back bone and it typically takes a week to get them set up. With Socrates, our lastest site was up in 1 day! Now we are left with adding more content and links. Simple and Robust. Socrates is a must have addition to anyone who wants to get things done efficiently and fast!
–William Avon of SEO Friendly Website Builder
Hey Dan and Joel,
I’m hosting a live event in the fall and using Socrates on the site instead of a traditional sales page. I’ll be using the new 2.0 features like no sidebars, squeeze page, etc.
I have a question and wasn’t sure where to post it. I currently have 2 Socrates sites and want to know how to create a sitemap url to submit to Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask etc. I know that you have to authenticate your site and I know how to do this with my other sites, but not with blogs.
Also, as someone who owns a number of web sites, I am amazed at how quickly blogs seem to get indexed as compared to web sites. Can you comment on this?
Do we have to be concerned about canonical references. I notice that whenever I type in http://www.fitstrongandhappy.com to go to my blog, the www is stripped off in the browser address window and replaced by http://fitstrongandhappy.com. Is this anything that I should be concerned about?
One other question: will version 2.0 allows us to have a static page that functions as a squeeze page with other pages on the site that use a template. In other words, can you selectively remove the navigation from certain pages on your site?
I am so impressed with Socrates and have referred a number of people to your blog.
You should install the Google XML Sitemap plugin. Blogs automatically ping out their content when published which certainly helps, and google just likes the structure better.. Honestly I’m not an expert on this, but it usually boils down to better distribution of content and structure. Here’s my opinion on the www/non-www. If you’re the type of person who types “www” in your browser, than set your Settings > General paths to include the www. If you’re not, then leave it be. Here’s why.. Google treats both links differently. So if you are apt to build backlinks by typing in “www” then your URL should be that same way.
These questions are fine, but better suited for the forum.
Yes, Version 2.02 beta has this already.. all the 2.0 features are mentioned on a few posts on this site and the demo blog.. thanks for referring others.
I must say that I build my latest site with Socrates and truly love it! I have received a lot of comments on my site asking what theme I used. Of course I point them to my link on my site to the Socrates sales page. I will continue to use this great theme. Keep up the great work! Chia Seeds
Dan, Thanks for getting back to me in your e-mail. Still just getting started with Socrates. I’m giving it my newbie best!
Check out my Youtube video…It’s on the Slider.
Finished flipping my first website over to Socrates and (with modestly, of course) I think it looks great! Only about 50 more to go, but if they go as quickly as my first (which took less than 30 minutes – and I was “learning” the dashboard) I should be through them quickly, considering I’m now familiar with exactly how easy it is to use!
Got it up, and going, in a matter of minutes, with minimal review. My first is doing very well for the keywords I wanted to rank high for. This one has lots of work to do yet, only a couple days old, but a backlink cannot hurt. Thanks, especially for the clear videos, Dan.
Hey,
Socrates totally rocks! I have used it on two of my domains so far. Due to my absolute lack of any spare time while closing my brick and mortar store, building my online store http://www.dailysurvivalgear.com (not a wordpress site or Socrates)and moving my household, I have only been able to spend a few hours on two of my sites, but they look really good so far anyway. I have a couple more sites that i will use your headers for, I usually make my own custom headers so it will save me even more time! Check them out. http://www.toodlesrocknrolladoodles.com and http://www.lcgladmanconstruction.com
Thanks so much, Chaz
I bought Socrates when it was initially released and was impressed. However, now that version 2 is out, that has some really killer features that make Socrates so incredibly flexible.
I have switched most of my blogs now to Socrates from Expertwordpress, although I can’t knock those guys, I learned a lot using it. However Socrates just does things easier. I have given up trying to make money with the get rich quick schemes (that’s the polite word), so now concentrating on real products. I purchased InfoProductKiller and I am applying his techniques to my blogs although I am going to build a few product wesites using his templates.
Here’s a couple of mine.
Hi I have had Socrates for a few weeks now and have changed over all sites except the Thesis site I bought it is very interactive but still a little tech for me but this is the one I like the bestwww.precisionreloading.ca
Really enjoying this theme. I’m a non-techie DIYer; so the Support Forum has been a LIFE-SAVER for me! And while I won’t do heavy affiliate marketing on this site, I can advertise my OWN products and services. The great features ad sophistication I couldn’t hope to achieve on my own.
I am SLOWLY trying to make the new WP blog (imported from Blogger) do the cool stuff already achieved by other Socrates sites, then use this knowledge to create monetized info sites.
Thanks to everyone in the Socrates community for sharing their wisdom.
Hey guys super impressed with the Socrates Theme very easy to navigate. Just built my new blog in no time at all, you can see it at http://www.healthy-pet.info
Before Socrates for me as a technical newbie it was such a pain not to be able to tweak all that I wanted the way I needed it.
Now a piece of cake! Wow.
Still lovin’ Socrates. I’ve just launched my 2nd Socrates site, and I’m working the bugs out of 3rd one. Here’s my latest site, which is dedicated to scrapbooking.
The latter was designer by myself and I changed the Socrates theme to suit the design. The back end interface is unchanged but what a great theme to play with.
This is my very first Blog and First Post. I’m glad I decided to purchase Socrates, It was very easy to use and Dans’ video tutorials made it a breeze to get it looking great! I Look forward to building many more Affiliate sites in many niches!
Thanks Dan! Despite you being very busy, I also appreciate you getting back to me and answering my New-by questions in a timely manner!
We have several blogs, and tried Socrates. Converting from the previous theme was fairly easy, just needed some adjustments. This theme gives a good selection of build in functions and eliminates the search for some plugins. http://investingsolutions.org
I am still in the evaluation phase and I’m thinking I’m going to go ahead and get this theme. I have only been working with it for a few hours but find it is by far the best thing going.
My site is sort of a news type site where I will be reviewing various affiliate programs and interviewing some of the top marketers.
My Socrates site uses the Skinny Sales Page for every single page. This required some hacking, since it was not designed for certain things like the contact form. I also made a bunch of personalized html and css changes to the template.
I’ve yet to use all of the features of the template, but so far am quite pleased with all the versatility and can see the potential. But I’d like to see more of them available for the Skinny Sales page by default so one doesn’t have to hack it. This way you can use that template for the entire site.
I have to say that after a few years of building sites with xsitepro, i am now concentrtating on using the wordpress platform and the socrates themes, the design ang look of the sites look great, the first one i built is http://5-ex.com/ and took no time at all to set up, and looks great, am now cranking a site out every couple of days, great job guys !!!
I used Socrates on my Extreme Sports Blog. I changed the post header colors to liven it up a bit and added a colorful header picture.
It’s sort of jammed with google ads. I’m going to test taking some of them off to see if I get better retention. I selected image only ads for the top banner because I want a lot of images and video on the site.
I am a true internet newbie. In the last couple months, I have really struggled with all the techie stuff involved in getting a presentable site up and live. But I have to say that since finding Socrates only yesterday, I once again have some hope that maybe I’ll be able to do this. I am an avid and fairly talented golfer and instructor. I know that with this product, I’ll be able to quickly figure out how to create and get my product out there for people to see. My site/blog is at http://www.solidcontactgolfswing.com/blog
As you’ll see, there’s not much there yet, but it’s coming soon. Thanks for the Great Theme guys!!
Hi Everybody,I just to make a post and say this Socrates Theme crushes it, it’s everything one want in a theme, but I do have one small problem with and that redirects. I need a good redirect plugin which handles multiple redirects I could’nt find a good one over WP, that would possible make this theme perfect if had a good redirect plugin,that way those dreaded commissions bandit would’nt be able to steal so many commissions also it would help with my newsletter series when I promote products and services. But nevertheless I would like to introduce Darryl Hudson.com This is my personal Blog about Health, Wealth,& Relationship thru Personal and Spiritual Growth, any comments or recommendations would be welcome, here my URL http://www.darrylhudson.com Thanks in advance Darryl Hudson
Hi Dan,
A really great theme Dan, I had this site created under a different theme and then i decided to Install the Socrates Theme. Boy it has made a real difference, easy to set up and looks like a professional site in no time at all.
I really love this theme one of the best I have come across.
Just created this site http://www.makemoneyonlineezy.com
Please take a look at my rookie effort and please let me know how I can improve!
I love how easy Socrates is to use…now I am just wanting to streamline and might feel like I have gone a bit over the top with affiliate links…but I’m not really sure how to seperate them out by page…
Hi Louise B, I look at your site not bad…not bad at all, ok here’s a few thing you can do to streamline your site. Have ever consider adding some extra tags or hmtl type tags to your post, what I mean is {headline tags } { tags} {bold tags }and {Break tags }, these type of tags will make your site standout more it catches the eyes of your followers. Like when you embed a video place a center tag in front of your video like this VIDEO EMBEDDED CODE this will place your video in the middle of the page also place h2 tags when starting a new paragraph NEW PARAGRAPH this separate your content and after each paragraph place a break in between your content this let’s your reader scans your content to find what there looking for quickly & with easy and it also breaks up your page. Well I could make a few more suggestion but these few should help your site out greatly, you can go over to my site and take a look you’ll know what exactly what I’m talking about when you see it, here’s my URL http://www.darrylhudson.com if I can help you anymore just reply back and maybe we can talk.
Kind Regards,Darryl H.
Hi, picked up the socrates theme in mid december 2010. I have to tell everyone how great this program is. The root blog is http://www.on-the-rag.com. I’m using a program that creates wild card subdomains so the root domain actually consists of 70 blogs and climbing. From start to finish (wp install,5 plug-ins,auto content creation and wp syndication)it usually takes about 18 minutes to create each blog. Thanks to socrates they all look great. If you stop bye leave a comment. You can check out the subdomains by entering (senators name).on-the-rag.com
I am testing a lot of SEM, and creating Semantic indexing using multiple blogs – Socrates.
I will be setting up some more Google apps’ including Web-master Tools Sitemaps. This one is just as essential as adding Google Analytic’s and seems to be overlooked by some ….
Thanks for your splendid WP theme. This is my first website and as such is a work in progress. Please don’t hesitate to send any feedback, I am interested in any comments or observations you may have regarding my site. Thanks again!
Hi,Guys,just build a website using socrates. http://www.tvseriescomment.info/
please give me comments and suggestions as it is my 1st wordpress site .Thanks and see you!
Yep this theme is perfect for monetizing. I have a unique niche selling car care solutions. I mix education with ecom and this theme does it very well. http://carscratchremoverblog.com
Purchasing Socrates was a no brainer for me. Socrates makes designing blogs so much easier, even for a newbie like me. Thank you Dan and Joel for creating this awesome theme.
I have used Socrates for nearly a year now. I love the themes and the user friendly interface. My Website now at http://0ms.info which anchor text as online marketing secrets are now index and rank at Alexa for 510,000.
Socrates is simply awesome and easy to use. I have just built my first site using a Socrates’ theme and it looks stunning. Thank you to the guys behind Socrates and keep it up!
I’ve seen a lot of great sites here. Hope mine can measure up. Good and bad comments are appreciated. Really enjoy working with Socrates, it’s a breeze and fun.
Anyway, thanks http://www.diabeticdietinfo.net/
Wow I really have to say this is a super duper theme. It is so versatile and easy to use. You can alter the code easily and create your own banner and navigation bar. Add in advertisements, banners and plenty of really great side bar plugins. It just a really great value product, well dome chaps.
Hi, I want to say how I absolutely love the ease and simplicity of your theme. I purchased the unlimited license only yesterday. I had 3 existing websites which I managed to change and customize in about 20-30 minutes each:
I love how you can change the headers and text so quickly. Though I do wish there were a few more headers, especially in the health and business categories. Hope more will be added soon!
I also set up a brand new blog yesterday which took only 1 hour to do (including adding the content).
Before purchasing Socrates Theme this would have taken me at least double the time AND they look more eye catching. The widgets/ad blocks I particularly like and everything is pretty much point and click!
Hey this is a great theme for me I am so excited and have had such positive feedback. I was on blogger for awhile then moved to wordpress. I am completely happy that I switched over. The flexibility that this theme offers for affiliate marketers is awesome.
Thank you for making my decision so easy to make for the theme of my site. I would love to hear what everyone else thinks check out http://www.easysixfigureincome.com/ and let me know.
Great theme, thanks,
Just started using Socretes and so far its looking like my new #1. Must be the best value theme out there!!! http://www.ipodnanodeal.com/
I’ve just rebuilt my blog using Socrates and I’m very pleased with the results. I’d be grateful if anyone would like to check it out and let me know if they have any problems viewing any of it. http://woodworkingideasstore.com/
I’m finally getting the hang of using this great theme. Ive recently set this site up and going on to next one.;) check it out and be sure to leave some feedback and if you have a relevant site go to the link exchange page to trade links. Here’s my site address:
If you are monetizing a wordpress site, then the socrates theme is for you. With easy installation, customizing and a quick add of your affiliate links, socrates is a no-brainer. http://www.retailerdepot.com
Thanks Cathy – thats the site for beta testing the new version and it is a known fault which will be fixed when they release the beta to everyone first week in March.
Thanks for looking though and your comment, most appreciated.
Thank you for the great theme. I am rather new to all of this and look forward to earning a little cash down the line. I have used Socrates for these two sites:
Hey guys,
Wow! This is an awesome theme. I’m really excited about it and installed it right away today. Still playing around with it, but the possibilities are endless.
What I really like is that you can customize this theme any way you want to, and then, in a few months do it all over again and it appears to be a completely new theme. It’s very user-friendly, too.
The only tip I have is to set your background color before setting the header or the header doesn’t stick.
But this theme is totally worth the price! The layout is great, very SEO friendly, and I’m really pleased to be a new owner.
Smart move putting your products in here, but I have NO problem offering them to my audience. They’re great. So, who doesn’t want to make some money, eh?
Keep this stuff coming! You guys are always coming up with the cutting edge stuff. You totally rock and I love it!
- Pat
Dan and Joel,
It was a no-brainer purchasing your new Socrates WordPress theme and giving it spin at:
http://InternetMarketingBigYear.com
where I’ve written my “first-impression” (favorable) review at:
http://internetmarketingbigyear.com/joel-comms-socrates-wordpress-theme-now-powers-internetmarketingbigyear-com/
Thanks to you both for what is already a good theme, and looks like it’s going to evolve into a great one for Internet Marketers and online marketing of all sorts.
In short: Highly recommended!
Jay Aaron
Follow me on Twitter: http://Twitter.com/newthoughts
If a firefighter can figure this out, anyone can.
http://www.crohnslife.net
See ya in June
Hey You Guys great job with Socrates
What a great blogging platform.
I am still working on my blog ,but I want you to know this is a great way to make a great looking blog
Even with my blog half done it looks great
take a look
http://www.winyourauction.info
Thanks
Jim Garvin
Jim, thanks… if you want to keep that top ad, you need to change your height in the style.css under .im-topAds… change from 90 to 120 or so.
Thanks for the tip it looks much better
Jim
This is a great theme, I’m gonna use it on all my affiliate niche sites.
The only things, maybe someone knows, when I put a table in the post ( I want to have 2 columns of benefits with checkmarks next to each) each of the cells has a border and the background is grey, although I set everything at 0, and background is blank, which works on a regular site.
Any ideas or suggestions on how to fix this, would be appreciated.
Other than that, it’s great.
Thanks.
Hi Joel and Dan – I’ve set up Socrates at DiscoverDAP.com, which is a site teaching people how to use the Digital Access Pass membership software with WordPress.
I’m enjoying the specific targets of the navigation bar, although I would like the option to have nested menus for the main menu.
Thanks for your help with the forms appearance issue from the bottom of the CSS file.
Bob Jenkins
Hi Guys,
Thanks for this great theme.
I use it at http:BuyFoodProcessor.ca
Best regards
Hey Guys
I got another one pretty much done. When I have time I just need adjust some of the links, but I am pleased with the look.
http://www.guitarfornewbies.net
Hi,
Love the theme and have installed it at http://InfoProductsHQ.com.
I will also be using it on future niche sites that I am building.
Well done to everyone involved!
Regards,
Dave
Just got the new theme installed on my personal blog I just recently started. Figured it out pretty well and it’s easy to use. Will likely be switching some of my business blogs over to it as well..
http://www.guardraildamageahead.com
I like it!
Wish the rotating ad space picked up context-sensitive products, though. It would be nice to have some rotating hard products, like from Commission Junction or the like.
I’m still setting it up over at http://remodelingforeldercare.com
Thanks!
Lin Ennis
Lin – not sure if this would do the trick for you, but you can use the HTML Block 1 and 2 in the ad rotation area to put in any HTML that then rotates. Conceivably, you could put in a single Google Ad block there, and it would rotate contextually with the other ads. Just be sure you haven’t gone over your limit with ad blocks on the same page.
Bob
Lin, I’ll be adding the Clickbank hop ad builder which will rotate ads based off keywords you enter. As far as CJ/Linkshare we’re looking into options. One thing about contextual ads is you have to be careful not to violate Google’s TOS about google-like contextual ad displays.
Scott, nicely done.
Quick note, our developer thought it would be cute to make the bullet numbers in roman numerals. I will change that in next release, but if you want to change bullet numbers from roman to decimal, goto style.css in theme editor and do search for: upper-roman replace it with: decimal
I wondered why it did that! Tha
Attention all Ghost Hunters
http://www.iGhostHunt.com
Ok, so I did another one
http://www.extractionwisdomteeth.com
One of the blogs I used in my demo video just magically started getting some traffic yesterday.
So I converted it to Socrates and figured I’d show what I did. http://jukariworkout.com/
Used Easy Adsense to embed 336×280 ad units and Clickbank Hop Ad Builder to post CB products in sidebar widget. Site’s made over $30.00 in last 24 hours.
Nice. Wish I had that luck. Mine have only a about 90 cents in adsense. Im still learning the different adsense plugins that work the best.
Here’s the start of my 4th instance of Socrates: http://IMFAQ.com, to share answers to internet marketing frequently asked questions.
This is one I’m finally using some Adsense blocks with, too, as well as the clickbank hoplink builder.
Bob Jenkins
Some good news. This site is a few days old and its picking up little traffic from search engine.
http://www.guitarfornewbies.net
I used Socrates to put up two sites in the last two days and these are my first sites ever using a WordPress theme, so there was a bit of a learning curve involved, but this theme made things fast and easy.
Parenting Defiant Teens
Fit Strong and Happy
Just (yesterday) moved my 10 year old UK broadband review site onto Socrates.
http://www.broadband-help.com
Took about 10 minutes to create the WordPress / Socrates site structure, 2 days to integrate GD Star Rating (not all that easy) and 4 days to copy the content over from the old site.
Already seeing a big improvement in user engagement (i.e. reviews, ratings etc)
Before Socrates came along, I was put off updating the old site (proprietary design in ASP.NET) as the last update in 2005 took almost 4 months! With WP+Socrates it ended up taking just more than a week.
I now have the strong marketing and SEO orientated design of Socrates, flexible CMS and a great review platform (GD Star Rating is very good once you figure out how it works and get over the Eastern European / English translated tech documentation).
I looked long and hard at WP themes for over a year and was almost going to buy the “Heat Map” theme (elsewhere). However, Socrates came along and is the only one that delivers on SEO, advertising integration etc IMHO.
Socrates is a theme created by / for business people rather than 99% of WP themes created by graphic designers (with lots of ideas for fancy scrollers but no clue about online marketing).
However, not everything can be perfect and there are a number of minor bugs in the theme (e.g. search form “action” attribute incorrectly defined and some CSS howlers) but these took about 2 minutes to identify(with Firebug) and fix in custom CSS and some small changes to header.php. There needs to be a stuctured process for feeding back these fixes to Dan so they can be included in the next updates.
Onwards and upwards;)
Rowland,
Fantastic job on the site.. Just so our customers know, looks like you used two installs to generate the unique look and setup. Very clever.
I do have the Feedback form on the dashboard splash page, but I might be moving that to it’s own tab in the next update. We’ll definitely be fixing some of these minor issues in the next update. Which I hope to have out mid-month.
Quickly changed my “green blog” over to Socrates a few weeks back. Am very happy with the ease of use and “cleanliness” of these themes…you guys are the best.
In my review of “Thesis” on my marketing blog, I even added an addendum stating that I have changed my theme from Thesis to Socrates and why!
Still workin’ on the marketing blog, but couldn’t be happier! No more dreading how to get the theme to “do” what I want.
http://makehonestonlineincome.com
http://gogreenlivingtoday.com
Keep the hits coming guys!
TD
Ted, That’s awesome thanks.. Did you see I added a few green headers to the download area today.
Awesome theme.
http://www.click-reviews.com
Dave
Just created my first site with the Socrates Theme. Very intuitive and easy to use. Thanks for a great product and great support.
http://www.job-recruitment.org
Nice job… one suggestion, in the background panel, change background to repeat-x and then in style panel change background color to #338ab7. This will make the bottom color of background image extend all the way to bottom of page.
dan, looks like I was bumped out of the system, said my user name was not valid when trying to log in. Could you check on this? You can delete this post too, its the only way I thought to contact you.
I have Socrates on three of my sites now. Loving it.
http://LynnTHarrison.com
http://FireweaverReviews.com
http://FinancesForEveryday.com
If I was to add something to the feature wishlist it would be for more than two configured ads for the rotator. On the site I have for my wife’s financial advice we have a number of clickbank products I would love to have in the rotator.
Hi Dan,
I have recently uploaded Socrates theme on my website http://www.younghrmanager.com and frankly telling you I am amazed with the results. Definitely this theme gives you a so much flexibility that even a kid can install and make a website running in 5 minutes.
Kudos to the creators
Cheerzzz
Amit
Hey Dan,
Thanks for the heads up…I wanted to fix the background as suggested. Like I said, Socrates is a great theme with excellent support!
I installed Socrates on two sites now:
1. http://shoebudgetmarketinginfo.com
2. http://getstressreducer.com
I actually want to use the 3 columns layout on the second site but it seems that one of the sidebar looks too small making it looks a bit weird. So, I have to switch to two columns.
It took me sometimes to create the header to the correct size in GIMP but I finally got them right
Sue
oops actually it is
http://10daydiet.info/diet
I like this theme so easy and fast
here is my example
http://thesgrsite.com/universallawofattraction
http://www.docmurdock.com/blog is my new site set up in just a few minutes. Love the template, love the concept, would like to see some additional social network “links” be added in, but I know you guys are thinking along the same lines so will send them telepathically
GREAT JOB!
Mike
This sure does make it a lot easier to get a blog up and running. I changed my already existing blog to the Socrates Theme and tweaked it accordingly. I’m very happy with it. I’m glad I purchased the unlimited domain license, as I plan to create many other blogs, so this will save me a lot of time and effort using Socrates Theme.
Here is my current blog:
http://www.snapfingerblog.com
Thanks,
Jill
Changed my horse site over
http://thehorsebarn.com/
Did my new blog
http://dalelanderson.com/
I like the way the headers can be added
so simple, I like it like that
Thanks Dale
Changed my book site over to Socrates last night:
http://www.kidsinthebiz.com
I love it!
I’ve had my web site up for a little over a week using the Socrates theme and the Adsense plugin, but every time I check my site, I see none of the 300×250 Adsense ads appearing on the page. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong?
http://fitstrongandhappy.com/
On my other site which I built in the same way, the ads appear fine. You’d think there would be a lot of Adsense ads for a fitness-related site, so I don’t think lack of ad inventory is an issue.
Any insights would be appreciated.
You can only display 3 Adsense ads at a time. First, change your easy adsense settings for this 3 max display (and you can remove their link too) and remove the second “sponsors” section from your sidebar.
Thanks, Dan, that was very helpful advice. Can’t wait to write a review of Socrates and recommend it to my subscribers.
Love the software!
Working on multiple blogs.
This one is pretty well completed: http://www.copssoundoff.com
Will send more when completed!
Here is another: http://www.stayathomedadmoneymakers.com/
I’m a clinical hypnotherapist based in the UK and have an online shop that’s just been established and wanted a blog page as well. Having found socrates I’m using that on the blog and may well use it in future to create other pages for new products too.
The site and shop were developed with a web designer and database designer especially for my emotional eater on line course – it seemed very complicated. I’d looked at wordpress themes and then came across Socrates its easy to use. The blog is at http://www.hypnosisselfhelp.co.uk/blog I’d welcome any comments on how to improve the shop or the blog
Anne
Hi Anne,
Greetings from a fellow UK resident! Like yourself, I’m a big Socrates fan and have a number of sites running the theme now.
As far a specific comments go, here’s my 2 cents worth.
Whilst it’s not really my niche, I found your blog to have a lot of well written (unique?) content. However, I think that the blog could be changed in a few ways to drive more sales and traffic. Here are some suggestions:
1) Keyword research and Tags
Not sure if you’ve done this already, but there might be some value in organising your tags into the key phrases that you are trying to attract from search engines.
2) Titles
Again on search engines, you might like to re-arrange your titles. At the moment, your articles are showing something like “Hypnosis Self Help – Your Self Help Blog » anxious about exams:”. If you are trying to target keywords “anxious about exams”, your title is in the wrong order. Fortunately, there is a plugin that can help (Extreme SEO).
3) Lead capture and engagement
Maybe think about adding the RSS (feed me) and Twitter buttons back into the header?
Also it might be a good idea to include a “sign up by email” box? You can do this easily in Feedburner and with the Feedburner FD WP plugin.
4) Message
I had to go digging in your blog to find your hypnosis course. It’s in 2 places: one on the link “Anne Morrisons website” and at the bottom of the page called “coaching”. Perhaps a simple change to let visitors know that you offer professional courses? I’d suggest doing some keyword analysis (e.g. in Wordtracker) and changing your links to match the phrases that are most sought in search engines for your niche.
Just a few ideas that I hope help you out.
BTW, one of my new sites (http://www.bright-reviews.com) is in the Health niche and I’m adding content daily. Perhaps there are some ways that we could work together for content, links etc? Drop me a line on the bright-reviews contact form if interested.
Kind regards,
Rowland
Re: Extreme SEO – I made a mistake, it should be “All in one SEO pack”
Thanks for your help in getting some bugs sorted out Dan. Certainly appreciate it. I hope this will be smooth sailing from here!
Like the template. Up until now, I have used joomla because I couldn’t find any wordpress templates that were set up to do what I wanted to do. Socrates fixed that, so now I actually have a wordpress site. Thanks a bunch! James Cross Jr. http://www.metaldetectorpulse.com
I have sites in the “Karate” niche and “Mixed Martial Arts” nice. Can you make some headers for that?
Thanks!
The first time setting it up takes a bit of time, but after that, it’s a breeze.
http://gobiginternetmarketing.com
I also just did a makeover on my other site http://www.creekgold.com
Dear Dan and Joel
I just swapped out all three blogs I have just recently started, found it mostly easy to navigate and exceptionally better looking and easier to work with than anything else out there I have searched through. Have a quick peak at them and let me know where I can jas them up some more..!
Thanks
Dale
http://www.doitrightrenos.com
http://www.thekisssurvey.info
http://www.beginyoursuccess.com
I’ve made more progress with Socrates than I have with courses costing hundreds of dollars. A real time saver.
http://www.TheCreateSuccessProject.com
Just getting started, but it’s coming together slowly: http://www.forexharvesterreview.com/blog .
I was already #3 on Google for ‘forex harvester review’ so I’m hoping to do even better with the blog.
Thanks Dan and Joel!
Greg
Thanks to Socrates this is my first blog. I wish this came out a couple of years ago, I would have earned so much more. I look forward to learning how to customize Socrates even more. I would definitely recommend this WP theme.
Regards,
Von James
Best-Selling Author &
Hollywood’s Body Transformation Expert
http://extremeburnbootcamp.com
Thanks Joel and Dan!
Your new friend in South Carolina,
Ben Wardlaw
Chief FUN Officer
http://Opportunity-of-a-Lifetime.org
Hilton Head Island, SC USA
Psalm 150:6
Mine is at http://nichenana.com
Hello,
I am trying to set up my site. When I put the html in the 1st or 2nd box in layout, nothing is showing up.
My site is
http://signs-of-cheating-men.com/
Please help. Thanks
OK..it is now saving the changes that I make to sidebar.
My site is
http://signs-of-cheating-men.com/
I like the theme!
Thanks for the Socrates theme.Only have one up for now.
http://sandblastedglass.net
I own loads of domains that ive just sat on for years and never done anything with! By using the Socrates theme ive been able to put sites together really quickly. Monetizing them has been very simple too!
Thanks!
(looking forward to Socrates2.0)
http://www.KentNetworking.co.uk
http://www.KentPrinters.co.uk
http://www.BigCanvasPrints.co.uk
http://www.KentCarValeting.co.uk
http://www.KentLockServices.co.uk
One of my socrates that is very simple and basic has climbed to top of page 2 on google search for its keyword. Trying to make a final push to get page 1.
http://www.nyrefi.us
does the page navigation bar always have to be silver?
It does not have to be. You can make your own graphic to replace that image and we include the psd file in the images file, to help you do that.
Hi Everyone,
Awesome theme
It was changed over from my old theme in a flash. So easy to install and use. Why not check out my blog and let me know what you think
http://www.thewomenssuccessnetwork.com
Even follow me and come back to see what I have to offer. Loads of stuff! And that is the beauty of this theme, so user friendly. And can be used for any niche.
Great work guys! Looking forward to version 2.0.
Nicole.
Proud to say that for keywords “daily coupon code” Im on page 1 of google and have noticed a spike in traffic. Over 22 million results and I got page 1, slot 6.
http://www.dailycouponcode.org
Hi
I have intention to have my wordpress web page in Hebrew’
Q- Can I use Socrates and writhe titles and content in Hebrew?
Thanks
Samuel
This is making life so much easier. But, how do I get the posts to follow the “read more” format? The code is there in the php files, but the posts scroll all the way to the end. Must I set it up somewhere else?
Thanks stax for a great product.
Just use the “more” tag inside your posts visual editor. Icon looks like dashes in between two boxes.. insert where you want excerpt to end.
Yes, Socrates doesn’t affect language or RTL plugins.
Hi,
This is such a great theme and I’m so pleased to have it. Eventually I will put my other websites on a Socrates blog.
Meanwhile this site is my tester and is very much a work in progress but I had to show someone!!
http://www.how-to-grow-roses.net
Joe
Joe, looks great!
Hey!!!
I’m still in shock at this product & the ease-of-use is ridiculous! I still can’t believe that it so easy to use & that I, not a “Techie”, actually got it done. I can’t wait to see what else you guys come up with. And customer service doesn’t begin to describe how helpful you are…Thank You so much, Dan!!! Anyway, have a look at my baby! I still have product & services to add, but I’m loving it so far and have 5 more sites to do, but its not so intimidating anymore…Thanks Again! http://www.thedancedoctor.net
Maxx
Hey.
Im so surprised how easy it is to use. Like everyone says it is very intuitive and has all the feature you would need to write. All you need to do is fill it with content. Hope you like my site and any feedback would be great if anyone has any suggestions
Thanks again.
http://www.getfitwithsimon.com
I just quickly changed out one of my sites, and we say OMG! I love socrates! Amazing, so much more to learn but okay, it’s functioning. I was listening to Brian’s webinar and changing the theme at the same time! Whoa!
Made four new sites:
http://www.samsonmedia-seo.com
http://www.naturalpetsworld.com
http://www.naturalpetsworld.com/petbizop
http://www.health-wellness.biz/blog
They look great Gene! Really love the pet headers.
This is to anyone that can help,
Is there a way to have the entire post shown for each post when you click on a category link?
Im seeing some very nice sites!
Dean
Dean there is but it’s not recommended for duplicate content issues.. better to use excerpt. Feel free to post questions like this in the forum. http://www.socratestheme.com/forum
What a great comment section! I have to commend everyone on such great sites! I am still tweaking my site, but I can see that once rolling, this template will be a breeze to create new sites on the fly. Any comments will be helpful. Thank you.
Lots of nice looking sites shown here. I picked up a few ideas along the way, and some better ways to do things.
http://jackbowles.com/internetmarketing/
Does Socrates has widget for videos, too?
Paul, There’s really no need for a widget for videos. Just paste any video embed code into a text widget and resize video for sidebar width.
Loving this theme. Can’t wait for 2.0 release. I may have to get the beta… I really want to see that squeeze page.
Pablo
Cool! Thanks!
Hello All,
My 62 year old brain appreciate the power of Socrates. This tool has minimized the tearing out of the hair stage of blog creation for me, since the tutorials are perfect for my level of experience. I have one problem though, my blog, http://www.logan-counseling.com, and please take a look if you have time, is designed to maximize lead creations for my wife’s therapy practice, so I want to to link to local charities in the blogroll, and the blogroll is populated with some other “stuff”, so I have missed the training that says how to delete the “stuff” so I can put in the YWCA, women’s shelter, ect. links? I anticipate lots of iterations of Socrates themed blogs since it is so easy and economical to use. Thanks. Mike Logan
Michael,
Just click on “Links” in your wp dashboard, delete current ones and add new ones.
Socrates is a Fantastic Addition to WordPress! We run many sites which have a full blown Content Management System as the back bone and it typically takes a week to get them set up. With Socrates, our lastest site was up in 1 day! Now we are left with adding more content and links. Simple and Robust. Socrates is a must have addition to anyone who wants to get things done efficiently and fast!
–William Avon of SEO Friendly Website Builder
Hey Dan and Joel,
I’m hosting a live event in the fall and using Socrates on the site instead of a traditional sales page. I’ll be using the new 2.0 features like no sidebars, squeeze page, etc.
Bob The Teacher’s SIMPLE 2 Live Event Baltimore
Bob
Looks great Bob! Very professional and clean.
Dan,
I have a question and wasn’t sure where to post it. I currently have 2 Socrates sites and want to know how to create a sitemap url to submit to Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask etc. I know that you have to authenticate your site and I know how to do this with my other sites, but not with blogs.
Also, as someone who owns a number of web sites, I am amazed at how quickly blogs seem to get indexed as compared to web sites. Can you comment on this?
Do we have to be concerned about canonical references. I notice that whenever I type in http://www.fitstrongandhappy.com to go to my blog, the www is stripped off in the browser address window and replaced by http://fitstrongandhappy.com. Is this anything that I should be concerned about?
Sorry if I put this in the wrong area.
Laura
My other site is
http://www.parentingdefiantteens.com
One other question: will version 2.0 allows us to have a static page that functions as a squeeze page with other pages on the site that use a template. In other words, can you selectively remove the navigation from certain pages on your site?
I am so impressed with Socrates and have referred a number of people to your blog.
Laura,
You should install the Google XML Sitemap plugin. Blogs automatically ping out their content when published which certainly helps, and google just likes the structure better.. Honestly I’m not an expert on this, but it usually boils down to better distribution of content and structure. Here’s my opinion on the www/non-www. If you’re the type of person who types “www” in your browser, than set your Settings > General paths to include the www. If you’re not, then leave it be. Here’s why.. Google treats both links differently. So if you are apt to build backlinks by typing in “www” then your URL should be that same way.
These questions are fine, but better suited for the forum.
Yes, Version 2.02 beta has this already.. all the 2.0 features are mentioned on a few posts on this site and the demo blog.. thanks for referring others.
Just dowloaded Socrates today and love it!!! I will be using it for all of my sites. Here is the one I have played with today:
http://www.slimdownmethod.com
Thanks for such an amazing product!!!
I absolutely love Socrates. Wish that it had come along a long time ago. I was not a fan of WordPress until Socrates came along. My sites so far:
http://mysavingplace.com
http://30-yearfixedmortgage.com
I must say that I build my latest site with Socrates and truly love it! I have received a lot of comments on my site asking what theme I used. Of course I point them to my link on my site to the Socrates sales page. I will continue to use this great theme. Keep up the great work! Chia Seeds
Hey Dan, Joel, et al…
Now on my 5th site with Socrates, this time a live event marketing page for my fall internet marketing seminar in Baltimore.
SIMPLE 10K Internet Marketing September 24-26, 2010
Bob
Dan, Thanks for getting back to me in your e-mail. Still just getting started with Socrates. I’m giving it my newbie best!
Check out my Youtube video…It’s on the Slider.
http://wordpressmonetizing.com
Finished flipping my first website over to Socrates and (with modestly, of course) I think it looks great! Only about 50 more to go, but if they go as quickly as my first (which took less than 30 minutes – and I was “learning” the dashboard) I should be through them quickly, considering I’m now familiar with exactly how easy it is to use!
http://backstabberreport.com
One of the best programs I have ever used – Socrates!
Here are some of my sites designed with Socrates:
http://www.USTennisNews.com
http://www.USBaseballNews.com
http://www.ArmCharm.com
http://www.ExploreTheLaw.com
http://www.ExploringThings.com
http://www.ExploringCars.com
http://www.ExploringHairStyles.com
http://www.FlowersForYou.us
http://www.ExploringNascar.com
http://www.GlobalClimateNews.com
http://www.ImmigrationIsland.com
http://www.LowestInterestCard.com
http://www.UtubeClip.com
http://www.LowestInterestPaydayLoan.com
http://www.LowestInterestMortgageRate.com
Love this theme, can’t see myself buying any other theme
http://2nd.com.au (all about wine)
Love how you have the little wine bottles next to the links.
I like the tables with the products in them too. Was that hard to do?
Dude!!!, this is the easiest to use wordpress theme I have ever purchased. I got my site up and running in under 10 minutes…
http://www.ozfitsystems.com/tips
Thanks guys,
“Oz”
This theme is amazing. I just bought it this morning and have one of my sites configured…. I’ve never come across a theme that was so easy to set up.
The site I set up is: http://www.mlmtrainingguide.com
Wish everyone the nothing but absolute success.
Thanks again,
Josh
Good morning everyone,
My second Socrates site, http://www.startupsocialmedia.com.
Got it up, and going, in a matter of minutes, with minimal review. My first is doing very well for the keywords I wanted to rank high for. This one has lots of work to do yet, only a couple days old, but a backlink cannot hurt. Thanks, especially for the clear videos, Dan.
Hey,
Socrates totally rocks! I have used it on two of my domains so far. Due to my absolute lack of any spare time while closing my brick and mortar store, building my online store http://www.dailysurvivalgear.com (not a wordpress site or Socrates)and moving my household, I have only been able to spend a few hours on two of my sites, but they look really good so far anyway. I have a couple more sites that i will use your headers for, I usually make my own custom headers so it will save me even more time! Check them out.
http://www.toodlesrocknrolladoodles.com and http://www.lcgladmanconstruction.com
Thanks so much, Chaz
I bought Socrates when it was initially released and was impressed. However, now that version 2 is out, that has some really killer features that make Socrates so incredibly flexible.
Currently using it on
http://ultimatemarketingstrategies.net
http://ginini.com
well here it is the 1st attempt with socrates,
very easy to use and the forum and support are great….
http://www.dogswithallergies.org
Thanks
Steve
Great way to create a wordpress blog combining a professional look, automation and monitization.
http://www.MarkAdamsJDMBA.com
I have switched most of my blogs now to Socrates from Expertwordpress, although I can’t knock those guys, I learned a lot using it. However Socrates just does things easier. I have given up trying to make money with the get rich quick schemes (that’s the polite word), so now concentrating on real products. I purchased InfoProductKiller and I am applying his techniques to my blogs although I am going to build a few product wesites using his templates.
Here’s a couple of mine.
http://diamondrings.tk
http://gettingmarried.tk/
http://actionfirevalve.co.uk/firevalves/
Ha! I used socrates to set up a physician recruiting site:
http://orthopedic-employment.com as well as http://doctorjobssite.com
Another win with Socrtates!
Joined Sundance Global on Saturday August 28th. Spent the entire day building a blog with the domain ‘SundanceGlobalReview.net’.
By Tuesday, August 31st I was ranked #1 on Google for the search term ‘sundance global review’!
Without Socrates ease of use and setup, I would have never been able to do this so quickly.
Thanks again for the BEST WordPress Theme out there!
Greg
Hi I have had Socrates for a few weeks now and have changed over all sites except the Thesis site I bought it is very interactive but still a little tech for me but this is the one I like the bestwww.precisionreloading.ca
Really enjoying this theme. I’m a non-techie DIYer; so the Support Forum has been a LIFE-SAVER for me! And while I won’t do heavy affiliate marketing on this site, I can advertise my OWN products and services. The great features ad sophistication I couldn’t hope to achieve on my own.
http://www.TLFiggs.com
LaCharla Figgs, President
T.L. Figgs Consulting
Community-Based Nonprofit Specialist
Just wanted to announce my latest Socrates-built site:
http://www.longdistancerelationshipsthatlast.com
If you’re one of many who are in a distance relationship, you might want to check it out.
And here’s a new site that I helped my teen son put up:
http://teen2teenadviceonline.com
If you have a teen who is looking for advice from a well-seasoned peer, check out his site.
Mom always said, “Haven’t had so much fun since the hogs ate my sister.” Hence:
http://hogsatemysister.com/
I am SLOWLY trying to make the new WP blog (imported from Blogger) do the cool stuff already achieved by other Socrates sites, then use this knowledge to create monetized info sites.
Thanks to everyone in the Socrates community for sharing their wisdom.
Bill Moore
Auckland, NZ
Hey Dan & Joel,
I’m very technically-challenged, but whenever people see my “Wife Magnet” site that I recently started building, they’re impressed.
Check it out:
http://www.WifeMagnet.com
So much so that three of my aspiring internet-marketer friends have purchased Socrates theme for themselves.
I’ve been so pleased with Socrates Theme that I even created a redirect to my affiliate link:
http://www.LogicalTheme.com
So I just tell people to go to http://www.LogicalTheme.com to check it out. Nice, eh?
Jemal Jelil.
http://www.WifeMagnet.com
P.S. It was great meeting you guys and learning from you at JV Alert Live in Denver.
Nice meeting you as well and great job. You might consider a softer color background and header though.. it’s a bit heavy on the dark gray.
Hey guys super impressed with the Socrates Theme very easy to navigate. Just built my new blog in no time at all, you can see it at http://www.healthy-pet.info
Keep up the great work
Bill
I love this theme I switched my Autism site over to it. The whole process took about 2 hours time. Great program simple and straight forward.
Wow – So cool to see how many different look impressions can be created from the same theme.
Here are my Socrates Creations:
http://www.ashmaxhq.com (love the EASY squeeze-page!)
http://www.mentalgatecoaching.com
http://www.smartbizprofits.com
http://www.mentalbluemusic.com
Before Socrates for me as a technical newbie it was such a pain not to be able to tweak all that I wanted the way I needed it.
Now a piece of cake! Wow.
THANKS!
Sanja
Still lovin’ Socrates. I’ve just launched my 2nd Socrates site, and I’m working the bugs out of 3rd one. Here’s my latest site, which is dedicated to scrapbooking.
http://www.BessLee.com
Thank you for the them & the forum help!
LaCharla
LaCharla L. Figgs
Chief Craft Enthusiast
Bess Lee Design Studio
Where your inner ScrapGenius comes out to play! TM
Oops! That’s thank you for the THEME and forum help!
LaCharla
This is one of my sites,
http://www.amazinggraceinstrumental.com
Thanks for this program.
Lecil Andrews
Hi Dan,
A great theme I have used here,
http://www.makegr8moneyonline.com
http://wwwjohncowper.com
The latter was designer by myself and I changed the Socrates theme to suit the design. The back end interface is unchanged but what a great theme to play with.
Thanks
John Cowper
Great theme! I got a good comment about it on this site:
http://www.pdaffiliates.com
Would like to see more headers.
Thanks
Jonathan Smith
Here is one that my business partner and I are working on. http://www.caddiescoffeeblog.com.au
Many people ask “What Theme Are You Using and Where Can I Get It”?…
I gladly provide my affiliate link
Michael Lundgren
http://PowerfulMarketing.info/blog
This is my very first Blog and First Post. I’m glad I decided to purchase Socrates, It was very easy to use and Dans’ video tutorials made it a breeze to get it looking great! I Look forward to building many more Affiliate sites in many niches!
Thanks Dan! Despite you being very busy, I also appreciate you getting back to me and answering my New-by questions in a timely manner!
http://www.WilliamHWillams.com
We have several blogs, and tried Socrates. Converting from the previous theme was fairly easy, just needed some adjustments. This theme gives a good selection of build in functions and eliminates the search for some plugins. http://investingsolutions.org
Just thought I’d show off this on done for my daughter Melissa, she does Social Media Management for Bands and individuals.
http://socialmediastarlets.com/blog/
Socrates made is so easy to set up and do the things she needed.
Rick Dearr
I am still in the evaluation phase and I’m thinking I’m going to go ahead and get this theme. I have only been working with it for a few hours but find it is by far the best thing going.
My site is sort of a news type site where I will be reviewing various affiliate programs and interviewing some of the top marketers.
I would like to get some feedback about my site. http://definitivesolutionsllc.com/marketingintelligence/
My Socrates site uses the Skinny Sales Page for every single page. This required some hacking, since it was not designed for certain things like the contact form. I also made a bunch of personalized html and css changes to the template.
I’ve yet to use all of the features of the template, but so far am quite pleased with all the versatility and can see the potential. But I’d like to see more of them available for the Skinny Sales page by default so one doesn’t have to hack it. This way you can use that template for the entire site.
Check out the site at http://makeupdontbreakup.us
I have to say that after a few years of building sites with xsitepro, i am now concentrtating on using the wordpress platform and the socrates themes, the design ang look of the sites look great, the first one i built is http://5-ex.com/ and took no time at all to set up, and looks great, am now cranking a site out every couple of days, great job guys !!!
I have a decent website promoting the United States Air Force…
http://aimhighflyfightandwin.com
Hey Dan … would LOVE my site featured … the Choice IS “Socrates” ..
http://MarkCall.com
Thanks,
Mark Call
Hi Dan
Well pleased with “Socrates”
My site is http://internetrookienomore.com/blog
http://wheatwise.com
Uses socrates framework but I gave it a custom skin.
Hi Dan,
I also used the Socrates Framework but completely designed a new skin…
looks great but the backend is what I love so easy to do what I need.
John
I used Socrates on my Extreme Sports Blog. I changed the post header colors to liven it up a bit and added a colorful header picture.
It’s sort of jammed with google ads. I’m going to test taking some of them off to see if I get better retention. I selected image only ads for the top banner because I want a lot of images and video on the site.
Check it out here: http://extremesportsblog.com
I am a true internet newbie. In the last couple months, I have really struggled with all the techie stuff involved in getting a presentable site up and live. But I have to say that since finding Socrates only yesterday, I once again have some hope that maybe I’ll be able to do this. I am an avid and fairly talented golfer and instructor. I know that with this product, I’ll be able to quickly figure out how to create and get my product out there for people to see. My site/blog is at http://www.solidcontactgolfswing.com/blog
As you’ll see, there’s not much there yet, but it’s coming soon. Thanks for the Great Theme guys!!
Hi Dan, I think I’m definitely addicted to ‘Socrates’
Weight-Loss for Wimps being just one of the many I’ve launched since I found out that sub-domains can each have their own independant Socrates theme
All I need now are ‘click-minded’ visitors.
Cheers … Pete.
Hi Everybody,I just to make a post and say this Socrates Theme crushes it, it’s everything one want in a theme, but I do have one small problem with and that redirects. I need a good redirect plugin which handles multiple redirects I could’nt find a good one over WP, that would possible make this theme perfect if had a good redirect plugin,that way those dreaded commissions bandit would’nt be able to steal so many commissions also it would help with my newsletter series when I promote products and services. But nevertheless I would like to introduce Darryl Hudson.com This is my personal Blog about Health, Wealth,& Relationship thru Personal and Spiritual Growth, any comments or recommendations would be welcome, here my URL http://www.darrylhudson.com Thanks in advance Darryl Hudson
Hi Dan,
A really great theme Dan, I had this site created under a different theme and then i decided to Install the Socrates Theme. Boy it has made a real difference, easy to set up and looks like a professional site in no time at all.
I really love this theme one of the best I have come across.
Just created this site http://www.makemoneyonlineezy.com
John Cowper
Hi Guys,
I love Socrates! Just watched the webinar replay – excellent tips, thank you.
One of my sites http://www.homebasedaccountingbusiness.com is top of Yahoo and MSN, and climbing Google as we speak.
Thanks again,
Scoppers
Hi Everyone~
Please take a look at my rookie effort and please let me know how I can improve!
I love how easy Socrates is to use…now I am just wanting to streamline and might feel like I have gone a bit over the top with affiliate links…but I’m not really sure how to seperate them out by page…
http://edogblog.com
love to hear from you…thanks!
Louise
Hi Louise B, I look at your site not bad…not bad at all, ok here’s a few thing you can do to streamline your site. Have ever consider adding some extra tags or hmtl type tags to your post, what I mean is {headline tags } { tags} {bold tags }and {Break tags }, these type of tags will make your site standout more it catches the eyes of your followers. Like when you embed a video place a center tag in front of your video like this VIDEO EMBEDDED CODE this will place your video in the middle of the page also place h2 tags when starting a new paragraph NEW PARAGRAPH this separate your content and after each paragraph place a break in between your content this let’s your reader scans your content to find what there looking for quickly & with easy and it also breaks up your page. Well I could make a few more suggestion but these few should help your site out greatly, you can go over to my site and take a look you’ll know what exactly what I’m talking about when you see it, here’s my URL http://www.darrylhudson.com if I can help you anymore just reply back and maybe we can talk.
Kind Regards,Darryl H.
http://www.hockeyplayersecrets.com
still in the works but it’s a pretty good layout so far i think, what do you think?
Hello folks, Thank you Socrates and team! I finally have a working site.
This is my first working site and my first product. I have a lot of work to do yet. Need to figure out how to ad bonus offers, redirects, etc..
I would greatly appreciate any and all feedback.
http://www.easycandyrecipes.org
Thank you,
Stephen Smith
Hi, picked up the socrates theme in mid december 2010. I have to tell everyone how great this program is. The root blog is http://www.on-the-rag.com. I’m using a program that creates wild card subdomains so the root domain actually consists of 70 blogs and climbing. From start to finish (wp install,5 plug-ins,auto content creation and wp syndication)it usually takes about 18 minutes to create each blog. Thanks to socrates they all look great. If you stop bye leave a comment. You can check out the subdomains by entering (senators name).on-the-rag.com
Thank You,
Tony Bolek
I am testing a lot of SEM, and creating Semantic indexing using multiple blogs – Socrates.
I will be setting up some more Google apps’ including Web-master Tools Sitemaps. This one is just as essential as adding Google Analytic’s and seems to be overlooked by some ….
Test site
http://www.second-income-opportunities.co.uk/
Cheers
David
Hi Socrates team,
Thanks for your splendid WP theme. This is my first website and as such is a work in progress. Please don’t hesitate to send any feedback, I am interested in any comments or observations you may have regarding my site. Thanks again!
http://chinesemedicinepro.com/
Cheers,
Scott A. Whitfield L.Ac.
Just launched Corvette review site using Socrates at:
http://corvettereviews.com
Just use Joel and Dan’s theme to build a website”
http://www.wallinchina.com
It looks really nice and I ‘ve already got traffic, thanks Joel and Dan.
Hello everyone, I’ve set up one blog using socrates.
http://www.mediacashflow.com/blog/
I’m hoping for more options in future updates.
Thanks folks for sharing creatives, insightful and encouraging. Socrates!
Richard, can you reveal which review plugin you are using? Thanks.
Hi,Guys,just build a website using socrates. http://www.tvseriescomment.info/
please give me comments and suggestions as it is my 1st wordpress site .Thanks and see you!
Best premium wp theme out there, Good Job guys.
http://topradardetection.com
Hello everyone, take a look at my new website.
http://buycranberry.com
http://uticauses.info
Love it!!!
I bought the unlimited license and have it (so far) on four of my newest blogs:
Words of Encouragement: http://words-encouragement.com
Write from Home: http://write-from-home.net
Autism & Other Developmental Disorders: http://autism-and-other-developmental-disorders.com
K’Lee Banks, Freelance Consultant: http://kleebanks-freelance-consultant.com
Yep this theme is perfect for monetizing. I have a unique niche selling car care solutions. I mix education with ecom and this theme does it very well.
http://carscratchremoverblog.com
I use it for my local business SEO consulting gig
http://smallbusinesssandiego.com
Purchasing Socrates was a no brainer for me. Socrates makes designing blogs so much easier, even for a newbie like me. Thank you Dan and Joel for creating this awesome theme.
I started this site a couple of days ago…
http://www.clickbankproductsexposed.com
I have some other projects in mind that I can’t wait to get started.
Im still working on it but here is what i have come up with so far: http://babyproductquest.com
Socrates is the only theme I’ll use now, have a look at what I done with my Letting agency website and tell me what you think!
LivinRooms Website
Richard Thorne
richard@livinrooms.co.uk
It’s the only one I use now too. Here’s my latest:
The Frazzled Homemaker
I have used Socrates for nearly a year now. I love the themes and the user friendly interface. My Website now at http://0ms.info which anchor text as online marketing secrets are now index and rank at Alexa for 510,000.
Socrates is simply awesome and easy to use. I have just built my first site using a Socrates’ theme and it looks stunning. Thank you to the guys behind Socrates and keep it up!
I really liked the new CSS customization area where I can change it for my own presales page. Check it out at http://www.socratesguide.com/
I use Socrates of 90% of my Sites and i love the Themes, it looks great. Thanks
one of my Sites with Socrates, its German Site.
http://negativerschufa.com
I built an awesome socrates site at http://www.eziglass.com.au
next project will be at:
http://www.ipad-screen-protector.net
I have built a great Socrates blog to mimic my original fish website.I have linked it back to the main site http://www.diykoipond.com/blog
Hi
George here,
I’ve seen a lot of great sites here. Hope mine can measure up. Good and bad comments are appreciated. Really enjoy working with Socrates, it’s a breeze and fun.
Anyway, thanks
http://www.diabeticdietinfo.net/
Love the header. The only thing I would change is the pink text in the menu bar under the header. It clashes with the red and green.
Although I’m not a proponent of white text, it would look better on the dark green background.
I have switched a few sites to Socrates. I love the theme and ese of use.
Stock Trading Mall
Gluten Free Spouse
Dating Tips
21 Holdings Group
This is such a great theme, it really is. I love using it and adding to the site with ease. I don’t have to think about what I am doing it’s so easy.
http://www.flpbusinessopportunity.com
Have a look, so easy to change and alter the theme.
John Cowper
Wow I really have to say this is a super duper theme. It is so versatile and easy to use. You can alter the code easily and create your own banner and navigation bar. Add in advertisements, banners and plenty of really great side bar plugins. It just a really great value product, well dome chaps.
http://www.makegr8moneyonline.com
John Cowper
Hi, I want to say how I absolutely love the ease and simplicity of your theme. I purchased the unlimited license only yesterday. I had 3 existing websites which I managed to change and customize in about 20-30 minutes each:
http://www.101-natural-health-remedies.com
http://www.ragstorichessuccess.com
http://www.acidalkalinebalancediet.info
I love how you can change the headers and text so quickly. Though I do wish there were a few more headers, especially in the health and business categories. Hope more will be added soon!
I also set up a brand new blog yesterday which took only 1 hour to do (including adding the content).
http://www.diverticulitisdietplan.org
Before purchasing Socrates Theme this would have taken me at least double the time AND they look more eye catching. The widgets/ad blocks I particularly like and everything is pretty much point and click!
Highly recommend to all!
Lynne
Hey this is a great theme for me I am so excited and have had such positive feedback. I was on blogger for awhile then moved to wordpress. I am completely happy that I switched over. The flexibility that this theme offers for affiliate marketers is awesome.
Thank you for making my decision so easy to make for the theme of my site. I would love to hear what everyone else thinks check out http://www.easysixfigureincome.com/ and let me know.
Lisa
Great theme, thanks,
Just started using Socretes and so far its looking like my new #1. Must be the best value theme out there!!!
http://www.ipodnanodeal.com/
I like the theme of Socrates, and I use it on all my blogs.Thank you
I love this theme. I have shopped around for a themes. Socrates delivers and makes everything easier.
http://www.gamingnuggets.com
Thanks guys,
Ian
I’ve just rebuilt my blog using Socrates and I’m very pleased with the results. I’d be grateful if anyone would like to check it out and let me know if they have any problems viewing any of it.
http://woodworkingideasstore.com/
Here’s one that I have had up for a while. I’m working on a couple of others now. Completely open for any and all suggestions, pro or con.
http://johnnybaxter.com
Thanks,
Johnny
Hi Guys Glad to share with you a number of my website that I have develop using Socrates. Please care to take a look and comment :-
http://9888.co.uk
http://9898.co.uk
http://bboy.info
http://4lifeforum.com
http://babydairy.com
http://banksms.com
http://cashmade.com
Thanks Andy
Hi, I use Socrates on my personal blog. If anyone has any tips on how to improve it I’d be incredibly appreciative.
Cheers,
Ray
another hot Socrates site of mine!!!
It is a definitely a great theme. Here is what I made earlier. Please do send me your thoughts and comments.
http://www.freelancemedicalwriting.com/
I’m finally getting the hang of using this great theme. Ive recently set this site up and going on to next one.;) check it out and be sure to leave some feedback and if you have a relevant site go to the link exchange page to trade links. Here’s my site address:
http://www.howtoloseweightcalculator.com
I have built a couple of sites
http://www.golfinstruction.co.nz
http://www.jumperoobyfisherprice.com
It is a great theme and so is the cheaper acme
I bought Socrates a few weeks ago.
Allready made a few sites to test with:
http://www.zeldaskywardsword.net/
http://www.bindingsangstverlatingsangst.com/
If you are monetizing a wordpress site, then the socrates theme is for you. With easy installation, customizing and a quick add of your affiliate links, socrates is a no-brainer. http://www.retailerdepot.com
I have several sites now on Socrates:
http://www.erpandmore.com
http://erpselectionhelp.com
http://crmsoftwareblog.net
http://possoftwarereviews.net
http://www.168fengshui.com
Great Theme!
Thanks for making this available.
Hi,
I bought the Socrates Theme long time ago and I’m very happy with socrates. I use socrates for the most of my websites.
http://rat-bike.com/
http://water-hybrid-cars.com/
http://amazing-australia.de/
http://amazing-thailand.de/
I’m glad to meet many of you through the presence you are creating online with Socrates. It is really a classy theme.
Here’s my latest creation for you to enjoy: http://www.entrepreneurswin.com.
Happy holidays.
I love using this theme for my WordPress sites. I’ve added it to this Awana site.
http://www.awanaspringhill.com/
Hi. Socrates theme is really awesome. thanks..
Here is my web sites:
http://abeonaguide.org
http://roulettetycoon.net
Here is one of my sites in Socrates.
http://moviereviews.customer-reports.com
Here are my attemots using Socrates theme
http://www.tipstolearnenglish.com/
http://www.chinawholesalectronics.com/
http://www.christsbooks.com/
http://www.topclassjewelry.com/
If I do anymore I come back and add them.
They look great! But just to let you know, there’s a bunch of code above the header on the jewelry site.
Thanks Cathy – thats the site for beta testing the new version and it is a known fault which will be fixed when they release the beta to everyone first week in March.
Thanks for looking though and your comment, most appreciated.
Thank you for the great theme. I am rather new to all of this and look forward to earning a little cash down the line. I have used Socrates for these two sites:
http://www.definitionofspirituality.com/
http://www.greatlearningtoolsforkids.com/
This is a great theme and so easy to work with, I really like the set ups and the header options,
Self Help for Healthy Relationships!
I love the layout of your blog! Totally creativ
We thank you for amazing data, really assist me personally. I’ll take yet another examine your website.
Not sure who is talking to who in these latest comments
Very good theme guys. Appreciate the support you’ve given and the opportunity to share my site.
We’re amazingly delighted i stumbled across this in my search for one thing about it.