Most of the newbie bloggers are trying free WordPress theme for their blog. I also recommend using a free theme for WordPress blog if you are not in a budget. I would recommend you to get free themes from the official resource, like WordPress theme’s official website.Actually, all the themes provided in the official resource are 100% tested and genuine. There are around 2323 free WordPress themes downloaded for more than 92,731,651 times till date. So it would not hurt your site’s SEO or security of your WordPress blog. If you are in the budget, I would recommend you to try Genesis Framework for your WordPress blog.
Genesis framework has been developed by developers from StudioPress. It constantly updated and always compatible with the latest version of WordPress. So whenever there is a new WordPress update available, your theme framework is compatible with it. You don’t have to do anything extra with the coding.
There are lots of resource on the internet available for downloading free genesis framework, it would work for you but not recommended. If the free theme provider has inserted any malicious code inside them, it would affect your entire developed empire. Sometimes such malicious codes can create Brute Force Attacks on Admin Login or any changes that can not be reversed. So recommended is to get from the official resource. The choice is always yours!
2. Layout Setting for Each Post
There is a good option to set custom layout for each post while you writing a post. This would be the most effective thing when you are trying to test which layout for your blog would get perfect clicks & more conversation. This way you would get perfect heatmap for your site.
Custom Layout Setting for Each Post in WordPress using Genesis
You can create full width page or post directly using that from layout setting. You can also add custom body class or custom post class on each post. There are also customization options like custom featured post or featured pages.
3. Genesis Theme Support
If you are purchasing any service, there might be any issue with or something that you need help from others to understand.You can directly raise new ticket or post on help forum to get quick support from them. It includes only one time purchase fees and lifetime supports.
4. Inbuilt SEO Option to optimize blog :
You don’t have to do anything, it’s well optimized for search engines. However you can directly activate comments and trackbacks on posts as well as on pages.
It comes advanced SEO options, that you can use to optimize your site for search engines.You can modify blog listing pages like archive pages for authors, blog archives, categories, search pages or tag pages for SEO. It helps you whether you want to show post excerpts or post contents on archives page with featured image.
5. Genesis SEO Setting :
Genesis comes with advanced SEO setting, you can directly associate your site’s Google+ page with your blog from there.There is homepage SEO setting that will be used to optimize your WordPress blog’s homepage. We all know H1 tag is important for SEO, you can set which one from your site’s homepage would appear as H1 tag. You can set site’s title, site’s description as H1 tag.
You can also add homepage titles, homepage description and homepage meta keyword directly from Genesis advanced SEO option. Homepage robots meta tags allow you to apply noindex,nofollow or noarchive tag for your homepage for better SEO.
There is option for which documents you want to in your < head > tag. Remove unnecessory tags form your wordpress head that is useful for SEO.You can directly show which archives you want to noindex for search engines. I would recommend you to remove date archives, search archives, author archives and category or tag archives to set noindex. If your site is category based, noindex tag and if your site is tag based, you can noindex category for better SEO.
Canonical Paginated Archives SEO setting for Genesis
This option points search engines to the first page of an archive, if viewing a paginated page. Always uncheck the option that says canonical paginated archives.
Is it costly ?
Well, if you don’t know there are lots of peoples who are investing their money on promoting their online business or store. SEO agencies from most of the country are charging too much amount from their clients to do search engine optimization for their site. Right now there is very popular genesis theme which is mobile responsive theme is available at discounted rate. It’s foodie theme and you can get foodie theme + Genesis framework at only $99.95 USD.
$59.95 USD is not too much if you are looking for long term SEO for your site. You can use free genesis theme if you have genesis framework. In my upcoming post, I would post about free genesis templates for WordPress blog for genesis users.
