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Comparison of 12 WordPress Theme Frameworks
Comparison of 12 WordPress Theme Frameworks
Comparison of 12 WordPress Theme Frameworks
A theme framework is a set of building blocks that make theme development easier and dramatically speeds up development time by providing the core structure (or framework) needed by a theme. Frameworks typically provide all necessary layouts, template files, functions, and more, leaving little but the styling to the developer (or designer).
This post will compare 12 of the popular theme frameworks, giving a brief overview of each, and resources such as download links, child themes, documentation, etc.
Frameworks
1. Buffet Framework
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Buffet is a framework written by Melvin Lee designed to be a powerful tool for developers, and also an easy to use system for end users who wish to be able to add / remove elements of site with ease.
Like most WordPress theme frameworks, the Buffet Framework utlises WordPress actions and filters to allow theme developers to add additional [...]
WordPress Permalink Structure
WordPress Permalink Structure
Table of Contents
Common Permalink Structures
What is the Best Permalink Structur…
Permalink Structure for Performance
Permalink Structure for SEO
Permalink Structure Best of Both Wo…
Ideal Permalink Structure
What the AppThemes Website Uses
Can I Change My Established Website…
WordPress Permalink 404 Error
References
A “permalink” is a permanent link url that points to a specific blog page or post. They are essentially permanent links to your website pages that should remain unchanged indefinitely.
Permalinks can be quite powerful if used correctly and are most commonly known for their cosmetic and SEO benefits.
Common Permalink Structures
By default, WordPress uses a simple numeric variable structure that looks like this:
http://www.appthemes.com/?p=123
It’s not pretty nor does it tell you what the post or page is actually about but it’s probably the best performing.
Some other common custom permalink structures are as follows:
/%postname%/
/%category%/%postname%/
/%year%/%monthnum%/%postname%/
What [...]
Search for Quality webTraffic
Search for Quality webTraffic
“ Link building, while it may be less important for SERP ranking as the years go by, is still a core element in building the volume and type of traffic you want. “
While much has been made about the number of people using social networks today, with traffic hungry mainstream and adult website operators sitting up to take close notice, research is showing that most visitors from social media sources tend to be “low quality,” from a traffic monetization perspective — at least when compared to the visitors referred by content-centric websites, such as news sites.
For example, a recent report by Outbrain on Content Discovery and Engagement, underscores the traffic-building value of original, high quality content, as opposed to the more socially oriented traffic building strategies.
Looking at 160 million user sessions across 150 of its client’s websites with the intent of studying behavioral differences among visitors from various referral [...]
Building Traffic
Building Traffic Through Optimized Textual Content
Ask any search engine marketer and he or she will tell you that the written word is a great means of generating traffic — even when you can’t write (or use) the words that you’re targeting.
Although the addition of targeted text (as actual text, not a graphical representation) on a web page has long been used as a means of boosting search relevance; and likewise, optimized text used in page titles and in Meta keyword and description tags give a boost; it is not the only way to use textual content. For many online operators, article marketing, forum posts, social media and other venues offer a range of traffic building opportunities.
Sometimes, you may not want or be able to use certain words in your presentations, but this does not negate the power of text.
For example, tough economic times lead folks to want “free” porn, but misusing the word “free” — such as saying access to a website is gratis when there is actually [...]
Top 500 most popular keywords
Top 500 most popular keywords
The top stop were taken by “google” with 68,513 uniques. The #2 position went to “mapquest”, #3 – “google.com”, #4 got “eBay”, #5 and #6 were taken by “yahoo.com” and “yahoo”.
As we can see, the 4 of first 6 positions were occupied by queries related to search engines. More to say, this statistical keyword analysis showed that different variations of “google” (for ex., www.google.com, google.co and etc.) have taken 14 positions among top 500 most popular keywords. It resulted in 138,128 unique users, meanwhile, “yahoo” – 72,334 and “msn” got 11,770 uniques. “Google” has received almost 48% more unique users than “yahoo” and 91% more than “msn”. If we compare “yahoo” with “msn”, we will see that “yahoo” received 84% more unique users.
Keywords
Unique Users
Search [...]
Search Engine Ranking Factors and Social media optimization
Search Engine Ranking Factors
introduction
Welcome to the 2011 edition of the Search Engine Ranking Factors. For the past 6 years, SEO has compiled the aggregated opinions of dozens of the world’s best and brightest search marketers into this biennial, ranking factors document. This year, for the first time, we’re presenting a second form of data – correlation-based analysis – alongside the opinions of our 132-person panel.
Over the pages of this document, you’ll see segmentation of the search ranking algorithm into various components like “page-specific, link-level features,” or “domain-level, keyword-agnostic features.” These segments represent the different elements illustrated on the pie chart to the right. In each segment, you’ll see three types of charts.
The first, excerpted above, shows the opinions of SEOs on factors in a given segment, ranked in order from those the panel believes (on average) to be most important [...]
Google alogritham change history
Google alogritham change history
Each year, Google changes its search algorithm up to 500-600 times. While most of these changes are minor, every few months Google rolls out a “major” algorithmic update that affect search results in significant ways.
For search marketers, knowing the dates of these Google updates can help explain changes in rankings and organic website traffic. Below, we’ve listed the major algorithmic changes that made the biggest impacts on search. Understanding these updates can help with search engine optimization.
2011 Updates
Panda 2.5 – September 28, 2011
After more than month, Google rolled out another Panda update. Specific details of what changed were unclear, but some sites reported large-scale losses.
Confirmed: Google Panda 2.5 Update Arrived This Week (SEL)
Google Panda 2.5: Losers Include Today Show, The Next Web; Winners Include YouTube, Fox News (SEL)
516 Algo Updates – September 21, 2011
This wasn’t an update, but it [...]
how search engine operates
how search engine operates
Search engines have four functions – crawling, building an index, calculating relevancy & rankings and serving results.
Imagine the World Wide Web as a network of stops in a big city subway system.
Each stop is its own unique document (usually a web page, but sometimes a PDF, JPG or other file). The search engines need a way to “crawl” the entire city and find all the stops along the way, so they use the best path available – links.
Crawling and IndexingCrawling and indexing the billions of documents, pages, files, news, videos and media on the world wide web.
Providing AnswersProviding answers to user queries, most frequently through lists of relevant pages through retrieval and rankings.
“The link structure of the web serves to bind together all of the pages in existence.”
(Or, at least, all those that the engines can access.) Through links, search engines’ automated robots, called “crawlers,” or “spiders” can [...]
New SEO Reports in Google Analytics Now Here
New SEO Reports in Google
Analytics Now Here
October 4th, 2011 – Posted by Cyrus Shepard to Analytics
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The author’s posts are entirely his or her own (excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis) and may not always reflect the views
This week we noticed a new feature in our Google Analytics account – a set of reports called “Search Engine Optimization.” Google announced that these reports are out of beta and now available to all users.
Is Google really going to help us with our SEO?
The reports are found in the new interface, under the “Traffic Sources” section. Setup requires a Google Webmaster account. After you connect your accounts, the data sharing is almost instant, although metrics from the past two days aren’t available.
1. Query Reports
The query report lists the top 1000 queries along with number of impressions, clicks, average position and click-through rate (CTR). Users familiar with Webmaster Tools will recognize the layout, although it [...]
Google Invests in Privacy for Profit
Google Invests in Privacy for Profit
by Rhea Drysdale on 10/19/2011 · 46 comments | SEO
Guess what? Google just pissed on the SEO community and tried to call it rain.
Again!
Since Google’s announcement yesterday that they would now be encrypting search result URLs by default for all users, the community has been out for blood. The change is going to fix known privacy issues, so why is this a bad thing?
“How will this change impact Google Analytics users?
When a signed in user visits your site from an organic Google search, all web analytics services, including Google Analytics, will continue to recognize the visit as Google “organic” search, but will no longer report the query terms that the user searched on to reach your site. Keep in mind that the change will affect only a minority of your traffic. You will continue to see aggregate query data with no change, including visits from users who aren’t signed in and visits from Google “cpc”.’
As of this morning, here’s [...]