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These Mistakes On Your Corporate Blog Don’t Make:

You know you have to setup a blog for your business, but you don’t want to waste time and money by managing it the wrong way. A bad corporate blog is worse than not having one at all. Avoid these common mistakes on your corporate blog.
1. Using the wrong platform for blogging.
Not every platform is meant for blogging. Your website may have an excellent content management system, but it doesn’t necessarily have the SEO-friendliness, usability, and flexibility that you need in a blog. Only use a platform that has blog features. If absolutely necessary, setup a separate blog that you link to from your website.

2. Publishing heavily promotional posts.
Your corporate blog isn’t the right place to heavily promote your products. This can be done on the rest of your website. However, you can create highly targeted content for your blog that can later be used for pay per click and media buying promotions. If you need help with setting up a PPC campaign, be sure to check out TopTenReviews.com for a list of the top SEO services and software available.
Your blog is what you’re using to attract customers and get them to engage with your content. The blog content should be evergreen and it should provide the reader with value. This is the best way to increase your organic reach.

 3. Publishing posts that aren’t meaningful for your marketing strategy.
You don’t want your posts to be full of sales speak, but they still have to be in line with your marketing strategy. Each blog post should take into consideration the profile of both your target audience and your regular readers. The more you can relate with your audience and the easier you can make it for them to read and share your content, the better experience they will have.
A good example of this would be our “How to Blog in 2014” post, which walks the user through everything they would need to setup if they wanted to launch a successful blog of their own. Make sure your content is unique, easy to follow and provides value.

4. Not using social media for promotion.
Publishing on your blog is great, but it’s not enough. You also need to promote your content through social media channels. Publish the post’s link on your social media pages, take interesting snippets from the post and share them with your social media audience, and use promoted posts to get more people to see them.
In addition to sharing your blog content through social media, you can also rank multiple times in the search results through social updates as well. For example, here’s what people might see when they search for “Zac Johnson” through Google — notice all the social updates and profiles with the red arrows.

5. Targeting the wrong SEO.
The main reason you’re blogging is probably to increase your SEO, right? To do that correctly, you need to do the right keyword research. Not only do you have to use SEO that’s aligned with your industry, but also that’s in line with your marketing objectives. Lastly, the SEO you choose should be easy to target.
There are many keywords that you can go after. Stay away from the generic key phrases and stick with long tail keywords that your blog is heavily targeted too. Not only will this provide the best content for your audience, it will also make it much easier for your site to rank as well.

6. Giving up quickly.
Blogging takes time. You won’t see benefits within the first few months. It takes a long time to build an audience and establish a presence. By always posting on the same day and at the same time each week, you’ll develop a following because they can depend on fresh content on a regular schedule. Keep at it and eventually you’ll notice that traffic grows and stays high.

If you want to learn more about how some of the top bloggers in our space are scheduling out their content and using consistency to keep their audience coming back, be sure to check out this post on the Sales Lion. A few of the names mentioned on the list include Gini Dietrich, Shonali Burke, Danny Brown and Marcus Sheridan.
7. Not having any conversion goals.
Getting traffic is only the first step. You need to convert readers, too. Figure out what you want them to do, like sign up for your newsletter or visit your main website. Track your blog’s metrics to make sure people are taking the right actions. If it doesn’t seem to be working, tweak your strategy.
When in doubt, hire a professional. You don’t need to be well-versed in the world of blogging. If possible, have a dedicated team or contractor who can get your blog up to par.

No matter what type of business or brand you already have, creating a blog is simply one of the best decisions you can make. Before launching your blog, be sure to run through the list we have above and make sure you have all of your data points covered. It’s easy to start a blog, but it’s a lot of work to create one that stands out from the crowd and provides real value.

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Creating Content, Establishing Blog and, Site Optimization:

You want to blog and tell the world what you think because you believe you have a lot of value to share. That’s great. I imagine that you may want people to find you in order to read what ya have to say right? There is a lot to having a blog and getting it established. I hope you have tons of time. I don’t even write as much as I should, which is about 20 posts per month.

Through the years, I've learned a few things about online marketing and driving traffic. What I do for businesses is a lot different than what I do for my personal blog here. Mainly because of the resources and available time involved to perform in depth SEO. There is more to it than just punting up great content.

Yes it’s important to publish great content that adds value. That is just a very small part of the formula though. There are the back links, to and from other sites with domain authority. the syndication to the various social networks to strengthen the social signal which Google likes. There is also the technique of building a PBN (Private Blog Network); which could be considered black hat. Having a network and linking the sites together does not necessarily violate search engine guidelines. It depends on why you’re linking the sites together and if you’re using the links to influence search results (i.e. increasing your page rank). So here are a couple of things to think about to perform SEO on your blog that are strictly white hat SEO.

Tag! You’re Not It

Title Tags aren't required in blogs as much as websites because search engines already crawl the page and see the title of the blog and you’re already ranking for the blog title. So you aren't helping by having a title tag repeated. You don’t need to rank for it more than once.

Keywords in Meta tags used to be important as search engines had less ways to determine what a site is about. Now that technology is so advanced, search engines have better ways of determining rankings and relevance. I still like to put the keywords in there (for other search engines) and do this by enabling ‘dynamic’ keywords with the All in One SEO pack.

Getting Back links:

I won’t go into all of the ways that you can build links to your site as there are some great articles out there on the web already, but I will list some of my favorite methods:

• Write Awesome Content – There’s nothing better than writing an article that gets tons of links from relevant bloggers. If you put enough work into your content and regularly engage with other bloggers in the niche, they’re going to link to your posts.
• Guest Posts – I really like links from guest posts as they send traffic, they’re relevant, and you can usually customize the anchor text of the link to be anything you want. If you want to learn more about this method
• Collaborate – Collaborating with other influences in your niche is not only a great way to connect with more people, but it’s also a good way to get people talking about you. Oftentimes when I have interviewed people, they will link back to the interview from their own site. I also see people doing group projects which involve over 20 people and then end up having them all promote the one resource. If you can get other people involved, they’re going to help you spread the word.
• Link Out – When you link out, people link back. I don’t recommend link exchanges or filling up your blog roll, but if you find something on another site that your audience might enjoy, don’t be afraid to share it. You never know, that big blog might just send their 5-figure audience your way.

Focus On a Key phrase

Unless you’re really, heavily into branding, it’s a good idea to try to optimize your site around a key phrase that can send you search traffic. Most blogs end up getting the majority of links to their homepage, so it’s a good idea to try and leverage those links by getting search engine rankings for a relevant phrase.

For me, I’m aiming to rank for the phrase ‘online marketing Scottsdale’. Although it is fairly competitive, it has a decent search volume and it’s relevant to what this site is about: helping small and medium size business get a better a ROI on social media and getting found as well as matching the offline customer experience with the message.

The first thing to do to get found online is to find keywords that have a high search volume as well as being relevant to your site. The Google external keyword tool is a good place to start to see which phrases are popular in your audience. Make sure you select ‘All Countries and Territories’ on the left and then ‘Exact match’ on the right hand side to get accurate results.

However that is NOT the only tool you should be using in order to find the best keyphrases for your WordPress Site. Here are 3 sites that help you find what your competitors are using:

• keywordspy.com
• keycompete.com
• hexaTrack.com

Now use keyword research sites to expand your reach. If you intend on using Google Ad-words to drive traffic then these keywords will be divided into your campaigns and ad-groups. There are 3 other tools we can use in order to expand lists even further into multiples of cities, states, product names, artist, etc.

• WordTracker.com
• KeywordDiscovery.com
• SpeedPPC.com

Once you have the key phrases, you can use them in:

• The title tag for your homepage
• The heading of your site
• Your logo
• As anchor text in links from other websites

Just don’t over do it. Google doesn’t like stuffed pages. A good rule of thumb is approximately 20% of the article is filled with keywords you are working to get ranked for. With that, stick around 3-4 keywords so they have more weight and relevance in relating to a search query.

Index My Site With a Site Map

If you are running a new site or one with only a handful back links pointing towards it, a sitemap can make a big difference in enabling Google to discover and index all of the relevant pages on your website.

In simple terms, a sitemap is simply a specifically formatted list of the pages on your site that you would like to be indexed by the search engines. You could create one manually if you like carrying out jobs that can be automated with ease. Otherwise I have a couple of suggestions:

Google XML Sitemaps: with over ten million downloads and an average rating of 4.7 out of 5, you can rest assured that this free plugin gets the job done.

WordPress SEO by Yoast: this free plugin has a number of SEO-related functions, one of which is an XML sitemap generator.

The process of building an updating a sitemap is almost entirely automated. You set a few options as you see fit then let the plugin do the rest. Google says that “[most] webmasters will benefit from sitemap submission, and in no case will you be penalized for it.” With that in mind, why wouldn't you create a sitemap for your WordPress website?

That should be enough for now to get ya started. I’d love to read your thoughts on this.

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How to Create the Perfect Viral & Shareable Content:

Social media is everything nowadays; from blogs like WordPress to sharing photos on Instagram and Facebook pages to exchanging intellectual ideas across platforms like Google Plus, everyone is participating in this growing online dialogue by having some sort of online presence now. And the trend is only just beginning.

It doesn’t matter if you are a company or an individual; it doesn’t matter if you are doing business with other businesses, or if you are looking to grow a following over a brand, or if you are just searching for an easy way to communicate with friends, family or travel buddies – the Internet is the new telephone directory, the new doorbell, the new face-to-face interaction. Social media is your best method for getting there.

Social media platforms vary in size, shape, color and language, but one thing is certain: the stage is there on every site allowing you to create compelling content. The question you’ve been asking yourself, however, is how.

The Secret Formula for The Perfect Viral Share

To create compelling content isn’t just about repeating posts and cross-breeding your photos across platforms – you need to figure out how to go viral.

Most of the content that goes viral online is viral for a reason: viral shares are able to tap into an audience’s positive emotions, provoking an emotive response in turn. If you want to figure out a way to get more shares and likes for your posts, then you need to be careful and analytical about what you post – do your research, figure out what is trending, and find a catchy way to stand out above the rest of your competition. A unique, refreshing voice is always welcome in the sea of social media posts and sites.

Although going viral isn’t a complete science, if you keep these tips in mind while you post online then you’ll have a much better chance of getting the following you’re looking for. 

To summarize everything we discussed above, and much more, check out the secret formula for creating shareable content in the infographic below.

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Advanced Guide to Perfect On-Page Optimization Techniques:

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is always ultimate for any business growth. Having perfect On-Page for the website is the first phase of optimizing and promoting our business. There are lot of webmasters who are already discussed this topic, but here I’m going to share some ultimate advanced guide for making perfect On-Page optimization for any website.

Keywords and its relationships

It’s about no matter what kind of product or services you choose, all are just rely on discovering great relationship between words and phrases. Organizing content in the website has the great influence over how search engines determine topics of On-page.

When we focus on keywords phrases, search engines are hunting for other phrases and concepts that related to one another. So our first step is that expanding our keyword research in the right direction. We have to include rich content like:

·         Synonyms and Close Variants to the phrase: Includes synonyms, plurals, abbreviations and phrases that mean the same.

·         Primary related keywords: Phrase and words that relate to the primary category of your product.

·         Secondary related keywords: Phrase and words that relate to the primary keywords.

A very good keywrod phrase means that has to predict what type of entities and phrases that has to be present on the page. For example, a page about “Tajmahal” should predict other phrases like “wonders in the world”, “Graveyard”, “Love identity”. Combining these related phrase may strengthen your keyword presence.

Distance, Position and Frequency

Every page have to be organized well, this will has a great influence over the concepts that related to each other.

Here the three primary things you have to consider while placing your keywords

 Position: Keywords have to placed most wanted ares like title, descriptions, H tags, and high up in the main body of content may have higher weightage.

·         Frequency: search engines can easily determine whether you uses any important phrases by calculating how much it appear in normal distribution.

·         Distance: Words and Phrases that relevant to each other are easily often found close together.

Best way to organise the content is to employ primary and secondary keywords with support of your focused keyword.

Each related phrases acts like a primary topic and each and every phrase becomes its own subsections.

Few Alternative Tools for Entity and Keyword Research

Here the few alternative tools for keyword researching

Alchemy API

Great tools that delivers concept targeting, extraction of entity and linked data analysis. It also gives the overview about how modern search engines views your WebPages.

Social Mention

It’s very easy to use, enter your keyword phrase and then check the top keywords that relate your primary phrase across the different social platforms.

Google Trends

It is one of the powerful tools; you can download up to 50 related keywords for every search query.

SEO Review Tools

This tools returns the related keywords of primary and secondary search terms, also it provides synonyms & country based targeting options for users.

Semantic Markup and Entities

Google easily identify and extract the list of entities from your webpage, without any effort from your side. The entities are places, Peoples and things have some distinct properties and relationships with of each other.

Shankar (Entity, person) stands 5’3” (property, height) and directed I(entity, movie)

Even though Google can easily find your entity of you page, but you should mark up your content with schema for the specific support entities like business information, products and reviews. Adding schema markup code in the website will helps to reach out more exact audiences.  For every entity there are different semantic code are available, choose the best one.

 Position: Keywords have to placed most wanted ares like title, descriptions, H tags, and high up in the main body of content may have higher weightage.

·         Frequency: search engines can easily determine whether you uses any important phrases by calculating how much it appear in normal distribution.

·         Distance: Words and Phrases that relevant to each other are easily often found close together.

Best way to organise the content is to employ primary and secondary keywords with support of your focused keyword.

Each related phrases acts like a primary topic and each and every phrase becomes its own subsections.

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Free Backlink Checker Tools To Check Competitors Backlinks:

The mantra for a successful endeavor  is, we always go forward keeping an eye on our competitors.
More is at stake when we are a blogger or an online enterprise. It becomes essential to outdo your competitor in order to obtain the ranking that the former does.
For this, we spy on our competitor’s traffic sources, the keywords he ranks for and the backlinks that point to the competitor’s domain.

This is a complete tutorial on how to check your competitor’s backlinks. Spying on your competitors’ backlinks can give you an idea on what domains are linking to their posts and thus you can target those sources too.
Read: 19+1 Ways To Cleverly Get Natural Backlinks To Your Blog

Why do a Backlink Analysis?

1. To know which sites are linking to your site or your competitor site.
2. In order to capture the friend domains of your competitor into your friend zone.
3. To compare your backlink profile with a strong competitor so that you can go stronger than them (this is helpful to tell Google that you are a competitor of an already established site).
4. To check your friends by seeing who is linking to you so that you can return them the favor.

List of Free Backlink Checker Tools

1. SEMRUSH:

SEMRush is one of the most popular SEO tools out there and now it has added backlink analysis feature to its arsenal. Previously it was very good for analyzing keywords both organic and ad keywords. The data can be got in a graphical format. Now that it has added a backlink checker feature all you have to do is:

• Go to the SEMRush homepage.
• Type the domain name (in my case I typed quicksprout.com), you want to analyze and hit enter.
• If you want to compare the domain names, there is a tab for that on the left corner and you can get a detailed list of referring domains, referring IPs, links from .gov and .edu sites as well as other TLDs.
• You can export it as PDF by clicking on the PDF button on the right top side.
  

In my opinion, the free version works pretty well unless you are one of those SEO analyst trying to lock horns with your competitor. In case, you are one there is a paid version for $69.95/mo which will give more in-depth analysis. Read my SEMrush review where I have provided special promo code to get SEMrush PRO account free for 2 weeks. Or to grab that offer, you can simply click this link.

2. Ahrefs

Ahrefs is the best tool in getting a backlink analysis of a competitor site or any site. It has been the winner of the test conducted by Matthew on one million domains for backlinks.
Aherf is recognized by its up to satisfaction consumer support and detailed analysis. Its free version works for only three analysis while a fees of $79/mo is charged to use the backlink checker tool in its full glory.
For a free analysis just go to the home page and type the URL of the website whose total backlink analysis you wish to do. Other prices and packages are as shown here.
Then you get the complete analysis of the backlink profile of the site tested as shown in the image below. They provide a full analysis on number of dofollow backlinks, nofollow backlinks, links as text and image backlinks apart from the basic .edu and TLD based searches.

It gives a clear diagrammatical representation of the number of social shares the domain has got and includes Google +1, tweets and Facebook likes and shares.
The free account shows you the top ten results based on each search while the paid version has unlimited results.
You can export the searched result of backlinks thus generated into a .csv file in the paid version.
To export the report on the free version, follow this path.
Backlinks → external → backlinks → new/lost → export.

3. Majestic SEO

As the name suggests it is majestic and one of the most used SEO tools by professionals. It is the strongest competitor of ahref and is good at some places. They have their own curated list of majestic million where they rank sites on top million based on their rankings on links and other criteria. They have the largest database of links and also evaluate types based on quality of links coming from various sources.
The basic advantage of MajesticSEO is that you are free to download the link profile of your competitor and can twist them as you go so that you can have the clear view of the strategies of how the website has gained their backlinks.
They have various plans like the free plan. Their Silver plan, Gold plan and platinum plan are priced at £29.99, £ 99/mo, £250/mo respectively. For a basic search the free version is good to go with but it is advisable to better check the pricing page so that you get a better idea of which plan works well with your business.
On the summary tab, you get a full list of links referring to a domain or URL and it also gives us a detail about how many backlinks were indexed from how many domains and also gives you the latest crawl timing.

In the backlink tab, you get a complete list of backlinks that is available to a site. Here is a list of all filters I use in order to get a noise less URL report.

1. Filter out reports from more than five links from a single domain
2. I also filter the report to hide results from sites like .nz, .cnetc. that usually tend to be spam
3. Filter out link errors like 404 errors, 300 errors and duplicates in URL
4. Lastly I filter the results from URLs having “replytocom” and “comments” as these are nofollow links from WordPress comment sections that are useless in n meaningful analysis.

4. Open Site explorer

Open Site Explorer is a great tool from moz.com and when a product is from Moz it has to be good. They help you to see who is linking to your competitor site filtering the report through domain authority, and anchor text used.

Comparing amongst a bunch of other sites is also possible and this helps in understanding the key strategies of your competitor to build high quality backlinks.
Read: How To Build High Quality Natural Backlinks?
Open site explorer is still not very capable of filtering results from spammy links (there may be many some with high page authority too) and thus you have to very vigilant in rejecting a backlink from the OSE result that can lead to harm your own SEO.
I recommend this article from the Moz blog by Tom Anthony. It shows you a Google spreadsheet that grabs the top SERP results automatically, in addition to the metrics given by you. Read the tutorial to learn how to configure it.

5. SEO spyglass

SEO spyglass is a new tool that is completely evaluating itself in order to provide great results. In a recent update it has increased its database of indexed links to 15,000,000,000,000. This is pretty more than ahrefs and majestic SEO.
On the contrary it is not a web based client but is desktop software that runs from your PC and checks for all the live links at that point of time.
You get the fresh links and no error of dead links or links not updated (as in case of ahrefs and majestic seo). The number of backlinks for a single URL is 1100 but can’t export it whereas the paid version (a onetime fee) gives you the right to use any number of backlink analysis as well as exporting facility.

6. Backlink Watch

Backlink watch is the easiest tool out there to analyze the backlink portfolio of any website including yours. The good news is that it uses ahrefs’ API so you get pretty trustable results.

There is no option to export your results but there is a workaround to harness this free tool. Just copy all the reports from the site → open spreadsheet → right click → paste special → text → done (ok). Amazing, huh?

7. Google Alerts

Google alerts is the first thing that comes to mind when we think about monitoring a mention online. This easy to use tool can be used to get free alerts when your selected word/words are mentioned on the web. It can be your brand name, a product or your competitors’ name.

You can use it to monitor when your competitor is mentioned as a link on the web. The benefit is that the delivery is real time and thus could be helpful.
Though it is useful for getting basic information on a linking activity, the main drawbacks are that you do not get any notifications of the links that are already used (before you set your alert). It tells nothing about the quality of the linking site too.

8. Link diagnosis

Link diagnosis is a great tool that not only helps you get a wide variety of results like link type (nofollow, dofollow, missing, good etc.) , page internal + external links and also a brief about page rank distribution (now obsolete as Google officially announced its death).

9. Openlinkprofiler

Open link Profiler has been a favorite SEO tool for many. Open link profiler has the large database of freshest backlinks to a site which counts to the magical number of 2,00,000 backlinks to a domain.

They display links that are active in the last 90 days only so that you don’t have to deal with outdated stuff.
Their free version helps you download upto 100 links in csv format. This feature is not provided by any major SEO tools like majestic SEO, Ahrefs or open site explorer. They have a link influence score for all sites so that you get an idea of the best based pages on the basis of backlinks to it.

Working the backlinks inside out

1. Now that you have got the backlinks using any of the given tools out there, just copy the backlinks to a notepad and save it as a text file (remember we are not using MS word because it adds unnecessary coding to the text in it). Now save it.
2. Use a duplicate remover tool like duperemovetool to filter out further duplicate URLs that might be of no work.
3. For analyzing the backlinks I said to check if a backlink is live or not. Use this tutorial. It also checks if a link is penalized.
4. Use your experience and guts to cut out links that appear spammy even if any tool doesn’t consider a spam.
5. To use excel as a free alternative to analyze links you can use SEO tools for spreadsheets.
6. Now that you have got your best list of backlinks, save them to use for your SEO purposes.

BEWARE OF ANALYSIS PARALYSIS

Analysis paralysis is a term coined to refer to the process of wasting too much time in analyzing that hardly any time is left for doing the backlink building.
It means you waste so much time and resources in finding the backlink profile of your competitor that at the end you find out you have no time to build any meaningful backlinks and your competitors have moved pretty ahead. Beware of it.

Over to you

Being an SEO makes you different from a guy doing the same stuff. There are millions of ways optimizing your site for search engines and each SEO analyst has his own set of methods.
I would also suggest you to test SEMrush PRO account totally free by clicking this special promo link. Along with backlinks analysis, you can do a complete competition analysis including backlinks, keywords, keywords position, site audit etc.

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Why Should You Use Genesis Framework For Your WordPress Blog?

I was no expert when I started blogging like you.
Whether you are a regular reader of my blog or a new one who has landed, I understand the anxiety you carry when it comes to setting up your blog and maintaining it to the best for your causes.
The title must have already given you a fair idea what I am going to talk about further.
Before you read ahead, let me tell you that I am not trying to convince you to use Genesis framework to design your blog. I am simply trying to let you know what I experienced and I felt good about this platform.

Why You Must Choose Genesis Framework

Genesis Framework Review

If you are a WordPress user, I am sure more than any other design framework, you will trust Genesis over others. For my site Genesis is one word solution and I also recommend Genesis (my aff.) to my friends.
People who are not using Genesis are aware of its rave reviews. But for your better understanding, in this post I’ll do a step by step analysis review to make you interpret how Genesis design framework can give you a pleasant experience while coding with your WordPress.

1. Inbuilt Compatibility with SEO

It is often a plight to select SEO plugins for new bloggers.
All in one SEO and another one is Yoast that will most of the time attract WordPress users.
Now, those who are new to blogging are hardly aware of actual pitfalls of these plugins and many of you may not know that using two SEO plugins together can conflict each other.
Fortunately, I researched and realized that Genesis possesses inbuilt SEO compatibility.
Let us throw light on its comprehensive settings for SEO.
1. Document Title Setting
Genesis allows you to set up your home description and title. You can even decide on the placement of your description whether you want to keep it on left or right.
2. Robots Metatags
In case, you want to make your site nofollow, noindex or noarchive, this can be simply from SEO setting.
3. Homepage Author
This is something I really love about Genesis. You will agree for sure if I say, Google plus plays significant role in SEO today. So, adding a Google authorship of any blog is extremely important. Genesis has inbuilt homepage author in its settings. This helps in getting Google authorship approved easily
4. Canonical URLs
Generation of canonical URLs is one of the essential requirements of a blog. If you change any URL in future, then the new one should be redirected to the old one. Canonical helps in this case.

2. Ideal Loading Time

Everyone knows that Google loves fast loading sites and blogs. Therefore, this is one of the leading factors in the changing SEO scenario and updates like Panda, Penguin and Hummingbird.

3. Coding becomes Easy

Genesis is one such platform that is a great help for amateur bloggers who are least aware of CSS. This gives an integrated yet simple to understand framework to design the site according to your choice.

4. Nicely Supported and Well Coded

Genesis is developed by a group called StudioPress (Copyblogger Media).
They ensure to keep it updated with the latest developments and keep it compatible with the latest version of WordPress. So that keeps your worry away from compatibility when you want to download the latest version of Genesis.
Support from Genesis is easy and multi optional. You can get a support ticket with StudioPress, or you can open a thread in the support forums and of course help from web designers are available.
There are some great Genesis guides available which are developed by genesis developers for working with the Genesis Framework. Even Google search can help you with various tutelage programmes for free. That means if you are using Genesis, you are with the most committed and pro active team of support for your technical doubts and worries.

5. Updations without hampering your customization

Genesis has special child theme which gives your site a very different look.
You can just customize the child theme instead of changing the framework as a whole.
I will explain…
…Suppose you love the way your site looks. Now a week later you need to update your Genesis version. You can update without having to compromise with the outlook of your site. The child theme will remain set as it is because the customizations are stored in the child theme.

6. Installing Genesis framework is not expensive

Genesis only has a one time fee ranging around $60, whereas other themes require you to add on the processing charges every year. Child themes are priced at the range of $20 to $50. If your site is new cost is definitely a factor.
So just think of it, if you only need to pay a one time fee for the design framework of your site, it makes it highly economic. With that one time fee you are eligible for all time customer support and you can enjoy all updated versions without having to pay a penny extra.
If you want to add anything extra, you only require to pay for that apart from the one time charge. All the Genesis purchases come with the developer’s license.

7. Genesis offers boundless possibilities

You name a feature and Genesis has that in store for you.
Suppose you want to paste a widget at the bottom of your blog post, Genesis is game.
If you want to insert a slider on your homepage you can even do that. Not only that, you are empowered with the ability to control your site exactly the way you want to.
You have the option to move, change, reconfigure, delete and add any item. You also have the option to use different sidebars for different posts. You can fill your homepage with gadgets to drag and drop contents.
5) Number of features and dedicated plugins – It has got ‘out of the box’ features like built in SEO settings and mobile responsive child themes. If however any feature is absent, I bet a developer is working on its integration.
Not necessary that only Genesis plugins can be utilised for the framework. Other plugins can also do the job if you wish to. But largely other outside plugins and themes are already a part of Genesis. So you are saved from installing 30 plugins before you know which can work with your theme.
6) If you are adept with the framework you are done – All the child themes of Genesis have different features. So does that mean you have to learn over and again?
Suppose you have done your desired customization to a site page. Now for a different page you decide to use another child theme. You can follow the same code of conduct you pursued in the previous theme. So one good lesson for Genesis theme is more than enough to last for all the customizations you want to observe.
I guess this review proves that why Genesis framework is the most popular among all the themes in WordPress. I personally love its code quality and flexibility.
There are multitude of reasons to switch to Genesis framework which can benefit you, even if you are not a web designer. With all conviction, Genesis makes your WordPress site way better. WordPress with Genesis design framework has revolutionised the ease and potential of what a website or blog can do or can be done with.

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Free Google Keyword Rank Checker Tools:

Keyword in SEO means is a search term that is relevant to a website’s product or services it offers.
For example “dietician” for a website whose owner is involved in giving tips on weight loss. And Keyword ranking in that sense is number and position the website of the owner appears at the Google search results for that word.
Keyword rank checking is the most common practice done by SEO personnel and bloggers in order to check if they are appearing on the Google search results for the query they want to appear for.
If they are ranking then at which number is it? Rank checking also helps in knowing who your competitor is on the SERPs (Search engine Ranking Pages). And it is then that you can plan to outdo him.
There are a number of tools to check Google keyword rankings. In this post we will concentrate on how to easily and quickly check your rankings.
Back in 2007, Google’s VP of engineering, UdiMaber, called for a stir in the SEO industry, when he said that there were about 20-25% of the search queries that they had never seen before that day.
This was perhaps due to the fact that queries are naturally getting longer, with over half of search queries in 2010, being longer than 4 words.
However in real practice, unlike backlink analysis, it is practically impossible to tell about all the keywords your site ranks for. Google has a complicated and sophisticated analytics and the amount of data it handles everyday leaves no room for the speculations on the topic “for what all keywords is my site ranking”.

We will today discuss about Google keywords ranking checker tools. The below mentioned tools provide you with information on your rankings in the SERPs based on your keywords used. Here are some free (as well as paid) and quick tools to check your rankings.

Google Keyword Position Checker Tools

1) SEO SERP Workbench:

SEO serp workbench is a chrome extension so you don’t have to worry about offline software that might face no updates. SSW is used by bloggers and professionals alike to know their search engine rankings of the keywords. It is downloaded over 79K times which shows how useful people find it.

It supports many countries like US, UK and others and you can select a keyword and find the rankings of your site as well as your competitor’s site through the extension.
You can download and use it for instant comparisons and rank analysis and did I mention is it free?

2) SEO scores Android app:

This one android app makes the desktop users jealous for sure. It is a complete SEO toolkit with nearly 32 SEO tools packed into one. It gives you a score on your ranking, alerts you on blog mentions, gives backlink analysis and helps in backlink comparison and a lot more.
If you have an android set you won’t need tools ever, just install this app and you are set to go.
Here is the process of getting started:
Download the app from the app store > install > restart > add keywords and check rankings: it is as simple as that.

You don’t need to enter the URL again and again which is a time saver as we are using a mobile device. The report is mailed to your email id which is another goodie as you don’t have to export the data manually. This “export” feature is something so useful because most desktop clients don’tprovide.

3) Small SEO tools:

Small SEO tools have a big name when it comes to doing SEO sleekly and without much hassle. Mainly it is used for various other purposes like the backlink checker tool.

Its function as a keyword rank tracing tool is very fast and allows upto 20 keyword tracing per request. It supports three search engine visually Google, Bing and Yahoo.

4) Moonsy’s Google Position checker:

Moonsy has a very sleek feature. Although free it is a powerful tool that lets you check your ranks as well as a competitor rank analysis itself. What else could you ask for a rank checker tool?
Why Moonsy is something most bloggers go for is its clean search page with the coveted functionality to add more than one domains for testing the same ranks of the same keyword.

Using this you can also add your competitor’s site to compare how rankings have been working for you both.

5) Rank Checker

Rank Checker is a Firefox extension by SEObook, which is claimed to be open source and secure. By secure I here mean that your data is not exported to any SEO company which can manipulate it to their profit. The extension is completely hosted on your PC and tracks keyword rankings easily.

If you have Google account logged in, you can get personalized report on rankings but there is also an option to turn it off in order to see how you rank for keywords in the search engines in general.
If you want to validate your ranking shown, you can scroll over the number, press CTRL and clicking the mouse simultaneously. They also have “export as .csv” feature in the extension.

6) Keyword Rank checker by SERPS.com:

Serps.com is another free tool that is the best when you are doing searches that are based on countries. It has a locality based rank tracker and has upto 100 country supports.

7) SEO Centro:

SEO centro is a SEO based web portal like the small seo tools and Moonsy. It provides a detailed analysis of your keyword ranking based on three search engines viz., Google, Bing and Yahoo. It supports tracking competitor websites simultaneously too.

Here comes the King:

8) SEMRush

SEMrush is a great SEO tool and can be used for a variety of purposes. I recommend SEMrush to be there at every blogger’s tool list because it helps a lot in the SEO analysis. Apart from backlink analysis, keyword research and others, we can also do competitor analysis. Read this SEMrush review for detailed guide.

On SEMrush you enter the URL of the competitor and you get a bunch of information about the site. In the context of the post, we will concentrate on the keyword page. It gives the top hundred keywords the site is ranking for along with the keyword ranking, CPC and others like traffic percentage.
This will help you in knowing how your competitor is ranked and what about the chances of your ranking. Suppose it does not have optimized content or a low domain authority blog is ranking for something, you can cruelly snatch that ranking for you with little effort.

How to crush your competition [the samurai style!]?

1. Like the previous step go to the main search box but this time insert your blog URL.
2. You can now check your top five keywords that drive you the most organic traffic.
3. Now check your top five competitors and you can now do the same and clicking on your competitor’s name to gain their top five competitors. This way you get a detailed view of the keywords that rank in the network of you 25 competitors.
   

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NB: This offer is only valid till Jan 17, 2015

Conclusion:

Overall there are tons of tools to check your website and keyword ranking easily and quickly. You can find competition and see what position your keywords have in the search results. By knowing your rankings you can do the following:

1. Know how your efforts are showing off and if they are not ranking you know what to do to get them on top.
2. If your keywords are ranking, you can monetize the pages that have high organic traffic.
3. Most companies don’t rank for keywords and instead pay for Adwords to show their pages in the search results. You can contact them and ask for a deal they can’t ignore as they have been already paying high for Adwords they most probably can’t ignore your deal.

Over to you

Now that we are having a clear idea on working tools we should better get to work because the faster we work the faster we get the results.
I would suggest trying out SEMrush which is a great tool with no potential competitor. The good thing is that it is free for 14 days that allows you to use the premium version without any cost.

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