Genesis theme frame work is one of the frame work themes that is becoming quite popular in recent days. Following the great success of thesis framework theme by Chris, its quite normal that we could see a good amount of competitors trying to share the piece of a pie on the market. And its definitely good to see healthy competition.

Genesis is one such theme similar to Thesis which offers a range options to customize the out look of your theme the way you want it to appear for your readers so in that sense this theme is quite flexible. With the latest release that is Genesis v1.3 they have made a leap forward by including many enhanced SEO options built in to it, this will reduce your work considerably to install extra plugins manually to embed SEO value in to your theme. Features includes page speed, robots.txt control, meta tags control, nofollow settings and much more. Do check their release post here to know more about it.

You also get interesting plugins that can be used with this theme like Genesis Simple hook, Genesis Simple Sidebars which comes quite handy when you want to customize this theme to your needs. Over all your are on the lookout for a replacement for Thesis framework or some other framework themes which provides many functionalities and flexibility to handle the outlook of your blog easily then Genesis could make a good choice. Unfortunately this theme is not available for free. But its well worth the money you spend on it I am sure.

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Have you ever had an experience when you notice that your site’s pages suddenly drop rankings in Google without any caution? whether you have experienced it or not, there are thousands of webmasters who around the globe who has been a victim of this kind of phenomenon from Google. I have personally seen many of the website owners screaming at Google webmaster forums that they have lost thousands of hits to their site over night and it continues to drop over a period of time consistently.

Fortunately this kind of weird action from Google is not uncommon and its really quite normal with relatively new sites and I have experienced the same with some of the old domains as well. This kind of phenomenon is termed as Google sandbox effect by SEOs and webmasters. So here are some details you need to know about this and how you can get out of Google sandbox quickly if you are an victim now.

1. Old Domains Are No Exceptions

Its been thought that buying a old domain will get you around the sandbox effect, but from my experience it is wrong to assume so. I personally bought a domain which was nearly 3 years old and it become quite popular over a month and then I experienced a sudden surge on my site traffic over night and my site’s traffic continued to reduce by almost 80% over a period of four days. So you should know that Old domains doesn’t mean a way around Google sandbox. Google only notices the time when your site gets actively contributing contents and take that active period in to consideration rather than taking the domain age in to consideration.

2. Why Is Your Site A Victim Of Google Sandbox?

Its really sensible to ask that why should be your site a victim of sandbox effect? There are many possible reasons as to why your site should under go this effect.

• Lack of considerable original content on the site, its quite normal to see a new technology site undergoing a dip in the traffic and then start to see a bounce back in traffic over a period of time, as most technology sites do tend to have similar looking contents.
• Abnormal Link building and building large amount of backlinks to the site over a short period of time. Google notices your link growth pattern and if it assumes that the pattern looks suspicious it will closely watch your site’s activity and do drop your rankings over this period.
• Sites made for Adsense alone, there are thousands of sites that are constructed merely to get clicks on adsense ads and doesn’t really contribute good contents to the users, its quite normal to see such sites dropping their rankings.

3. How To Get Out Of Google sandbox

Last but not least we are in the important part of the topic, so how to get out this Google sandbox effect if you notice your site is a victim? here are some tips that will really help you for quick recovery from the problem.

• Don’t quit updating your site, its normal to see a webmaster heart broken when see suddenly notices a drastic change in the site’s traffic, but you should know that Sandbox effect is a temporary one and quitting to update your site periodically will make the search engines that your site is dead as its not breeding new contents. So make sure you site is updated as it used to be in the past.
• Write unique contents, if you think that your site doesn’t have much of a unique contents in it, then take steps to write a good amount of contents that appear unique to search bots. Make sure your contents are at least 200 to 250 words long.
• Build links back to your site, do not stop to build links to your site. More links you got to support your site more chances you got for the quick recovery of your site rankings. But just don’t build hundreds of links on a single weekend. Approximately 5 to 10 quality links a day should do the trick.

Hope that helps you a bit to clear of your head to get a little understanding about Google sandbox, if you have any questions feel free to use the comment section below and I will be happy to answer your queries.

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Atahualpa

So the theme we got today is Atahualpa, one of the themes which I might have used for my blogs if I haven’t stumbled across thesis. This theme provides a lot of back end features which you can adjust to your needs. You cannot find many free themes out there which gives you so many options to change the layout of your blog, it has got over 268 options which you can alter to your needs to suit your taste.

It is also seo optimized meaning the codings are clean, plus you can alter the meta descriptions, meta titles and also you can easily install tracking codes in to this theme very easily thus making it one of the best options for your blog.

Why not try it out on your blog? I really think most you out there have a really good chance that you will love to have it for a long time.

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Have you noticed that its not only your titles and descriptions that are being considered when Google brings out the results page, it also looks for the keywords present in your urls. We will see how we can optimize these keywords present in your urls so that it may prove to benefit you on the long run.

1. Change Your Permalinks

If you don’t know how you can effectively change your permalinks in wordpress just check this post on how you can do it.

If you are not using wordpress, don’t worry. No matter what CMS or blogging software you might be using there should be a way you can change the way your urls are displayed. Just do a search on Google accordingly and I am sure you will stumble across a solution pretty easily.

2. Keep your urls Short

Having the knowledge that keywords in your urls are taking in to account for search results doesn’t mean that you can spam your urls with bunch of keywords. Spamy and long urls may not do you much good.

Keep your urls short and as precise as possible, short urls with precise keywords not only look good but that are also good for users as they can remember your urls pretty easily and also its good for your search rankings to an extent.

WordPress gives you an option to edit your urls before you can make a post, so make sure to edit those to keep it precise when you publish your articles.

3. Make Minor Alterations in Keywords Present In Your Url

Its not really necessary that your url should carry the same keywords which you are using in your title, you can make some minor alterations in the way your keywords are displayed in the url, like using “cell phone” in the place of “mobile phone” so that you get a pretty good chance to rank for both the terms instead of just one.

4. Fillers Can be Good And also Bad

Using fillers is considered as a bad SEO practice in the urls, but I don’t think it should necessarily be bad while your links are short. Although its a good idea to leave them out in case your links are long and more descriptive, fillers do help to some extent, so its up to you to decide when you want to use it or not depending on your url length.

So with these tips in mind hope you are making sensible use of your urls in your blogs and web sites so that it benefits you for good. Also make sure that you are not doing any changes to your existing urls as its more likely that they are already being indexed and changing them might lead to 404 error issues which is not really good for your site’s rankings.

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This site already features many members who make use of their free blogs with their own custom domains. If your blog is updated regularly then your blog and blog post gets a spot in the homepage which will fetch you more visitors to your blog eventually.

Also unlike other free blog providers they do not force ads on your blog to make money from your hard work. You are free to make how many posts you want without any restrictions. This site is back by one popular thoughts.com who are well known in the social media community.

Sign up is very fast and easy, you can find a registration form right in the homepage of the site, where you can enter you email address and other login details in order to create an account and also to create your own blogs powered by wordpress.

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We got many free blog site today which will offer you free space with tools needed like blogging software where you can easily setup your own blog in no time at all. Blogger and wordpress.com are a great example of sites which offers you free blogs for absolutely no cost at all.

But apart from being free, how good are these free blogging sites? If you are doing a blog just for the fun part of it then you need not necessarily be worrying a lot. But what if you are doing a blog in order to make money, in order to make your living? so in that case how well these free blogging sites are going to help you?

Free Blogging Wares Have Limited Customization Options:
Free blogging sites are mainly designed with personal blogs in mind. If you want to create a blog with some interesting features then free blogging wares may not help you much. As the customization option it offers is very limited and you cannot achieve whatever you got in your mind through a free blog.

Free Blog Is Not Owned By You:

Just because you are given the control to manage the contents of the blog doesn’t mean the blog belongs to you. You will not have access to vital part of the blog you are using like the database. Also there are number of blogs which are removed from the database over night, so you should not be excited if you find your blog is not to be found anywhere someday.

You Have To Use A Sub-domain:
Most of the times you are forced to use a sub-domain on free blogs, like yourname.blogspot.com or yourname.wordpress.com etc. Some sites do offer an option where you can get your own independent domain and attach it your free blogging account, but you should know that having an independent domain doesn’t mean you have full control over the blog files.

Free blogs can be a good place to start blogging but its essential that you move on with having your own self-hosted blog at some point in the future, especially when your earnings depend on it.

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Creating a blog with this site is really easy, just get to how to blog section and you will be presented with a page containing information on how to start your blog, what are the features available to you when you start a blog and also a registration where you can register yourself to be a part of the exciting community.

Apart from from offering blogs to its members this site also offers many other interesting features like like sharing videos, photos, creating and participating in surveys, polls etc. It also has a very dynamic forums attached to it with thousands of people online at a time to share their thoughts. What can be more exciting than being a member of a community which has thousands of interesting people sharing their thoughts? Why not get to thoughts.com and give it a shot yourself? I am sure you will love to be a part of an exciting crowd. Also free blog they offer is really good and easy to use.

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1. How Old Is The Hosting Company:

There are many hosting companies out there which are fly by night and you do not necessarily want to get stuck in to one. So best way to get rid of this problem is to choose a hosting company which is established for a long duration of time, my recommendation is to choose a hosting company which is at least 3 years old to be on the safer side.

2. Know Where The Servers Are At:

Before buying any hosting for your site, get to know where the servers are at. Its a best choice to have a server on the location where your targeted audience are. If your targetted audience are in US its a best choice to choose a server from US rather than ending up buying a server at UK. Though this factor is not a big in terms of SEO but still it does give you an upper hand over your competitors.

3. Does It Have Good Support:

Honestly no matter how good a server is, you don’t want to be end up in a hosting company which provides poor to no support at all. Support is really vital at times and timely support helps to prevent long downtimes of your site. Choose a hosting company which really provides good support to its customers.

4. Look For Customer Reviews:

Look for the reviews from customers who presently using the company’s service for their websites. Hosting Review sites are a great way to get customer’s impression about the company they are with.

5. Pricing:

You do not necessarily wanting to go out of your budget all the times, choose the ones which are within your budget, just know that expensive plans doesn’t always mean they are the best ones. I have previously been a victim of some expensive plans so be sure that they are not complimentary to one another.

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So what is the real way out of this issue? how can you really choose the best webhosting site out there?

Webhosting Review Sites To The Rescue:

One the things which really helps me a lot to choose the best webhosting sites for me and for my clients is webhosting review sites. Really not all review sites can be trusted due to the number of fake reviews which you can find in many of them.

Web hosting rating is one of the sites which I found very useful on many occasions, as the review present here are really genuine and not manipulated ones. One of the things which I found interesting in this site is that it lets you search for web hosting companies on different locations. If you can looking for an hosting company in Australia you can very well use the search option to the left and your results will be filtered accordingly, also you can get to see hosting companies offer different hosting options like plans specifically designed for wordpress hosting for example.

You also get to see the information of the company, how long its been on and authentic reviews from people who have used the particular hosting service for their websites. These kind of information can be really valuable and really helps you prevent your site hosted in a junk server.

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Rankings Fall And Rise All The Time:
Search engine rankings are not permanent, if you acquired first page in Google doesn’t mean that your rankings are going to stay there forever. Its more likely your rankings will see a fall and also see a rise. Rising or falling its all a process of a big picture. In fact it would be strange to know that your rankings never dropped. But why do your Rankings drop?

New Sites Are Not Always Stable:
Its a pretty common thing for a new site to lose its traffic often. Also its pretty common to see a new site’s traffic rising out of no where. Fresh sites are like kids trying to learn swimming, they move down and come up more often. Search engines like Google never really keeps full faith on a fresh site and its justified at their end. Reason is fresh sites are not stable you may start to build a forums on your new domain. When you realize that your forums is not going well for you. Then all of a sudden one day you might decide to shut your forums down and start with a blog. Of course the site is yours but when you do that people who find your expired listings are going to be disappointed. This potentially not only ruins the reputation of your site but also comes at an expense of user experience for search engines.

Changing Site’s Structure:
Its good to change the way your site looks once a while, but its not always a good idea to change your templates often, each templates not only changes the way user interaction with your site but it also affects the way search engine spiders interacts with your site. When search engines notice that your site’s layout is changing often its highly likely you might lose your rankings too. But not to worry try to find the layout which you are comfortable with sooner than later and stick to it for a long time to come.

Older Domains Doesn’t Mean Stability:
You might have bought a domain which is pretty old, but you should know that older domains not always means stable search rankings. If you are looking for a older domain try to look in to its history and check what kind of contents it had in past and why they have been taken down. Older domains with a collection of unstable sites is a sign of instability for search engines. Unstable domains are not likely to hold good positions for a long time. So if you have a older domain with a history of unsuccessful sites behind it then your rankings need not be stable in search engines.

Be Stable To Gain Stability:
You cannot expect search engines be to stable about your rankings when your site is not stable in the first place, can you? Try to keep following things in mind while building a website.

1. Build contents on a consistently

2. Build quality and relevant links back to your site

3. Do not unnecessarily remove your old contents, unless its really necessary

4. Stick to a stable site layout.

5. Let your site to get old and do not give up.

Losing traffic is a normal phenomenon for all the websites and particularly pretty common for the new ones. Do not give up your heart when you see your site is losing hits, instead keep your site updated always and continue your efforts to make it grow further. There are always waves at the shore, try to go further and further and you will succeed.

Roger Rae is in promotional products industry from 3 years and works for Fortepromo promotional products, a stress balls company based in Minnesota where he manages the online marketing campaign of company. You can find him selling promotional products five days a week and watching movies on weekends.

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