I am planning to buy a framework for my blog. Have you used it? If yes then how effective has it been from SEO point of view.I am not a tech guy and now after a year managing our blog we thought of buying a framework. reason to improve our seo and not to worry about most of the things. so do you think is it good move as we are a bootstrapped startup. It would be great if you can share what are the other benefits for having a framework?

@prasantnaidu I suggest you give this a read http://kikolani.com/thesis-vs-genesis-comparing-premium-wordpress-themes.html. It’s by @kristi-hines and should give you a good idea what the frameworks will give you.

@howwhowhen Thanks for sharing that Howie! @prasantnaidu I have used both frameworks. They are both strong for SEO – Matt Cutts of Google uses Thesis on his own blog. The main difference I find between the two is the out of the box design. If you like minimalism, or have a designer on hand that can customize around the framework, then Thesis is fine. Genesis offers child themes that you can buy with the framework for only a bit more than Thesis. The child themes are great out of the box designs.My post that Howie shared goes into more detail about both. Hope it helps in your decision making!

We use Thesis for all the sites we build for authors.  My partner actually builds the sites.  The SEO is great and it allows for the blogs to be fed to social media profiles.  I encourage all our author clients to have a independent Wordpress Blog instead of having it hosted on Wordpress for this reason.  Also Thesis makes it easy for them to update their blogs themselves.  A lot of the authors are great writers but some of them lack technology skills.  We love the framework.

@atlantarobin Robin – One of the reasons I like Thesis is that you can easily adjust the columns — you can have 1, 2, or 3 (standard) and do even more fun things with them if you have coding skills. You can also change the width of each column. So, for instance, you can make one sidebar wider than the other.

And, as with all WordPress sites, you can click the blog page on or off with the click of a button.  Slick!

@laurachristianson

Theme, template, framework — English is a funny little game sometimes. I used to use a program called Framemaker for large volume or heavy duty editing and layout needs for Scientific Games’ technical documentation. Recently, someone asked if I was a Frame-Maker, but they were talking about a completely different thing. The computer world is terrible for using similar terms and identifiers for completely different things. I make it a constant practice to always ask what someone means before I say something stupid… but hardly ever catch my mistake in time, lol. Honestly, I first clicked on this Forum to find out what they meant by “framework.” Glad I did. This was very informative.

Robin Carlisle

@prasantnaidu I would like to give an example here:

For example, if you need to create a Microsoft Office file then you normally go and buy a Microsoft office package

You don’t need to worry about the codding at the back etc because Microsoft has done the testing etc.

Similarly, when it comes creating your website you normally have 2 choices:

1. Spend huge amount of money and get all the coding done from a developer (Even though the quality of your website depends on coder’s capabilities etc)  

2. Buy a already tried and tested frame work and customise it yourself or pay some one a small amount to customise your site as you like. 

We have recently done that with our company website. You can see the link below:
All Marketing Solutions

We are using Genesis on our and for client sites. 

You can see our company site to check, how we did a complete customisation of one of the Child Theme.

Hope this will help  

I love Thesis, I use it on my business blogs and the SEO aspect is exceptional. I also use Genesis on my personal blog and that’s cool too.

We have just moved my main blog (Birds) to a theme created by Gabfire. It needed a lot of tweaking but the look and feel is so much stronger. It would have been possible to create a similar look with Thesis but we just didn’t have the time.

Good luck with whatever you choose

I’ve used a lot of premium themes/frameworks and I like Genesis the best for two reasons:1. The child themes allow me to create wonderful “out of the box” sites. I purchased the Developer license and since I install a lot of WordPress sites for my clients it has more than paid for itself.

2. I’m a Virtual Assistant and not a Developer so the support forums are a true lifesaver! The wonderful people there have saved me from myself on many occasions and make me look really good to my clients.

@rshahbaz thank you sir for explaining me so well feels good to see people sharing here. And by the way i have made my mind for thesis

@saraharrow thanks for your thought and i am going with thesis.