Comments on: Search Engine Friendly WordPress Themes

By: Wordpress SEO Plugin

Wordpress SEO Plugin — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 10:52:10 +0000

WordPress is a fantastic blogging platform and getting it search engine optimized really isn’t a hard task. Using proper permalinks and robots.txt file to prevent duplicate content and a few other methods can really make a difference. The All in One SEO plugin is really the best bet.

By: Upstart Agent

Upstart Agent — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:49:19 +0000

Thanks for the heads up Juneau – I haven’t had time of course to download and check every single one of those – the few I did check out were better than most though

By: Juneau@Southeast Alaska Fishing

Juneau@Southeast Alaska Fishing — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 00:37:40 +0000

I too have used Court’s themes but I have to say, he didn’t fully SEO all the themes. The only thing that is fully proper is the keyword (dateless) sniping theme. Basically, he does 2 things.

1. He makes it so that it’s compatible with All-in-one SEO plugin

2. He makes it so the sidebar instead of having h2 headings, it’s h3.

I won’t say which theme, but one of the ones I downloaded didn’t even do #2.

Also, in one of Court’s posts, he recommends an alternating h1 tag. I didn’t check all of his themes but all the ones I downloaded didn’t do this and had some aspects that were hampering SEO (excerpts for one that doesn’t let you bold when it excerpts on your index).

Court gives fantastic advice but it’s always worth the effort to learn and learn for yourself.

By: Dylan Darling

Dylan Darling — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:23:15 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I’m currently building a new WordPress blog and I’m finding there is a lot to it! Your post was super helpful.

By: Susan@New Wordpress Themes

Susan@New Wordpress Themes — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:00:39 +0000

This is a fantastic list. Page Load Order is quite vital.