Is Your Favorite Theme SEOed?

Posted on September 6, 2007
Filed Under WordPress SEO, WordPress Themes |

You may have a favorite theme and want to use it for all of WordPress site. But it may not be quite SEOed. In this case, you can either customize the source code to improve the SEO, or check to see if others have SEOed your favorite theme, — that’s the greatness of WordPress, where there are a lot of great guys who have done the work for you.

A guy named Fengt has SEOed several popular themes, turn it from okay for SEO to super for SEO, as he said. His blog site is not accessible now for unknown reason, but here’s his post anyway:
http://www.mytypes.com/seoblogtemplates/why-seo-blog-templates/

As Fengt noticed that most of the top downloaded themes were not fully optimized for the search engines, he planed to optimize and release one Wordpress template every day for however long he has interest. He won’t actually design them, but instead he will optimize the most popular ones from Theme Viewer. What a great job.

Take AndyBlue theme as example, it is a popular 3-column theme, but it’s not fully SEOed. The Title meta is not quite good, the post title is not in <h1>, there are so many <h1> and <h2> tags used, etc. Thus Fengt SEOed and widgetized it. The alternated release of AndyBlue-SEO theme has some code changes on header.php and style.css. Comparing to the original one, the SEO version is more search engine friendly and is widget ready.

To find out if your favorite theme is SEOed, search by the theme name plus “SEO” such as “AndyBlue SEO theme”

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