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Wordpress Theme SEO

by ciewy
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Hello,

I'm a wordpress newbie. And I downloaded a theme for my new wordpress blog. In the description, it says SEO Optimized.

How can you tell if a Wordpress theme is SEO friendly/SEO Optimized.

Thanks
#seo #theme #wordpress
  • Profile picture of the author debra
    Originally Posted by ciewy View Post

    Hello,

    I'm a wordpress newbie. And I downloaded a theme for my new wordpress blog. In the description, it says SEO Optimized.

    How can you tell if a Wordpress theme is SEO friendly/SEO Optimized.

    Thanks
    What they mean is that it is coded with validated css code.

    Which is good but not really optimized like your thinking. You still have to optimize it for your niche. Most ppl use the all in one seo pack or something similar.
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  • Profile picture of the author freelanceindia
    hey use plugins for optimising blog!
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  • Profile picture of the author webdaisy
    Most people use All in one SEO tool but if you have to optimize according to your niche and not same title tags in all the pages then you have to plugin an other SEO Tool.
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  • Profile picture of the author lassitermarketing
    I suggest Platinum SEO plugin and make sure you add a ping list!
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    • Profile picture of the author SEO ibiza
      check SEO Design solutions "SEO Ultimate" plugin.
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  • Profile picture of the author ShopZipCode
    You can get free themes at sandbox.
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    • Profile picture of the author serps
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      • Profile picture of the author SEO ibiza
        Originally Posted by serps View Post

        In my opinion Themes do not make much more difference in your SEO. You have to install some SEO plugin and optimize your keywords with good quality content.

        Other thing is that you have to boost your link building strategies that can give you high rank in Search engines and you will get more traffic.
        disagree about themes, the theme is basically how the onpage is configured.

        get a bad theme and you'll struggle, get a good one and it's easier.

        but performance is obviously related to the site build & structure too, pages, nav properly thought about etc
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  • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
    View the source code.

    If the <H1> tag is wrapped around the blog title instead of the page or post title, I'd move on.

    If the bulk of the sidebar content appears in the source code before the article or post content, I'd move on.

    Pretty much everything else can be taken care of with the All-In-One-SEO plugin or similar. While there are other features that are beneficial like being able to point your header graphic to an image of any name (great for being found by Google Images) instead of having to overwrite a 'header.jpg' graphic with another, in my view the way the <H1> tag is used in particular and the content above sidebar code are deciding factors.
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    • Profile picture of the author Poglia
      Originally Posted by Diana Lane View Post

      If the <H1> tag is wrapped around the blog title instead of the page or post title, I'd move on.
      Wrong. Contrary to popular belief, the <h1> tag should be used only once per page. If a page contains more than one post titles, they should get <h2>.
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      • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
        Originally Posted by Poglia View Post

        Wrong. Contrary to popular belief, the <h1> tag should be used only once per page. If a page contains more than one post titles, they should get <h2>.
        Absolutely. I only ever use one post per page anyway, more like a conventional site than a blog. I've been doing it that way for so long that I forget that many people don't.
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    • Profile picture of the author Josh-A
      Wordpress blog has become easy to optimize because of the number of plugins and specially the SEO plugin. You can also use the permalinks option and many other to optimize your blog for the major search engines.
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