Which theme is best for SEO?

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008 at 10:41 am

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Today’s question:

What’s the best theme to use for SEO. I saw site at SEO-Themes.com. So are some themes better optimized for SE’s or can I just add plugins that will even out the playing field?

First I went over and looked quickly at their site. They don’t say what they do different just that they have tweaked the themes. I did not take the time to download one and look through it to see what changes they are making.

As I can and do get great results using plugins that has been how I do it. Title tags and targeting the right keywords has been the primary factors in getting good rankings.

I have tested this on more than one occasion and a good title tag can make a huge difference in the ranking of a post for a specific keyword.

Using All In One SEO allows you to customize the title tags and that along with the XML Sitemap plugin are the prime ones for ranking and getting indexed.

You do need to actually use it and quite often I use one title for the post and a different one for the title tag.

Now as to what makes a good theme. I really like themes that are documented with notes inside. As a general rule if the person writing the theme has left good notes they usually have created a good theme.

More than once I have tried a new theme and usually the ones thta have had performance issues aren’t documented well at all. The same has been true of other script too. This is something that the better coders around always document what is what because it makes it easier to update.

Unfortunately, you will only be able to tell this after you have downloaded the theme and in my case usually installed it. (Have lots of excess themes on my hard drive.)

As always your questions and comments are welcomed.

Mike Paetzold