When picking out a new WordPress theme, there are a lot of factors to consider. Do you want a 2-column theme or a 3-column theme? What about AJAX comments? Maybe you want specific colors? No matter what your preference is, one of the main factors you should probably consider is how search engine friendly your theme is going to be.
There are a lot of techniques that theme designers can use when creating their theme to help optimize it for search engines, and several authors have taken the time to do so. Here are what I feel are the best search engine optimized WordPress themes:
2-Column Search Engine Optimized WordPress Themes
Slick Blue Theme (Advertising Ready, SEO Friendly)
Sodelicious Theme
Modern Blue Green Theme
YourBlog 2.0 Theme
PassionDuo Theme (3 Colors)
Green: Demo | Download, Red: Demo | Download, Blue: Demo | Download
Yakuter Tema 2.0 Theme
3-Column Search Engine Optimized WordPress Themes
Big Blue Theme
Redie 3.0 Theme
Ambient Glo Theme
ProSense Theme
Source | Download (Orange, Blue, and Gray) | Demo
Cutline Theme
Courtney Tuttle has posted a great collection of SEO Friendly WordPress themes. It looks like these are existing WordPress themes that were modified to be more search engine friendly.
Have a search engine optimized WordPress theme you’d like to see included in this list? Feel free to comment below with a link and I’ll see about it getting added!
January 5th, 2010 at 11:18 pm
I feel comfortable with the “cutline” theme. I think that the urban header looks appropriate for a real estate blog…