Wrapping Up SEO Week with 7 SEO Optimized WP Themes

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1. On April 13th, 2007 at 1:48 pm, Ponn Sabra said:

Call me partial, but here are my designer’s free themes: http://www.briangardner.com/themes/

David, wouldn’t you agree!?

BTW, I love Sarah’s work too…and Chris’s PressRow was my 2nd choice after my present Vertigo.

It’s sunny here in Toledo, the last 2 hours…so it must be moving West, hope it moves closer to ya Wendy

2. On April 13th, 2007 at 2:38 pm, Aaron M. Potts said:

Wendy,

I just spent the last several days looking fruitlessly for a template for a new blog that I am working on, and I never did find one that really got me excited.

I even saw some of the ones that you mentioned, but none of them had every single thing that I wanted, so I have decided to take a fairly blank 3-column layout and basically rebuild it in MY image.

It should be interesting, to say the least!

3. On April 13th, 2007 at 2:53 pm, David Airey :: Creative Design :: said:

Ponn, indeed I do agree!

Brian did a great job with Vertigo. I’ve been using it since his version 1.0 came out so have made quite a few tweaks since last year.

Thanks for this list, Wendy. I often wonder if my current theme is helping me as best I’d like.

4. On April 13th, 2007 at 11:09 pm, Jenny said:

I’ma have a look at some of those themes. Maybe I can dig thru them to see what makes them tick.

And we here in Jersey are supposed to get a NorEaster this weekend.

5. On April 14th, 2007 at 1:17 am, Alex said:

I like http://www.semiologic.com/

6. On April 14th, 2007 at 4:38 am, Armen said:

Another vote for Brian Gardner’s theme’s over here. I’ve tweaked his dropshadow theme and I don’t think a custom made design would serve me all that much better. I may be wrong though.

If Brian’s theme’s are not SEO friendly, then someone should give him a tip or two, because the physical structure of his theme’s blows most of the competition away. Plus, they are so easy to edit. The code is well layed out so even someone as clueless as I, can figure out what does what.

7. On April 14th, 2007 at 9:28 am, Ellen said:

Thanks for including the Fresh theme. I’m playing around with it on my blog right now — I’m spending my weekend tweaking code instead of finishing my taxes! At least in Massachusetts we have an extra day to file taxes because Monday is Patriot’s Day.

8. On April 14th, 2007 at 4:07 pm, Ponn Sabra said:

A great tool to see how any of your pages are “seen” by the search engines, is to use this “Search Engine Spider Simulator”:
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php

Hope this helps.

Comparably, I see my middle column could be pushed further down the list of posts vs. Wendy/Sarah’s both columns posted at the bottom.

But all text is nicely read…I checked and saw much worse ones.

9. On April 16th, 2007 at 5:57 am, Brian Turner said:

It actually takes very little to make Wordpress SEO friendly - loads of themes already out there use nice code, and Wordpress is naturally SEO friendly. It’s more the tweaks after that give you the extra leverage, and how you use your content.

Still, they are nice themes listed - will check those out and have a little play with them.

10. On April 16th, 2007 at 7:30 am, Amanda said:

They are nice layouts but some of them.. the coding is so bad.. its so annoying. you end up almost having to recode the whole thing. I have a Jenny so I dont have to do that … everyone should get a jenny.

11. On April 16th, 2007 at 10:06 am, Tammy said:

Thanks so much Wendy for pointing me in the right direction. I ended up using one of Brian Gardner’s themes recommended by Ponn but I finally have my blog post titles in the right order! I’m so excited Tammy

12. On April 16th, 2007 at 3:36 pm, Blain Reinkensmeyer said:

Wendy, I just got the Cutline theme for my other blog at goblain.com, and it is awesome!! I bet really look forward to watching the organic traffic increase

13. On April 16th, 2007 at 8:56 pm, ClarkeW said:

I love Cutline as well and I use it on almost every site a I create. It is so easy to modify and create your own unique look and feel.

14. On April 17th, 2007 at 2:12 pm, Derrich said:

Thanks for sifting through the sea of WordPress themes for us, Wendy. This will help me with ideas for my new project…which will remain “new” until I finally get on the ball. I need to read your Monday Motivation more often.

15. On April 23rd, 2007 at 6:48 pm, Sue said:

Wendy, the night I was e-mailing you back and forth I signed up with blue host BUT have not been able to get a new theme uploaded. I tried cutline and time managment and neither is working. Is there anyone out there who can help me? I left a message on the cutline post and it still has not been seen. I think moving to wordpress.org is pushing me out of my comfort zone even more but I am convinced that I will succeed. I want this up and running with ads…

16. On April 23rd, 2007 at 7:04 pm, Wendy Piersall said:

Sue, did you unzip those files and then upload them to the server with BlueHost’s FTP program?

Also, WordPress Tutorials has a large section of free videos, which may be helpful for you as you get started (they also have paid ones, but the free ones will get you pretty far).

17. On May 19th, 2007 at 4:07 pm, sites de busca said:

I used MistyLook but I had to do a lot of work to first, make it look the way a want it, second, to make it search frendly. But I think I did a pretty good job. It looks nice and after 6 weeks I’m alredy getting some traffic from both Yahoo and Google.