How To Make Wordpress Theme SEO Friendly Theme ...

There are many SEO Optimized themes now days, it is not difficult either to find them, just Google it then we will find tons of sites that share enormous amount of SEO themes, if your current theme ain’t too SEO you will likely to change them in order to get a better ranking in Google, but actually you don’t need to change your theme let alone if you love its design too much, why not keep it?

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Frankly it is easy to make your Wordpress Theme SEO friendly, yes it needs efforts, but not big efforts, it takes only few modifications. There are several areas you need to tweak to make Google understands which part is important and which is less important thus our content will be properly ranked and as the result we get better ranking for your targeted keyword.

Ok here is the steps:

1. Make sure you give <h1> to wrap your blog title! Just like mine, here is the example:

<h1>SEO Blog And Internet</h1>

And the code looks generally like this one:

<h1><a href="<?php echo get_option(home); ?>/"><?php bloginfo( ame); ?></a></h1>

2. Make sure your post and page title is wrapped with <h1> or <h2> tag, pick one that fits with the overall of your design because each of the tag has its own size, but <h2> will be better for post title on the homepage, considering on that place, there are several posts listed, and then use <h1> to wrap post title in Single Page (Single.php)

3. Make sure each of your post and page title has the name of post/page title like this:

If your title is not like on the image, then open your index.php and single.php replace the existing title code with the following code:

<a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="<?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>

4. Why not giving each of your post or page a unique description and keyword? I have written tutorial to do so in: SEO Your Wordpress Description and Keyword.

5. It is better to place your sidebar on the right side just like mine, so your page will be on the upper side of the sidebar.

6. Use <h3> to wrap your widget title, for example <h3>Popular Post</h3>

7. This one is just an additional factor: Make sure the code is Valid HTML

Actually, SEO is all about backlinks and on page optimizations like having SEO Optimized Theme is an additional force to arm your blog to compete with other blogs on Search Engine, if it is necessary enough why not practicing the above steps? You can speed up your Wordpress theme loading time too to complete the steps, Site Speed is scheduled to be a factor to determine blog or site ranking on Google on 2010, you better don’t miss this one, I will write about how to speed up your Wordpress blog in the future just wait!

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