During a recent survey I ran on WebSeo it was very clear that a lot of you wanted me to use a simple theme. No more heaps of wizz and bang. I must say I was thrown by the results. From over 500 completed surveys, it was clear that 73% wanted easy to read content and less ads.
Well I listened and went searching for a theme that:
- Was simplistic but still looked good
- Gave me more than one way to search engine optimize it.
- Gave me heaps of flexibility to modify the look and feel
Well I found 2 themes. The first one was one of my own. Search Engine Optimized WordPress theme is a simple theme I developed a few months back and has been downloaded 667 times. I love this theme, but it didn’t give me the flexibility I wanted. I kept searching.
I had read a couple of posts at Digital Point Forums about Search Engine Optimized themes and from the 30 replies, 18 said that the best SEO theme on the market was Thesis. So I checked it out.
Thesis is a new WordPress theme developed by Chris Pearson in 2008. This is what Chris said when asked about Thesis.
“I‘ve begun to notice that with each new release of WordPress, the marketplace echoes a palpable fear over compatibility, and rightly so! With so many plugins and themes floating around out there, upgrading WordPress has more or less become an exercise in “what will break next?”
Ever since I first launched Thesis in 2008, I’ve tried to incorporate as much plugin-like functionality as possible into the theme. This serves a twofold purpose:
- You can eliminate plugins, thereby reducing the number of headaches and things you need to worry about when upgrading WordPress (or even Thesis, for that matter).
- Stability. Ever had a plugin author quit updating a plugin that you used? Yeah—not fun. By using functionality that is built into Thesis, you’re taking advantage of a built-in insurance policy. Thesis is here to stay, and it will be compatible with the latest and greatest version of WordPress.
So if efficiency, attention to detail, and peace of mind about the future are important to you, then it’s high time to check out Thesis!”
Go the the Official Thesis website.
Thesis isn’t a free WordPress theme like the 1000′s of themes out there designed solely to attract backlinks. Thesis isn’t cheap either. However if you want a theme for your WordPress site that gives you never before flexibility and the benefits of Worlds Best SEO, then Thesis is for you.
You can check out Thesis for yourself here: Thesis WordPress Theme.
You can also check out a video by Lisa Irby on all the fantastic features of Thesis. Thesis Video Here
indeed, this is the top SEO wordpress SEO theme, but my question is: can’t you modify any other theme to be SEO friendly? i usually chose the theme by the way it looks, and after that i tweak it to be SEO optimized… the truth is, i saw a lot of websites using thesis and i wanted to use it, but as far as i know, it ain’t free and in my opinion, there are a lot of free nice themese that can be customized to be SEO friendly
Tym
You are right, you can seo any theme but thesis makes it a lot easier to do.
Steve