Comments on: WordPress SEO

By: Kevin

Kevin — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 14:28:11 +0000

Hi Lisa, Kevin Stacey here..

First off, this post is extremely thorough! I don’t see too many bloggers doing into detail like you have…that’s the mark of a blogger who knows her WordPress SEO.

I’ve been reading the comments here. For optimization, themes like Thesis and free plugins like All in One SEO Pack are really great as it lays down the basic SEO foundation for a WordPress site, but every blog is different and nothing works best for everyone.

I always suggest looking at a side-by-side comparison of the best seo plugins for WordPress in order to make an informed decision of what the best plugin is for that blogger and their website’s specific needs. Same goes with themes.

Here’s my most recent write-up on the subject:

SEO Pressor vs Easy WP SEO vs Scribe SEO
http://www.bestseopluginforwordpress.com/wordpress-seo/the-best-seo-plugin-for-wordpress/

You also don’t want to overload/bog down WordPress resources with too many bulky plugins as well.

Great article btw…I’ll be referencing this post on my main blog.

By: SEO Mofo

SEO Mofo — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 23:32:17 +0000

I wasn’t there, but I’ll gladly offer some reasons for hating Thesis.

  •   It uses 4 stylesheets.
  •   Comments don’t use semantic markup.
  •   Uses IE hacks.
  •   Widget titles use H3 tags.
  •   Upgrades aren’t backwards compatible as advertised.
  •   Teasers don’t use semantic markup.
  •   There hasn’t been an update in a very long time.
  •   thesis_head breaks functions that use wp_head to unhook content.
  •   Code is poorly documented.
  •   Split license to avoid GPL is a scam.
  •   Allowed Tags border doesn’t line up with comment text area border.
  •   It’s over-hyped and over-priced.

By: golly

golly — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 17:22:39 +0000

It would be interesting to have some elaboration on

– just wandering if there was anything specific re: thesis ?

By: Phil Buckley

Phil Buckley — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:32:43 +0000

Thanks as usual Lisa – you’re session wrap-ups are always fantastic.

I didn’t know Greg Boser was helping out StudioPress, that was a great little nugget. I also never noticed any problem with search results but will be adding that line to my robots.txt – good idea even if it hasn’t biten me in the ass YET.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 17:35:56 +0000

Love me some studiopress themes. Bought the premium package.

And anything the Joost does is AWESOME!

By: Rakesh Kumar

Rakesh Kumar — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 08:04:25 +0000

Well i had remembered that when i started blogging then i was think that Wordrpess is complete optimized for SEO but It’s not and Yes Lisa as you said, we have to care some others aspects to make it SEO Friendly. Thanks for suggestions.

By: Ton van Houten

Ton van Houten — Sun, 13 Mar 2011 20:08:05 +0000

You got me.

By: Joshua Ansell-McKinnon

Joshua Ansell-McKinnon — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 09:14:11 +0000

Very interesting. Why all the thesis hating? Is because it sells better than others?

By: SEO Mofo

SEO Mofo — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:45:03 +0000

Hi. You’re a good writer. ;)

By: Tesla

Tesla — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:41:42 +0000

“Make sure that the HI tag is used on the homepage for a descriptive title and not for the logo”

Unfortunately many themes, including those from StudioPress (take a look at the actual site) , have the H1 tag in the logo.