Does Wordpress theme matters for SEO?

Please let me know Does Wordpress theme matters for SEO???

 

I was askig myself the same question last night, but if you ask me - NO, there is no reason why would it be, maybe code, but again - it's WP.

 

I googled this question and found YES its matters

 

i also googled it and got the same result. yes it does matter.

 

do you people know any top seo friendly wp themes?

 

I would definitely like to know... Shoot, I really never thought about this either, until now.

I'm thinking about changing my theme to a better looking one - though its not all about looks to rank high in the Search Engines, but its definitely about looks to get a customer to stay and read more.

Right!

 

It may be some effect because it grab feed and easy to spread data.

 

I think it would as some themes have a lot more code and more coding errors than other themes.
Best not go with a themes that has too much BS all over it. Just find a simple and professional looking theme, I think it is your best bet.

 

most of people are conscious about look, well its matter,, but if you have viral content then seo is more imp than look

 

Interesting point, thank you for this Marshal, now I understand some problems I have with SEO on few sites.

 

I am not clear on what you mean by Wordpress theme? Please elaborate.

 

theme are known as templates too

 

Well if it looks like crap, I won't even bother to look at it twice, let alone staying on the site to read or browse more.

Even if the content on the site is good.

 

yeah at least it should not look crappy.. Simplicity never gets out of fashion.. agree?

 

It should look decent at least, but code wise you can not do much, except proper use of H1, H2, H3 and so on tags, clean code, W3C valid etc.

 

Yes the theme matters, when looking to download or even purchase a theme, try to look for "seo friendly" or "optimized for seo" in the theme description. Some themes even have extra meta fields, in the admin area. Some themes have good use of H1, 2, 3, tags, good layout, easy for a bot to go through, site map, and so on. Where as some other themes completely suck lol.

 

Wait, SEO - you ment visitors, not google?

 

I guess it does matter, but also depends on other things.

 

Yes, very much so. All the mordpress approved themes are very good SEOwise. So stick with them.

 

I'd say relative to content, it doesn't matter very much. What is more important is the way you use the theme and all of the options (be they default, or add-ons) such a url-rewriting, etc. Remember: Search engines can't (as of writing this) read images. All they see is the text, yes, there are some ways to boost up rankings by hyping bold text and the like -- but the search engine doesn't see any of the image or CSS stuff, just go with what's appealing. Any theme can be made "seo optimized" with a little tweaking.