How were you doing with the first part of the wordpress theme SEO? I hope that it helps you with your effort in optimize your wordpress theme to be search engine friendly. I had to admit that it might not cover all types of theme or settings but hope to help you understand what is important in wordpress theme SEO. Let us get on to the second part.

This optimization is based on this template: Super Adsense Theme

Duplicate Contents

I’m no sure if you realized that Wordpress creates a lot of duplicate content for your blog. Especially when you are having tags (using Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin), recent comments, archives, categories and etc. Search engines doesn’t like duplicate contents very much. This is bad for your blog’s SEO. To help solve duplicate contents problems, insert the following between the <header> tags:

<?php
if((is_home() && ($paged < 2 )) || is_single() || is_page() || is_category()){
echo '<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" />';
} else {
echo '<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" />';} ?>

This way, it’ll only tell search engines to index only the homepage, pages, and single pages. Everything else will be set to noindex.

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It has been more than 1 week I didn’t update Crispnetworks. Life has been busy. Lots of projects at work and spending lots of time with my girlfriend.

Well, as promised in my update one my blog’s technorati and alexa ranking, lets explore some wordpress theme search engine optimization (SEO) that you can do for your wordpress theme so that your blog ranks better in Google.

Give Your Wordpress its Own Directory

Some reader asked me about how I changed my blog URL from http://www.crispnetworks.com/blog to http://www.crispnetworks.com when I blog about Crispnetworks.com updates. Now let me take you through the steps that I took to do that.

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