WordPress SEO Blueprint

Strong On-Page SEO Theme Development for WordPress

In past few years I have tested and researched what could be the very best layout for my themes and what can deliver superior results with Google and other search engines as well and this is what I have come up with. No, nothing really new but never used on any other WordPress sites out there, at least not too my knowledge. 

Proper WordPress SEO Structure

If your theme is anywhere near the above image your site or a blog is Search Engine Friendly and that is how WordPress themes should look like after properly optimized.  Changing H2 to H1 isn’t really an SEO. This image is just an example, sidebar can be placed anywhere you want, as long as it doesn’t take the presence over your content or your header. Structure like this one has been proven to rank your posts higher than just standard theme design, followed by unique well-written content and proper keyword density. 

Theme Structure and Content Placement

1. Content comes first and there is nothing that should block search engines from getting to your posts first and as fast as possible. Not only that you will “wrap” your titles in H1, but also you are pushing the content above everything else listed on your site.
2. Header comes second and it could be connected to your main menu (top navigation where you list your pages and categories).
3. Sidebar comes third, the place where you list your recent post, categories maybe, blogroll etc, it is completely up to you what you want there.
4. Footer is as always the very last thing you want search engines to crawl.

If you have any questions about this structure, please don’t hesitate to ask me, I will be more than happy to give you more details. OnlinePress runs on one of the versions I developed, in case that you would like to see the actual example. Maybe in near future you will have an option to download this as well.

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