Oops! I’ve done it again! I’ve fallen victim to the call of new glossy WordPress themes. My attention has been easily drawn. In that seduction I have eaten from the table of nutritionless, SEO-flawed themes and I feel empty.

It’s so funny to me how often SEO and Design are performed in vacuums, separate from one another.  A while back ioVentures adopted many of the principles that Coutney Tuttle talks about in his article that details 6 SEO Problems Common In WordPress Themes. I had become comfortable and forgot that this knowledge is not so common place, especially not among WordPress Theme creators, among website designers.

While getting top rankings is not completely the responsibility of he who makes the website (as link development is a critically important factor in ranking), he IS responsible for creating a strong foundation for those who will later do search engine marketing to build from.

Truly valuable is the designer that knows how to create an SEO friendly website.