The Top 5 Free SEO Friendly WordPress Themes
One of the best things about WordPress is the number of themes that are available. Even if you don’t know a thing about CSS, you can still have a great looking blog in just a matter of minutes. While there are some premium themes that cost money to use, the majority of the themes that are available won’t cost you a dime.
Like most things that are free, it can be hard to judge the quality of a WordPress theme. Even though there are a lot of great free themes out there, I have also come across some very poor ones. Therefore, to ensure that you get one of the best themes available for your blog, I’ve compiled a list of the Top 5 Free SEO friendly WordPress Themes. Just add the All in One SEO plugin to any of these five themes, and once you start writing great content, the search engines will love your blog!
ProSense: If you want to create a niche blog that generates revenue through Google AdSense, you can’t beat the ProSense theme. Developed in part by Maki of Dosh Dosh, the ProSense theme has everything you need to create a great niche blog.
In addition to making it simple to add Google AdSense and widgets to your blog, the ProSense theme uses CSS that “is written so that your blog content is prioritized in the source code“. Available in brown/orange, clean blue or gray color schemes, the ProSense theme is the perfect choice for your a niche blog, regardless of whether its your first or twentieth!
Elements of SEO: This free WordPress theme looks so clean and professional that it could easily be used for a business blog. The theme allows you to upload different banners to the home, post and archives pages, so if you do use it for a business blog, this is a great opportunity to reinforce your company’s branding message throughout your blog.
Alibi Productions has done a great job of keeping this theme updated, so if you choose to use it, you can count on it functioning well with future releases of WordPress.
Copyblogger Theme: I could tell you why this a great SEO friendly theme, but I think the designer of the theme (Chris Pearson) says it best:
“Oh, and rest assured that the SEO aspects of the theme are absolutely top-notch. I view my themes as Web site frameworks – not just “designs” – and I wouldn’t bother to build a framework unless it was up to spec in all areas.”
With the ability to customize this theme to your own tastes, not only is this a great SEO friendly theme, but it’s also one of the best looking free WordPress themes available!
Guzel Pro Magazine: If you want to join the trend of using a theme that looks more like a magazine than a traditional blog, you can’t go wrong with the Guzel Pro Magazine. Developed by Gabfire Web Design and released at the end of last month, this is latest generation of the Guzel Magazine theme, so it is packed with a lot of great features.
Some of the features in the Guzel Pro Magazine theme include a professional control panel, multiple stylesheets and clean CSS. Because the homepage can hold so much content, this theme creates a lot of internal links, which can be very useful in boosting your rankings.
Neoclassical Theme: Yes, this is another theme from Chris Pearson, and that’s exactly why I included it in this list. Once again, I think he does the best job of explaining why this theme deserves to be in this list:
“I am not a designer, but rather a Web architect, and this product is reflective of that fact in many ways.”
In addition to its search engine friendly code, this theme features great typography and the ability to rotate your header images. If a blog with two columns doesn’t provide you with enough space, you won’t be disappointed with this three column beauty!
Do you know of another great WordPress theme that’s free and SEO friendly? Tell us about it in the comments!
October 10th, 2008 at 3:51 am
Thanks for a great list of SEO themes!
October 10th, 2008 at 9:55 am
Tyler– As always, some great resources. I’ve been thinking about adding a blog to my site lately (if I can find the time to keep up with it), and since I know nothing about design, these will really come in handy.
October 10th, 2008 at 1:47 pm
@Chris: You’re welcome, I also enjoyed the post you wrote yesterday.
@Eric: Also, if you’re adding a blog to an existing web site, you can get a WP theme that matches your web site theme for only $10: http://www.themespress.com/
October 10th, 2008 at 8:42 pm
Personally, I would choose your Elements of SEO theme as it looks so professional and grand…
October 10th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Neoclassical is quite pretty.
October 10th, 2008 at 11:01 pm
@Auto Man: Yes, I really like the large header image in that theme. Just a note, I tried visiting your website, but I couldn’t get it to load
@Susan: Chris Pearson is quite the designer, I haven’t seen anyone else who can consistently produce as many extremely high quality themes as him. I also noticed that you have quite a few nice themes on your website
October 12th, 2008 at 10:27 am
Very cool designs and very seo friednly. Thanks for good good info
October 12th, 2008 at 8:54 pm
Thanks for the post! it’s very informative.
October 20th, 2008 at 10:59 am
I just uploaded my first SEO optimized WordPress theme, take a look Smashy Magazine Theme and let me know what you think!
October 20th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
@Christopher: Very nice! I really like the dark version of Smashy Magazine, and the icons you used in the sidebars give the theme a very modern look (which I always prefer).
November 2nd, 2008 at 7:48 am
Thank you for your site
I made on photoshop backgrounds for myspace and youtube and whatever
Hope you had a good day and thank you again!
January 23rd, 2009 at 2:48 am
very nice tips
February 20th, 2009 at 9:20 am
Super themes thanks for sharing
April 11th, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Very interesting themes, thanks!
April 17th, 2009 at 1:38 pm
Thanks for the lists, I prefer the Copyblogger.
This shoud do the job with all in one seo plugin pack
May 12th, 2009 at 2:23 pm
good theme, similar to Gear
June 15th, 2009 at 12:39 am
Good Design concept. SEO in wordpress theme is rare to see some theme as it is.
June 20th, 2009 at 12:57 pm
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June 29th, 2009 at 5:54 pm
Nice post and great SEO theme…thanks
July 7th, 2009 at 3:02 pm
I am very much pleased to comments here I am also looking for SEO of my site that is why I need some more info as well as some better result in this area
July 15th, 2009 at 5:56 am
nice post…. thank you very much..
July 18th, 2009 at 6:19 pm
Thanks!
I just grabbed three of the five theme’s
July 27th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Thanks l have just taken one of them
July 27th, 2009 at 9:09 pm
I will get them all, thanks
July 31st, 2009 at 10:40 am
Wow.. Thanks for the list.. very nice
August 3rd, 2009 at 2:43 pm
I love the Guzel Pro Magazine:!
Thanks for sharing this … this really helps .. got the one i ‘v been looking 4..
thanks again
August 25th, 2009 at 6:45 am
thank you so much for sharing these~ I’ll try the 1st theme on your list!
September 4th, 2009 at 6:23 pm
great list
September 9th, 2009 at 2:18 am
This theme is absolutely worth the money I spent on it. Since using it a couple of months ago my traffic has nearly tripled. My site moved up a lot on a lot of keywords im targeting for seo. Anyway thanx now I at least know what’s behind the rankings increase.
September 12th, 2009 at 2:27 am
i would chose Prosense, it’s really adsense friendly and can earn good amount of money if write good quality of content.
September 21st, 2009 at 11:09 pm
Thanks..I enjoyed using your TOP 5 SEO Wp Themes..really satisfied..Thank you..
September 24th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
i wish blogger dot com have SEO themes too…
September 27th, 2009 at 12:33 am
how to know any themes its Seo Friendly??
October 1st, 2009 at 3:23 am
thanks for seo theams
October 4th, 2009 at 12:02 am
Hi Tyler:
Sounds interesting,but can you specify why these themes are top SEO themes,What should that makes this themes became top SEO themes so that can be used when we customizing this themes according to our specification with out hurting or hacking the main core
October 9th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
These are excellent SEO optimized themes, but the best are the Chris Pearson themes.
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:18 am
I already use the copy blogger and seo element themes to my WordPress site,,i told u it is really works,,truly SEO Friendly themes..
October 23rd, 2009 at 10:40 am
I already use the copy blogger and seo element themes to my WordPress site,,i told u it is really works,,truly SEO Friendly themes.
October 26th, 2009 at 11:42 am
CopyBlogger is a great theme. Chris Pearson is an awesome theme designer.
October 30th, 2009 at 10:49 am
Yes that's true Garry, but CopyBlogger themes didn't show site description, it's only show the titles, do you have any idea about this??
I am not so smart in CSS..I appreciate it if you give the solution, or maybe a few words from Tyler for this problem. Thanks.
October 30th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Great list, thanks alot. I am looking to move my site to wordpress so I will try these out.
November 11th, 2009 at 12:19 am
Thank you for this article. I was looking for a SEO friendly theme for my blog and this is exactly what I needed.
Excellent information and clearly written!
Cheers,
Jeff
November 18th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
Awesome list! I was searching for SEO Friendly WordPress Themes and Google Landed me here
December 2nd, 2009 at 10:24 pm
Thanks for the themes, always important to know which theme is seo friendly.What I learned though is that it is better to have a theme with the sidebars only on the right part, so when google comes to your site, first things it sees is your content, than the menu, rss feed and other stuff you may have on your sidebar. Isn't that right?
December 3rd, 2009 at 2:42 am
great nice themes
December 17th, 2009 at 1:54 am
SO tired of seeing those boring WordPress designs. Really nice to see some fresh blogs! Thanks for taking the time to incorporate that in your blog. A sight for sore eyes to see.
December 26th, 2009 at 12:06 am
How about this theme http://seoagent.org/free-seo-wordpress-theme/
December 27th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
I choose elements of seo for my next blog
January 3rd, 2010 at 7:28 pm
This is exactly what i need. I've been posting articles which never showed up on Google search.. I think there is something wrong with the wordpress theme. Need to change it now. Thanks a lot Tyler.
January 7th, 2010 at 7:04 am
this really a good examples of seo friendly templets. especially the second one…
January 10th, 2010 at 10:54 pm
No offense but all of these themes are ugly. Great for SEO but bad on the eyes. These must be the only themes good for SEO because everybody has this same post going on.
January 17th, 2010 at 12:02 am
SEO wordpress themes combine with SEO Hosting, its a perfect combination.
January 17th, 2010 at 10:17 am
i am using Neoclassical Theme.. themes looks so friendly
February 15th, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Super themes thanks for sharing
February 21st, 2010 at 1:39 pm
Thesis is the best !
March 15th, 2010 at 7:14 pm
Nice list, what about adding thesis to it, as that's a great seo theme
March 22nd, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Great Post. I am using the Prosense theme with some modification.
April 16th, 2010 at 8:35 am
Thanks for the list I'll give the neoclassical a try. Is there anything o note that has been issued since?
April 22nd, 2010 at 2:30 pm
nice post…. thank you very much..
April 22nd, 2010 at 2:30 pm
Thanks for the lists, I prefer the Copyblogger.
This shoud do the job with all in one seo plugin pack
April 25th, 2010 at 4:10 am
Awesome! I can’t wait to give this a try!
April 27th, 2010 at 7:09 pm
thanks for it
lockerz
April 30th, 2010 at 12:58 am
Guzel pro magazine looks profesional for me.
May 2nd, 2010 at 5:44 am
Wow, Great Post !
May 3rd, 2010 at 11:49 am
The Guzel Pro Magazine looks very great with websites with large content. I will definitely use if for my health website.
May 5th, 2010 at 10:54 am
thank you nice post
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May 18th, 2010 at 1:04 pm
thank you it's flexible and beatiful !!!
May 25th, 2010 at 8:17 am
The neoclassical seo theme – didn't expect that to appear in such a post. But thanks for the other, didn't know them!
best,
tobias
May 25th, 2010 at 1:11 pm
Currently I am using mystique, but its not seo and google adsense friendly, i will use prosense. I just wanted to thank you for your article, which helped me a lot to choose and easily find a seo friendly WordPress Theme.
May 29th, 2010 at 6:53 am
Thanks for the lists.
June 9th, 2010 at 11:35 am
nice informtion…. thanks
June 9th, 2010 at 12:06 pm
Thanks for the list, will save the themes and share.
June 12th, 2010 at 1:36 pm
Nice list, we will customize two of them, will save and share.
June 14th, 2010 at 9:00 am
Amazing template! I would not mind paying for such a great template, serioulsy!
June 17th, 2010 at 1:44 am
nice theme , I will use on my wordpress soon.
June 24th, 2010 at 10:54 am
thank ! seo clean
June 27th, 2010 at 12:06 am
All of them I like, I'll try to use them all in my sites
June 28th, 2010 at 9:22 pm
I much likely Prosense, it is clean and got Adsense ready. Thanks for the recommendation, I just downloaded it.
July 18th, 2010 at 12:37 am
These SEO themes for WP sites are a plus in the fight to get to the top on google.
Thanks
August 9th, 2010 at 10:16 pm
very nice themes… i think neoclasical is the best.
August 12th, 2010 at 4:43 am
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August 12th, 2010 at 10:03 am
Thank you for tale!
August 19th, 2010 at 4:30 am
Thank you very much ^ ^
August 19th, 2010 at 6:29 am
Great list! Thanks for compiling it. It saves everyone a lot of time not having to search it out!
August 21st, 2010 at 7:23 pm
Great themes
i like the simple and clean ones
will use it soon
August 24th, 2010 at 12:17 pm
thank's i like this template
August 25th, 2010 at 12:44 am
Thanks for useful information, i'm going to change my theme…your post is useful
August 31st, 2010 at 9:44 pm
thanks for list.
September 1st, 2010 at 6:44 pm
thanks bro .. it's very usefull to me
September 7th, 2010 at 2:41 am
nice, thanks for the list
September 10th, 2010 at 11:51 am
Wow, great information, thanks for the list!
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September 25th, 2010 at 3:21 pm
As a newbie with WordPress I am very interested in SEO. Many thanks!
September 27th, 2010 at 11:38 am
i learn lot a new stuff here… thanks
September 28th, 2010 at 8:21 am
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September 29th, 2010 at 1:22 pm
Hi, thanks for the list..
Anyway, your Guzel Pro Magazine links was broken..
October 1st, 2010 at 8:34 pm
Thanks for a great themes.I am working for adsense.
October 3rd, 2010 at 11:56 am
Thankyou! Great resource!!!
October 4th, 2010 at 4:36 am
Really new to this thing, still learning about this sport. This is a great thing that my friend recommended to me, I never getting involved with it but soon will be Thanks!
October 5th, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Very cool designs and very seo friednly. Thanks for good good info
November 1st, 2010 at 10:15 pm
Nice post and great SEO theme…thanks
November 2nd, 2010 at 7:53 pm
great info on this site
November 5th, 2010 at 12:18 pm
the themes are clean and fast loading. very nice choice
November 15th, 2010 at 11:50 am
5 cool themes, one of them that I'm gonna try right now is Prosense. I wanna know how fast is this themes. Thanks SEO Hosting for provided this best themes lists.
November 19th, 2010 at 9:58 am
nice beautiful theme
November 19th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
the coppyblogger is the best out of the lot. i have used it for 3 of my website and it they look very clean including the 3 column version.
November 24th, 2010 at 8:57 pm
Any thoughts on updating this post? The prosense theme and copyblogger really aren't used anymore.
November 25th, 2010 at 8:47 am
How about Bluesense by doshdosh? I think that theme SEO enough..
November 25th, 2010 at 3:39 pm
can any one share link Guzel Pro Magazine for me ! please.
December 3rd, 2010 at 4:15 am
Great info and themes, especially Guzel Pro Magazine.
Thanks
December 7th, 2010 at 11:00 am
Thank you for your site
I made on photoshop backgrounds for myspace and youtube and whatever
Hope you had a good day and thank you again!
December 8th, 2010 at 10:04 pm
ProSense will be a powerful theme if use gradient color.
December 17th, 2010 at 3:07 am
These SEO themes for WP sites are a plus in the fight to get to the top on google.
Thanks
December 17th, 2010 at 11:34 am
Nice post and great SEO theme…thanks
December 25th, 2010 at 5:07 pm
Thesis, the one and only
December 30th, 2010 at 4:23 am
fantatic list. Thanks
January 2nd, 2011 at 2:37 pm
Thanks full, i love it
January 3rd, 2011 at 12:15 pm
nice themes, thanks! for your post
January 5th, 2011 at 11:24 pm
I like prosense theme. I think it's simple but powerful full seo.
January 6th, 2011 at 1:39 am
thank for suggest me
January 6th, 2011 at 10:08 pm
Lovely it. thanks so much.
I prefer with prosens it's great seo theme.
January 16th, 2011 at 10:26 pm
Nice theme.. thanks for share dud
January 19th, 2011 at 12:49 am
Neoclassical is great. Love it
January 19th, 2011 at 12:18 pm
Cool..!!!
great theme, 1 vote for prosense..
I like its, your post is amazing….
January 20th, 2011 at 12:15 am
beautiful theme , i will try its,thanks
January 23rd, 2011 at 11:44 pm
I like Elements of SEO . Very nice theme.
January 25th, 2011 at 7:10 am
nice info, very useful. thanks for sharing
February 3rd, 2011 at 6:37 pm
I like the first themes.. Looks clean and simple thanks..
February 7th, 2011 at 8:15 am
Gread SEO Theme…Thanks for sharing
February 13th, 2011 at 9:48 am
Will make use of it! thx!
February 28th, 2011 at 7:55 am
Almost many users used these themes in their website but now these themes are useless for me.
February 28th, 2011 at 9:18 pm
Thanks for sharing SEO friendly
usefull post
March 1st, 2011 at 10:08 am
I second that! Love these themes, going to be checking them out. A good theme and SEO friendly, what more can you ask for
March 1st, 2011 at 3:07 pm
Thank you very much for the list, please visit my blog
March 1st, 2011 at 7:13 pm
Nice post.. but design of these themes are seems outdated.
Thanks
March 4th, 2011 at 2:45 am
You are one thorough guy!! Thanks for the blog post. I am going to come back tomorrow and read it more in depth. Hope the rest of your week goes well!!!
March 5th, 2011 at 8:54 pm
Great post,
Thanks you very much
March 6th, 2011 at 9:02 pm
thx for the article, but so many frozen frog
March 18th, 2011 at 2:13 am
Nice collections! I actually used one of the themes presented here before. Keep up the good work!.. All themes are with good quality and unique features
March 18th, 2011 at 7:21 pm
picture is broken..i cant see…
March 22nd, 2011 at 3:52 am
I was seeking on Google "best SEO Friendly WordPress Themes" I found here.
Are there compatible with Worpress 3.1
March 25th, 2011 at 6:32 am
Thanks for the sharing this list
March 27th, 2011 at 11:11 am
i love these theme ! thanks for sharing !
April 10th, 2011 at 10:38 am
Hi Tyler,
I checked these links and I can say that these are clean and simple themes.
Great for highlighting content over other stuff on the blog.
I agree that there are some themes that can be used for free, but if the user doesn't know much about tweaking the theme to his preference, then that still costs something (spending hours figuring out how to tweak the theme costs time and money).
That is why other users go with a paid theme because of ease of use in case bloggers still want to make some changes to it (aside from other add ons exclusive for these paid blog templates).
Cheers,
David
April 26th, 2011 at 6:55 am
Perfect, these themes was excactly what I was looking for. I have a blog about sportsnutrition but would like a new theme.
May 1st, 2011 at 6:23 am
great!!! :3
May 4th, 2011 at 10:59 pm
Thanks for SEO friendly wordpress themes list……good work done!
May 9th, 2011 at 2:31 am
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May 13th, 2011 at 6:41 am
Thanks for a nice list.
May 14th, 2011 at 5:24 am
The templates that I need, thank for sharing
May 16th, 2011 at 5:27 am
thats very nice template, thanks
May 17th, 2011 at 7:41 am
Condominium can use value of your blog.
May 19th, 2011 at 12:43 pm
thanks for theme.
May 21st, 2011 at 9:22 pm
Nice Template ^_^
May 21st, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Thank you for This Template
Very nice . . . .
I made on photoshop backgrounds for myspace and youtube and whatever
Hope you had a good day and thank you again!
May 22nd, 2011 at 3:47 am
Thanks for the list. Very helpful.
May 26th, 2011 at 1:44 am
Thanks a lot
May 30th, 2011 at 10:32 am
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June 3rd, 2011 at 7:20 am
Thanks for this
June 3rd, 2011 at 7:21 am
I am going to use this wordpress seo all in one plugin for my site
June 4th, 2011 at 12:14 pm
Nice list of 5. I like the CopyBlogger one the best.
June 8th, 2011 at 5:29 am
thanks for these beautiful theme list..nice themes…
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June 9th, 2011 at 9:28 pm
Copyblogger Theme is quite pretty. Super themes thanks for sharing .
June 10th, 2011 at 4:29 am
Outstanding theme with amazing options.
June 20th, 2011 at 4:36 am
I look to find for my blog nice wp SEO themes, Any recommendations?
Thanks
June 21st, 2011 at 10:13 am
Good stuff!
July 2nd, 2011 at 2:17 pm
very good wordpress theme. thanks for share
July 5th, 2011 at 3:32 am
Thank for the informaion…
July 5th, 2011 at 9:45 am
I see a lot use prosense theme. May be it is the best free theme. Thank you for your sharing.
July 6th, 2011 at 7:01 pm
These are some decent themes, thanks for the list
July 11th, 2011 at 2:25 pm
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July 17th, 2011 at 3:31 am
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July 21st, 2011 at 11:55 pm
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July 21st, 2011 at 11:57 pm
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July 22nd, 2011 at 12:04 am
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July 22nd, 2011 at 12:08 am
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September 12th, 2011 at 3:19 am
is thesis theme free of cost …?
September 27th, 2011 at 4:27 am
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September 19th, 2012 at 3:57 am
Thanks for the post! I really like WordPress because of variety of themes, it's one of the main advantages. And it's great that most of them are available for free, it's cool that I do not need to spend money. But some premium are just great but probably I will need to take out payday advance to get one.
March 5th, 2013 at 8:45 am
Nice theme, will give a shot. Thanks.