Comment on Blix AdSense WordPress Theme by SEO Dave.

WordPress Blix Theme The SEO optimisation of the new theme is much better, the first H1 header is no longer the blogs name, but the title of the post (from an SEO perspective much better).

View source of the home page or a monthly archive page and you get the original H1 type header (linking to the main page). These pages have no real keyword focus (home page should focus on the keywords used to name the blog). Category pages have the category name as the H1 header since that’s the main keyword/phrase those pages should be targeting.

I never liked how WordPress themes used a H1 header on all pages this way (not a good SEO use of them), but a solution didn’t come to me until recently.

I had similar misgivings about using headers on the menu as well, usually you’ll find a H2 (sometimes H3 or H4) headers used for sections on the menu. Unfortunately the sections names aren’t keywords (Pages, Archives, Categories, Blogroll, Meta etc…) and so the header SEO benefit was wasted.

This SEO problem is fixed in the new Blix theme (03) and all version 03 themes on the site above. Now menu sections receive no SEO benefit from headers allowing us to use a full set of headers within our posts for maximum SEO benefit.

David