Find out how to check if your WordPress Theme is SEO optimized
POSTED IN SEOAlmost 99.9% of WordPress Theme Developers out there say that their wordpress theme is SEO optimized. But not all of them really are, even expensive premium themes. All they do is recommend the installation of All-in-One SEO Pack. But in my opinion, All-in-One SEO Pack is so not enough to make your WordPress theme SEO optimized especially if the template tags are messed up themselves.
If you want to make it easier I guess All-in-One SEO Pack is a good plugin. But as I have mentioned previously All-in-One SEO Pack cannot fix messed up H1 tags that are in your theme. And these tags is important in SEO.
The following is a step-by-step method on how to check if your WordPress theme is SEO Optimized:
1. Install the Web Developer Plugin for Firefox, this only works in Firefox so if you dont have it you better install it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/60
2. Visit your site after you enabled the theme.
4. Click on CSS > Disable Styles > All Styles on the Web Developer Toolbar or simply press Ctrl-Shift-S.
What this does is strip out all the javasript and css styling in your website. Something like what a google bot will do when it crawls your site.
Now to know if that theme is SEO Optimized, the Title or your main keyword should be at the very top of the webpage after you disabled styling. Some themes will show your logo first with no keyword. But in my opinion its better if your main keyword is the first one up there. And as much as possible your main content should go before the sidebar and the footer.
H1 Tags
From my knowledge in SEO there should only be one H1 tag occuring in any given page. This is where most themes mess up your SEO. In past I used for a blog 6 H1 tags in the home page, the Blog Title and the recent posts were all tagged with H1. I tried searching my post through google and the first result that came up was from my homepage and did not direct me to where the actual post was, this was pretty weird and messed up till I found out about the H1 tags.
To check this just press Ctrl + U on your browser and then Ctrl + F and find how many H1 tags there are in the page your viewing.
In the homepage the H1 should be your main keyword, while on the post page the post title should be wrapped in H1 tag.
Well I guess that’s it. Also dont forget about the meta description, and meta keywords tag on your header, as this is a pretty big factor in SEO, but talk about this next time 
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