13+ SEO Friendly WordPress Themes to Rank Well In 2018

March 25, 2018 Evan Hoeflich Leave a comment

Ranking a website in the major search engines depends heavily on the SEO work done by the digital marketing professional. A website, which is optimized with the latest SEO best practices, can perform well in Google and other important search engines. Poorly optimized websites usually have a lower ranking in Google, high-bounce rate, and provide a poor user experience for visitors.

WordPress already has some built-in SEO features, which can help a lot with your overall SEO strategy. If you use an SEO-friendly WordPress theme for your website, it increases the effectiveness of your SEO approach and gives you a leg up on the competition. So if you are looking for an appropriate SEO-friendly WordPress theme, we put together the perfect list of the 13 best themes out there today:

1.) SEO WP

This theme is a gift to all professional WordPress bloggers and website owners. You can create all types of WordPress websites/blogs using this theme. It is fully optimized for SEO and is compatible with the latest SEO guidelines of Google. It is responsive to all mobile devices also, which is essential for good ranking of websites in Google’s SERP. Several things in this theme, such as meta tags, HTML structure etc, are organized to best suit the search engines and your website.

2.) Lighthouse Blog

To be a successful WordPress blogger is the dream of millions of people all around the world. But, only a few of them get the desired accomplishment. If you want to see success as a blogger, choosing an SEO-friendly theme is vital and should be taken seriously. This theme here is fully optimized for SEO and has more than 70 settings. Your website will load fast on all devices and will give viewers the optimal view.

3.) Mr. SEO

This is an SEO friendly and social media theme for all professional WordPress website owners and bloggers. This theme makes your website naturally SEO-friendly and compliments your SEO work with its various features, such as Extensive typography options, Social Icon widget, Call to Action short code, etc. It includes a child theme also. This means you can easily customize your website and give it a favorite look to attract more customers towards your website/blog.

4.) Marketer

Marketer is another SEO friendly WordPress theme with lots of customization options. You can customize this theme as per your needs and create all types of various styles of WordPress websites. Its flat design and responsive layout will make your website stand out and visitors come back. It is Cross Browser Compatible and has Google Fonts.

5.) Luxury Travel

A good number of people love to travel around the world, explore new things, enrich their knowledge, and make friendly relationships with the people belonging to other religions, languages, cultures, etc. You can potentially make big profits if you create a WordPress travel website using this theme. The Luxury Travel theme is coded very well and loads quickly on all mobile devices. It has SEO features and social media options that help you tremendously in your SEO efforts and enables you to get the desired outcome in an easier way.

6.) Magazine Newspaper

This is an ideal theme for news organizations, media persons, journalists that run news websites with the WordPress CMS. Use this theme to create compelling news websites and leave your competitors behind using its pre-installed SEO features. This theme can also be used for creating other types of WordPress websites/blogs outside of the news industry.

7.) Hotel Resort

Use this theme to create an SEO friendly WordPress website for your hotel/restaurant business and serve a large number of customers with your solid web-presence. You can easily optimize your website using its SEO features and ensure it is up to date with the latest fixes.

8.) Envo Business

With business organizations going online with websites/blogs, having a feature-rich website portal on a low investment always seems like a challenging job. Why don’t you use a WordPress site for your business? Use this theme to create an attractive business website with just a few clicks. Its SEO friendly features work as a catalyst in your SEO practices and help you to increase the ranking of your website on all major search engines.

9.) VT Blogging

VT blogging is a free, but dedicated theme for the creation of WordPress blogs and websites. It is fully responsive to all mobile and hand-held devices, which means your website will rank better in Google’s SERP and help you generate more business from smaller screens. Using its customization options, you can make important changes to your website and make it more authentic for visitors.

10.) VW Ecommerce Shop

E-commerce SEO is not an easy task as even the most experienced digital marketing professionals face several difficulties to stabilize the ranking of E-commerce websites. If you want to run a small and medium scale E-commerce business enterprise, use this theme to create your website. Its SEO friendly features work as a companion when you compete heavily with your competitors and aid in higher search engine rankings.

11.) Corporate Plus

With this theme, you can create awesome websites for corporate organizations, companies, and business firms. This simple, but attractive theme comes with several customization options, allowing you to tweak your website to your liking. You can also use this theme to create other types of websites as well. With its SEO-friendly features, you can boost the effectiveness of your SEO campaign to bring in more organic traffic to your website.

12.) The WP Fitness

This is an ideal theme for anyone who runs health and fitness clubs. With this theme, they can setup a great website for their fitness centers quickly and easily. The WP Fitness theme is SEO-friendly by default. So, it works as a helping hand and enables you to boost the ranking of your health/fitness website on all major search engines.

13.) Bloger

Desperately searching for a feature-rich and SEO friendly theme for your WordPress blog? If yes, then switch to this theme. You not only get an awesome looking blog but also it offers top-notch SEO features as well.

Author Bio:

Lauren Mclaren works as a website designer and blogger at Digital Muscle Limited which is an SEO Company in Sydney. She loves writing about new updates and trends related to WordPress and SEO Technologies.

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