When picking out a new WordPress theme, there are a lot of factors to consider. Do you want a 2-column theme or a 3-column theme? What about AJAX comments? Maybe you want specific colors? No matter what your preference is, one of the main factors you should probably consider is how search engine friendly your theme is going to be.
There are a lot of techniques that theme designers can use when creating their theme to help optimize it for search engines, and several authors have taken the time to do so. Here are what I feel are the best search engine optimized WordPress themes:
2-Column Search Engine Optimized WordPress Themes
Slick Blue Theme (Advertising Ready, SEO Friendly)
Sodelicious Theme
Modern Blue Green Theme
YourBlog 2.0 Theme
PassionDuo Theme (3 Colors)
Green: Demo | Download, Red: Demo | Download, Blue: Demo | Download
Yakuter Tema 2.0 Theme
3-Column Search Engine Optimized WordPress Themes
Big Blue Theme
Redie 3.0 Theme
Ambient Glo Theme
ProSense Theme
Source | Download (Orange, Blue, and Gray) | Demo
Cutline Theme
Courtney Tuttle has posted a great collection of SEO Friendly WordPress themes. It looks like these are existing WordPress themes that were modified to be more search engine friendly.
Have a search engine optimized WordPress theme you’d like to see included in this list? Feel free to comment below with a link and I’ll see about it getting added!
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Thanks for releasing this version. 
As your site has a lot of widgets, so I think it will significantly reduce the server usage. 
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Hey Man,
Loved the post, I was just wondering, what makes a theme optimized for search engines?
Would my theme thats on WizzHack count as an Optimized Theme,
Thanks,
Neil,
Good question. SEO is an in-exact science, but there are several things a theme designer can do to try to optimize their theme for search engines.
Some examples include using permalinks for your titles, providing function calls for popular SEO plugins so they work without any coding by the user, and proper use of headers to emphasize your post titles.
Once that is done, it is up to the theme user to do the extra stuff such as install the SEO plugins they want to use, create a Sitemap and Robots.txt, and make any additional tweaks.
Thanks got the explanation
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Neil
Too many themes for choosing. I do not know which is best to my blog. How can I do now. Your works are very great. Thank you very much indeed. Now I don’t worry about choosing which is best. I can earn money from now.
I love a good seo wordpress theme. I’m really looking for an seo wordpress theme that has each blog entry on the main index separated from each other. Anyone know of a good seo wordpress theme like this? Something plain (yet attractive) and seo’d?
Out of all themes listed, at first glance I like Modern Blue Green Theme, Redie 3.0 and Ambient Glo most. The Ambient looks especially intriguing to me. Right now I can’t decide which I like best. Ah, the choice is a hard thing…
@lovetheme there are many posts out there regarding how to use effective wordpress themes here are some links http://wpport.com/blog/wordpress-stuff/wordpress-themes-selecting-an-effective-theme-by-gobala-krishnan
These themes are awesome! Thanks for sharing this collection.
I love awesome wp themes, but must still a good seo support performance..
Thank you for share this useful information …