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• We are setting up a blog and want a robust template that is already SEO-friendly. There are a lot of options out there; do you have a recommendation for us that has good support, lots of custom bells and whistles, and which won't break as Wordpress updates down the road?

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You are certainly correct in your desire to implement a custom theme to set your blog apart. More importantly, finding something out of the box that is already as SEO-friendly as possible is a great help. In the past, SearchEngineNews.com has been big on recommending Wordpress as the one and only choice in self-hosted blog platforms.

The main reason for this recommendation is that the Wordpress platform can be made extremely SEO-friendly through the installation of suggested plug-ins. These plug-ins (some of which are covered in this past SEO byte) cover everything from giving users the ability set custom page titles for their posts, to showing related posts to users, to generating automatic Google sitemaps every time the blog is updated with new content.

Unfortunately, until a couple of years ago, there really wasn't a robust, SEO-friendly, out-of-the-box, Wordpress compatible theme that we could recommend. The majority of existing themes required the installation of dozens of different plug-ins OR lacked the support and template functionality to assure they never broke as Wordpress updated down the road...until now.

Enter Thesis. Thesis is hands-down the highest quality, most SEO-friendly, Wordpress-compatible blog template system available on the market today. It'...