<div dir="ltr">The point of the guideline is that the name isn't actually a keyword, nor a search term. In other words, using "SEO" stuff like that for the names *doesn't work*. You can try all you like, but it's a false sense of the game.<br>
<br>Names are not important as keywords or search terms. That isn't how search works. That isn't how keywords work. And anybody who tells you differently is selling something.<br><br>The most important thing to improve in your theme, for search results, is the description. The name is a couple of words. The description is a bit longer and more useful.<br>
<br>The truth is that as far as search and ranking goes, names don't matter. But as far as user-recognition goes, they matter quite a lot. One of the most consistently popular themes is "Atahualpa". Heck of a name there. It's a *great* search term because of it's uniqueness though. It's in the top 10-20 themes, and has been there consistently for many, many years. I am constantly running into sites using Atahualpa as their theme. New sites. It gets a lot of traction. Another popular theme: "Graphene". A few more in the top 30: "Avada", "Thesis", "Divi", "Customizr", "Suffusion", "Clean Frog", "Mantra"... Seeing any pattern here?<br>
<br>SEO keywords in the name are a bad idea because *they don't work*, not because it's spammy. My concern is not to ban SEO-seeded names, but to explain to people why they're a really dumb idea. They don't help anything; they don't improve your search results. The theme name of "Responsive" is an outlier and one of only two in the top 100 that could be considered to have a name with a keyword in it. The next one down is "Portfolio Press", at around rank 90 or so.<br>
<br>-Otto<br><br><br><br>On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 1:09 PM, Srikanth Koneru <<a href="mailto:tskk79@gmail.com">tskk79@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Otto, you are agreeing "premium photography" is a bad SEO attempt, but that guideline says names should not have SEO keywords.<br>
> So tomorrow is someone submits "premium responsive photography" is that acceptable? When does it become spam? Just curious.<br></div>