this article is a pretty good starting point for opitimizing you site even though many of the plugins discussed here are with reference to WordPress 1.5

still, the general principles remain the same and could be applied to WordPress 2.0 sites as well, or any website for that matter.

at the moment, i don’t have any themes to recommend that are specifically optimized for search engines but i suspect that any theme can be tweaked to suit your needs.

a good idea would be to take a look a theme without any styles.

so on FF go to “View”->”Page Style”->”No Style”
or, for IE just temporarily comment out any stylesheet declarations in your page < head >. like <style type=”text/css” /> but put but put <!– –> symbols on either side.

you should see then see:
1. main content at the top of the page
2. first sidebar (if any) below main content
3. second sidebar (if any) below first sidebar

you also want to make sure navigation is somewhere not too far down the page so that search engine robots can find their way across (and index) as many of your pages as possible.

what is it specifically that you don’t like about the way seach engines are indexing your site?