Originally Posted by jchunk

Well, wordpress is NOT seo'd out-of-the-box. You have to change the url, etc. But with a few plugins you can do a good job. Read this post (it's dutch, but just follow the links to the plugins): SEOKING.nl » Zoekmachine optimalisatie voor Wordpress blogs

For wordpress there are some quite nifty plugins, like one that's automatically making certain words clickable and points them to another of your blogpostings. These are quite handy and can be good for internal linking, etc.

I use ExpressionEngine - Publish Your Universe! by the way. Very flexible and seo friendly. Not free, but for the long term sites i would definitly go with EE.