If you're interested in SEO, or are seriously looking into the WordPress blogging platform, this video should be of interest to you. It features Google's Search Guru, Matt Cutts, at this summer;s WordCamp in San Francisco. Just for starters here is a quote that he came out with:
WordPress takes care of 80-90% of (the mechanics of) Search Engine Optimization (SEO)
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