Comments on: plugins

By: Carey_PA

Carey_PA — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:15:47 +0000

Quick question. If I already created a sitemap and uploaded it already then do I need to sitempap plug-in? Or in general does the plug-in take the place of manually creating it and uploading it, etc.?

Thanks,

Carey

By: Di

Di — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 15:51:50 +0000

Wow! is all I can say. I’ve learned more in the past couple days than I have in a LONG time. And that’s not because I don’t stay up to date on web “stuff” but it is obvious that too much of it is bad for what ails me.
Back to basics! Why waste time fixing when it can be done correctly the first time? Arigato Craig! This blog is outstanding and jam packed with valuable information.
Already installed the “All in one SEO package” and I really like the fact that the post URLs can be edited to reflect the keywords. Just installed the Google sitemap plugin. Indexed the whole thing in record time because the blog only has 60 posts. Yesterday, I published the first post with a ‘trackback’! Can’t wait to see the results of all these improvements to my blog.
Only missing ingredient? Traffic! ;0)

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 04:15:40 +0000

Excellent Rob! Thank you for a well written explanation of site maps.

Thanks

By: Rob Favero - Baptism for Children

Rob Favero - Baptism for Children — Fri, 18 Jul 2008 03:53:30 +0000

I’d like to recommend that everyone install a Google sitemap plugin. A sitemap is a special file that goes on your blog site (or any type of web site) that tells Google what pages are on your blog. It gets updated by the plugin every time you make a new post.

The reason this plugin is so valuable is because it typically will get your pages indexed in Google (and probably other search engines) much faster than any other method will. Before I started using a sitemap on various web sites I have, I could wait days or weeks to get any of my pages indexed whenever I started a new web site or added new pages.

Now that I use sitemaps, my pages get indexed much, much quicker, sometimes within hours (though you might occasionally have some pages that will never get indexed).

A sitemap is only useful if you update it when you have new pages and then notify Google that the sitemap has new entries. The nice thing about the Google plugin is that it does both of these things automatically for you.