WordPress for most people allows you to set up a website without any technical knowledge. Above all else WordPress, easily allows anyone to run their own blog on the Internet.
In a correctly operating blog, new posts are updated in Google within minutes of their being published. Therefore, there is no need for a Google sitemap other than as a way to encourage Google to indexed skipped posts and blog pages.
Content is effectively presented both to visitors as well as to the search engines. Further all of its content is accessible due to a built in search feature. Exploring this SEO blog is never boring because each page looks different from the next, is focused on presenting text, and contains real content of interest to readers looking for search engine optimization information.
If your WordPress blog is offering real content, then why not provide a search feature that actually works like the Google search engine, but only better?
I cannot say that I really appreciate being screwed over by Google and/or WordPress. No matter what their official position states. Both operations are extremely buggy, in the opinion of John H. Gohde.
WordPress blogs have an optional excerpt field that should always be filled out. Google is aware of it. Use it as an alternate description tag. Bloggers should use it as a teaser that uniquely introduces each new post without duplicating the content of the actual post.
If you set up your blog to ping then your posts will be added to Google within minutes of their publication. First, your optional excerpt will be added to Google’s blog index. After a few more minutes your new post will be added to Google’s web index. And, your home page will likewise be updated in Google’s web index.
I have come across another great SEO plugin that appears to offer some really great features. It is the second SEO plugin being used by this WordPress blog, on a trial basis. The Robots Meta plugin comes highly recommended for its nofollow features.
This SEO blog has several different looks. Uses several new plugins. And, a long standing problem with WordPress blogs has also been corrected.
John H. Gohde is happy to announce that there is still plenty of life left in this blog. Sphinn Central should be glad to hear about this since John will be reporting on the underbelly of Search Marketing in future posts.
Be smart and let WordPress do all the work for you. Plus, your trackbacks will now be reciprocal links when you elect to make them transparent.
Probably the biggest weakness of WordPress is that doing almost any type of tweaking of your site can result in your webpages going completely blank. Make too many changes at one time, and if your site suddenly goes blank then you got real trouble on your hands.
Successful use of WordPress requires good problem solving skills. Constantly solving one problem after another problem is good exercise for your brain. With WordPress, there is always a new bug showing its ugly head that needs to be fixed right away.
Rather than being corrected long ago, there are serious display bugs that are being passed along from one theme to the next by their developers. Do these people know anything at all about CSS? I rather doubt it.