WordPress Web Design

In 2005, Google introduced the XML sitemap format, and in 2006 it was adopted by Yahoo, Bing, and Ask. This gave publishers a standard format to follow for creating one sitemap that the top search engines could use. You can find specifics about the protocol at www.sitemaps.org Because blogs can become very large, a sitemap is often needed to ensure that the major search engines can locate, crawl, and index each individual web page. However, creating a sitemap by hand every time you make a new blog posts gets very boring and redundant. Thankfully, a WordPress plugin called Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress takes all the work out of maintaining an up-to-date sitemap. Once the plugin is correctly installed, your sitemap is automatically rebuilt each time you make a new post. Not only that, the plugin also pings the major search engines to alert them that you have updated your sitemap and added new content. This should bring the search-engine spiders to your site, and then direct them to… Read More »WordPress Sitemap Generator

WordPress started in 2003 with a single bit of code to enhance the typography of everyday writing and with fewer users than you can count on your fingers and toes. Since then it has grown to be the largest self-hosted blogging tool in the world, used on millions of sites and seen by tens of millions of people every day. Everything you see from the documentation to the code itself, was created by and for the community. WordPress is an Open Source project, which means there are hundreds of people all over the world working on it. (More than most commercial platforms.) It also means you are free to use it for anything from your cat’s home page to a Fortune 500 web site without paying anyone a license fee and a number of other important freedoms. About WordPress.org At www.wordpress.org you can download and install a software script called WordPress. To do this you need a web host who meets the minimum requirements and a little time. WordPress is… Read More »About WordPress