SEO and Sitemaps go hand in hand. A sitemap keeps a list of your pages, and if it is in XML format, will automatically generate an updated Sitemap every time you add a new page in your website or page in your blog, and notify the search engines (that your sitemap is setup to submit to). A sitemap is a highly effective tool for SEO! WordPress is a common blog and website software and format. It is also very popular because it is so well supported, and because of being one of the earliest forms of blog software. Because WordPress was one of the first blog formats available, and it was designed for a lot of third party plug ins that are available, and functionality is excellent with wordpress!
Sitemaps can be easy to install, especially for programs like wordpress. Within these third party plug ins to WordPress, easily installed Sitemap plug ins! Sitemaps notify search engines instantaneously. I have posted blogs such as this one, to find the page showed up in Google Blog search, about as fast as I can hit “publish” and create the page.
With sitemaps for your website, the first place it ends up is in Google Blog Pages, then hits the Google Search engine. I believe it does the same for other Search Engines too, as my Sitemap submits the sites to MSN (Bing), Google, and Yahoo, and a couple of other Search Engines. To view the Google Blog section, go to the “More” option at the top of google while doing a search. Down that drop list is the Blog section. It is not that hard to come up, and does start there, but will end up on the main Google web search position quiclky, assuming the rest of your SEO and page code is working well for you. To check new pages, simply highlight and copy your title, and paste that in Google search.This is the example of this page. It took about 2 minutes to be available in the google search engine blog search. The 1 hour ago, is the the smallest time frame they quote, so you will never see minutes, just in hours of time. One hour is still not bad, although it was on about 58 minutes before the hour was up!
Here is an example of this very page, within two minutes from when I posted it.
SEO is the function of Search Engine Optimization, so an instant submission to primary search engines is absolutely a benefit to SEO, no question about it. With the immediate submission, I don’t think there is any doubt that Sitemaps help SEO tremendously! I watch my submissions to the search engines quite frequently, mentally being an SEO advocate. Sometimes when I post a blog, I can get a submission within seconds. It will already search under the keywords that are used in the topic I am writing about. I get a charge out of that, with SEO in place within seconds of launching a new page or topic.
Google has a section in Webmaster Tools about Sitemaps, and encourage the use of such, so the search engines have the most accurate and recent information available. Sitemaps help by doing your part in helping searchc engines to see that you are Search Engine Listed immediately with your content for fresh information. That is what the function of the internet is for, in it’s best form, immediate and fresh availability of information. Sitemaps.
Enjoy the benefits of sitemaps for search, increased traffic on new postings, SEO, search engine optimization, traffic, and getting listed as fast and quickly as possible. Isn’t that what SEO, search engine optimization is all about?
SEO is dead. I have heard that. Do you use Sitemaps? Do you use Multiple Domain Names? This is a part of a large picture called SEO or Search Engine Optimization. I read all kinds of blogs about SEO from other websites. (with this obsession to SEO and website success that I have) I love hearing about how things don’t work; like this, multiple domain names, other techniques. I guess if everyone knows what we do, it would be too competitive for anyone to do any good. Glad we know what we do.
Self proclaimed SEO experts can make up rules and refuse to do certain things, scaring people to think it is black hat. We run by the book and typically there is a right way to do everything you are trying to achieve. This one is another one that the Search Engines recommend for SEO!
Keep your intent clean with organic and natural information that the web is used for, publish it only once, (no duplication), and there are many SEO techniques that get you to the first page. If your website is not on the first page, you aren’t there in our opinion… By: SEODomainNames.com
You can make your blog fully automated using WizardRSS. It will get the full RSS feeds from any website (even if they only show partial). WizardRSS even has their own free WordPress autoblogging plugin. They also have a ton of other autoposters for different types of websites. You can find their Full Text RSS Feed Generator and all of their autoposters here: http://www.wizardrss.com
Niice! Great info Wizardsrss. We have installed Carp, and use it for our newsfeeds. Thanks for telling us about this very valuable type service to webmasters and wordpress bloggers that want to add feeds from other sites or add an internal index through a feed within the same site. We do both.
We also use WordPress, so the newsfeed plugin that you suggest is highly valuable to bloggers or any site that uses WordPress. You can see our rss feed above on the entries.rss link, in our sign up section above. This has a generic format when you click on it and see it, but will take the look of the page through your style sheet or page style that you have embedded.
Newsfeeds can come from any RSS source, including Search Engine Newsfeeds, blogs with the rss feed in which we do use in some websites. Here is a real interesting idea here for a specialty waterfront real estate site that we started for http://www.rockthat.com, which the real estate ads in the WordPress blog show up on our index page. The index page is an XHTML static page, but the newsfeed script is installed in the area in which we want it to show up. This is an example on how we have used the rss feed from the blog, and put it on our home page.
Thanks WizardRSS, we appreciate you guys mentioning your service. I love plug-ins, use them for sitemaps, SEO conical addresses, and now our audience can try your RSS feed plug in option too!
RSS is live feeds, constantly updating as long as the news feed or blog feed is updated, so is an excellent option to help drive traffic to your website using RSS feeds, as well as a great service to your customers. We have http://www.iOutdoorSports.com, news for the outdoor sports enthusiasts.
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After reading this post, I just wanted to let everyone know about WizardRSS. WizardRSS.com works with absolutely any autoblogging, autoposting, or content generation plugin for absolutely any software (WordPress, Blogger, etc.). All you have to do is enter the RSS feed you want to get the full content from into the generator at WizardRSS.com. Then, WizardRSS will redirect you to a new URL that you can always use for getting the full text rss feed. I have tried WizardRSS with almost every autoblogging and autoposting software and it works for every single one of them. You can see their website here: http://www.wizardrss.com
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