Comments on: Judging the WordPress Google Sitemap Plugins – Redux

By: Julian

Julian — Mon, 05 Feb 2007 04:10:58 +0000

Alister Cameron talks about how Google Sitemaps are not really required. It's certainly worth a read for bloggers. I am thrilled that he links to this page to let people know about the available Google Sitemap WordPress plugins. I am not quite so thrilled that, perhaps unintentionally, he makes it sound like I am an example of (a) someone who considers such a plugin a must-have, and (b) someone who doesn't really know why. I don't consider such a plugin a must-have. In fact, in my first post on the subject. over 18 months ago, I wondered whether Google Sitemaps would be worth the effort:

If you do absolutely nothing, Google will probably get your web-site mostly right anyway.

I think this is a remarkably similar position to Alister's. However, in my second post on the subject, I identified an advantage of sitemaps. So, while I don't think they are a must-have plugin, I do know why I want one!

By: Advanced Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for Wordpress » Alister Cameron, Blog Consultant

Mon, 05 Feb 2007 02:42:15 +0000

[...] (Predicting someone’s question: no, I don’t care for, or believe in Google Sitemaps. What I believe in is a blog that has every piece of important content on a sitemap page, which is linked to from the menu/s of every page on the site. If you’ve got that, you don’t need a Google Sitemap. I suspect people who include the Google Sitemap plugins in their list of must-have plugins don’t really know why!) [...]

By: Alastair

Alastair — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 00:17:49 +0000

Just FYI, it seems that Google have changed the sitemaps format slightly. I don’t know how or when they did this but on logging into my google webmaster page, I found that my previously-valid sitemap now contained many errors.

I don’t know how or when they did this, and the protocol page seems to be broken right now so I can’t find out more.

In any case you might want to check and if required update your wordpress plugin.

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[...] On Coding Horror, Jeff Atwood talks about the effectiveness of CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA? You know, those weird pictures of letters on popular web-sites you need to type in to prove you are human and not someone who interferes with elephants. [...]

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By: Why Do I Bother?

Why Do I Bother? — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 05:23:27 +0000

Sitemap Follow-up

Julian has a review of plug-ins for wordpress that will take care of your sitemap creation in a much more automated way. If you run a wordpress blog you really ought to take a look. Thanks, Julian!
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By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 18 Oct 2005 09:42:35 +0000

It looks like Tim Buckley, of the CTRL+ALT+DEL blog and online comic, had a similar issue. His variant of my ad hominem attack is to suggest his opponent sodomizes giraffes.

By: Julian

Julian — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 21:38:54 +0000

Good thinking, Aristotle. Done.

By: Aristotle Pagaltzis

Aristotle Pagaltzis — Tue, 13 Sep 2005 19:06:46 +0000

But thanks to the Google initiative, you could still add rel="nofollow" to your link and be secretly childish! Isn’t technology great?