Having shared what I’m sure many will regard as my paranoid suspicion about Google in the previous post about Google Analytics you might think my credibility is in shreds when I tell you to install Arne Brachold’s site map generator
An XML site map is one that just about all search engines and certainly the major search engines can read.
And if you traffic i.e. people, from the search engines it it only makes sense have this search engine friendlu site map.
This is not a listing of pages displayed to help visitors find your content that some people expect. This site map is written not in English but in XML.
This is an essential plugin – after all it supports the core purpose of your blog – communication.
It is also easy to install and configure.
Get it here
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/
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I had intended to blog about a different kind of plugin today but it’s getting late and I’ve just come across another “stats” plugin – Google Analytics. I wrote about ShortStat a few days ago. I was well aware of Google Analytics and I avoid it simply due to my aversion to having the biggest advertising company on the planet snooping on my blog.
Many people feel this way about Google; I do not have gmail and do not use a Google RSS reader for the same reason. If you do not share these reservations then go ahead and consider using the service.
You have two ways in which you may do so.
- You can install a Google Analytics plugin
- Or use an old fashioned copy and paste method.
Terry Dean shows us in this video how to use this latter method
And if you have experience in using stats plugins feel free to share them below
Resources; http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-google-analytics/
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