Sitemap Trivia

I down­loaded and installed a new plu­gin today, touted by some ran­dom, all-knowing site as one of the ESSENTIAL Word­Press plu­g­ins. It’s an auto­matic sitemap gen­er­a­tor and sitemap page builder. Sitemaps are cool tac­tics for attract­ing web crawlers and spi­ders that search your site so your pages will show up in web searches…which trans­lates into more traf­fic to your site.

So I’ve built a Sitemap page that gives vis­i­tors (and web crawlers and spi­ders) quick and easy access to all my con­tent. I’ve sub­mit­ted it to search engines, tweaked and uploaded a robots file to my root direc­tory and other sim­i­lar put­ter­ing around with SEO stuff. Truth is, I’m not quite sure what the heck I’m doing, or if I’m doing it right or wrong. I’m not so sure it is par­tic­u­larly wise to be post­ing this con­fes­sion on the world­wide web either…especially now that I have all this tech­nol­ogy in place to actu­ally DIRECT every­one TO this confession…or DO I? But I am.

If you know even less about all this stuff I’m talk­ing about than I do, I bet I STILL sound smart. Heh. If I keep my own prac­tice of “crawl­ing” the web for tid­bits of infor­ma­tion that may improve my own web-savvy and keep exper­i­ment­ing with stuff I’m learn­ing (or THINK I’m learn­ing), I’m BOUND to ACTUALLY learn some­thing sooner or later. Or not. But I will most cer­tainly SOUND as though I’ve learned some­thing. And after­all, appear­ances are everything…

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