"Ultimate WordPress Setup" Archive

Sitemaps are a necessity, both when it comes to strict SEO and also for satisfying your voracious readers. In both cases a sitemap becomes the trail of breadcrumbs that helps your reader and search engines find your content. And since a website is nothing but content, this is a good thing.
The plot thickens here somewhat [...]

Now that you’ve got your permalinks configured just right and are set up to ping all the proper directories, it’s high time we do a little more nip-and-tucking.

The next thing we need to do is arrange the way our posts are displayed, both in the browser’s title bar and in search engine results.

Background info: To ping is to notify sites that keep track of weblogs and publish them that your blog has been updated. Hence they crawl and index your site, publishing your blog contents, thus increasing your blog’s popularity. (description from pingoat)
When you add a new post to your blog it is definitely of benefit to [...]

Background info: Permalinks are the permanent links where your individual posts will be found on the web until the end of time.
To get to the proper location for changing your permalink structure, go into your WordPress administration area. This will be found at www.yoursite.com/wp-admin or wherever you keep your /wp-admin. From the Dashboard click [...]

When I began setting up my first blog on the WordPress platform I was blown away.
Up until that time I’d been using Blogger. And Blogger was fine, right up until the moment I made the mistake of wanting to, you know, do stuff with it.
Soon thereafter I discovered WordPress and within about thirty minutes had [...]