Okay, I admit I read those “For Dummies” books. Truth is, I LOVE ‘em, but for the record, when it comes to wordpress.org, there’s a chapter missing.
I’ve set up a few websites here and there. A few blogs, but I’ve never had a problem getting indexed in Google and Yahoo until I set up my Wordpress.org blog. The one your reading now.
At first it was business as usual. I set up this blog, posted a couple entries, pinged and the following day, vuala. There I am, indexed in the search engines.
……………It lasted about a day, then it totally vanished.
Sure, I could have used Googles Blogger program for a blog. I could use Wordpress.com, But noooooooo. I had to be a big shot! I had to look like I was in the know and use the “Big Shot” blog with all the fancy plug-ins and htlm B.S. that comes with the wordpress.org choice.
In a nutshell, that’s all cool, but without a site map? Useless.
Why Isn’t anyone talking about this?
I went from the top pages of the Google and Yahoo search engines, to being removed from the indexes completely because I didn’t have a site map in the directory of my blog. What’s a site map and who cares?
A site map is a file in a blogs directory that the search engines crawl to make sense of content and without it, a wordpress.org blog gets removed completely from the search engines. That’s the simple explanation and if you don’t have one, click on the link in my blogroll to get it.
Happy Blogging!
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