Is there anything more interesting than reading changelog of the latest wordpress update? I guess the answer would be NO to wordpress fans. Wordpress just released its latest wordpress 2.9 update, which resolved more than 500 tickets and bugs.

So let’s have a look at its core updates

What’s the easiest way to let search engines such as Google to crawl your website? The best SEO practice is to submit your website and sitemap of it to search engines. Yes, I know 99.9% of you know this basic knowledge. BUT, which sitemap format will you choose? HTML sitemap or XML sitemap?

Let’s see what Matt Cutts says on the video

If cannot see the video in the post, click here to watch.

Here I sum up Matt Cutts’ points

1. Google likes both HTML sitemap and XML sitemap
2. Google does not guarantee to crawl links from XML sitemap
3. HTML sitemap will definitely help Google to find links
4. Additionally,  Users prefer HTML sitemap (at least I do, I will show you later in this post)
5. If you can only create one sitemap, create HTML sitemap
6. If you can, do both HTML sitemap and XML sitemap

Well, I guess you know the answer already, maybe it varies for other search engines such as Bing, Yahoo. But if you wish your sitemap perform better in Google, you’d better create both, or at least HTML sitemap.

Plus, Mr.Google uses HTML sitemap as well, check it via http://www.google.com/sitemap.html

Do people really prefer HTML sitemap to XML sitemap?

I will showcase my website – seoblogmoney.com as an example.

what wordpress plugins should I use

“What wordpress plugin should I use?” This is the common question to those who are new to wordpress. From my experience, the thing you need to do is to find out what do you exactly blog and who do you want to blog to. Is your blog talking about professional design? Or is it just about your daily life? Once you answered two question above, then you are good to go.

For this blog, it is about my SEO experience gained by the projects I deal with and other top SEO blogs I subscribe. (I know you are very likely to be confused by my domain name, but I purchased this domain before I changed my mind. It was planned to blog about monetising the blog, but I think I need more experience and better to build my own from very beginning.) So I am blogging to those who are interested in SEO, PPC, Social Network etc, and this type of reader doesn’t really need over-edited blog or many fancy-looking functionalities.

Here I simply break my desired wordpress plugins down into 2 parts