So you create a blog or church website. Next you have to be concerned about how well the search engine bots will inex your site. Not a problem with wordpress. Google has a great plugin that automatically takes care of the problem. Nice.

One of the advantages of wordpress (and other blogging tools) is that an RSS feed is automatically created when news or other items are posted and this new info is then pinged to various sites that record updated websites.

By using wordpress this process is automated, and there is no longer a need to wait for visitors to stumble across the updates or to wait for the googlebot to visit, because they can subscribe to the feed and receive notifications.

However, search engines do not appear to use updated feeds to determine when they crawl a site, but have there own methods. Google has recently introduced a sitemap feature so that webmasters can provide information to the googlebot for more complete searches.

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