It makes your new posts get listed much quicker on Google Index. Not sure if it helps SEO, but who knows.

I use Google Sitemap plugin http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-home/ on my website. There are a few of such plugins out there, I happen to use that one for no specific reason.

This theme comes with the option to add a sitemap page but I have not enabled the sitemap – are you saying I should for SEO? I don’t really want to link to it from the Nav bar but I could always have it just sitting there I guess.

Which plugins should I have? Currently I am using All in one SEO Pack optimisation and Robot Meta.
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I wonder how WordPress.com SEO is compared to when hosting your own WordPress. When you host your own WordPress, you can tweak a lot of things. That includes ability to install some SEO plugins and sitemap plugin (which will make your post appear much quicker on Google index).

Nice youtube by Jason Ma: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=73kZ6wBoqTk

I have not bothered with putting Stumble and Twitter buttons here yet as no one appeared to ever use the Stumble button – MandM only has 3 StumbleUpon reviews and I know that not one of them came from the Stumble buttons I had on the blogger version of MandM. If you have a Stumble account Jonny (anyone…) I’d really appreciate a review of MandM – I’ll give you one back!

I may install Tweetmeme here; I just wish it was not lime green.

The site definitely loads quicker here I am just really peeved after hearing all the hype about WP having superior SEO to Blogger to see our page rank dive to 4.
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I am a computer heretic, and my ignorance in such matters is never bliss, but when I am in the backend in my WordPress enabled site, feverishly typing away, one of the tab options, just above where one types, gives me the option to “Paste from Word”… I am thinking, or thinking I am, that such may be what you are after, as such should, theoretically, work to eliminate cross-pollination issues (it seems never to be that simple).

If you have that option, it may be messianic!

The loading of your site is much quicker on W-Press… blogger is a sluggard in this area, particularly.

Onward and upward!

With Blogger, Matt could write a post in word and I could copy and paste it over and click post. All formatting, links, everything would come over with one click.

Here, I edited Matt’s Sunday Study which he wrote in Word to have blockquote and a and i tags. Then I copied it, pasted it into notepad (cause I have already learned that no way can you paste from Word) deselected it, reselected it and copied and pasted it into the html editor. Visually it looked fine. I posted it and it looked like crap when it was live and the handcrafted link were gone.

When I went back to edit there was all this html rubbish code through it and all the paragraphs were morphed into one giant paragraph. I fixed that and reposted it and some paragraphs were fully justified and some were not. Now I am stripping all the div’s out that it scattered throughout (I sure did not put them in) and am trying again. ARGH!

WordPress need to seriously work on their editor. If you cannot copy and paste from notepad without it screwing up and if the visual editor and the preview function lie about what the actual thing is going to look like then you have a problem that needs fixing.

Equally frustrating as I go back through all the imported posts are the sheer number that are sitting poorly or that have mucked up spaces between paragraphs. Blogger at least has that over WordPress – even when it mysteriously added html rubbish to your posts they still displayed properly and you could take it out without it persistently putting them back in.
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