I never thought that I would care about SEO (Search Engine Optimization), but having a blog has made me obsess over it a bit. One of the best tools is by far the Sitemap protocol. Making a sitemap.xml file is very easy especially if you use a generator of some kind, there are many, but I use the WordPress plug-in by Arne Brachhold.
The standard introduced by Google has also been adopted by Yahoo!, Microsoft and Ask.com so it’s definitely worth your while. It basically describes the pages in your site that you want indexed and there is even a way to let search engines know when your sitemap file has been updated.
example link:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/ping?sitemap=www.pmko.net/sitemap.xml
