by Jennifer Laycock

A round-up of interesting posts, resources and articles from around the web today. From site maps to link bait to the Google/Yahoo deal, find out what stories I thought were interesting enough to share with you today.

- Barry does a nice job of recapping a recent Google Groups discussion on Google Sitemaps and whether or not you need to create one for your site. I'm with Barry on this one...I'd rather fix the issues that cause a site to have problems in Google than rely on a site map, but also understand that with some sites, you need the "quick fix" option. Take a read and decide for yourself.

- Matt McGee has launched a new reader mailbag over at SmallBusinessSEM.com. He's got a column up today from a national company with local franchises who asks about...

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by Stoney deGeyter

This is a continuation of the questions I was asked during a webinar presentation on website architecture. Before and during he presentation I was submitted over 70 question and each week I've been answering a handful of them. You can check out Parts one, two, three, four and five. Each of these Q&A has a lot of good information covering a variety of topics. Let's continue with the next round of questions...

How do you rank WordPress as a CMS?

-- Scott

It depends on the context of your question. Like any CMS Wordpress has it's pros and cons. But the question is, what do you want to do with it? As a blogging platform Wordpress is great. I like that fact that it is open source allowing plugins to be created fairly easily. You can get Wordpress to do just...

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