Ok, it is not just me reminding clients to upgrade their wordpress site.  Now GOOGLE is doing it via Google Webmaster tools!  This is cool! Should minimize hackers!  -Tom

Google Notifying Webmasters To Update WordPress Blogs.

Ok Google made this change on the SAME DAY I was doing a seminar with a company to explain how to best use Google Webmaster Tools… and I was thrown for a loop briefly before figuring out how they combined a bit of Google Analytics into it… this is cool. Be sure to read the article!

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Top Search Queries is now Search Queries with Average Position and Stars.

Hmmm this will make things easier for submitting sitemaps to Google Webmaster Tools for sure!

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Sitemaps: One file, many content types.

Site speed is king… is your site optimized for speed?! Or is it on a slow dog of an overloaded server?  Hopefully this will force slow sites to the bottom of the heap for search… I recommend using the YSlow tool in Firefox to diagnose these issues… lots of these are coding issues… but sometimes an optimized database can cause delays…  anyways… pay attention this is a good vid from Google

Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: You and site performance, sitting in a tree….