Many webmasters install blog scripts and other scripts on their servers and never give them another thought as long as they work. I hope you aren’t. one.

There are many reasons scripts are upgraded by coders and improved functionality and security are just two of them.

If you install a WordPress script on your server and NEVER update it, you have missed some great enhancements and some very important bug and security fixes.

These security fixes are designed to reduce your vulnerability to hackers.

A couple of the major search engines have determined that people that put up spam blogs seldom, if ever, update their blogs so they have decided they will penalize these blogs OR not index them at all.