SITEMAP :
A Sitemap is the list of pages on a website with the same domain.
- Sitemaps inform search engines about the changes in your website structure.
- They help bots with faster crawling and indexing.
- It helps search engines to index large websites with a lot of pages that are not well-structured or interlinked.
There are three types of sitemap:
- Human-visible listings.
- Typically hierarchical.
- Of the pages on a site.
HOW TO CREATE SITEMAP ON BLOGGER :
- Go to the setting.
- Select Google search console under crawlers and indexing.
- The first click Add property. By means of Domain [or] URL prefix.
- After adding your site property .sitemap option.
- Your site with URL is shown there you just simply add sitemap.xml into it.
WHAT IS XML?
XML – contains metadata together with the website’s URLs and all the information, including when a particular URL was last updated and how soon the changes occur, etc.
HOW TO CREATE SITEMAP ON WORDPRESS :
In WordPress sitemap is generated by a plugin called YOAST SEO
YOAST SEO :
Yoast SEO is one of the most popular plugins for improving WordPress website’s SEO. This plugin takes care of all the technical aspects related to content and helps you track the keyword density and readability. It can also assist you in creating XML sitemaps.
- Install Yoast SEO from the WordPress plugin directory.
- Once you’ve activated the plugin, navigate to SEO -> General in your WordPress dashboard, and enter the Features tab.
- Click the On Button below XML sitemaps. Then, click See the XML Sitemap link to generate XML sitemaps of your site.
- You will be redirected to a page containing a list of sitemap URLs of your site.
This plugin provides an easy way of generating a WordPress sitemap for a wide range of search engines. It can also create sitemaps for all WordPress pages and custom URLs. Furthermore, it automatically notifies all major search engines whenever new content is posted or published.
- Once the plugin is installed, open the configuration page by going to Settings -> XML-Sitemap. Here, you can find your WordPress sitemap URL.
How to Create an HTML Sitemap Page for WordPress?
Now, if you want to create an HTML sitemap page on your WordPress site, you can use the WP Sitemap Page plugin by following these steps:
- Install and activate the plugin. Set up a new page by clicking the Pages -> Add New.
- Add the following shortcode to where you want your HTML sitemap to be visible.
[wp_sitemap_page]
- Once you’re done, click Publish and visit its URL to preview your HTML sitemap.
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