Google sitemaps generator plugin for WordPress
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Building a sitemap is very useful as it informs search engines about pages on your website that are available for crawling. Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL so that search engines can more intelligently crawl your website. If you are using Wordpress this plugin does everything.
Main features:
- Customize all settings in Wordpress admin page
- Automatic sitemap generation for all types of pages
- Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments
- Tells Ask.com, Google and Yahoo about changes via ping
- Multi language support
Set it up:
- Download the plugin: google-sitemap-generator.zip
- Unzip and upload the folder to your plugin folder (usually: /wp-content/plugins/).
- Activate the plugin.
- Go to ‘Options -> Sitemap’ and customize it.
- Click on ‘Rebuild Sitemap’ to create your sitemap for the first time.
Tip: Make your blog directory writable OR create two files named sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz and make them writable via CHMOD. In most cases, your blog directory is already writable so you don’t need to do anything.
Plugin’s homepage.
