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Google XML Sitemap for Wordpress

If you’re interested in optimizing your blog, you can make it much easier for search engines to crawl by adding a sitemap written on an XML page. The standard way of doing this involves creating a static XML page by taking a snapshot of your site at one time. However, the Google XML Sitemaps Generator for Wordpress will create an excellent quality sitemap for you which dynamically and automatically updates whenever new pages or posts are added to your blog.

Take a look at mine: http://www.adammoss.co.uk/sitemap.xml

Google XML Sitemap for Wordpress

It is downloadable as a simple plugin which just requires activation and submission from the Wordpress dashboard area. It results in a clean-looking, well presented and anchored list of your pages, with additional details of when it was last updated. Once installed you don’t need to do anything. It really is a must-have plugin for any serious blogger out there who wants respectable search rankings, so it comes highly recommended from me.

Download the plugin here: Download Plugin

  1. June 5th, 2008 at 14:06 | #1

    That’s a great app! One of the most annoying things about managing a growing website is to constantly go back and update the sitemap.xml file. Not that it’s difficult or anything, but for some reason it just bugs me!

    Are there any similar apps out there for non-WP websites?

    ~Graham

  2. June 9th, 2008 at 17:54 | #2

    Isn’t “monthly” a value that would moke Googlebot come too rarely to your blog? I mean, this will make comments indexed too rarely and thus prevent you from being repositioned in the SERPs not too often.

  3. June 10th, 2008 at 08:46 | #3
    Perhaps you’re right Veliko, but you are given the option to increase the regularity of updates to all types of pages on the site within the plugin options, so it shouldn’t be a problem. Certainly for SEO regular updates of content cause Google to act favourably, so this is probably an action you’d want to take.
  4. June 10th, 2008 at 18:25 | #4

    Thanks for the great advice adam, I was wondering how to go about a Google XML sitemap. I’ve added one to my blog now!

  5. April 13th, 2009 at 16:31 | #5

    sitemap is very important for blog if want to fast index from Google

    If want better for SEO, you should use ALl In One Seo plugin and Simple Tags plugin

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