Google XML Sitemap for Wordpress
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008If 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
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
4 Responses to “Google XML Sitemap for Wordpress”
By Graham Strong on Jun 5, 2008
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
By Veliko Tarnovo on Jun 9, 2008
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.
By Adam on Jun 10, 2008
By Bavington on Jun 10, 2008
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!