Easy Google Sitemaps for WordPress bloggers
Yesterday I wrote about Google Sitemaps recent improvements.
If you have a WordPress blog there is a very easy way to do WordPress sitemaps. There is a WordPress sitemap plugin.
All you have to do is upload it into your plugins directory. Once you do that you’ll have a “sitemap” link under your “options” menu. Click on that, then click on the “rebuild sitemap” button and you are done.
If you like you can edit other features but it really isn’t neccessary, it runs right out of the box.
The only other thing you need to do is go into your template and edit one of the templates to provide a link to the sitemap. Personally I edited my footer and put in a link to my sitemap.xml file. Now every time I post a new entry or make a new page it is automatically added to my sitemap.
Once that’s complete you need to setup an account with Google Sitemaps. If you already have a Google account you can use the same username/password. Then tell Google the url to your sitemap.xml file.
Got questions on how to setup a sitemap? Let me know!
- Ben Fitts
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