XML Sitemap
An XML site map is said as a roadmap of your websites that leads Google to all your important pages. An XML sitemap is good for search engine optimization, as they allow Google to find very fast of your essential website pages, even if your internal linking is not perfect. This post will tell us what they are and how they help you rank better.
XML sitemaps are beneficial for all the sites since their main achievement is to create a user-friendly website. They will always help to bring our ranking on the topmost position in search engine result pages, contribute to index, and crawl your website more quickly.
What is an XML sitemap?
XML stand’s for Extensible Markup language. If you give an XML site map on a search engine it will list different pages on a website, which is the way to display information on a website. An XML sitemap lists a site’s important pages, making conformation of Google can find and crawl ( collection of all the data) them all, also helping it understand your site structure. If you want Google to crawl each and every essential page of your site. But Most of the time the pages end up without any internal links pointing to them, making them hard to find. XML site maps will act as a roadmap to show search engines what content is available and how to reach it.
What sites need an XML sitemap?
XML sitemaps are more important for really large websites, sites with large archives and new sites with just a few external links to it and also for websites that use rich media content. We can agree that these kinds of sites will always give benefit the most from having one. Each and every single website needs Google to be able to find the important pages easily and to know when they are last updated.
Which pages should be in your XML sitemap?
How to find that which pages to include in your XML sitemap? The answer is, always we have to think about the related thoughts of the URL. When visitors viewing the particular URL, it is a good result? Are you thinking that visitors to land on that particular URL? If not it commonly should not be in it. If you really don’t want the URL to show up in the search results you will need to add some tag. By leaving it out of your XML sitemap does not mean Google won’t index the URL. If Google understands the following links, Google can index the URL. Eg: new blog. If you starting a new blog that will want Google to find the latest posts fast to make sure your target audience can find your blog in the search results, so it is a good idea to create an XML sitemap right from start.
Why do you need an XML sitemap?
If people search in Google, it will be displaying the most related results for the given search query. They are using website crawlers to organize, read and index information on the internet. XML sitemaps will make it easier for Google’s search engine crawlers to read the content on your website and index the pages accordingly. It will help to increases your chances of boosting the search engine optimization ranking of your site. An XML site map will tell the location of your website to search engine, when it was updated, the updating frequency, and the essential of the page as it’s related to other pages on your website. If you give without a proper sitemap, Google bots might think that it was as duplicate content, which will decrease your search engine optimization ranking.
Sitemaps are more important in search engine optimization point of view. Sitemaps show to the search engines about the changes in your site structure. They will always help bots with indexing and faster crawling. It will always helps to search engines by index large sites with a lot of pages that are not well structured or interlinked. The XML contains metadata together with the site’s URL and information, which includes a particular URL that was last updated and how soon the changes occur, etc.
How to generate an XML sitemap in WordPress?
It is the easiest way to generate the XML site map in WordPress by using plugins. All in one SEO is one of the most popular plugins for improving WordPress site’s search engine optimization. This plugin helps to take care of all the technical aspects related to content and helps you to follow the keyword density and readability. It will also be used to create an XML sitemap.
- First, you have to log in to your WordPress dashboard.
- Then you have to click the All in One SEO option in the navigation menu.
- By clicking the All in one SEO you can go for feature manager.
- You will see the XML sitemaps option, you have to click the active button. There you find a message stating, “All in one SEO options updated”. Your sitemap will be created this time.
- Then you click the XML sitemap link in the All in one SEO for the navigation menu.
- You can choose the sitemap settings that you want. eg: Sitemap status, Filename Prefix, etc.
- Finally, you have to click the update sitemap button that helps to save your changes.
Let’s discuss how to submit WordPress XML sitemaps to search engines
Once you have created the XML site map you can easily submit them to various search engines like Google or Bing. Now let’s see how to submit on Google.
Submit XML site on Google:
First, we have to submit your sitemap to Google have to verify the website owner via Google search console. Once this process has done you have to find your website through Google’s search console. Now you go to Index Sitemaps. Then Enter your WordPress sitemap URL and click submit. Now you can allow a few days for Google to process your sitemap submission and crawl your pages. If you add more images or videos, we would highly recommend your create a sitemap for them as well.
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