How To Add A Google Sitemap To A WordPress Blog
A few simple steps and a great WordPress plugin that will automatically build a sitemap for your blog and notify Google of all your new posts. This is one of the more important steps involved when setting up your new WordPress blog if you want organic search engine traffic.
First install the latest Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress here plugin and follow the installation instructions. This plugin needs write access to your blog directory so make the blog folder writable (CMOD 666 or 777). After activating the plugin you will now have a new Sitemap sub-menu under your Options menu in the WordPress dashboard
Click the Sitemap menu and click the link to build the sitemap. If all went well it will generate a new sitemap. If not directions and links to more help will be available.
After your sitemap is built go over to Google Webmaster Tools and login or create an account. Now here is where to pay attention OK? You can add your main domain/website and your blog at Google but make sure you add them both. If your WordPress blog is in a directory within your website, submit the blog as another website. If your whole website is run by WordPress then add just the main domain. If your blog is part of your website then add the blogs URL as a website in Google Webmaster Tools.
If your blog is your in a directory on your website then add it as a website like this: http://www.esmartjob.com/blog
After you add your website and or blog to Google then submit your sitemap for that URL. http://www.esmartjob.com/blog/sitemap.xml.
I have got quite a few emails from people who I have installed WordPress blogs with what they think are problems with their blogs. But they will try to add a sitemap for their blog on the main domain instead of the blog directory. If you need help with this or want your WordPress blog optimized I can help here: Help With WordPress
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XHTML: You can use these tags: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <code> <em> <i> <strike> <strong>
Or just copy the example below and change your details.
Example - <a href="http://www.YourSite.com">Title Of Site</a>
the link you posted is to sitemap v2, you should really use sitemap v3., It has more features, like the capability to ping google, yahoo and ask com when the sitemap is rebuilt (so that they know when to download it ) and some others and I find it is pretty stable even if it’s still beta.
Thanks Patches,
Link changed to V3, or here: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2006/01/07/google-sitemap-generator-for-wordpress-3-beta
Jeff
How To Add A Google Sitemap To A WordPress Blog…
A few simple steps and a great WordPress plugin that will automatically build a sitemap for your blog and notify Google of all your new posts….
Have been using it a while myself as well and works perfectly, even with wordpress 2.3 :).
Hi,
Indeed its good to have the sitemap generated by the plugin. I am presently using Google XML Sitemaps. The site map created only listed the URLs of the pages that I have created BUT does not indicate what any particular page is all about. I have seen site maps that shows the subject matter or title of the page listed. Where did my site map go wrong or may be I am using the wrong plug in. Really appreciate your comment and advice. Thank you.
Mohd the sitemap plugin is for the search engine bots not for humans. I have no idea how to format it to have the descriptions of the posts.
I guess you need a different plugin.