Comments on: How To Add A Google Sitemap To A WordPress Blog

By: Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik — Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:19:33 +0000

Thanks for info, Im currently running websites on custom made CMS platforms but lately im thinking about working on wordpress in the future. I personally use only back links and interna linking to index my inner pages but I guess a sitemap wont hurt

Tx again,
Dubrovnik

By: Website Development

Website Development — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 07:08:41 +0000

Well I do believe that it still helps when it comes to indexing. Specially for a website’s inner pages which are a bit far away from your home page. A sitemap is a must for me

Anyway, I just read this post and it made me very interested about it. Wanna try it now!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:08:15 +0000

And where does the post anywhere insinuate that a sitemap is necessary for indexing? Oh… nowhere but thanks for the drive-by.

By: Sander

Sander — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 18:29:13 +0000

It is not necessary for indexing to have a sitemap, but nice plug in anyway…

By: Marci

Marci — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 22:00:26 +0000

Sitemaps are really important and should be used. Its a quality sign for google bot.
greetings
Marc

By: chorwacja

chorwacja — Thu, 28 May 2009 15:17:22 +0000

Great info, thx. Although I never use sitemaps. Google will index my site without sitemap, sooner or later.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 11:38:34 +0000

Thanks for helping out and the kind words Jason.

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 03:36:23 +0000

Ken, the automatic (or rather, manual) submission described in Jeff’s original post is sufficient to tell Google where your XML sitemap is — there’s no need to link it from any of your pages.

As for how to bring an XML sitemap to the attention of search engines other than Google… well, I’ve heard of such search engines, but I haven’t seen one in years. Uh, seriously though, Yahoo allows manual submission of sitemaps: go to http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit and choose “Submit site feed”.

Jeff, with the rise of Wordpress as a defacto CMS, your original post from back in 2007 is just as useful as ever. Nice work!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 19:52:33 +0000

Ken, I am far from an SEO or sitemap expert… but I believe the bots will find and crawl your sitemap automatically no matter what search engine it is. So I don’t think having the .xml file linked to any page is necessary. Nor would I do it because it will not look very good or provide any use to your visitors. That is what this post is for: adding a sitemap for your visitors.

By: Ken

Ken — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 16:03:50 +0000

When using the Google Sitemaps Generator plug-in, I have seen or found an option to add a link eo the sitemap.xml file to any of the page navigation links. I have seen many sites that have Sitemap in one or more of their navigation area(s) – is it important to have a link to the sitemap.xml file somewhere in the pages/posts of a website so that it can be found or will the automatic submission take care of it? What about other engines that are not automatically notified?

Using the plug-in was easy – thanks.