Adding a Sitemap to WordPress

Adding a Sitemap to WordPress

This is super easy. The best plugin is “Google XML Sitemaps” and that’s sitemaps with an S. Google XML sitemap is another plugin that’s not as good. You’ll know the right one because it has Arne Brachold as the plugin author.

Installing the Sitemap

Go to plugins > Add New > and Type in “Google XML Sitemaps

google-xml-sitemaps-plugin

Should be the top result, as shown here.

google-xml-sitemaps-install

Install it, and once the popup come up, click yes of course. Then click “Activate Plugin

Now from the plugin menu, click settings. Or you can venture to the Settings tab on the left hand side of the dashboard and then fins “XML-Sitemaps” there. Either way works.

xml-sitemap-settings

The plugin will give you one of two notifications. Either that the sitemap has not been built, in which case you click “build it” or that it’s being refreshed, in which case click “rebuild it.”

build-sitemap-wordpress

Now your sitemap is located at URL/sitemap.xml. The next step is submitting to google Webmasters.

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