Sitemap is the list of pages of a website. It provides a search engine for the content of your website. Website sitemaps is typically used to improve the index website in the search engine. So that visitors can directly search your content from search engines.
Generally there are three primary kinds of sitemaps.
- Sitemap is used by the designer while planning to create a website.
- It helps visitors to search specific pages and is also used in crawlers.
- User-visible sitemaps which present a systematic view, typically hierarchical, of the site.
XML Sitemap
You want Google to crawl important pages of your website. Sometimes Google crawls your website page without any internal link that you set for the page, Making them difficult to find.
In this case, the XML sitemap lists all the important pages of your website. So that Google can search and crawl the page.
If you have more than 50000 posts then the XML sitemap needs to be divided into two parts. Because 50000 URLs can be placed in an XML sitemap.
How to Make XML Sitemap in Blogger
If you have made your website or blog on Blogger. Then the XML sitemap for the website can be easily made by following the instructions given below.
- Open Sitemap Generator and type the URL of your Blogspot website.
- After pasting the URL, click on the Start button. Now it will generate the necessary text for your sitemap and Copy all the generated text.
- Next go to dashboard of blogger and click on setting>Search preference and enable to custom robot.txt and paste the copied text here.
How to Make XML Sitemap in WordPress
It would be better if sitemap is said in simple words, Sitemap works to reach your existing web page to users through Google search engine. Which helps the visitors come to the link on your website. There are many plugin presentations for generating XML sitemap in WordPress.
Yoast or google XML sitemap plugin can be used in WordPress.
Use Yoast to Generate XML Sitemap
Yoast is very important for WordPress to make good readability, keyword and meta description for your blog. Yoast SEO plugin install on your blog and use for the best SEO.
Step by step guide to generate sitemap given below.
- Log in to your WordPress website. Click on the ‘SEO’ in the left side menu.
- The ‘SEO’ setting will be expand providing you additional option. Click on ‘general’ submenu.
- Click on the feature tab.
- Taggle the ‘XML sitemaps’ switch to ‘on’.
- Click on the save changes to activate XML sitemaps.
Using Google XML Sitemaps
Use this plugin to create special XML sitemap, and improve SEO. Which makes your website better indexing to get into the search engine Like – Google, Yahoo, Bing and Ask.com.
Google XML sitemaps install in your website to improve your SEO.
The plugin allows custom URLs by generating all types of pages. When you post a new message, it notifies the search engine.
Add Sitemap in Google
Sitemap is a file containing all pages of your website. And it provides Google with information about your site’s page. It automatically generate by our server and kept up to dates with your’s website updates. To do this, you have to submit sitemap to Google console.
Following the all step to submit sitemap in google console is given below.
- Open the Google console page with the help of Google account.
- Select the site in the Google console home page.
- Click on the sitemap on the left menu.
- After click on this open the text box and type “sitemap.xml” or if you use Yoast plugin for sitemap then type “sitemap_index.xml” (example.com/sitemap.xml).
- After all click submit.
You can submit different page URLs directly to Search engine like – www.blogsurf.net/contact. This can fast indexing and crawling process for a particular page.
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