How to create an XML Sitemap in WordPress

Sitemaps are the easiest way to tell search engines about the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.

It also helps Google and other search engines to better categorize your website. You can create a Sitemap based on the sitemap protocol, or you can submit a text file or RSS/Atom feed as a Sitemap.

How to create an XML Sitemap in WordPress?

To add a sitemap to your WordPress site, first thing you need to do is install and activate  Google XML Sitemaps plugin  from WordPress plugin directory

1) Go to your websites’s WordPress admin panel and click on Plugins>>Add New

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2) Type in the Plugin name “Google XML Sitemaps” and search

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3) Now from the bunch of the list, click and install the plugin by Arne Brachhold

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4) Then you see related information about the plugin, and an “Activate Plugin” link to activate. The plugin is activated

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5) Go back again to WordPress panel and click on Settings>>XML-Sitemap

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6) Now click on “Click Here” to complete the WordPress Google sitemap installation.

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7) Now you can check your sitemap at “www.example.com/sitemap.xml“. Congrats!

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Navneet Singh is a young enthusiast who Loves Internet Marketing and is always eager to share useful and authentic content on SEO, link building, social media marketing, content marketing, and conversion rate optimization to help others. A Software Engineer By Chance and Working as a CEO in SEO Experts Company India, one of the Top Rated SEO Agencies in India. A Basket Ball Player and a Budding Entrepreneur.

Navneet Singh

Navneet Singh is a young enthusiast who Loves Internet Marketing and is always eager to share useful and authentic content on SEO, link building, social media marketing, content marketing, and conversion rate optimization to help others. A Software Engineer By Chance and Working as a CEO in SEO Experts Company India, one of the Top Rated SEO Agencies in India. A Basket Ball Player and a Budding Entrepreneur.