SEO Best Practices: Submit Your Sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools
Even if you're using a sitemap generator that automatically submits your sitemap to Google, Yahoo, and Bing, it's more than worthwhile to manually submit your sitemap to Google using Google Webmaster Tools. Though automatic submission does make Google aware of your sitemap, manual submission will allow Google to verify your ownership of the site, allow you verify that your sitemap is being indexed, and will give you access to Google's many diagnostic tools to help you keep your site in top shap ...
Read MoreHow-To: Create a Google XML Sitemap in WordPress
Like I've said in previous posts, which you can find below, sitemaps are a vital part of any site. Thankfully, like so many other things we talk about here at ReadyMadeWeb, generating a sitemap is easy. Today, I want to take a look at creating a sitemap in WordPress, which should only take you a few minutes.
Read MoreHow-To: Generate a Sitemap in WordPress
There are several plugins for WordPress that will create a sitemap, but my favorite is Google XML Sitemaps created by Arne Brachhold of Kernen im Remstal in Baden-Württemberg, Germany. Though Mr. Brachold's name and city are difficult for me to pronounce, his plugin is exceptionally easy to use. It's also very frequently updated—2009 alone saw over 10 updates to the plugin—which means that bugs are frequently being identified and fixed and the plugin is kept up-to-date with changes at Googl ...
Read MoreSEO Best Practices: The Importance of Sitemaps
Whatever platform you're using—Drupal, Joomla, WordPress, etc.—it's vital to Search Engine Optimization (SEO) to generate a sitemap and regularly submit it to Google, Bing, and Yahoo! A sitemap serves as a sort of table of contents for your website. This table of contents can be submitted to search engines so that each page of your website and their relationship to each other is clearly comprehensible.
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