Sitemap For Wordpress

At the previous posts, i have talked about Basic SEO For Wordpress.

To see yourself at the first page of Google Searchs, you need some other things with permalinks. Sitemap…
Mainly, sitemap is a XML page with full of listed your page’s link. So if you have a sitemap, you can upload this sitemap’s link to search engines. For an example;

Our sitemap is based on http://myuniversityblog.com/sitemap.xml
And i have a Google account. Using this link ( click here please ) you can install your sitemap to Google and in a few days Google starts to identify your all pages. So this will be your second step to be on the first page.

To create a sitemap for wordpress, there are some free plug-ins. But most populer and useful is Google Xml Sitemaps ( click here to download).

This plug-in send pings to the all search enginees after your publishing a post.

Features:
Available for all WordPress versions since 1.5
No PHP skills or file changes needed
User interface to customize all parameters like priorities etc.
Available in many languages
Generates automatically a sitemap for all types of WordPress pages
Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments
Notifies Ask.com, Google, Bing and YAHOO about changes via ping
Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap
Generates a static XML file as well as a zipped version
…and many more!

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