Wordpress generate sitemap

The Sitemap is one such SEO requirement that is essential for your blog organic search engine traffic. In the past I have talked about best sitemap plugins for WordPress & today one of the most popular WordPress plugins; Jetpack added the sitemap functionality. Since sitemap feature is so vital & if you are using any other Sitemap plugin apart from SEO by Yoast, you can use Sitemap module of Jetpack & lower down your number of plugins. Along with Sitemap functionality, the latest version of Jetpack has added more features such as Skype sharing button & social menu. In this guide, I will walk you through the Sitemap feature of Jetpack plugin & other notable features added by them in the recent past. If you are new to Jetpack plugin, you should read this beginners guide to Jetpack & watch the below video to learn more about it. Once you are done going through the beginners guide to Jetpack, do check out this guide to learn about activating & deactivating any … [Read more...] about Generate Sitemap for WordPress with Jetpack WordPress Plugin

This is the guide to configuring the SEO By Yoast plugin. In the 3.0 version, some changes have been made to the UI, but the configuration is still the same. I have updated this with editing meta description & titles for single posts, which has changed in version 3.0. Whenever we talk about the best SEO Plugins for WordPress, SEO by Yoast emerges as a prominent name. Many of you who are using the All In One SEO plugin should know about this much more advanced plugin, which is available in WordPress with the name, “Yoast SEO“. This plugin has integrated many known features of other plugins by Joost de Valk (for example, the Meta Robots plugin, the RSS Footer plugin, and many others). Since this plugin offers many features, setting up the Yoast WordPress SEO plugin is not that easy. For this reason, I am sharing a tutorial which will help you transition from All In One SEO to the Yoast SEO plugin, and help you … [Read more...] about How To Set Up Yoast WordPress SEO Plugin

Sometimes, I wish I never knew about SEO, so that, I could write articles without worrying about Keyword research, Ranking on the first page of Google or driving an insane amount of traffic. Truth is, over the time this has become a necessity. Without traffic, our blog is just a star among countless stars in the universe which people would never know about. So, that’s where SEO comes in. WordPress being the best platform for blogging comes with an ample amount of plugin options. We wish to make our WordPress blog SEO optimized, we have hundreds of plugin for the same. We wish to make our blog secure, we have an unlimited number of WordPress security plugins available. All the other plugins are fine but what worries me is the number of SEO plugins available for WordPress. Do a simple search in Google for “WordPress SEO plugins” and you will be bombarded with options like: These are just a few of them. Now the question is what SEO plugin should we rely on and how many … [Read more...] about The Problem With Unlimited WordPress SEO Plugins

Sitemap of your WordPress blog is one of the most important aspect of your blog search engine indexing. Sitemap file helps search engine bots to find links on your blog, and that’s how they crawl and index it. I have already specified details earlier on Google crawling and indexing article. It’s essential for you to create your blog sitemap and submit it to Google Webmaster tool and Bing Webmaster tools for faster indexing and crawling of your site. Now, the big question is how to generate sitemaps for our WordPress blog? In WordPress, there are many plugins which will help you to do it and I will be talking about one simple to sue plugin which you can use to create sitemap for your WordPress blog. Sitemap feature is recently added to WordPress SEO by yoast plugin, so if you are using SEO by Yoast, you should rather use sitemap feature of that plugin. Once you have Yoast SEO plugin activated, go to SEO > Sitemap to configure the settings: If you are not … [Read more...] about How to Create WordPress Sitemap using Google XML Sitemaps Plugin

Sitemap of your blog is one of an essential element and the first step for making your blog search engine friendly. Sitemap file contains links to all the posts, pages of your blog and you can submit the file to Google Webmaster tool, Bing webmaster tool to help search engine crawl & index your site effectively. We already have a detailed write up on Google crawling and indexing, which will give you detailed information on sitemap and how a search engine crawls your website. One of the coolest thing about WordPress platform is, you don’t need to manually generate sitemap after writing a new post. You just need to pick the best Sitemap plugin and install it at the time of setting up your blog. Once you have generated the sitemap file using any of the below-listed plugins; you submit it to Webmaster tools, and this plugin auto includes new posts, pages in your existing sitemap file. In this post, I will discuss some of the popular WordPress Sitemap plugins that you … [Read more...] about Perfect Guide for WordPress Bloggers to Learn About Sitemap File