Sitemap | How to create Sitemap and upload in Google Webmaster Tool

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Sitemap plays an important role for your website or blog’s SEO (Search Engine Optimization). Lets take an example to understand the concept. Whenever you purchase a book, you have seen that the book’s first page contain the indexing which includes all the information of chapters and like this its easy for you to understand which chapter is having what information. Same like this, Sitemaps is going to do an indexing of your website or blog and like this google can understand that your website is having what information.

Google introduced the Sitemaps protocol so web developers can publish lists of links from across their sites. The basic premise is that some sites have a large number of dynamic pages that are only available through the use of forms and user entries. The Sitemap’s files contains URLs to these pages so that web crawlers can find them.

Bing, Google, Yahoo and Ask now jointly support this protocol. XML (Extensible Markup Language) is much more precise than HTML coding. Errors are not tolerated, and so syntax must be exact.

HOW TO GENERATE SITEMAP

There are two easy method to generate a sitemaps. I will show you both the method one by one.

  • You can generate sitemaps from www.xml-sitemaps.com
  • you can generate sitemaps from your WordPress plugin, Yoast SEO.

How to Generate Sitemap from www.xml-sitemaps.com

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  1. visit: www.xml-sitemaps.com
  2. Enter your full website URL and some optional parameters in the form below.
  3. Press ‘Start’ button and wait until the site is completely crawled.
  4. You will be redirected to the generated sitemap’s details page
  5. Now, copy the link and paste it to the google webmaster tool. its all done.

How to Generate Sitemap from WordPress plugin Yoast SEO

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  1. Install yoast-seo plugin in your WordPress.
  2. Go to Yoast-Seo and select XML Sitemaps
  3. Click on XML Sitemaps and it is going to generate a link for your website’s sitemap.
  4. Copy the link and paste it to the Google Webmaster Tool. and its all done.

How to upload sitemaps in Google Webmaster Tool

  1. Login to your google webmaster account.
  2. Click on Add a property.
  3. Enter your website URL and click on Add.
  4. Verify your website.
  5. Once your website get verified, click on Add Test Sitemaps.
  6. Enter your sitemap’s URL and click on test
  7. Once you pass all the test, enter your website URL and click on submit.

 

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