Google Sitemaps Generator
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Sitemaps have been used for a long time on websites.
Originally they where simply a page on your site with all the sites pages listed with links going to each page. The idea was to place a link on your index page to the sitemap. This way your visitors could find it and use it like an index or table of contents in a book. Also search engine’s would follow the link from your index page and then be able to find and index the whole rest of your site. Many large sites still use (and should) this type of sitemap.
But in 2005 a new style of sitemap was introduced, the XML-Sitemap.
Google was the first to introduce the XML-Sitemap and naturally it wasn’t long before Yahoo, MSN, and Ask adopted the same format.
It was long after Google introduced the new format that Arne Brachhold
created the first
Google Sitemaps Generator Plugin for WordPress.
Sitemaps and WordPress have come a long way since then, and the latest version of the Sitemaps generator has kept up with it all. I say latest because as of this writing the version is number 3.0.3 and was released on 11/28/2007.
What it does.
The short answer is the Google Sitemaps Generator plugin creates a compliant
XML sitemap as a static XML file and in a zipped version.
The long answer is, well, longer.
Yes it creates the sitemap in the XML and zipped version.
It also creates a robot.txt file that directs the robots to the XML zipped sitemap.
Plus it will rebuild the sitemap whenever you add a post or page and ping Google, MSN, Ask.com, and Yahoo when it does the rebuild.
It’s easy to use and configure also. After you download the plugin from
Google-XML-sitemaps-generator, unzip and upload to your plugins folder.
From there log in to your blog and activate the plugin through the Plugins page.
After activating go to Options and you will see in the sub-menu XML-Sitemap
All your configurations are done there along with building your first sitemaps and robot.txt file with a click of a button.
A detailed version of this post with screenshots showing the configuration is in the members area of Wp-Revealed.com
