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Create a xml sitemap using plugins

xml sitemap




An xml sitemap is a backbone of your blog. It helps google to crawl your site and index it. But most of the new bloggers escape this step of  creating a sitemap.

Here are some plugins which can help you creating a xml sitemap free

1.Yoast SEO

This plugin having a million plus installs with four plus rating.

Read my post free  SEO plugins

Yoast SEO plugin has the most advanced XML Sitemaps functionality in any WordPress plugin. Once you check the box, it automatically creates XML sitemaps and notifies Google & Bing of the sitemaps existence. These XML sitemaps include the images in your posts & pages too, so that your images may be found better in the search engines too.
These XML Sitemaps will even work on large sites, because of how they're created, using one index sitemap that links to sub-sitemaps for each 1,000 posts. They will also work with custom post types and custom taxonomies automatically, while giving you the option to remove those from the XML sitemap should you wish to.
Because of using XSL stylesheets for these XML Sitemaps, the XML sitemaps are easily readable for the human eye too, so you can spot things that shouldn't be in there.

2.google xml sitemap


This has more than million plus installs and a rating of five stars.

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it's much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

Where can I find the options page of the plugin?

It is under Settings > XML Sitemap. I know nowadays many plugins add top-level menu items, but in most of the cases it is just not necessary. I've seen WP installations which looked like an Internet Explorer ten years ago with 20 toolbars installed. ;-)

Do I have to create a sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz by myself?

Not anymore. Since version 4, these files are dynamically generated.There must be no sitemap.xml or sitemap.xml.gz in your blog directory anymore! The plugin will try to rename them to sitemap.xml.bak if they still exists.

Does this plugin use static files or "I can't find the sitemap.xml file!"

Not anymore. Since version 4, these files are dynamically generated just like any other WordPress content.

There are no comments yet (or I've disabled them) and all my postings have a priority of zero!

Please disable automatic priority calculation and define a static priority for posts.

So many configuration options... Do I need to change them?

No, only if you want to. Default values are ok for most sites.

Does this plugin work with all WordPress versions?

This version works with WordPress 4.5 and better. If you're using an older version, please check the Google Sitemaps Plugin Homepagefor the legacy releases. There is a working release for every WordPress version since 1.5, but you really should consider updating your WordPress installation!

Note: Never use both plugins together as two sitemaps will be created which will affect in crawling.



How to submit xml sitemap to google?



Now let's see how a sitemap looks like--
this sitemap is one of my blog techsearchonline                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                       


Now question rises how sitemap helps in indexing?


1. If you have crated a sitemap and have not submitted the sitemap to google than there is nothing going to happen magical
2. Submit your sitemap to google and google bot will crawl your blog. They will analyse and index your pages accordingly.
3.It is better if you place a link of  sitemap in your blog.


How a indexed page looks like-





How to find whether your site is indexed or not?

To check whether your blog is indexed or not

Go to google search bar any hit----  site:yourblog.com


Note: submitting a sitemap doesn't mean that your blog will be indexed. It is only a step to index your blog. Wait for few days while working  on SEO


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