Comments on: How to Set Up The Google XML Sitemap Generator

By: Resale Centre

Resale Centre — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 08:57:01 +0000

Google XML sitemaps by Arne Brachhold is for me the best sitemap generator for WP hands down. I have used a few sitemap alternatives for wordpress but none are as easy to use, stylish and well supported as this plugin. A must for every WP website out there.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 05:06:25 +0000

You’re welcome – you too

By: johnny

johnny — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 02:00:41 +0000

Thanks for the tip Martin…

…have a good one!
Cheers

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 00:06:18 +0000

Johnny, hi,

If you mean a ‘human readable’ sitemap then I don’t believe it’s necessary while your site is still small and you can let people find everything (particularly the important pages) through your menu bar and links in the sidebar. Once your site gets bigger then a human site map is definitely worth considering.

You can actually get a plugin for WordPress that takes care of generating a human readable sitemap: find it here.

That means you don’t have to keep editing it manually.

Cheers,

Martin.

By: johnny

johnny — Mon, 31 May 2010 22:47:51 +0000

thanks for the tutorial
I have one question though
I am new to blogs and wordpress but it really isn’t that hard and even quite exciting I must say. I’m 1month old in this and doing my learning in realtime on my mom’s new B&B site.
I would like to know if a sitemap page on my website is really necessary for google or seo if you have the plugin taking care of it automatically. ?
I understood that the sitemap is primarily for the bots rather than for people checking out a sitemap page
I would like to cancel that page on the website also because I have to edit it and don’t know how. I also found that I forgot a contact us page and I can’t add another page without breaking the design. I got the theme built on elance and the navigation bar is set for so many pages.
thanks for your advice

By: Martin

Martin — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 23:25:10 +0000

Keith, hi,

You’re welcome – and I’ve no idea why the developers don’t do it..!

To be fair, some of them do – but definitely not all of them.

Cheers,

Martin.

By: Keith Davis

Keith Davis — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:32:27 +0000

Thanks Martin
I’m told that this plugin is one of the must have SEO plugins, but for some of us it’s not easy to configure.
Thanks for taking the time to put this post together… why don’t the plugin developers do it?
Keith Davis´s last blog ..The eyes have it!

By: Joanna

Joanna — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:21:33 +0000

Thank you!

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:14:55 +0000

Yes – I do that all the time..!

By: Martin

Martin — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 00:13:58 +0000

Joanna, hi,

I honestly don’t know..! It’s perfectly fine to set a priority at 1.0 – that would be the page-type you consider the most important on your site.

In the site maps I set up on my static sites I usually have my index (home) page as 1.0 and everything else falls under that. If not my index page, then whichever page I consider most important gets a 1.0.

I’ll immediately go and correct my error (And thanks for letting me know!)

Cheers,

Martin.