Layered Thoughts

Problem

All of the major search engines now use XML sitemaps as a way to have a reliable map of your whole site when it comes time for them to crawl it. This is a key thing to have in your root directory as it nearly guarantees that your whole site will be crawled next time the spider hits your site. Without the sitemap, there’s a potential that some of your pages can get missed.

Also, by submitting your sitemap after adding new content, you can help speed up the spidering process for that new content, helping it reach the search engine result pages even faster.

But when it comes to generating and submitting your XML sitemaps, the situation kind of sucks. Especially if you find yourself posting a few times a day on your blog, you’ll quickly give up on doing all of the manual work to get your sitemap sent out across the internet for the search engines to use.

Solution

The way to solve this manual work problem is to download and install the plugin Google XML Sitemaps. What this plugin allows you to do is configure which search engines you want to submit to, how frequently, and how you want the XML Sitemap to be built, and then it will automatically take care of all of the manual work of getting everything generated and submitted for you.

Once this plugin is installed and configured, you can be sure to have your site being constantly monitored by the search engines as you add more and more content. This plugin is essential for anyone looking to increase their SEO rankings through the major engines.

 

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