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Posted in Wordpress Tutorial on 10th February 2010

This plugin is very important to be installed on your wordpress, because this plugin can make your blog more friendly to search engines such as Google, Ask, Yahoo, MSN or Bing. If your blog welcoming friendly search engine robots, of course your blog will be frequently visited by search engines. To create a sitemap for wordpress blog, you can use Google (XML) sitemap generator.
to activate this plugin, you can download and upload pluginnya to your wordpress, or you can simply download through your wordpress dashboard. If you’ve downloaded this sitemap plugin, please enable them and see the sitemap settings in the Settings menu. The first time you use the sitemap service, then there will be a notification if you do not have a sitemap, and you will be guided to make. Message from the sitemap generator plugin is like the image below:

Sitemap generator
first leave a message on top, before you make a sitemap for the first time, please set the settings on your sitemap to the form, you can use the images below as a reference, I use the settings as below to my blog.

sitemap google
and also the “Priority Post”, move button on the first choice, with you selecting the first option then every post you have the same priority.

To create your sitemap please click on the words “click here” in the above warning message, after which there will be notice that your sitemap was made like the image below:

xml sitemap
To check your sitemap, please go to http://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml the sitemap page will show you. Hopefully this article can be a reference, comparison or as a discussion. If you have any optimizations you think is better, please share via comments below.

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