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This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will assist track down drives like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to advanced index your blog. With such a sitemap, it’s much more straightforward for the crawlers to suppose the achieve plan of your site and recoup it more efficiently. The plugin encourages all types of WordPress produced pages as well as behaviour URLs. Additionally it advises all principle track down drives every time you write a post come seal the novel content.

Features:

  • Available for all WordPress versions since 1.5
  • No PHP skills or file changes needed
  • User interface to customize all parameters like priorities etc.
  • Available in many languages
  • Generates automatically a sitemap for all types of WordPress pages
  • Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments
  • Notifies Ask.com, Google, Bing and YAHOO about changes via ping
  • Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap
  • Generates a static XML file as well as a zipped version

Screenshots:

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Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator for WordPress

arne on September 24, 2007

WordPress 2.1+:
3.2.1
2009-12-16
WordPress < 2.1:
2.7.1
2005-07-21
Wordpress Hosting at GoDaddy.com

This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This format is supported by Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.

More information about what XML-Sitemaps are and how they can help you to get indexed by the major search engines can be found at Sitemaps.org and the searchenginewatch blog.

If you have questions about XML-Sitemaps or run into problems, have a look at my Sitemaps FAQ.

Note: The XML-Sitemap format was introduced in 2005 by Google and adopted in 2006 by YAHOO, Bing (formerly MSN Search) and Ask.com so thats why it’s often called “Google Sitemaps”.

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Features:

  • Available for all WordPress versions since 1.5
  • No PHP skills or file changes needed
  • User interface to customize all parameters like priorities etc.
  • Available in many languages
  • Generates automatically a sitemap for all types of WordPress pages
  • Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments
  • Notifies Ask.com, Google, Bing and YAHOO about changes via ping
  • Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap
  • Generates a static XML file as well as a zipped version

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