What is Xml Sitemap? How sitemap helps the site?
Sitemap are of same importance to all the blogs or websites whether it is old or new. Sitemap helps the search engines to get inform about the new or undiscovered content present in your blog or website. Hence sitemap creation for WordPress and blogger has same importance.
Sitemap are specially importance for the new contents to inform search engines about the new URL and the meta data about it available for crawling. Thus it helps the search bots to crawl over the new updated pages, old modified pages without any problem and getting indexed quickly.
Sitemap is generally kept or uploaded in the root directory of the blog / site.
Is sitemap compulsory for crawling?
No, sitemap is not compulsory and your site can be easily crawled by search bots even if your site does not have search engines. Generally search engines like to crawl any site using external links. If your site is linked with already indexed or crawled external sites or any new updated page being linked with already indexed external or internal pages, then search engines will easily access your site from those sites or pages while crawling those sites. But if your site is completely new or have lots of pages yet not crawled by search engines or not having well linked internal pages, then it is advisible to submit sitemap to search engines to get indexed soon.
Create xml sitemap for WordPress blogs.
Creating .xml sitemap for your WordPress blog has got quite simpler with the Google Sitemap generator plugin. You can download this plugin by clicking on the link Google sitemap generator plugin download. Simply upload it in your WordPress plugins directory. Now go your WordPress dashboard, go to plugins, click on activate link to activate this sitemap generator plugin.
With the activation of this plugin, a new xml sitemap file gets created in the root directory of your blog. You can go to settings to change the priority of crawling by search engines.
You can also download the plugin from Google Sitemap generator site.
Create xml sitemal for blogger blogs.
Creating xml sitemap for blogger blogs is even more easy than WordPress blogs. The all you need to do is to login in to Google webmaster tools with your gmail username and password. Then you will be prompted to add your site URL and verify it. Follow the instructions there to verify your site. Now after verification, go to dashboard of your site in webmaster tools.
Now click on sitemap link under site configuration navigation link present on left hand column. After clicking the link, click on submit a sitemap button. Now you will be provided a box to write the file name. The Atom feed of your blog is your sitemap. Paste the link of the atom feed.
Just write down “atom.xml?orderby=updated” . Within few hours, your feed will be accepted.
You may also use “rss.xml?orderby=updated“
