How To create a Google XML Sitemap for WordPress?

This is a useful plugin created by Arne Brachhold. Google XML sitemaps plugin is very easy to use and improves your blog’s visibility on the Internet in the eyes of the Search engines. A sitemap is basically an easy way to help the search engine bots to crawl your website or blog effectively. XML sitemaps help search engines such as Google, Yahoo and Bing to index your content effectively.

NPXP uses Google XML Sitemaps Plugin for WordPress in order to generate Sitemap for the blog. It has proved very beneficial for NPXP to get indexed easily and within no time. Sitemaps have a very huge impact on the Search Engine Optimization (SEO) factor for your blog or website.

If you do not have a sitemap for your WordPress blog yet then you should try this plugin today by following this instruction:

1)    Login to your WordPress Dashboard

2)    Click on “Add New” on the Plugins option

3)    Search for “xml sitemap”

4)    Install the XML sitemap plugin by Arne Brachhold

5)    Activate the plugin

6)    Generate the sitemap for the first time

7)    You should have a sitemap generated similar to that of NPXP: http://npxp.com/sitemap.xml

This process of installing a plugin to create sitemap for your WordPress can bring in a lot of changes (positive) to your blog. SEO is essential for all the blogs, so do not ignore the sitemap factor.

You can also check out this download page for the Google XML sitemaps Plugin as well:

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/