2 simple ways to help you create a sitemap

As we learn in the article Sitemap - What is a Sitemap? On the definition and role of the sitemap, the sitemap play an important role in navigating Googlebot, help search engines crawl the site.

And because of the importance of this tool to the website, immediately following let's also create a sitemap embarked on following the instructions later. Currently, there are two main ways to create a sitemap that is created manually or using software support. First, let's go first to find out how: How to initialize the sitemap manually.

Note: This will be complicated for those who can not read code. But the extremely simple if you know a bit of code. Therefore, if you do not know anything about the code, can ignore and move on to the 2nd way.
Sitemap manually initializing

One of the simplest types of Sitemaps Google XML sitemap support it. You can create a site map the following form:

<? Xml version = "1.0" encoding = "UTF-8"?>
<Sitemapindex xmlns = "http: //www.sitemaps. org / schemas / sitemap / 0.9 ">
<Sitemap>
<Loc> http: //www.example. com / sitemap1.xml.gz </ loc>
<Lastmod> 2004-10-01T18: 23: 17 + 00: 00 </ lastmod>
</ Sitemap>
<Sitemap>
<Loc> http: //www.example. com / sitemap2.xml.gz </ loc>
<Lastmod> 2005-01-01 </ lastmod>
</ Sitemap>
</ Sitemapindex>

In it, you'll need to change the information of the following tags:

<Loc>: the address of a page link on your site to add sitemap
<Lastmod>: the last update of a path on site

Construction sitemap this way will make you forced to adding each new link to the sitemap on the site. You will have to turn more information of each link on the page. These links will be added to the information should be declared for 2 tag <loc> and <lastmod>, and placed in the <sitemap> </ sitemap>

After you've added all the important links on the page you remember to add the </ sitemapindex> sitemap to finish by the end of the declaration of the links in the sitemap and now you've got a complete sitemap.

So you can see how this craft very hard and forces you to constantly add new links on a page when you post new content to add. And after the addition is complete, you will have to re-submit (submit) the new sitemap to Google edits.

So you can use immediately following the 2nd way to create a sitemap for your website, how to create a sitemap using support tools.

How to create a sitemap with software support

One of the most common tools now help you create a tool that is a standard sitemap Yoast SEO (aka SEO by Yoast). Known as a WordPress plugin SEO optimization is the most common use today, with features optimized user support onpage, Yoast SEO also gives the user an ability to create and customize content in your sitemap.

(Read more: SEO by Yoast is what? Guide installed SEO by Yoast)

Yoast SEO will divide the content on the site into several different categories like post (content published on the site), category (categories) or post tag (the tag has on site), ... to create a sitemap. The tool also automatically initialized prioritization (priority - the priority order data collection) for the pages on the site and how often Googlebot crawls should make to these pages.

Note to submit your sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools

Once you have sitemap, this time next job that you need to do is submit (send) the path of the sitemap to Google through Google Webmaster Tools (Webmaster Tools). You can just send in your path and update your sitemap, Google was able to get the site diagram. You also do not need to update every time there is more fresh content on your site.

(Refer to: Send and check sitemap on Google Webmaster Tools)

Above are two simple seo tips you can try to create a sitemap for your website. There's also plenty of other plugins that can help you create a sitemap page. However, it should be noted that installing many different plugins to create a sitemap on your site will be able to happen the conflict plugin.