Creating A Website Sitemap For Google With An XML Sitemap Generator

Episode 16 of the Local SEO Tactics and Digital Marketing Strategies podcast, hosted by Local SEO Tactics: SEO Tips and Tricks For Your Website, titled "Creating A Website Sitemap For Google With An XML Sitemap Generator" was published on May 16, 2018 and runs 21 minutes.

May 16, 2018 ·21m · Local SEO Tactics and Digital Marketing Strategies

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Episode Description

Use An XML Sitemap Generator To Create and Auto Update Your Website Sitemaps

Want your pages to show up in Google? Then you better have a sitemap on your website!

A sitemap, or more specifically, an XML sitemap, is like a roadmap or a table of contents for all of the important pages, posts, and images on your website. Having an XML sitemap will tell Google, and other search engines, which pages are on your website - so they can know to include them in their search results.

In this episode we'll cover the basics of sitemaps, how to create them, and why you need one!

YOU'LL LEARN

What is a Sitemap for your website
What is an XML sitemap
What is an HTML sitemap
Why you need both HTML and XML sitemaps
Easy plugins for WordPress to generate an XML sitemap
How to choose what content to include in your sitemap
How sitemaps tell Google you have new pages or images on your website
How to generate sitemaps on non-WordPress websites
Selecting sitemap generators that auto-update

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