Posts Tagged ‘adding sitemap to wordpress blog’

Hello Friends…,

Many of us trying to get our blog in google or yahoo or bing search engines. But adding a sitemap to web master tool is only provided for  your site where you can manually add your sitemap or you can automatically generate from http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/. Many of the wordpress plugins provide genrating and adding sitemap to blogs but in wordpress.com we can’t add plugins… adding plugins is possible in wordpress.org.

Today we will see how to add sitemap for wordpress blog in any web master tools like Google webmaster tools or bing/yahoo webmasters tool. Its very easy and simple because we don’t need to do anything. Because wordpress do it all for us. Yes… u hear right… WordPress creates and manage sitemap automatically each time. If you want to check out type your blog address and then sitemap.xml

ex.  https://skcomputerworld.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml 

You will see the sitemap.xml file over there. To add this sitemap to google/yahoo/bing webmaster tools login with your username and password add new and enter your blog address ex. https://skcomputerworld.wordpress.com/ verify it by adding meta tag to wordpress by going Tools-> Available Tools and paste your meta code over their.

After the varification click on sitemap and type following address:

<yourblogaddress>/sitemap.xml

ex. https://skcomputerworld.wordpress.com/sitemap.xml

and yes you are done. It will take some time to index/process all the pages.

 

Another Way:

             Another way is to add your categories on a wordpress page with some description with it. To do that go to categories copy all the categories by selecting all the categories. Before doing this your categories should displayed in list format and not in dropdown. So uncheck display as dropdown option from category widget area. After copying the the categories create a new page and paste it in to it.

And add some description above or below each category, name the page and save it. Rest will done by search engines automatically. It will definitely help you to get your site in search engines.

Happy Coding…!!! Happy Blogging…!!! 🙂