What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on
their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is
an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each
URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it
is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently
crawl the site.
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites.
Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up
all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata.
Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search
engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your
site.
Sitemap 0.90 is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons
License and has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!, and Microsoft.
Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress v2 Final
Filed under: Sitemaps, Plugins — arne on June 5, 2005
Latest release:
2.7
2005-07-21
Beta version:
3.0b7
2007-05-17
This plugin generates a XML-Sitemap compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog. This
format is supported by Google, YAHOO and MSN Search.
More information what XML-Sitemaps are and how they can help you to get indexed
by the major search engines can be found at Sitemaps.org and the searchenginewatch
blog.
If you have questions about XML-Sitemaps or run into problems, have a look at my
Google Sitemaps FAQ.
Note: The XML-Sitemap format was introduced 2005 by Google and adopted in 2006 by
YAHOO and MSN Search so thats why it’s often called "Google Sitemaps".
Download | Requirements | Installation | FAQ | Changelog | Donate
Want to try the new beta? Click here to get it!
Problems with your sitemap? Read my Google Sitemaps FAQ.
Features:
WordPress 2 compatible
No PHP skills needed
Has a user interface where you can customize all parameters like change frequencies,
priorities etc.
Available in fourteen languages
Generates a static XML file in your Blog directory (Filename is customizable)
Can generate a gzipped version of the sitemap
Generates a sitemap for homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archive pages
Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments (You can also
turn this off)
The XML file gets automatically rebuilt if you change/edit/create/publish a post
Tells Google automatically about changes via Google-Ping
You can include external pages which aren’t generated by WordPress or are not recognized
by this plugin
You can define a minimum post priority, which will override the calculated value
if it’s too low
Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap
Download:
English version:
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-dl-en/
Language pack:
http://www.arnebrachhold.de/redir/sitemap-dl-lang/
Supported languages: Arabian, Brazilian Portuguese, English, French, German, Italian,
Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portugese, Russian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Simplified,
Traditional Chinese and Turkish.
Pricing and Licensing:
Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under GPL, you
can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial blog. But if you enjoy
this plugin, you can thank me and leave a small donation for the time I’ve spent
writing and supporting this plugin. And I really don’t want to know how many hours
of my life this plugin has already eaten
Since I’m a full-time student at the moment, I’m appreciative for every donation
you leave me, no matter if it’s two or fifty dollar.
Arabic-العربيه Korean- 한국어 chinese 中国 Japanese 日本語 Russian- Русско Portuguese- português Itatian-Itatian French-français Spanish-español German-deutsch English