Steve Hart's Blog » sitemaps http://www.stevekhart.com Everything Social Networking Tue, 10 Jan 2012 18:09:20 +0000 en hourly 1 WordPress XML Sitemaps Submittal to Google http://www.stevekhart.com/2009/04/wordpress-xml-sitemaps-submital-to-google/ http://www.stevekhart.com/2009/04/wordpress-xml-sitemaps-submital-to-google/#comments Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:11:11 +0000 stevekhart http://stevekhart.com/?p=383 XML Sitemaps – usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S – are a way for you to give Google information about your site.  In its simplest terms, a Sitemap is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.

Here’s an overview of how to Verify your site and submit your WordPress Sitemap to Google.

Step 1 – Google Site Verification:

  1. Go to Google Sitemaps and login. 
  2. Enter your website into your dashboard- click add site.
  3. Now, Google needs to verify your site.
  4. You’ll need to choose a verification method – use  “Upload an HTML file”.
  5. Copy the entire random string Google generated. Don’t close this browser tab.
  6. Now, go to WordPress and log into your blog.
  7. Create a new page anywhere on your site. I created a child page to my “About” page. 
  8. In this new page title, paste the code that Google generated (the one you copied) and publish your page.
  9. Now go back to the Google Sitemap page, and click “Verify”.
  10. Once Google has verified your site, your can now delete the WordPress page you created.

Step 2 – Submit your WordPress Sitemap to Google

  1. Go to Google Sitemaps and click on Sitemaps in the left column menu.
  2. Click Add Sitemap and select General Sitemap.
  3. Enter “YourBlogName.com/sitemap.xml”  into the text box (step 3 – My Sitemap URL is:).
  4. Click the Add General Sitemap button 
  5. You have successfully added your Sitemap to Google. 
  6. Check back with Google in a few hours to see if Google has indexed your site.

- Steve Hart

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