subject: How To Use The Wordpress Sitemap Generator To Increase Google Search Engine Traffic [print this page] One of the most popular, useful, and versatile pieces of software available for creating a new well-designed website or blog is called Wordpress. This software is the preferred content management system for thousands of webmasters and website owners because it is easy to change the appearance of your website without altering the content, and there are a number of free custom pieces of software called plug-ins that can improve the quality of your website. There is one very popular free Wordpress plug-in available called a sitemap generator, and this article will show you how to use this piece of software in order to improve the ranking of your website in Google and to get more search engine traffic.
Within the Wordpress admin panel there will be a tab called "plugins" which will let you search for new software to add to your blog. If you type the word "sitemap" into the search field then you will find the sitemap generator plug-in which can be downloaded and set up with a few clicks. The power of this particular Wordpress plug-in is that it will automatically generate and update something called an XML file that lists all the pages of your website. XML is the language that search engines use to locate new content, and by making all of your pages accessible from a single file you can get all of your content indexed by Google and other search engines.
Once you have installed and configured your sitemap generator plug-in, it is very important that you include a link to your XML sitemap file somewhere in the layout of your website. This is the secret to getting your new content listed in Google within five minutes of posting it, because every time your sitemap generator software notifies Google that new content has been posted, the search engine spider will check your website and XML sitemap to find the new content that has been posted. In Wordpress you can add a link to your sitemap file in the footer of your website in just a few minutes by using the editor in the "appearance" tab, and adding the link to the footer file of your theme.
An ancillary benefit of setting up an XML sitemap on your website is that if any other search engine bots find your website, they will also find your sitemap file and you can have all the pages of your website listed in that search engine as well. Back in the old days of the internet before the advent of modern search engine technology, the only way that you could create a sitemap that lists the links of all your website's pages was to create it manually one link at a time. But today, if you follow the steps outlined in this article then you can set up your Wordpress blog so that all of your new posts and content can show up immediately in the Google search engine results, thereby increasing the amount of search engine traffic that your website receives.
