what is sitemap in seo How to create it | GETLearners


What is Sitemap in SEO? What is the use of sitemap in SEO.is that a tool or plugin? Are you really messing up with this question? Then you shouldn’t be, because we are gonna tell you what exactly the sitemap is.

A sitemap referred to call as an XML sitemap. It’s basically an ” XML file ” which keeps all your Site URL just like an Archives of your website which keeps all the site info URL and details.

In this article, we will tell you how you can create it and why it is important in terms of SEO.

 

It is really important for your site to have a sitemap. If you don’t have a sitemap then it will be difficult to rank your website on Google. Because sitemap is really important for SEO and we do SEO to rank our website. When you will have no sitemap on your website, search engine crawlers will not be able to crawl your website.

As I mentioned above sitemap keeps all your site URL. When crawlers enter into your website they can easily read your site Data through URL and these will be saved in an XLM file which is Sitemap. Crawlers really like the sitemap to index your site URL in the search engines. Without this, you won’t be able to get good rankings.

We will guide you on how you can create a sitemap for your own WordPress website.

There are different ways to create an XML sitemap but I will suggest you to use the one which created automatically by Yoast SEO plugin. To learn more about Yoast click here

XML Sitemap in Yoast

we will find out how XML sitemap working on our website from where you can check your sitemap.

The first thing you need to do is to click the General Settings of your Yoast Plugins.

what is sitemap in SEO

Then you will see the page like this. Have a look below

Yoast features

click on features tab then you will find a different options scroll down and find out ” XML sitemaps

check-xml-sitemap-status

When you find this option checkout is its On or off. if off then turns it on.then click over ” ? ” mark. under this, you will find another like ” see the XML sitemaps ” after clicking this you can view your website Sitemap.

XML Sitemaps

After click over there, you will see the page like this. This is your website sitemap. These are the pages URL of your website. We are Done with the sitemap.
If you don’t like this method then you can create your sitemap on “sitemap generator” Its a website and it creates a sitemap for your website.

After creating a sitemap we have to submit this sitemap on ” Google console ” . Now here a question being raised why we need to submit a sitemap in Google console what is Google Console. Learn more about Google console click here.

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