Ever published a new blog post, only to find it’s nowhere on Google days later? That usually happens because search engines haven’t discovered your content yet. A sitemap fixes exactly that.
The good news is that creating a sitemap in WordPress is easy. You can use the built-in sitemap WordPress generates automatically, or get a more powerful version from an SEO plugin.
In this guide, we’ll walk you through both options and show you how to submit your sitemap to search engines without touching any code.
What Is a WordPress Sitemap?
A WordPress sitemap is a file that lists all pages, posts, and other content on your site, so search engines can discover and index everything more efficiently.
There are a few different types of sitemaps in WordPress:
- XML sitemap: The most common type, built for search engines like Google and Bing rather than human visitors. WordPress has this built-in.
- HTML sitemap: A clickable page that helps visitors (and search engines) navigate your content.
- RSS/Atom sitemap: A feed that highlights your most recently published or updated posts.
- Image sitemap: Helps search engines find and index the images on your site.
- Video sitemap: Helps your video content appear in video search results.
- News sitemap: For news publishers who want their articles indexed quickly in Google News.
- Multilingual sitemap: Points search engines to the right language version of a page for each region.
Most beginners only need an XML sitemap to get started. The other types become more useful as your site grows or if you publish specific content like videos or news articles.
How to Create a Sitemap in WordPress
WordPress comes with a basic sitemap built in, so you don’t need a plugin to get started. It was added in WordPress 5.5, and it works automatically without any setup on your part.
To find your default WordPress sitemap, simply add /wp-sitemap.xml to the end of your website’s URL.
For example, if your site is https://www.example.com, your sitemap will be at https://www.example.com/wp-sitemap.xml.
When you visit that URL, you’ll see a sitemap index file that links out to separate sitemaps for your posts, pages, categories, tags, and other content types.
The built-in sitemap covers the basics. As your site grows, though, you may run into a few limits:
- No image or video sitemap support. Media content won’t be included, which means search engines may miss it.
- No news sitemap. If you run a news site, the default sitemap won’t meet Google News requirements.
- No HTML sitemap. There’s no visitor-friendly version of your sitemap built in.
- Limited control over what’s included. You can’t easily exclude specific pages, posts, or content types without writing custom code.
- No Google Search Console integration. You’ll need to manually submit the sitemap URL yourself with no guidance from within WordPress.
This is why we recommend most website owners to use an SEO plugin and generate a more advanced sitemap. Here’s how to set one up:
- How to Setup an Advanced WordPress Sitemap
- Setup a Video Sitemap in WordPress
- Setup a News Sitemap in WordPress
- Setup an RSS Sitemap in WordPress
- Setup an HTML Sitemap in WordPress
- Setup a Multilingual Sitemap in WordPress
- Submit Your XML Sitemap to Search Engines
- Frequently Asked Questions About WordPress Sitemaps
How to Setup an Advanced WordPress Sitemap
An SEO plugin gives you a more advanced XML sitemap than the default WordPress sitemap. You control exactly what’s included, such as post types and the number of included links.
You don’t need a paid plugin to get started. Almost every popular WordPress SEO plugin generates an XML sitemap in their free version. We’ll show you how to use All in One SEO (AIOSEO) because it’s what we use at WPBeginner.
Go ahead and install and activate the free AIOSEO plugin.
Alternatively, you can install the free Yoast or Rank Math plugin. If you need help, see our step-by-step guide on how to install a WordPress plugin. It runs a quick setup wizard the first time, and the defaults are fine to get going.
Head to All in One SEO » Sitemaps and make sure you’re in the ‘General Sitemap’ tab. You should see the ‘Enable Sitemap’ toggle switched on. If it isn’t, turn it on now.
Scroll down to the ‘Sitemap Settings’ section. Under ‘Post Types,’ toggle on the content types you want indexed, such as posts, pages, and any custom post types.
Leave off anything that isn’t useful in search, like private or utility pages.
In the ‘Taxonomies’ section below, it makes sense to include your categories, while tags are optional. We also recommend leaving date-based archive and author pages turned off, since they tend to be thin content that can dilute your sitemap in Google’s eyes.
AIOSEO also adds your images to this XML sitemap automatically, so you don’t need a separate image sitemap. If you’d rather leave images out, you can turn it off under the sitemap’s Advanced Settings.
When you’re done, click ‘Save Changes.’ Your XML sitemap is now live, and you can view it anytime with the ‘Open Sitemap’ link at the top of the page.
Setup a Video Sitemap in WordPress
A video sitemap helps search engines find and understand the video content on your site. Without one, your videos may not appear in video search results or Google’s video carousel.
Important: Video Sitemap is available on AIOSEO’s Pro plan and above. If you’re on the free or Basic plan, then you can skip this step or upgrade to Pro if you need video indexing support.
To enable it, switch to the ‘Video Sitemap’ tab at the top of the page and toggle on ‘Enable Sitemap.’
Now, you’ll see options to control which content is included:
- Post Types. Select the post types that contain video content on your site. For most sites, this will be posts and pages, but you can also include custom post types if you host videos in a specific section of your site.
- Taxonomies. You can choose whether to include taxonomy pages that feature video content as well.
AIOSEO’s video sitemap works best with videos embedded from a supported host like YouTube or Vimeo. If yours are hosted elsewhere or hard for search engines to detect, you may need to add schema markup to help Google understand them.
Setup a News Sitemap in WordPress
A news sitemap is designed specifically for websites that publish news articles. It tells Google News about your latest content so it can be considered for inclusion in Google’s news search results and the Top Stories section.
A news sitemap only includes articles published within the last 48 hours. Google News is focused on fresh, timely content, so older articles won’t appear in this sitemap. Your regular XML sitemap handles the indexing of your older content.
To set up the News sitemap in AIOSEO, go to the ‘News Sitemap’ tab at the top of the page and turn on the ‘Enable Sitemap’ toggle.
Then you can configure these settings:
- Publication name. Enter the name of your news publication exactly as you want it to appear in Google News. This should match the name you used when registering your site with Google News.
- Post Types. Select which post types contain your news articles. Most news sites will choose ‘Posts’, but if you use a custom post type for news content, you can select that here instead.
Note: If you run a news site, make sure it meets Google News’s content policies before submitting a news sitemap. Google has specific guidelines around original reporting, authorship, and publication frequency that your site will need to follow to be considered for Google News inclusion.
Setup an RSS Sitemap in WordPress
An RSS sitemap works differently from an XML sitemap. Instead of listing all your content at once, it focuses on your most recently published or updated posts from your RSS feed. That gives search engines a lightweight way to spot your newest content, although it won’t guarantee faster indexing.
To set it up, switch to the ‘RSS Sitemap’ tab at the top of the page in your AIOSEO settings. Click the ‘Enable Sitemap’ toggle to turn the RSS sitemap on if it isn’t already active.
Here, there are a couple of simple options to configure:
- Number of posts. This setting controls how many of your most recent posts are listed in the RSS sitemap. AIOSEO sets a default number, but you can adjust it based on how frequently you publish new content.
- Post Types. Choose which content types are included in your RSS sitemap. For most sites, you’ll want to include posts, but you can also add pages or custom post types.
Setup an HTML Sitemap in WordPress
An HTML sitemap (sometimes called a visual sitemap) is a clickable page built for your visitors, not just search engines. It is handy on larger sites where content is hard to find through the menu.
To activate the HTML sitemap feature, go to the ‘HTML Sitemap’ tab at the top of the page and turn on the ‘Enable Sitemap’ toggle.
Once enabled, you’ll see several options to customize how your HTML sitemap looks and works:
- Sitemap page. AIOSEO can automatically create a dedicated page for your HTML sitemap, or you can choose an existing page on your site to display it.
- Post Types. Select which content types you want to appear in the sitemap, such as posts and pages.
- Taxonomies. Choose whether to include categories, tags, or other taxonomy archives in the sitemap.
- Sort order. Control how your content is organized in the sitemap, such as by publication date, title, or last modified date.
- Compact archives. This option groups older content by month or year, which keeps the sitemap page from becoming too long on sites with a large archive.
Setup a Multilingual Sitemap in WordPress
If your WordPress site publishes in more than one language, then a multilingual sitemap helps search engines serve the right version to each region’s audience.
Most of this is handled by your translation plugin, not your SEO plugin. Translation plugins like Universally, WPML, and Polylang, add the hreflang tags and organize your language versions.
AIOSEO, Yoast SEO, and Rank Math pick these up automatically, so your translated pages appear in your sitemap with nothing extra to configure.
Submit Your XML Sitemap to Search Engines
Search engines are quite good at finding a sitemap on their own, especially once your SEO plugin adds it to your site’s robots.txt file. However, we recommend that you submit the sitemap manually to ensure that search engines can find it.
First, let’s find your sitemap URL so you can submit it to Google or Bing. Go to All in One SEO » Sitemaps and click ‘Open Sitemap’ to view it.
Keep this tab open so you can copy the URL in the next steps.
Or, you can access it directly by typing your website address followed by /sitemap.xml. For example: https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.
For Yoast SEO and Rank Math, it’s usually yoursite.com/sitemap_index.xml. You can confirm your exact sitemap URL by visiting the sitemap settings page in whichever plugin you’re using.
Submit Your Sitemap to Google
For Google, you will submit your sitemap from your Google Search Console account.
If you haven’t set up Google Search Console yet, then follow our guide on how to add your WordPress site to Google Search Console to create your account, verify ownership, and connect it to WordPress.
One detail to get right during setup: Google treats HTTP and HTTPS as different sites, and https://www.example.com is different from https://example.com. Use the exact URL from your WordPress Settings » General page in the ‘Site Address’ field.
Once Search Console is connected, go back to your Google Search Console dashboard and click ‘Sitemaps’ in the left menu.
Then, paste your sitemap URL into the ‘Add new sitemap’ section and click ‘Submit.’
Google will now regularly check your sitemap to discover new and updated content on your site. We recommend checking back on this page after a day or two to make sure Google has processed your sitemap successfully.
You should see your sitemap listed with a status confirming Google has processed it. If it flags errors, click them for details (often just a formatting issue Google resolves on its own).
Back in the AIOSEO Sitemaps settings, you’ll also see a notification that says, “Your site is connected directly to Google Search Console and your sitemaps are in sync.”
Submit Your Sitemap to Bing
Just like Google, Bing has its own webmaster tool for submitting your sitemap. It’s worth doing too, since Bing also powers other search platforms like DuckDuckGo.
First, head over to Bing Webmaster Tools and sign in with a free Microsoft account. Then add your site and verify that you own it. For the full walkthrough, see our guide on how to add your website to Bing Webmaster Tools.
Once your site is verified, open your website property and click ‘Sitemaps’ in the left-hand menu.
Next, click the ‘Submit Sitemap’ button. This opens a popup where you can enter your full sitemap URL.
Paste your full sitemap URL, for example https://www.yoursite.com/sitemap.xml
Then, click ‘Submit’ to send it to Bing.
Bing will process your sitemap and show the results in the ‘Sitemaps’ section, including how many URLs it discovered and whether there were any issues.
Frequently Asked Questions About WordPress Sitemaps
Do I need a sitemap if my WordPress site is small?
Yes, even small WordPress sites benefit from having a sitemap. While search engines can often find and crawl small sites through links alone, a sitemap makes sure that every page gets discovered, including newer content that hasn’t had time to build up internal links yet.
How often does my sitemap update?
Your sitemap updates automatically every time you publish, update, or delete content on your site. If you’re using an SEO plugin like AIOSEO, Yoast SEO, or Rank Math, then this happens in the background without you needing to do anything. Your sitemap will always reflect the current state of your site as long as your plugin is active and configured correctly.
Can I have more than one sitemap?
Yes, you can have multiple sitemaps on your WordPress site, and in most cases you will. A sitemap index file acts as a master list that points to separate sitemaps for different content types, for example, one sitemap for posts, one for pages, and one for videos.
Does having a sitemap guarantee my content will rank in Google?
No, having a sitemap does not guarantee your content will rank in Google. A sitemap helps search engines discover and index your content, but ranking depends on many other factors like content quality, backlinks, and overall site authority.
What should I do if Google shows errors in my sitemap?
If Google Search Console shows errors in your sitemap, start by clicking on the error to get more details about what’s causing it. Common fixes include:
- Removing noindex pages from your sitemap
- Updating or redirecting broken URLs that return 404 errors
- Making sure your robots.txt file isn’t blocking pages that are listed in your sitemap
Once you’ve made your fixes, you can request Google to reprocess your sitemap directly from the Sitemaps page in Search Console.
Do I need to resubmit my sitemap every time I publish new content?
No, you don’t need to resubmit your sitemap every time you publish new content. Once you’ve submitted your sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools, both search engines will revisit it regularly on their own.
How to disable the default WordPress sitemap?
When popular plugins like AIOSEO, Yoast, or RankMath are active, they automatically switch off the default WordPress sitemap at /wp-sitemap.xml and generates their own advanced sitemap instead. So you won’t end up running two competing sitemaps.
We hope this article helped you learn about XML sitemaps and how to create an XML sitemap for your WordPress site. Next, you may also want to read our ultimate WordPress SEO guide or learn how to ask Google to recrawl URLs of your WordPress site.
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Olaf
I remember the days when we made sitemaps manually using online tools or even by hand on our computers. Then came the revolutionary Yoast SEO, which did it for us, and we were thrilled. SEO plugins are truly genius in how they help with this. Now, I use AIO SEO. It’s great that the developers included this feature in the free version because it saves me time, and I don’t have to use another plugin for it. The combination of Google Console and a sitemap can significantly impact results. It’s a great way to get noticed, especially since you don’t have to know any XML programming.
Jiří Vaněk
One thing is still unclear to me. AIO SEO generates the /sitemap.xml page, and here there are individual subpages like the sitemap for posts, pages, tags, etc. Is it enough to add the main sitemap to Google Search Console, and Google will go through everything on its own, or is it better to add each individual subpage, meaning each individual sitemap, to the console?
WPBeginner Support
You would only want to add your main sitemap to search engines as that will normally let search engines know about the other sitemaps.
Admin
Jiří Vaněk
Thanks for the response, now I finally have clarity. I didn’t want to overlook anything, so I was always adding all the sitemaps, which was evidently unnecessary. Search engines can handle it on their own. At least I’ll remember this for next time.
Mrteesurez
This article is helpful to me.
But I don’t normally create a site map manually, I heard search engines crawl WordPress sites automatically without a need to manually submit your sitemap.
Am I right or wrong ??
WPBeginner Support
Search engines can crawl your site without a sitemap but we recommend adding a sitemap as it helps tell search engines the content available to crawl on your site instead of waiting for search engines to find the content.
Admin
Jiří Vaněk
Yes, the search engine crawls your site automatically, but my experience is that it does so faster with a sitemap. Let me explain why. When I create an article, AIO SEO automatically updates my sitemap.xml, which I also have added to Google Search Console. Thanks to the sitemap being updated both on the website and immediately afterward in Google Search Console, Google quickly receives the information that there is something new on the site. It will check it out and index it much faster. The same applies to editing an article. The update is also reflected in the sitemap, and Google will tend to review the modified content more quickly and possibly index any important information or updates in the article. In my opinion, having a sitemap.xml on your site and in Google Search Console is undoubtedly a necessity.
Ahmed Omar
thank you for the valuable helpful post
I liked the video as it made it more easy and step by step, Actually when I find a video in the post, I feet comfortable that I will finish the issue
I am using Yoast for site mapping and it is working fine with me
Thank you
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome, glad you found our post helpful
Admin
szymon majewski
Hi. I have a problem with my sitemap. I’m trying to add my sitemap to google search console and unfortunately I’m getting the error site cannot be added. After checking the url of the map, search console tells me the error: Is indexing allowed
error
No: The tag “noindex” was detected in the “X-Robots-Tag” http header.
I tried to find this tag in many ways but I don’t see it anywhere.
Please help me, best regards.
WPBeginner Support
The error looks like your robots.txt is blocking Google, you would need to check your robots.txt file. Our guide below should be able to help with finding and editing your robots.txt file.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-optimize-your-wordpress-robots-txt-for-seo/
Admin
Donny
Thank for this article it was very helpful
WPBeginner Support
Glad to hear our guide was helpful!
Admin
Viany Sole Cruz
Thank You. This was so helpful!
WPBeginner Support
Glad our article was helpful
Admin
Wajid Khan
I am a beginner, I have new sitemap and want to update new sitemap in AIOSEO Lite plugin but I couldn’t find option to update or add new or remove sitemap in the plugin, please guide me how to update sitemap in AIOSEO Lite plugin.
WPBeginner Support
The sitemap should automatically update over time at the moment
Admin
Shyam
Can I submit more than one sitemap? I have submitted a sitemap created by yoast seo and the one created by jetpack. Does this affect any?
WPBeginner Support
We would recommend only submitting one sitemap and not using multiple plugins for creating sitemaps as that can cause issues.
Admin
Felicity
Thank you, this was really concise and helpful
WPBeginner Support
Glad our article was helpful
Admin
Govind
this was all I needed, thank you
WPBeginner Support
Glad our guide was helpful
Admin
Joanne Tjahyana
When I submitted it to Google Search Console, it says “couldn’t fetched”.
So what should I do now?
WPBeginner Support
The most common solution would be to clear your caching and resave your permalinks.
Admin
Anil
I have shifted my website from blogger.com to wordpress. Do I need to resubmit xml sitemap in Google search console?
WPBeginner Support
To be safe you would want to resubmit the sitemap
Admin
Zohaib
Very informative. Thank you!
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome
Admin
Aditaya
can we delete the pugin after use or its will important for that.
WPBeginner Support
The plugin is generating your sitemap so you would want to keep the plugin active on your site.
Admin
Ari
Hello, thank you very much for the great information, your website is very helpful! I got a question about sitemap, I follow all the steps but in the end when I add the last part of your sitemap URL to ‘Add new sitemap’ section and click Submit, it doesn´t show me an amount of links, it shows that I have 0 links. What could be the problem?
Thank you in advance)
WPBeginner Support
You would want to visit the address on your site to check if there are any errors. You may also want to resave your permalinks for a common solution.
Admin
onyenucheya Chinecherem
Hello admin thanks for this article, but I’m confused to an extent and here is my question; is there any negative effect of submitting both www and non www sitemap to webmasters?
WPBeginner Support
It could cause some reporting issues, it is normally best to submit the sitemap with the URL you would like to have appear on Google’s search
Admin
Anisha Shrestha
I was Struggling to verify my sitemap in google before. Now i added It. Very Useful article. Thank you for Sharing.
WPBeginner Support
Glad you found our article helpful
Admin
sibasis
Very infirmative as I was struggling to verify mt site with goggle and bing.
THANK YOU
WPBeginner Support
Glad our guide was helpful
Admin
Rituparna
Very very useful post. I was struggling with the sitemap and its submission to Google Search Console. Now sorted. Thank you.
WPBeginner Support
Glad our guide was helpful
Admin
saba
very helful guide. thanks for sharing
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome
Admin
Metodi
I find this article very helpfull, but I want to ask you something. I use Yoast SEO, but now need to generate separate XML sitemap for images. Could you reccomend me a plugin for that. Thanks
WPBeginner Support
Yoast currently has the option of including images in the sitemap so you shouldn’t need an additional plugin
Admin
Liv
This article was very helpful. I used the Yoast SEO method. Thank you
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome, glad our guide could help
Admin
Suzanne
Thanks so much for this it was a massive help! Because I verified and uploaded to Google Console first, I managed to verify and import my website/sitemap to Bing by just connecting my google account (Bing gives you an option for this when you click on sign up) – it was done in less than 30 seconds! I wouldn’t have thought to do Bing, so thank you so much for covering that too!
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome, glad our guide was helpful
Admin
Tasha
This is honestly the most helpful article I’ve ever seen. I’m not a developer (just new home business owner trying to figure out the rabbit hole that is web dev) and this guided me through all the unknowns I’d had about importance of a sitemap, let alone how it would benefit my site. THANK YOU SO MUCH!
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome, glad our guide was helpful
Admin
Brittney Gage
I rarely write comments on articles but this was easily one of the most helpful I’ve ever read. Thank you!
WPBeginner Support
Glad our article was helpful
Admin
Harish Nemade
I have my site with only one post published, so is it necessary to submit a sitemap each time when I added a new Article/Post?
And how often should I submit sitemap?
WPBeginner Support
You only need to submit your sitemap once unless there is an error, it will update as you add posts.
Admin
Image Earth Travel
Great article!
Yt’s a pain that the Yoast plugin (as with all plugins) are only offered on the WP’s Business Plan. I’ve been on the Premium Plan and not allowed to install plugins.
WPBeginner Support
Thank you, part of the confusion may be due to our articles being for WordPress.org sites which require hosting instead of the business plan on WordPress.com
https://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/self-hosted-wordpress-org-vs-free-wordpress-com-infograph/
Admin
Sarah
I am using the free Yoast SEO plugin but I am not seeing SEO » XML Sitemaps. Any ideas? Thanks
WPBeginner Support
Yoast has updated their interface so you should find it under SEO>General>Features at the moment.
Admin
flyingvan
Thanks for this tutorial, I could activate the sitemap on my website thanks to you.
Mat
WPBeginner Support
You’re welcome, glad our article could be helpful
Admin
Sara
Hello,
Recently I added the sitemap for my website. But, while checked with the tool, it’s showing, no sitemap is added. Why it’s showing like this. I added Yoast SEO plugins.
WPBeginner Support
It could be their caching or if your site has caching that you haven’t cleared it could be part of the issue.
Admin
Jishnu.M
Hi,
I have a problem with sitemap submitting….I am using Yoast SEO when I submit a sitemap to google webmaster it says “couldn’t fetch”…….. but i have successfully submitted sitemap to bing and Yandex without any errors …what to do please help me
WPBeginner Support
For an error like this, you may need to reach out to Yoast’s support to see their recommended troubleshooting for specifically Google not being able to crawl your sitemap.
Admin
Sajol Fuad
I am really happy to get this article about sitemap.
I am using Yoast SEO for sitemaps. Some SEO auditor is saying that I should improve it immediately. But Google search console is showing a green success and assuring that all is ok.
Can you please suggest me what should I do right now?
Thanks for the article..
WPBeginner Support
We’re using the Yoast sitemap without any issues at the moment. If you would prefer what the auditor wants then you could certainly try that if you wanted.
Admin
Charles Harris
I have Yoast SEO but XML sitemaps does not appear on the menu, which indeed looks very different from yours. Any suggestions as to how to find it?
WPBeginner Support
For the current Yoast interface, the Sitemap options are under SEO>General>Features
Admin
Charles Harris
Thanks – got it now.
Joseph
I need some help please,
some pages on my website are not showing on sitemap.xml
I entered it manually to google console, It showed an error that the sitemap format is HTML and that I should change the format
how do I change sitemap format, please?
WPBeginner Support
If you’re using a caching plugin you may want to try to disable it to see if it could be a conflict between Yoast and the caching plugin you’re using.
Admin
Ravi
Hi, awesome tutorial, I did same as your instruction and working fine. But there’s a problem with this, check out the details.
my website is yahoonewsz.com and when I type “www.example.com/sitemap_index.xml”, it works fine but it says page not found when typed “example.com/sitemap_index.xml”.
Why?
WPBeginner Support
You may want to check with your hosting provider that there is not a setting preventing the non www version from redirecting properly
Admin
Arun Dixit
Thanks for your best tutorial!
I recently have a wordpress blog and have created xml sitemap using yoast seo, according to this tutorial in previous month. Yesterday I happend to see my xmlsitemap file at my wp-admin. There are only 5-6 lines which covers my new posts only. What about my old posts? Is there any problem? And how come I know that there is any problem? Because I have more than dozen posts till now.
Kindly let me know.
Arun Dixit
WPBeginner Support
You may want to clear your caching and reach out to Yoast if your sitemap is refusing to update your older posts if you’re not excluding them.
Admin
Darko Loncar
I am using All in One SEO pack Plugin. If I download Yoast’s WordPress SEO plugin should I use both?
WPBeginner Support
No, we would not recommend having multiple SEO plugins active as they can conflict with each other.
Admin
Kirti Goyal
THANKS FOR SHARING THIS INFORMATION!
one thing I want to know is that whether after every single update in pages, posts or change within a post, we need to submit the sitemap???
Looking forward to hearing from you.
WPBeginner Support
You should not need to resubmit your sitemap as long as Google does not run into any errors with your sitemap and with the method from our article it should over time update your sitemap.
Admin
Viraj
Please guide me to make a news sitemap for google news submission.
Luke
I followed these steps but search console is giving me a 404 on the sitemap. I never had such problems submitting sitemaps
Mohammed
In my website, I generated sitemap using this tutorial, however I want to remove one particular non-existent URL from the sitemap as it’s giving 404 error and google adsense is showing crawl error. How do I remove one particualr URL from sitemap and ask google to stop crawling that URL?
Ernest
I see some websites have multiple sitemaps. Is it really necessary?
Dibyajyoti
not really. But some large website for multiple purpose .
greeshma
is sitemaps still relevant in 2018?
WPBeginner Support
Hi Greeshma,
Yes, they are.
Admin
PRANITA DESHPANDE
My site has been verified but can’t find site map near to it .What to do for it ?
cher
I did your step for the sitemap. Awesome! Also, for my robots.txt file I have the following, should I change that first line of sitemap to what yoast says? I am not even sure where I got that old sitemap from but don’t want to mess anything up.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Cher,
Yes, if you are using Yoast SEO, then you should add Yoast SEO sitemap.
Admin
Jude
Hi.
Very helpful information.
I want to ask if it is okay to submit my site to other webmasters like bing, yandex and others.
Thanks so much.
WPBeginner Support
Hi Jude,
Yes, it is OK.
Admin
jude
Thanks so much.
I can’t find my sitemap code in yoast.
I also can’t verify my site on other search console like yandex and bing. (i got cannot verify)
daguah
which social plugin do you use to show the number of shares?
jude
hi. you can use share count or sassy social share
Anshuman Konwar
Thank you Sir, this article is very helpful
William
Is there any one who can help me to change sitemap.xml to some new url like sitmap_page_xml