Google XML Sitemaps (Pro Version)

Overview

This plugin will generate a special XML sitemap which will help search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com to better index your blog. With such a sitemap, it's much easier for the crawlers to see the complete structure of your site and retrieve it more efficiently. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content.

Features

Support for all major search engines

The plugin supports all the major search engines including Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com. Using the standardized sitemap format, even search engines which are not officially supported by the plugin can index your sitemap.

Instant notification of Google, Bing, Yahoo and Ask.com

If you change something on your blog, the search engines will immediately know since the plugin automatically informs the major search engines about the new content. We’ve seen Google indexing the new content within minutes!

Supports all the WordPress pages

Your sitemap should contain as many pages of your site as possible. That’s why the sitemap plugin was designed to support your blog posts, static pages, category pages, tag pages, archives, author pages and even custom URLs you specify! Additionally you can use the integrated API to add pages from other plugins automatically.

In case you are using custom taxonomies for tagging your content the plugin detected and includes them automatically.

Post priority calculation

The sitemap format supports a priority value which helps the search engines to find out which pages are the most important ones on your site. The plugin can calculate a priority of each of your posts, depending on the amount of comments. Additionally you can specify a minimum post priority, so no post is ignored!

Allows you to add external URLs

Do you have some additional content which is not generated by your WordPress blog? No problem, since you can add additional URLs using a simple user interface.

Static file generator

Generating a sitemap needs some server power. That’s why the plugin only builds them if you changed something! Other solutions rebuild the sitemap and eat all of your server resources every time a search engines retrieves the sitemap. Since this can happen many times a day, you could run into serious performance problems. This plugin only rebuilds the sitemap if it really needs to be done. Since the sitemap grows with the amount of pages and posts you have, the plugin supports a compressed version of the sitemap, which will save you up to 70% of disk space and bandwidth.

No PHP skills needed

The sitemap generator is a full WordPress plugin. Installation is simple and you don’t need ANY PHP skills, since you can change everything via a convenient user interface directly from your WordPress administration area.

Integrated tools and links

From the user interface, you can easily navigate to the webmaster centrals of the major search engines, since the plugin provides a handy list of links to all important resources.

Exclusive “White label” mode

This version of the plugin features an exclusive “White label” mode, which will hide all the back links and information regarding the plugin on the user interface. This is extremely useful if you are an IT agency or web developer who sells or installs WordPress for clients.

Maintained since 2005

The plugin is in continues development since nearly 5 years and has reached a status regarding performance and security not many other WordPress plugins can compete with. It supports all WordPress versions since 2.1 and has been tested in thousand of different server and software configurations.

Fully customizable

The user interface allows you to change every small detail of the sitemap. You can specify the different priorities, change frequencies and tell the plugin exactly what to include and what keep out of your sitemap file. Here is a list of settings you can change:

• Save bandwidth using a compressed version of the sitemap
• Change when the sitemap should be rebuilt
• Enable instant notification of the major search engines
• Include your sitemap in your robots.txt file
• Limit the number of posts
• Tune your server settings by defining memory and time limits
• Turn on a special database mode for better performance
• Change how the priorities are calculated
• Define where the plugin should save your sitemap
• Define if you want to include the homepage, posts, following pages of multi-page posts, static pages, categories, archives, tag pages, author pages, the last modification time
• Define if you want to exclude categories of posts or some single posts and pages
• Set the change frequencies for homepage, posts, static pages, categories, the current archive of this month, older archives, tag pages and author pages
• Define priorities of the homepage, posts (If auto calculation is disabled), set a minimum post priority (Even if auto calculation is enabled), static pages, categories, archives, tag pages and author pages

Tags : google, seo, sitemaps, xml sitemap, google sitemaps