Generating a Sitemap for Google, Bing, etc.

If you have not yet generated a sitemap for the search engines, Kyle covers it here:

How to Submit a Sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools

But, let's take a deeper look at your options ala non-video. If you haven't figured it out yet, I like stuff you can print out and follow along. Videos are great, but can sometimes be hard to pause, execute a step, pause again, execute next step and so on. Some people do better with video, don't get me wrong. But, I like to have the steps. Call me old-school! LOL!

So, in our training, we setup the All-in-One SEO plugin and that is what I'm going to use for this training, of course.

STEP 1: What are We Providing to Google?

Okay, so, per the training, with the AIO (All-in-One) plugin installed, if you login to your website, you'll have the XMLSitemap function turned on. It's a feature you have to turn on after the plugin is installed.

Then, you can click the XML Sitemap option under the AIO menu area as indicated on the left below:

You will be presented with something like this:

The URLs are obviously listed below that.

These are the items we are providing Google for indexing. Now, let's take a look at what we can change!