This tutorial presumes that you already have the Yoast plugin installed. Follow these steps to view your xml sitemap:

Step 1 - In your Wordpress admin tool bar, click on the "SEO" tab as shown below.



Step 2 - Now click on the "XML Sitemaps" tab.



Step 3 - Then click on the "XML Sitemap" tab.


This will bring up your XML Sitemap on your website and prove that Yoast is continually generating sitemaps for your site. If it comes up with an error saying "Page Not Found", then try the following:

In the XML Sitemaps tab again, click on the "User Sitemap" tab.

Make sure the "Check this box to enable XML sitemap functionality" box is checked as indicated below. If not then check it now.

Also make sure that the "disable author/user sitemap" box is not checked. It should look like this. If not then un-check it now.

Save all your settings and then go back and try and view your sitemap again. This should have solved your problems.


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eric100 Premium
Hi Guys my All in One SEO seem different to shown in tutorial. I can't apply what your tutorial does. The XML sitemaps is totally different. Can you guys help me to my issue? Thank you very much!
PS.....I think my SEO is updated that is the reason why it's different.
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GaryStan Premium
@eric100
Thanks Renelyn for helping Eric.
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VickyL Premium
Thank you for the easy to follow training. My sitemap had errors, so I looked to Yoast for a solution and wow it was complicated. I searched WA and found this, problem solved.
Thanks again.
Vicky
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GaryStan Premium
@VickyL
I'm glad I could help you today Vicky. Let me know if you have any other problems. Cheers
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CStipe Premium
I hope might goes through, it say's this when I view the test, but i've done everything in my wordpress settings, etc to make sure I am on the correct time zone.

An invalid date was found. Please fix the date or formatting before resubmitting.
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GaryStan Premium
@CStipe
Hi Chris. Just double check that your time zone in wordpress matches your system time zone. This can sometimes cause issues.
If everything seems ok then just submit the sitemap anyway. After that just give it a couple of days and then check if all your urls have been indexed in webmaster tools.
If some have not, then check for any crawl errors. Let me know how you get along.
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CStipe Premium
Thanks for sharing this Gary.
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PIOFJR Premium
Thanks for sharing Gary. But I wonder why Yoast is so slow to populate my site sitemap. I used it few months now, but i could only see 6 urls listed in sitemap. What is wrong with it. Pio
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GaryStan Premium
@PIOFJR
Hi Pio. I am really not sure why you experienced that with Yoast. My sitemaps all seem to be fully populated almost immediately. Maybe they had a glitch in the program which has now been resolved with their updates.
I will double check on all my urls though now that you have said that. Thanks for sharing. Gary.
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