The General Sitemap screen is where you can check if Sitemap is already enabled. If it's turned off, you should turn it back on.

To see your XML Sitemap, click on the Open Sitemap button.

All in One SEO Sitemap Settings

The index page should look like this for your XML Sitemap:

The index page lists all sitemaps related to your site. Each sitemap is different in content. In the screenshot above, for example, you will see two different types of sitemaps; one for Pages and one for Posts!

Click on any link to view the entire index.

Now that you are able to view your XML Sitemap, let's move on to the basic settings.

XML Sitemap Configuration

Let's decide whether or not you want an index for your sitemap.

A site with fewer than one hundred URLs may not need an index page. You can make sitemap indexes to be disabled.

More Resources:

How You Can Set Up a Search Console Account
Pages That Could Not Be Crawled
Get Your Site Indexed

How many URLs should you have in each sitemap?



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Natsea Premium
Thank you Israel for this info. I have a question for you. I submitted sitemaps in my GSC and also Bing webmaster. In Bing is still there and I dont have to resubmit it again. However in GSC after time, is showing me 0 urls in sitemaps and I have to submit it again. And it is repeating. Is it normal or something is wrong?
Thank you so much for your answer.
Nat
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Israel17 Premium
Oh, sorry for my late reply, Nat! Which of Rankmath, AIOSEO, and Yoast SEO are you currently using? Let me know and I will suggest a solution. Thanks!

Israel Olatunji
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Natsea Premium
Hello Israel. No problem. I'm using AIOSEO, but this will be replaced based on Kyle's blog. For now it is still there. Lets see.
Thank you
Nat
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JKulk1 Premium
Hi Israel. Thanks for this training on site maps. I'm currently having trouble verifying my latest site. I've forgotten how you do this. One training segments says to copy the html code from Google site Console into WordPress homepage, but In can't find where on my home page to place it. Jim
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Israel17 Premium
Glad you read my Sitemap creation tutorial, Jim! Are you on AIO SEO? If yes, you aren't going to copy any HTML anymore. It's now made easier with AIO SEO. You won't ever need to copy any code. You just need to rework your AIO SEO Sitemap settings, and you're good to go.

Israel Olatunji
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BrightSales Premium
I appreciate this training friend. I just want to let you know that as for the URLs max it is not 1,000 for each Sitemap which you've stated on lesson 4 here. It is 50,000 URLs max for each Sitemap. After the 50,000 max, then you will have to break them up. Unless, you meant something else. Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks.
All the best!
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Israel17 Premium
Hey Bright, what warrants setting a limit of 1000 URLs per sitemap page is that search engines find it difficult to crawl when each sitemap page is set above this limit. And that's the essence of creating this tutorial. Thanks for reading!

Remain bright!

Israel
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BrightSales Premium
I have searched everywhere on Google friend, and I can't find where it says that the search engines find it difficult to crawl above 1000 URLs. Can you point to your source of info? I want to remain bright. Lol!. Thanks.
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Israel17 Premium
Hey Bright, while it's a maximum of 50,000 URLs per sitemap page, it's only a suggestion by AIO SEO to split the sitemap into pages, with a max of 1000 URLs per page. While this is an AIO SEO's suggestion as shown in the image attached, you're, however, free to set yours to a max of 50,000 URLs per page. Did you get it?

AIO SEO further advises that you can leave this setting to a maximum of 50,000 URLs. You may only have to reduce the number if it's taking longer to view sitemap pages.

Once again, Bright, it's not a rule or a law to set each sitemap page to 1000 URLs. You may only have to do that for the ease of viewing sitemap pages.

I'm following AIO SEO's suggestion because I trust their SEO advice. 2,000,000+ people can't be wrong, I think.

Israel Olatunji
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BrightSales Premium
I was reading about sitemap limits on various sources and found out that the old data for Sitemap limit was 1000 URLs. Since then, it was changed to 50,000 URLs. I was simply asking why 1000 URLs and not 2000, 3000, 4000? But as I see, AIO SEO only suggested that. I guess I was focusing too much on your "should contain no more than 1000 URLs" part of the blog. But I get it now. Point taken friend. All the best!
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Israel17 Premium
Oh, sorry I got you confused, Bright! Thanks for getting back!

Israel Olatunji
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RCanty Premium Plus
Very helpful information! I ran into Sitemap issues a few days ago and this info would have come in handy. Good to see it out there now.

Canty
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Israel17 Premium
Glad it came in handy, Canty! Much appreciated, my friend!

Israel Olatunji
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Aussiemuso Premium Plus
I always wondered about this Israel.
Thanks for clearing up some points for me.

Lily
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Israel17 Premium
Most welcome, Lily! Glad you found it helpful! Creating a sitemap is crucial for SEO. Thanks again!

Israel Olatunji
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