Make Sure Your Site Is Always on Google’s Radar
Use Squirrly’s Sitemap Generator and Settings to help your site get crawled and indexed by Google
Having different types of pages or content can help your WordPress sitebe more interesting and better support your marketing goals.
- images
- videos
- custom taxonomies
- custom post types
- products – for eCommerce sites
- Google News
However, once you enable or add these elements to your site, there will be lots of data for search engine bots to crawl and index.
Bots need to:
- know which pages are more relevant
- see which of your content has changed
- understand your site architecture
This is where a sitemap comes into play.
The Solution is to structure everything so that it looks neat and organized in Google’s “eyes”. The forms it comes in is an XML file which:
- allows you to tally URLs which search engines can crawl and then index.
- contains metadata – such as the date of last updates or the frequency of changes – for the respective URLs.
Why Do I Need an XML Sitemap Generator?
To Google, a structured website is extremely appealing and a standout among other billion sites out there.
It makes sense – a website which has a sitemap enabled will render its links in a more adequate list, thus sparing search engine bots loads of crawling time.
It’s like business – partners will more likely collaborate with you if they see you have neat processes and everything is in place. And you know that with search engines, you do need to cultivate a flawless partnership.
Next step: install the Squirrly SEO Plugin and enable its sitemap generator from the SEO Settings section:
What Next?
Just adding the sitemap won’t cut it in the long term.
With Google, you always have to be on the lookout.
That’s why Squirrly steps in with a few nifty settings to give you that upper hand against your competitors:
How Squirrly SEO Makes Everything Easier
- ping your website to Google and Bing when you post some new content. Your latest posts will be added automatically to the sitemap.
- select what type of content you want to add to the sitemap.
- include images and videos separately, which will allow Google to index them with the proper keyword.
- take into account how often you update your site.
With Squirrly’s Sitemap Generator and settings, Google will be notified of updates to your site right after you make them.
Help Google help you and your website will become more powerful.
This way, your efforts to build quality content will meet the rankings they deserve.
“I use Squirrly every time I create a new post.”
– Neil Patel, Co-Founder of KissMetrics.
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