If you have a website or blog and you want to tell the major search engines about all your posts or pages, you would need to submit a Google (XML) Sitemap (an index of your site’s URLs and other information) in order for them to check your sitemap (for their indexing) for updates regularly using their spiders. In fact, Google, Yahoo, Bing (formerly Microsoft LiveSearch) and Ask.com have been using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web.

To set up your Google (XML) Sitemap on your WordPress blog,  you can use the Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress plugin by Arne Brachhold.

Download and unzip the plugin. FTP the unzipped plugin to your WordPress Plugin folder and activate the plugin. In your WordPress Dashboard, click the Settings/XML-Sitemap. In the screen displayed, indicate your sitemap options.

The benefits of using this Google Sitemap Generator plugin is that the above specified search engines will automatically be notified of any  changes you make to your WordPress blog.  This will help these search engines index and spider your blog better, resulting in a more complete index of your blog.

The Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress plugin is a must if you want the major search engines to immediately know of any updates on your blog.

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