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you have a WordPress website and you

want search engines to drive traffic to

your pages what do you do well you

definitely need a sitemap a sitemap

allow search engines to see all your

pages index them and thus making your

pages searchable so I need a wordpress

plugin the most popular plugin for this

is Yoast Yoast will create a sitemap for

you and also give you other search

engine optimization recommendations in

this video I'm going to show you how I

created a sitemap but the question is

did I like the Yoast plug-in or

something else actually I went for

something else

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motion there are two kinds of sitemaps

the visible kind for your visitors

website visitors and the invisible type

which is like a XML version for search

engine robots this video is focus more

on the XML sitemaps to get your website

your new website indexed visible and

searchable by search engines while the

visual sitemaps we're more important

long time ago maybe 10-15 years ago it

helped visitors on your website find

your pages but today it's not used as

much so we won't be doing that today

we'll just be focused on the XML

sitemaps okay so why is an XML sitemap

important for search engine optimization

if you think of your website as a house

each page of your site is a room you can

think of an XML sitemap like a blueprint

to your house

this blueprint makes it easy for Google

and other search engines to quickly and

easily find your rooms within your house

sitemaps are important for SEO because

they make it easier for Google to find

your site pages if you search for an SEO

site map plugin for your WordPress

website more often than not Yoast will

come out number one as the recommended

plugin for it and rightly so because the

it provides a lot of features to help

you improve your search engine

optimization I'm going to install Yoast

and see if all these features are useful

or it's just blow it for me because

really I simply want a site map so that

the search engines can find my pages I

might not need all of these things so

let's go install Yoast in my WordPress

website I'm actually going to do it in

my locally installed WordPress website

because I don't want to mess with my

live site right now I don't like

installing and testing plugins and

removing it on my main site because it

might leave a lot of unnecessary files I

do not want so I do all my testing in my

local copy of my website if you want to

learn how to install WordPress in your

local machine I have a video for that

check the description section below if

i've already uploaded at the video that

video shows you how to install wordpress

locally and also migrate or clone your

main site to your local laptop or

computer so you can do all the testing

in your computer and not affect your

main site

okay let's mosey on to our dashboard to

install Yoast let's go to plugins add

new to a search for sitemap there you go

Yoast is the first result activate it

let's go to settings

and here you see XML sitemaps that's the

one I want it's turned on is this I

guess this is the top level of the

sitemap and if you want to see all my

posts click here okay there you go

there's all my posts these are what I

want the search engines to see now the

search engine BOTS can go through all

this and index them for their search

results so anytime I submit a new post

it will come in here automatically I

don't have to do anything else and then

when the Google BOTS or Bing or other

search engines come in here to check my

XML site they'll see the new pages all

right so now I have an XML sitemap but

the thing is what else does Yoast do and

do I need it all let's go check on Yoast

we can see here Yost has a new sort of

notification area up here and let's

click that ok it goes to their main

settings page and we see here how Yoast

tries to promote their premium services

upgrades so you have to go through a

configuration wizard I'm not sure if I

really want to do that right now let's

go to one of my posts ok and scroll down

and you'll see the Yoast sort of a post

interface it shows you a snippet of what

it'll look like in the Google search

engine this will be the link in the

search engine and this is the little

description so it gives you an idea that

the first couple of sentences are quite

important to give people a review or a

little description detailing what your

page is about and you should put your

important keywords and phrases here

right you can edit it here ok so this is

the mobile version of the search result

for Google let's click on the desktop

this is what it'll look like if you're

using a laptop or a PC what if we click

Edit snippet

okay so yose allows you to edit the link

and it gives you this form to give a

meta description to your post SEO

analysis let's check this out okay here

are the recommendations Yoast is saying

no internal link appear in this page so

I guess Yost knows that search engines

love to have links inside your page

another Red Alert is the key phrase

length no focus and cue key phrase was

set for this page meta description

length SEO title image alt attributes

outbound links good job there's an

outbound link the text contains 557

words good job okay so these are

recommendations the reds are the ones

you can improve upon the orange are the

so-so and the green means you've done

these well that's pretty cool

let's check readability consecutive

sentences the text contains five

consecutive sentences starting with the

same word oh really

subheading this distribution one section

of your text is longer than 300 words

and is not separated by any subheadings

Flesch reading ease the copy scores

fifty nine point three in the test which

is considered fairly difficult to read

really transition words only 26% of the

sentences contain transition words which

is not enough good results passive voice

you're using enough active voice that's

great paragraphs length

none of the paragraphs are too long

great job sentence length great yeah so

these are good tips advice

recommendations by Yoast to conduct

search engine optimization friendly

practices so that's that's pretty

important that's probably pretty

important for most that's quite a point

for you

bloggers for people with new websites to

understand all these tips but you know

what I just feel like Yoast is doing too

much and it might bog down my site

because all I need was just a site map

and now that I know some of the advice

that Yoast gives I'll just record these

advice and just a separate text file on

my laptop too to remind me whenever I

create a new post that I should go

through all these checklists that I

don't need constant reminder on my

dashboard to do this because eventually

it might slow down my website I want a

really light website so that means I'm

not going to keep Yoast for now I'm

going to remove it and install something

else I'm going to look for something

light that's just specifically created

to create a sitemap for me and nothing

else I just want that feature and no

bloat I don't want to be constantly

reminded for upgrades and this

notification and that notification

I just want my WordPress core to be

light as possible so I'm going to

uninstall Yoast and look for a great

alternative and I think I know one let

me deactivate it first and let's delete

it I just hope it doesn't leave a bunch

of files on my server

let's go click on add new

site map ok here are the results when I

search for a site map in the WordPress

plugins remember Yoast was number one

and over here number two is Google XML

sitemaps now I think this is what I'm

looking for let's click this use this

plugin to greatly improve SEO to create

special XML sitemaps which will help

search engines like Google Bing Yahoo

and asked to better index your site ask

is still around with such a sitemap it's

much easier for crawlers to see the

complete structure of your site and

retrieve it more efficiently the plugin

supports all kinds of wordpress

generated pages as well as custom URLs

additionally it notifies all major

search engines every time you create a

post about new content supported since

over nine years and rated as the best

wordpress plugin it will do exactly what

it's supposed to do providing a complete

XML sitemap for search engines ok this

is important it will not break your site

slow it down or annoy you guaranteed no

that is what I want that is what I want

when I'm looking for a plug-in just to

do exactly the thing I need and nothing

else and no bloat and no notifications

for upgrades so this is what I'm gonna

install now let's install it so this is

called Google XML sitemaps ok so that

was quick to install ok let's activate

it and it refreshed in my plugins page

here it is Google XML sitemaps ok let's

go to settings

search engines haven't been notified yet

the URL to your sitemap index is okay so

let's click that right-click open in new

tab uh-oh so I installed the XML sitemap

generator for my local installation of

my website but I think there's a problem

if I visit the site map link it is empty

and when I visit this there was a

problem while notifying Google if you

result I get this so you know I think

it's not gonna work for a local site it

needs to be a public on the internet on

the web server yeah my local web site is

hidden from the public they can't see it

nothing outside my you know my network

can see my site only me so that's why I

think this doesn't work so you know what

I have to install it in my main site so

let's go to my main site right now

install this plug-in ok this is my

dashboard of my main site now let's go

to plugins add new ok plug-in activated

let's go to the settings ok here is the

link to the site map let's click on that

there's two items here one is for the

site map and one is for the image

sitemap let's go click the site map

first this is an XML file ok ok so I

have 31 and trees here so these are some

of my pages these are not posts these

are pages the static pages and now I'm

starting to see some of my posts and

what's the last post is that my newest

post yeah that's my most recent post

great so I have my XML sitemap that's

funny though that it's generated by a

jet pack so somehow the XML sitemap

plug-in is working with my jetpack

plugin interesting so one quick note

about why XML sitemap is working with

jet pack to produce my sitemap is

probably because I already had jet pack

installed and that's one of the services

they provide sitemaps and when I

installed the new plugin it noticed that

jet pack already took care of it the one

thing that jet pack might not be doing

is at least a free version is that this

plug-in actually notifies Google and

other search engines on a periodic basis

of my sitemap and it's updates I'll be

keeping this plugin because it works

well with jet packs sitemap let's go

back to here let's click on notify

search engines about your sitemap ping

was executed please see below for the

results ok Google was successfully

notified about changes great Bing was

successfully notified about changes

awesome so ok that link submitted it to

the two big search engines so to submit

your sitemap all you had to do was click

this link notify search engines about

your sitemap update notification notify

Google about updates of your site

notifying being formerly MSN live search

about updates of your site yeah add

sitemap URL to the virtual robots file

okay good that's what I needed so now

with my sitemap I don't have to worry

about search engines not being able to

crawl my content was this plug-in I'm

feeling confident that search engines

now have their sights set on my website

my new website and that's it now I can

sleep and not have to worry that

search engines are not crawling my site

and I'm pretty happy that I haven't

filled my WordPress site with bloatware

like Yoast even though it can help

because it can remind you of things of

best practices about search engine

optimization techniques but I don't need

I I'll do that on my own

I just want my WordPress site to be as

fast as possible less bloatware and no

extra notifications see that Yoast

notification thing is gone there we have

it I have a light fast WordPress site

with less bloatware and I get my sitemap

I almost forgot there's one more thing I

need to do I need to submit the XML

sitemap URL the link to my Google search

console ok to get the link we need to go

back to settings XML sitemap this is the

link and when it opens up remember this

is what you see so I'll just copy this

link and if you go to Google and you do

a search for Google search console enter

and click this link here search Google

com search console and we go over here

select property sharing your passion

comm sitemaps ok here is where I need to

enter the URL ok and it's the sitemap

dot XML and submit that

ok so successful Google will

periodically process it and look for

changes you will be notified if anything

goes wrong with it in the future

got it ok so here it is it shows up as

my sitemap and its success I'm hoping

Google will visit my links to index all

my pages so I start showing up in

results

another trick to see what Google has

indexed so far even though it index a

lot of my testing pages is you go to a

new browser page and you can type site

and colon your website name mine is

sharing your passion com enter and this

will give you all the pages that Google

has indexed already for you that

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