Saturday, February 6, 2010

Google Sitemaps Generator ~ Wordpress plugin

Google sitemap generator is a wordpress plugin that can generate xml-sitemap for your wordpress blog. The xml format is supported by many search engine such like Ask.com, Google, YAHOO and MSN.

XML-Sitemaps are and how they can help you to get indexed by the major search engines can be found at sitemaps.org. The XML-Sitemap format was introduced in 2005 by Google and adopted in 2006 by YAHOO, MSN Search and Ask.com so that why it is often called "Google Sitemaps".

Some features that this plugin are:
1. Available for all wordpess versions greater than 1.5 .
2. No php skills or file changes needed .
3. Available in many languages .
4. Generates automatically a sitemap for all types of wordpress pages.
5. Generates a static XML file as well as a zipped version.

Benefit of this plugin
1. Notifies Ask.com, Google, MSN Live Search and YAHOO about changes via ping.
2. Includes a wordpress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap
3. User interface to customize all parameters like priorities.
4. Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments.

A good plugin for wordpress powered blogs.

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