A sitemap helps you to Google and other search engines discover and index your content faster, which can improve your site’s visibility on SERPs (Search engine results page).
Luckily, submitting a sitemap in 2024 is easier than ever if you’re using a WordPress plugin.
In this guide, I’m going to walk you through how to submit wordpress sitemap to Google using 3 simple steps.
Alright let’s dive in.
Key Takeaways
What is Sitemap?
Think of a sitemap as a roadmap for your website, it’s a list of all your pages, guiding search engines to find and understand your content. Just like a table of contents in a book, it organizes and highlights key areas, making sure nothing important is missed.
Why Sitemap is Important?
When search engines, like Google, use your sitemap, they can quickly see your site structure and understand which pages are most important. This can be useful for larger sites or ones with lots of layers. So, while sitemaps are built mainly for search engines, they can also make it easier for visitors to navigate if there’s a user-friendly version available.
How Do I Create Sitemap Using WordPress Plugins?
There are numerous plugins on WordPress, So I basically recommend you the plugins I worked with, and they are pretty straightforward on creating a sitemap.
How to Create Sitemap Using Yoast SEO?
Here’s the step you have to take.
Note: Sitemap feature is enabled by default, so you don’t need to make any changes unless if it’s necessary like if the XML Sitemaps were disabled already.
You can view your sitemap at: https://yourwebsitename.com/sitemap_index.xml
How to Create Sitemap Using RankMath?
Here’s the step you have to take.
You can view your sitemap at: https://yourwebsitename.com/sitemap_index.xml
How to Create Sitemap Using AIOSEO?
Here’s the step you have to take.
You can view your sitemap at: https://yourwebsitename.com/sitemap_index.xml
Submit Your Sitemap to Google Search Console
We’ve successfully created a sitemap. It’s time to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console in order to make your sitemap more effective and efficient for indexing.
Note: if you’re new to Google Search Console, you’ll need to go through a verification process to create a property for your website. Without verifying your ownership, you won’t be able to submit your sitemap to Google.
Don’t worry it’s a simple process, Check out this guide on How to verify your website in Google Search Console to get started.
My Final Thoughts,
Creating and submitting a sitemap is a crucial step for improving your website’s visibility on Google and other search engines as well. Thankfully, we have automated the entire process with just a few clicks and not required any technical skills.