WordPress Sitemap Maker

If you are a constant WordPress user, you will confirm this fact that not much can go wrong with the open-source CMS unless you have too many plugins installed on it. The problem with these plugins is that it is very difficult to keep them up to date. Indeed, it is better wherever possible to build a site that does not rely on too many plugins. One of the plugins that may be used in the WordPress website is the XML Sitemap plugin.

The main shortcomings of plugins are:
1. Weak security as plug-ins are the main source of website hacks;

2. No guarantee of maintenance or update with the release of a new version of WordPress; 

3. No guarantee that you will exactly receive what you have desired from a certain plugin

So we highly recommend that use a WordPress XML sitemap without a plugin.

* In this post, you're going to read about:
- Sitemap Concept
- Manual WordPress Sitemap Creation
- Yoursitemap.com WordPress Sitemap Generator
- Features Of WordPress Sitemap Generator 

Unfortunately, this is the case for the WordPress sitemap generator plugin. If you want to generate a sitemap of your WordPress site via a plugin, you have to install it alongside other required plugins. As a result of adding these add-ons, your website loading speed will decrease. In order to avoid such a problem, you need to create sitemap WordPress without using any special plugin. But, before moving on, you need to understand what a sitemap exactly is.

What Is A Sitemap?

As Google officially defines, A sitemap is:

“a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.”

In fact, drawing on a sitemap file, you will be able to provide precious information on whatever existed on your WordPress website including different pages, images, videos, sound files, and so on as well as the reasonable relationship between them. Using this sitemap XML file, all the search engines like Google and Bingwill be able to crawl and scrutinize your site thoroughly. Moreover, search engine crawlers can determine which pages or files are of more importance for you with the aid of a WordPress sitemap. A sitemap also provides valuable pieces of information such as when a certain page has last been updated, in what ways the page has probably changed, and any other related data.

In addition, as Google puts it, you will be able to tell the crawlers about the types and subject of content on your pages, including:

- A sitemap video entry: which specifies the video running time, category, and age appropriateness rating.

- A sitemap image entry: which includes the image subject matter, type, and license.

WordPress XML Sitemap Without Plugin

A. Create Sitemap WordPress Using Simple Functions

Steps Of Creating XML Sitemap WordPress With The Above-mentioned Function

1. Make sure that you do not have the same functions anywhere else – such as the themes function.php file.
2. ZIP the file.
3. Now open up the WordPress administration console.
4. Open the Plugins page and click on ‘Add Plugin’.
5. Now click on the ‘Upload Plugin’ button and upload the zipped plugin file.
6. Activate the plugin.

Notice:
This is a simple function with which you can create sitemap WordPress without plugin and cannot be used for image/video sitemap creation. Unfortunately, it does not provide any analysis of the link building of your website. In addition, you will not have the access to check your broken links or validate those links with a warning. As a result of these drawbacks, we truly recommend you to select our WordPress sitemap builder and enjoy its broad advantages.

B. Make Sitemap WordPress Using Our Professional Sitemap Generation Tool

1. Sitemap Generator

• You will be able to generate your XML sitemap file for up to 500 links free of charge. In case you have more than this number on your site, you shall utilize the premium version of our sitemap tool. To do so, please check out our pricing list.

• Using this convenient sitemap maker it will be possible for you to change the optional properties of "last modification", "priority", and "frequency" for each URL. What is more, you can alter these parameters for a certain list of URLs at once.

• By last modification property, you will be able to provide information for Google bots over the date of the last modification of a specific URL or a list of URLs. The presented data in W3C format YYYY-MM-DD.

• With the aid of frequency property provided by our sitemap creator, Google crawlers will be informed of how frequently a page is likely to change. Here, the valid values are always, hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and never. If a page changes each time being crawled, the value “always” shall be used. In contrast, the value “never” will be used for those URLs being archived. Keep in mind that search engine crawlers consider the value of the very property as a hint and not a command. Therefore, there is no definite guaranty that a page with the value of “hourly”, for instance, will be crawled every hour.

• Priority (with a valid range of 0.0 to 1.0) determine the priority of a certain URL relative to other URLs on your WordPress website. Through the use of this property, you will tell search engine crawlers about the significance level of your web pages. Keep in mind that the priority value assigned to a specific URL will not affect its ranking in the SERPs. Crawlers will just utilize this value when deciding over the indexation of URLs on a single site. Therefore, you can use the very property to enlarge the possibility that a search engine encompasses your most significant pages in their result pages.

• Moreover, you can manage the indexing of your pages, that is to say, in this WordPress XML sitemap generator it will be you who decide which URLs to be included in the XML sitemap and which ones not.

2. Image/Video Sitemap

• Have several images/videos in each page? No problem. There will be no worries about this issue since you can use our image/video sitemap generation tool. In this way, you can get a sitemap for listing images/videos or using specific tags. The indication our sitemap generator tool provides helps Google not only to get additional information about the images existed in your pages, but also to reach those images more easily, which it would not have found otherwise.

• After adding the required specific tags to the sitemap, the tool will automatically determine the significant parameters of Caption, Title, Location, and License for each of the listed images/videos.

• If you have uploaded several of your images/videos on a different auxiliary server, you can easily add them to the xml sitemap of the main server.

• Keep in mind that contrary to sitemap generation, making an image/video sitemap is not free of charge even for less than 500 links.

3. Visual Sitemap

The professional sitemap generation tool created by yoursitemap.com creates sitemap WordPress file in drop-down chart or tree diagram as a visual sitemap.

4. Sitemap Submission

• Here, you can simply submit your sitemap into Google via pasting the exclusive link of your domain in the robot.txt file.

• Using this feature, Google will fully recognize your XML sitemap, and you will not need to upload its file after each update of your URL list. In other words, the submitted link to Google is always kept up-to-date.

5. Update and Crawl Timing

These two features can be set and managed on hourly, daily, weekly, monthly, and yearly basis. You will access this control in your dashboard.

6. Lists of Links

• Complete list of internal links
• Complete list of external links
• Complete list of broken links including links of empty pages, loop directions, and links with 500, 403, 503, and 504 errors.
• Complete list of 301 Redirect links
• Complete list of 302 Redirect links
• The entire list of 404 error
• List of pages with too many internal links
• List of pages with extremely few internal links
• List of pages with a big distance from the homepage
• List of anchor texts as well as their exact number in the whole site

7. Warnings of <a> Tag

• tags with empty anchor text
• tags whose anchor text is an image with invalid URL
• tags whose anchor text is an image with no Alt text
• tags with invalid anchor text (It should be either a short piece of text or an image. Using whatever html tags other text of image in the anchor text is totally invalid.)
• tags with no href
• tags with empty href
• tags whose href= "#"
• tags with deficient URL (The valid URL to be used in href should be complete and start with http or https)
• tags with an email address or a phone number in their href (even if it is not necessarily considered as a warning)
• tags whose href starts with "#": (even if it is not necessarily considered as a warning)
• tags with too long anchor text
• tags whose href comprise a long URL

8. Crawler Management

With the aid of this feature, you will be able to determine which pages to be crawled and which ones not to be crawled by our crawlers.


9. Crawling Process Handling

Here, you can set a delay plan in the crawling process in order to make a better use of site server resources.

10. Analysis Report

• Using the yoursitemap.com sitemap creation tool, you will provide you with a comprehensive analysis report over your website performance in terms of link building and site structure, which can be received by your mailbox.

• In addition, you will be able to set the report reception type on an hourly, daily, weekly, or monthly basis.