B2Foundry XML Sitemap Plugin for Wordpress

B2 XML SITEMAP PLUGIN FOR WORDPRESS INSTRUCTION MANUAL

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B2 XML SITEMAP PLUGIN FOR WORDPRESS B2 XML Sitemap plugin for Wordpress is the simplest way to tell search engines how your site is arranged.

B2 XML Sitemap is a tool that aids crawlers in finding your site and tells them how your site is structured and pages are arranged. This tool is useful if your site is new with few inbound and outbound links. It will have no impact on your ranking. It will however ping search engines everytime you add a page or create a post to let them know your site has changed structure.

Configure this plugin in 3 steps 1. Download B2 XML Sitemap plugin from Wordpress.org or www.b2foundry.com/products 2. Activate the plugin and fill out the check boxes.

3. Build the sitemap and submit it to the search engines. Yahoo sold its crawler technology to Bing.

Yahoo now gets its info from Bing so there is no submission field for Yahoo.

Build Status

This tells you the last time the sitemap was updated and the search engines were informed. It updates automatically if the rebuild sitemap when contents change box is checked. You can rebuild it at anytime by clicking on rebuild now.

Sitemap Settings

To use this tool, you need to set up webmaster accounts with Google and Bing so you can submit your sitemap URL to each of them. You can establish the account now or when you are ready to submit it by clicking on the link. Check the appropriate boxes for your needs.

Includes

Check the last modified time so the search engines can see when the content was last changed for the listed activities and items. Select the content you want to be included in the sitemap.

Excludes

Indicate the content you do not want to be included in the sitemap you send search engines.

Post Priority Settings

Gives higher weight to some posts over others in their place in the sitemap.

Priorities

Priorities establish the relationship of importance of one page to another on the website. Priority is set from 1.0 to 0.0 with 1.0 being the highest.

Frequencies You can set the frequency at which you will be changing the content for each type of item.

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EXAMPLE OF A FILLED OUT SITEMAP PLUGIN Download by searching in wordpress for B2 XML Sitemap Generator

or go to http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/b2-xml-sitemap-generator/

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