How to Create a Google Sitemap for your Blog

Posted by Praveen 12 January, 2006

if u are like me trying to find a nice addon to generate a google sitemap for ur blog, look no further

found a nice plugin yesterday which does exactly what it says.

just upload the file, activate it and you done :)

Description: This generator will create a Google Sitemaps compliant sitemap of your WordPress blog.

Features:
* Has a user interface where you can customize all parameters like change frequencies, priorities etc.
* User interface available in English, German, Italian, Japanese and Spanish
* Generates a static XML file in your Blog directory (Filename is customizable)
* Can generate a gzipped version of the sitemap
* Generates a sitemap for homepage, posts, static pages, categories and archive pages
* Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments (You can also turn this off)
* The XML file gets automatically rebuilt if you change/edit/create/publish a post
* Can automatically tell Google about changes via Google-Ping
* You can include now external pages which aren�ft generated by WordPress or are not recognized by this plugin
* You can define a minimum post priority, which will overrride the calculated value if it�fs too low


# Author: Arne Brachhold
# Plugin Site: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06/05/google-sitemaps-generator-v2-final
# Author Site: http://www.arnebrachhold.de/
# Compatibility: WP 1.5
# License: GPL
# Download URL: Download here – if the link doesnt work, be sure to check the plugin site ;)

Be sure to check the Plugin site out for a Beta which is compatible with WordPress 2 :)

Enjoy

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Comments
January 29, 2006

Great stuff!
I used it! thanks for the find P rave!

Posted by Marcus Westberg
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