How to Create and Add an XML Sitemap to WordPress? [GUIDE]
Creating an XML Sitemap in WordPress website is quite easy and can be done without having a technical skills. There are tons of free and paid WordPress Plugins are available to download that can make XML Sitemaps Creation easy and time saving.
We already discussed about the basics to advance about XML Sitemap in our definitive guide on XML Sitemaps that you can read if you are a beginner and want to learn about XML completely.
Do I Need an XML Sitemap for a WordPress Website or Not?
This is a great question that you must ask yourself before creating and uploading an XML Sitemap of your website.Let answer this question with some logics.
There can be two scenarios
- Your Website size is small and the URLs are already indexed and showing on SERP
- Your website size is big and URLs are wither showing or not showing on SERP
You need to think around these two scenarios if you are really worried and wants to know the answer of the above question. Do you need an XML Sitemaps for a WordPress website or not.
How Does a Sitemap Work?
Sitemaps work as a bridge between a website and search engines like Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc. The search engine bots visit and crawl the Sitemap to understand the structure of your website that can make search engines job easy to understand the content of your website, crawl it and index it.
Sitemap is the page where the bots came to know about the top priority pages of your website, the frequency you have set to crawl for the search engine.
Look at this image so you can easily understand the structure of sitemaps hierarchy.
