Yoast SEO Sitemap always have self-hosted SEO WordPress site helpful and can help index the popular search engines like Google web pages correctly.
So the question is what is the Yoast SEO, and how to customize Yoast SEO site map on the site?
Yoast SEO WordPress platform is one of the most popular free SEO plugin. In addition, it may choose to buy an advanced extension program with some additional features. But the important SEO feature is part of the free plug-in itself, therefore, senior account purchase Yoast's not so important.
New to WordPress novice may encounter many problems and questions when you first configure Yoast SEO. They raised some frequently asked questions,
- How to find the site map on Yoast?
- Unable to generate Yoast site map.
- Goole how to submit a sitemap to search engines?
- Why Yoast SEO site map does not work?
These issues will continue to do so ...... However, if you read this article, I am sure you will get the answers to all these questions.
Site Map What's the use?
A sitemap is an XML file all of your website's address bar. This means that if you create a sitemap for your site, then when you add or delete website content, all pages and posts URL will be automatically updated. Therefore, only by scanning your site XML file, search engines can identify and create new indexes and update site URL, which will be very helpful.
Therefore, to create a site map will help you make the site more user-friendly for SEO.
How to create Yoast SEO site map?
Yoast SEO site map creation on self-hosted WordPress site very easily. To do this, you need to do all the work, install and activate Yoast SEO on WordPress website.
Step 1: Install and activate Yoast SEO
To install the Yoast SEO plugin, you need to go
- Plugins> Add New
- Search "Yoast SEO" in the search box
- Click Install and activate immediately.
Now that you have completed the installation Yoast SEO plugin. The next step will be to customize and create Yoast SEO site map.
Step 2: Configure the first time Yoast SEO
Let's see how you first configure Yoast SEO on WordPress.
- Go to SEO> General> Dashboard
There, you'll see a notification that "for the first time SEO Configuration"
Using this link, you can perform the initial configuration very quickly.
- Click Configuration Wizard
You can see a similar page on the next page
- Click Configure Yoast SEO
- And complete all 12 steps to complete the initial setting SEO
Step 3: Configure Yoast SEO XML sitemap
Yoast SEO sitemap XML configuration will be very easy on any WordPress website. In a recent update, Yoast SEO settings have changed a bit, now, once you install and activate Yoast SEO plugin will automatically create an XML site map.
To check this,
- Go to SEO> General> function
- In this list, you will see an option called XML site map
- Click? Next XML Sitemap
- And select the option called See the XML sitemap of
Now, your website site map will open in a new tab.
If does not work, please enter your website address, and then enter sitemap_index.xml. E.g,
- www.***.com/sitemap_index.xml
So here, you need all the pages indexed by search engines can be added to this list. Some important pages are:
- Publish Site Map
- Site Map page
- Category Site Map
- Site Map marker
- Author Site Map
- and many more…
Let's see how to add important pages to sitemap_index page.
- Go to SEO> Search Appearance> content type
There you can see two pages, called "posts and pages"
So, if you want to be the site of the posts and pages indexed by the search engine, the search results "show posts" in the "Display search results page" field and set it to "Yes"?
Everyone wants to show their blog posts and pages in the search results. Therefore, by default, page and post options itself is "Yes."
You can use the "Title" templates and "meta description" blank template, since you can configure these settings at the bottom of each page and post.
Date code snippet preview: If you want to display Date posts or pages in the search results, you can set this option to "Yes." As for me, only for me but not for my post activation date page fragments, can be adjusted according to your needs.
Next will go to the "Classification" tab, then "search results are displayed category" set to "Yes"? If you want to display the category page in the search results. Tag also perform the same steps.
You will now want to display all pages in the search results add to sitemap_index.xml page. The next step will be added to the site map URL robots.txt file.
What is the robots.txt file?
Robots.txt or Robots Exclusion Protocol is a text file created by the webmaster, and instructed search engines or web crawling robot, as well as how to crawl all content on my site need to crawl.
Therefore, if the first time you use the Google search engine crawlers to your website, the robot looks for the robots.txt file on your site. Because robots.txt file contains information about the site network how to climb. If the crawling robot can not find a robots.txt file on your site, it will start crawling other content available on the page.
Therefore, it is important that you should create a robots.txt file for the site, which should contain all the required information about crawling content and do not need to crawl all of the content.
Let's look at how to use the Yoast SEO to create a robots.txt file
- Go to SEO> Tools> File Editor
- On the next screen, click Create robots.txt file
- Where you can see this text
This is the robots.txt file on your site, where you can stop search engine robots will not need pages indexed.
In addition, you can add sites to the site map robots.txt file. Therefore, the search engine can easily identify your site map from the robots.txt file, and faster indexing your pages.
Now, you are almost done Yoast SEO site map.