Sitemaps With Yoast SEO
A lot goes into good SEO practices. Your efforts can really make the difference in the success of your business, your website, or your blog. Search engine traffic is an essential traffic source for any website. That’s why it’s important to have a stellar SEO plugin to handle it for you. Last week, I showed you the basic setup for the Yoast SEO WordPress Plugin. Using Yoast, you can highly optimize your site for SEO and keep track of all of the things that go into it. One of those essential pieces is your sitemap. Creating Sitemaps with Yoast SEO is a great way to index all of your posts and pages, and submit them to places such as Google, Yahoo, and Bing. When you create Sitemaps With Yoast SEO, you can upload the sitemap directly to Google’s Webmaster Tools for indexing. Doing this monthly is a great way to make sure that Google has crawled your site and that the search engine bots were able to find all of your new content. In the video below, I discuss creating sitemaps with yoast SEO, and show you how to submit your sitemap to Google.
Conclusion: Sitemaps With Yoast SEO
It is a great rule of thumb to submit your sitemaps once per month. Any more than that is too much, and any less won’t do you any good. Your sitemap is essential for getting found via search engines, because the search engine bots crawl your sitemap to determine how many pages are found on your site and how your site is structured. Since you are already using Yoast for SEO for your own website, why not use it to generate your sitemap for indexing? It just seems logical. Yoast SEo is a great all around plugin for performing professional seo tasks for any website.