Understanding What is a Website or Blog Sitemap?
List of contents :
1. Understanding Website Sitemap
2. Sitemap Format List
3. Maximum URL That Can Enter Sitemap
4. Example of an XML Sitemap on a Website or Blog
5. Example of an Atom XML Sitemap on a Website or Blog
6. How to Create a Website Sitemap:
1. How to Create a Sitemap in WordPress
2. How to Create a Sitemap in PHP, Codeigniter, Javascript, etc
3. How to Create a Sitemap in Google Search Console
A sitemap or commonly known as a sitemap is a file that provides information on a website or blog, the information displayed is the website URL, videos, images, article titles, the date of the website page (article) published or published, and others.
A sitemap is very important because it can make it easier for Google to crawl complex web pages, such as online store websites that have thousands or even millions of products, news websites or blogs that have a large number of articles, and others.
According to the Google developer site, there are several sitemap formats that you can know, such as:
1. XML Sitemap
2. Sitemap RSS, mRSS, and atom 1.0
3. Sitemap text
Each sitemap or sitemap is limited in size, such as no more than 50MB (uncompressed file), and only holds 50,000 URLs. And if the website has a file size and number of URLs that are more than specified, it can create a new sitemap to separate the files in each different sitemap.
You can use a sitemap and send it to the google search console or google webmaster, if you want to add an XML sitemap, see How to Create a Sitemap / Sitemap in Google Search Console
The following is an example of an XML sitemap on the nusratcollection.com blog:
Inside this sitemap.xml there is another sitemap based on a page or sitemap page, each sitemap page can accommodate many URLs, sitemap.xml separation really helps Google to recognize URLs or website pages that have just been published or published such as article pages, navigation pages, product pages selling for web online stores in which there are pictures and videos, and others.
And below is an example of an atom.xml sitemap on a blog or website nusratcollection.com
atom.xml sitemap displays categories based on labels, article titles, post feeds, authors, emails, and website or blog URLs, at a glance atom.xml is more complete than sitemap.xml. But the drawback of atom.xml does not display all URLs and only shows the most recent URL or web page or blog.
How to Create a Website or Blog Sitemap
Every website such as CMS blogger or Blogspot, WordPress, web made from PHP, Codeigniter, Javascript, and others can add a sitemap. You can create a sitemap manually using the sitemap generator and automatically through the plugins provided by WordPress.
1. How to Create a Website Sitemap in WordPress
If you build a website or blog using WordPress, then you can add a sitemap on WordPress through the available plugins.
WordPress plugins that support sitemaps that you can install such as Google XML Sitemap, Yoast SEO, All in One SEO Pack, XML Sitemap, WP Sitemap Page, Rank Math SEO, Sitemap by BestWebSoft, and others.
How to configure a website sitemap in WordPress using a plugin
2. How to Create a PHP Website Sitemap, Codeigniter, Javascript, etc
If you create a website or blog by coding manually according to the programming language you master or buying a website through a website creation service, then creating a sitemap is also done manually by coding as well.
For PHP and JavaScript users, there are still many communities that provide tutorials on how to create a sitemap for websites.
3. Create a Website Sitemap on Blogspot or Blogger
If you create a website using cms blogger or Blogspot, then you can add a sitemap automatically via the google search console. You can use this method for blogger default domains such as .blogspot.com or domains that have been customized to TLD domains such as .com, and .net. co. id, .id, .org, and others.
Steps to create a sitemap on google search console for blogger and WordPress websites.
1. Open Google Search Console
2. Then select Sitemap
3. On the right there is Add a new sitemap, then you add or fill in sitemap.xml, and after that press the Submit button
At this point, you have finished adding the website sitemap in the Google Search Console (GSC) and waiting until the sitemap status in the GSC is successful.
If it is successful then you can see the sitemap live or directly on google search.
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