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Dynamic XML Sitemaps Generator for Google
v2.3.9 ยท by WP Grim
Boost SEO ๐ with powerful XML, HTML, Image, Video & Google News sitemaps for better search engine indexing.
About this plugin
Boost SEO ๐ with powerful XML, HTML, Image, Video & Google News sitemaps for better search engine indexing.
XML Sitemaps
Google XML Sitemaps Generator is a WordPress Sitemap plugin that improves your website’s SEO by creating special XML Sitemaps for Search Engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing, Ask.com, and Yandex to index your site faster.
This plugin generates detailed XML Sitemaps that include your website’s Pages, Posts, Custom Posts, and Taxonomies, enhancing your website’s Search Engine Optimization (SEO) score. Plugin offers following Sitemaps:
- General Sitemap โ single XML Sitemap with all important links
- Google News Sitemap โ optimized for fast news indexing and higher visibility
- Sitemap Index โ organize multiple sitemaps in one index for better structure
- Image Sitemap โ improve indexing of images, galleries, and media content
- Video Sitemap โ help Google discover and rank your video content faster
- Multilingual Sitemap โ fully compatible with WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress
- WooCommerce Support โ includes products, categories, and tags in sitemaps
- Customizable Control โ exclude specific posts, pages, or taxonomies; add custom URLs; set priority and frequency rules
- SEO-Friendly & Performance Optimized โ built-in caching system, robots.txt integration, WP-CLI commands, and seamless compatibility with popular SEO plugins (Yoast, Rank Math, The SEO Framework)
โญ Dynamic XML Sitemaps Generator for Google PRO
โญ Documentation
Sitemap Structure
The plugin offers two primary XML Sitemap structures: Single Sitemap and Sitemap Index. The Single Sitemap displays all your website’s content in a single XML Sitemap, while the Sitemap Index shows multiple XML Sitemaps in a single Sitemap Index.
Sitemap Index feature enables you to manage your sitemaps with Multiple Inner Sitemaps for various content types such as Pages, Posts, Custom Posts, Images, Videos and more. This feature makes easy the management of your Sitemaps and keep them organized.
Google News
Make your website’s News easily discoverable by Search Engines with Google News feature. By enabling “Google News” in the settings, a dynamic Google News Sitemap will be created automatically. Google News Sitemap is fully compatible with popular multilingual plugins like WPML, Polylang, and TranslatePress.
The Google News Sitemap includes all the required fields such as Publication Name, Language, Title, and Publication Date. Additionally, it is fully compatible with the Google Publisher Center sitemap protocol, ensuring that your website’s content is properly indexed and displayed in Google News.
Image Sitemap
The Dynamic Image Sitemap is a valuable tool for optimizing website indexing and search engine visibility. By including images from Pages, Posts, and Custom Posts Content, it offers a comprehensive representation of visual content on your site. Additionally, its adherence to the Google Image Sitemaps structure ensures compatibility and optimal performance within the search engine ecosystem.
Video Sitemap
Video Sitemap will also be dynamically generated using collected Videos from Pages, Posts, and Custom Posts Content that contains Playlist Shortcode or tag nd fully compatible with Google Video Sitemaps structure. Title, Thumbnail, Description, and Duration fields will be respectively generated from Video Attachment’s Title, Featured Image, Caption, and Length.
Custom Sitemap URLs
Customizing your XML Sitemap is ease with Custom Sitemap URLs feature. You can add External or Internal URLs to your XML Sitemap under the Plugin Settings, making it easy to customize your XML Sitemap to fit your specific needs. Also, you can add Custom Sitemaps to the Sitemap Index, if you have Static or Additional Sitemaps.
In addition, Google XML Sitemaps Generator plugin allows you to display a Sitemap under a Custom URL on your website, providing an additional level of customization.
Sitemap Options
This plugin provides you with a very simple and clean UI to set Priority, Frequency options and easily Include/Exclude Pages, Posts, Custom Posts, Archives, Authors, Categories, Taxonomies and Tags into your Sitemap.
Cache
The WordPress XML Sitemap plugin comes equipped with a Cache feature that automatically caches Sitemap Data when a user visits the Sitemap page. This means that subsequent visits to the sitemap page will be faster as the cached data is quickly retrieved instead of generating the Sitemap from scratch.
Cache feature also includes options to set a Caching Timeout, view the Last Cached Time, and Clear Cache when necessary. These features help to improve the performance of your website and ensure that your Sitemap is always up-to-date for Search Engines to crawl.
Here is a short list of Google XML Sitemap plugin features.
Features:
- Multiple Sitemaps by Sitemap Index ๐ฅ
- Custom XML Sitemap URL ๐ฅ
- IndexNow Protocol for indexing Microsoft Bing, Seznam.cz, Naver, and Yandex
- Control Sitemap Options for all Pages, Posts, Custom Posts, Archives, Authors, Categories, Taxonomies and Tags ๐ฅ
- Include/Exclude Taxonomies, Categories, Tags ๐ฅ
- Add Custom Sitemaps to Sitemap Index
- Add Custom External/Internal URLs to your XML Sitemap ๐ฅ
- Automatically add Sitemaps to robots.txt
- Links Per Page for Sitemap Index ๐ฅ
- Static Sitemap File detector
- Toolbar with most helpful Actions & Links
- Disables auto-generated WP Sitemaps
- Setup Wizard ๐ฅ
- WP-CLI commands for Sitemap generation [NEW] ๐ฅ
- Multisite Network compatible
- WooCommerce compatible
- Multilingual Sitemap ๐ฅ
- WPML compatible
- Polylang compatible
- TranslatePress compatible
- FooGallery compatible
- Envira Gallery compatible
- Yoast SEO compatible with noindex
- Rank Math SEO compatible with noindex
- SEO Framework compatible
- User-Friendly Interface
- No Coding required
Google News Features:
- Sitemap Tags: Publication Name, Language, Title and Publication Date
- Custom Google News URL ๐ฅ
- Custom News Publication Name
- WPML compatible
- Polylang compatible
- TranslatePress compatible
Image Sitemap Features
- Hide Image Previews [NEW]
- Multiple Sitemaps by Sitemap Index
- Include Pages & Posts
- Custom Image Sitemaps URLs
Video Sitemap Features
- Multiple Sitemaps by Sitemap Index
- Include Pages & Posts
- Custom Video Sitemaps URLs
Advanced Features
- Cache Sitemaps ๐ฅ
- Cache Expiration Time
- Last Cached Time of Sitemaps
- Import & Export Settings
๐ Upgrade to Pro Version
Upgrade to the Google XML Sitemaps Generator Pro to get access to even more features, like an HTML Sitemap, Exclusion of specific Pages and Custom Posts from your Sitemap, Google News Premium Features, and more.
Get Pro Version now and take your Search Engine Optimization to the Next Level.
Custom Priority and Frequency for a Single Page/Post
Customize the Priority, Frequency, and Exclude from Sitemap options for a Single Post, Page, or CPT with the Pro Version.
HTML Sitemap
Improve your website’s navigation with HTML Sitemap feature. This feature allows you to create an HTML Sitemap that can be displayed on your website’s pages using popular Page Builder Widgets such as Elementor, Gutenberg, WPBakery, or simple Shortcode.
You can also customize your HTML Sitemap by choosing which Post Types to display, including Pages, Posts, and Custom Post Types, through the convenient multiselect option. With this feature, you can easily enhance your website’s user experience and make it more SEO-friendly. Try Pro Version today!
Premium Features
- Exclude Pages, Posts, Custom Posts from Sitemap
- Exclude Categories and Tags from Sitemap ๐ฅ
- Include only selected Categories & Tags [NEW]
- HTML Sitemap ๐ฅ
- Single Post/Page Custom Sitemap Options: ๐ฅ
— Exclude from Sitemap
— Post Priority
— Post Frequency - Posts Priority Automatic Calculation:
— by Number of Comments
— by Average Comments Count - Page Builder Widgets and Shortcode for HTML Sitemap:
— Elementor widget
— Gutenberg block
— WPBakery (Visual Composer) widget
— [html-sitemap post-types=”page,post,..” ..] - Sitemap Custom Colors [NEW] ๐ฅ
- No Branding Marks ๐ฅ
- Premium Support
Google News Premium Features
- Include Custom Post Types
- Include Taxonomies
- Keywords ๐ฅ
- Stock Tickers ๐ฅ
- Exclude Posts and Custom Posts
- Exclude Categories and Tags ๐ฅ
- Include only selected Categories & Tags [NEW]
Image Sitemap Premium Features
- Image Sitemap MIME Types
- Exclude Broken (404) Images ๐ฅ
- Include Featured Images
- Include WooCommerce Gallery ๐ฅ
- Include Custom Post Types
Video Sitemap Premium Features
- YouTube videos ๐ฅ
- Vimeo videos [NEW] ๐ฅ
- X (Twitter) videos [NEW] ๐ฅ
- Include Custom Post Types
Advanced Premium Features
- Smart Caching ๐ฅ
- Minimize Sitemap source code
- Cron Job [NEW] ๐ฅ
Broken Links
Find links and images inside published content that no longer work. The scan checks the Pages, Posts, and Custom Posts included in your sitemap and reports broken links, redirects, and URLs that could not be checked. From the results you can open the post, recheck a URL, or ignore it. Scheduled scans can run daily, weekly, or monthly. Try Pro Version
Broken Links Premium Features
- Scan links and images in published sitemap content [NEW] ๐ฅ
- Broken, redirect, and could-not-check results
- Recheck and ignore URLs
- Scheduled scans: Daily, Weekly, and Monthly [NEW]
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