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Creating a sitemap with a plugin

Creating a sitemap with a plugin - WordPress Tutorial

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Creating a sitemap with a plugin

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- [Instructor] So I'm here at www.saltandsimple.com and I'd like to create a sitemap for this WordPress website. Now, if I go to /sitemap.xml, I'm going to be met with a 404, and this means I don't have a sitemap set up or I'm not using the appropriate web address for my sitemap on this site. Now, in this case, we don't have a sitemap set up, so let's create one together. And the easiest way to do that is using a WordPress plugin. So I'm here on the Salt & Simple WordPress dashboard and I'm going to start by finding my rank math WordPress plugin and then choosing dashboard from the menu option on the right hand side. Now, rank math is a do it all SEO plugin and within it is the ability to enable sitemaps. So I'll scroll down on this page until I find sitemaps and then I'll toggle them to enable them. So now we can see that the sitemap is active. If we toggle back to our website and refresh the sitemap URL, we can see…

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