XML Sitemaps for Google - How to Create XML Sitemap

Video lesson by #RankYa details what Extensible Markup Language XML is and best practices for submitting XML sitemaps for Google Search Console. For better Search Engine Optimization also known as SEO creating a sitemap allows Google to better understand the website structure.

How do you create XML Sitemaps? Easiest way to generate Extensible Markup Language sitemap is by using tools, software programs or online XML sitemap generators

Basically XML sitemaps has .xml file extension and contain set of URLs using Sitemap protocol with location and last modification date and time information. To learn more and see examples visit:

Google recommends to build and submit a sitemap using Google Search Console

Google search engine understands different Sitemap formats such as XML
RSS, mRSS, and Atom 1.0 and even Text file.

Also SEO for Google has different guidelines for Video Images and for Google News

Video sitemaps and alternatives

Image sitemaps

Google News sitemaps

[LP_Storefront]

Thanks a million for explaining the rationale behind PRIORITY ratings for each page. It's helped me to better customize my sitemap.

[cshep]

I've never heard an accent like this before. It's like they airdropped a Norse fella into the Australian outback. In a good way. Videos are incredibly valuable, thank you

[magnusbestest]

Very useful and nicely explained, thanks.

[SonyaAlways]

Rankya, Thank you!

I found info indicating that 301 redirects can be listed temporarily in the XML sitemap; however, my goal is to submit only valid—200 header response—URLS in my XML sitemap.

QUESTION: If I want to remove a specific redirect URL from my XML sitemap, what actions do I take within the WP admin area and where within the admin area do I find features that facilitate these actions. I suspect some features may be hidden by CMS access level or that some features might not be configured to support SEO.

Excited to receive your reply, thanks so much!

[wasifhanif]

my website is doing client side rendering, therefore I have tried many online tools to generate sitemap but they can just show home page URL and that's it. Tell me how can I generate sitemap in this scenario

[LadyExoticASMRR]

I am struggling to index my site with the Google Search Console, I was using Yoast but then change to Rank Math but I do not understand how works the indexation because Google Search Console shows many errors and almost 5000 pages with no indexing and I am sure I am doing something is wrong 🥲🙁. Someone told me to use this XML SiteMap but I don't know how to index from there to the google search console. Could you do that process from XML Sitemap to Google Search Console? It would be a good help so that I can have an idea or you could offer a lesson just for this option because I am the only person who manages my site and I am not an SEO expert. TIA