Ultimate Sitemap Guide for Beginners (Step by Step)

If you want to know how to create a Sitemap for your WordPress website, best practices, and the intricacies of sitemaps, then you are in luck. We have created the Ultimate Sitemap Guide for Beginners. https://rankmath.com/kb/configure-sit...

We hope this tutorial will help you get one step closer to becoming an SEO expert for your website or business.

Let’s get started!

Chapters (Timestamps):
00:00 - Introduction
00:57 - Types of Sitemaps
01:40 - What We Will Discuss
02:36 - Google’s Sitemap Guidelines
05:22 - Benefits of Having a Sitemap
06:41 - Create Sitemap With Rank Math
09:53 - How to Submit Sitemap to Google
11:07 - Configure Your Sitemap Settings
11:26 - General Sitemap Settings
14:34 - Authors Sitemap Settings
15:37 - Posts & Pages Sitemap Settings
16:30 - Attachments Sitemap Settings
18:00 - Forum Sitemap Settings
19:09 - Product Sitemap Settings
19:22 - Quizzes Sitemap Settings
19:51 - Taxonomies Sitemap Settings
23:02 - Special Sitemaps (For PRO Users)
23:11 - News Sitemap Settings
26:59 - Video Sitemap Settings
29:32 - Local Sitemap Settings
31:28 - Troubleshooting Sitemap Issues
31:52 - Sitemap Link Throws a 404 Error
33:53 - Sitemap Link Shows a Blank Page
34:58 - Outro

Knowledgebase Articles:
► News Sitemap: https://rankmath.com/kb/news-sitemap/
► Video Sitemap: https://rankmath.com/kb/video-sitemap/
► Submit Sitemap to Google: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitema...
► KML Sitemap: https://rankmath.com/kb/kml-sitemap/
► Local SEO: https://rankmath.com/kb/submit-sitema...
► Fix Sitemap Issues: https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-sitemap-i...
► Apache server error: https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-sitemap-i...
► Nginx server error: https://rankmath.com/kb/fix-sitemap-i...
► Exclude Sitemaps from Caching: https://rankmath.com/kb/exclude-sitem...

Google’s General Sitemap Guidelines:
► https://developers.google.com/search/...

Google Search Console:
► https://search.google.com/search-cons...

Thin Content:
► https://developers.google.com/search/...

Google’s Guidelines for News Sitemap:
► https://developers.google.com/search/...

How To Get Your GEO Coordinates:
► https://support.google.com/maps/answe...

With this, we hope that you are now equipped with the knowledge of creating and managing your sitemap like an expert, even if you are a beginner.

If you have any questions at all, feel free to ask them in the comments section. We will do our best to help you out!

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