When ever we talk about wordpress SEO, one of the most essential plugin is Google XML sitemap. 
To help Google indexing your blog properly, you need to submit a sitemap of your blog, so that each and every page of your blog can be indexed by Google and other search engines.
Google XML sitemaps WordPress plugin helps to generate a sitemap compatible to Google, Bing and yahoo webmaster tools.
After creating sitemap all you need to do is submit sitemap to search engine webmaster tools and as soon as you will expand your blog article, your sitemap will be extended. To make the most of sitemap, you should point one look from your footer to your sitemap page this ensure the proper indexing of all your links.
Features of Google XML sitemap
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- User interface to customize all parameters like priorities etc.
- Available in many languages
- Generates automatically a sitemap for all types of WordPress pages
- Calculates a priority for each post, based on the number of comments
- Notifies Ask.com, Google, MSN Live Search and YAHOO about changes via ping
- Includes a WordPress filter for other plugins which can add their pages to the sitemap
- Generates a static XML file as well as a zipped version
Download Google Xml sitemap plugin
Recommended Reading : How to submit your blog Sitemap to Bing webmaster tool.
Article by Harsh Agrawal
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This is an excellent plugin and does all the hard work for you just by setting it up and forgetting about it. It would be nice if WP actually incorporated this into WP so that no plugin is needed.
What do you think?
.-= George Serradinho ´s last blog ..Serious Monday Roundup #1 =-.
It’s among the top 5 absolutely essential plugins for WordPress. Others would be the Akismet plugin, Database backup plugin, All-in-on SEO, and FeedSmith
.-= Ajith Edassery ´s last blog ..Online Business Risks – Are we too dependant on Google? =-.
It’s among the top 5 absolutely essential plugins for WordPress. Others would be the Akismet plugin, Database backup plugin, All-in-on SEO, and FeedSmith
.-= Ajith Edassery ´s last blog ..Online Business Risks – Are we too dependant on Google? =-.
OH! You’re my new favorite blogger fyi
This was the first plugin that i used after setting up my blog !!
A must use..
.-= Paritosh ´s last blog ..Write ˜n™ Advertise =-.
This is a best plugin for submit site in most famous search engines like Bing,Yahoo,Altavista and Google.
.-= S.K SHARMA ´s last blog ..Battle Field of The Word Press Themes: Theme Wars. =-.
Yeah, no doubt this is a great plugin.. I’ve used it and got my blog indexed with google at a much faster pace
Cheers
Sandeep
.-= Curios Little Person ´s last blog ..Use Mind Map for Unlimited Post Ideas =-.
Yeah, no doubt this is a great plugin.. I™ve used it and got my blog indexed with google at a much faster pace
Cheers
Sandeep
.-= Curious Little Person ´s last blog ..Use Mind Map for Unlimited Post Ideas =-.
I used this plugin for my new blog! But I am facing a new problem, I am unable to verify my domain using the meta tag method, Can u tell me the reason why?
.-= Tech-Freak Stuff ´s last blog ..Is INTERNET Male or a Female? =-.
I also use this plugin on my wordpress blog and rate it 10/10 its simply a must have!
.-= Chris ´s last blog ..Top Ecommerce Packages =-.
This Tool automatically submits the posts to Google SiteMaps!
AWesome!
Must Try
No doubt this is one of the best plugins! But one thing is that it uses so much of memory! So better we disable automatic generation of Sitemap and do it manually!
It’s among the top 5 absolutely essential plugins for WordPress. Others would be the Akismet plugin, Database backup plugin, All-in-on SEO, and FeedSmith