The RSSeo! Sitemap tab allows you to create and configure your site maps. These can improve search engine optimization of a site by making sure that all the pages can be found. This is especially important if a site uses a dynamic access to content such as Adobe Flash or JavaScript menus that do not include HTML links. They also act as a navigation aid by providing an overview of a site's content at a single glance. Most search engines will only follow a finite number of links from a website, so if the number of links is very large, the site map may be required so that search engines and visitors can access all content on the site.
With RSSeo! you can create 3 types of site maps:
- sitemap.xml - specific for Google search engine
- ror.xml - accepted by all search engines
- HTML sitemaps: when creating sitemaps in a HTML format, RSSeo! allows you to specify the site menus that you wish to include. Notice that you can also exclude certain menu items from the sitemap. Once the HTML sitemap has been generated, you can access it via a specific RSSeo! menu item.
Configuration options
- Protocol: HTTP / HTTPS
- Change Frequency: None / Always / Hourly / Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Yearly / Never
- Last Modification: Input field that allows you to type in the date on which the sitemap was last modified (format Y-m-d)
- Priority: None / Automatic. The priority of this URL relative to other URLs on your site. Valid values range from 0.0 to 1.0. This value does not affect how your pages are compared to pages on other sites—it only lets the search engines know which pages you deem most important for the crawlers. Please note that the priority you assign to a page is not likely to influence the position of your URLs in a search engine's result pages. Search engines may use this information when selecting between URLs on the same site, so you can use this tag to increase the likelihood that your most important pages are present in a search index. Also, please note that assigning a high priority to all of the URLs on your site is not likely to help you. Since the priority is relative, it is only used to select between URLs on your site.
- Include auto crawled pages : Yes / No
Watch the video tutorials:
Ep.16 - Generate sitemaps for Joomla! with RSSeo!
Ep. 72: How to generate HTML sitemaps in Joomla! using RSSeo!
