Are any of you guys using Wordpress for your blog? I mean, Wordpress as in the Wordpress script and not the blog hosting site. Yes, that would mean that you have downloaded a script and upload that to your webhost and somehow configure it to work. If you have done that, you should also take a look at this little plugin - Google Sitemap Generator. For all those who don’t know what is a sitemap is used for, well, I will not go into detail on that. Basically, it is a little map of your website and is usually in a link text, html or xml format which Search Engine spiders can easily follow. It just contains links to your entire site. Think of it as an virtual map and it tells your visitors which link to go to which portion of your website. And it is used often by Search Engine spiders, especially Googlebot in order for them to navigate a site properly.

I know that there are other sitemap generators out there. But unlike most, this is a script and it is especially designed for Wordpress. So if you are using Wordpress, why not try it? I am currently using GSite Crawler as my sitemap generator. I don’t have any major prolems with using GSite. However, the problem with GSite Crawler is that it needs to navigate my site in order to get the information it needs to create the sitemap. This of course increases the load and the bandwidth usage on my server. Using these online script sitemap generators will help cut down on the resources need to continuously update his sitemap.

Google Sitemap Generator for Wordpress is such “online” generator. Everytime you create a post or edit an existing one, the sitemap is automatically updated. And it also helps you inform Google, MSN and Ask.com that you have changed your content, inviting them to re-spider your site. And it’s easy to do the plugin. All you need to do is to upload the files to the Wordpress Plugin folder and then create 2 files (Sitemap XML files) and Chmod them. After that you go and let the plugin populate the sitemap files for you automatically. You don’t longer need to do anything more than write your blog post. Life couldn’t be much simpler.