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XML Sitemap & Google News: Breakdown
XML Sitemap &Google News is one of the most popular and widely used WordPress plugins. It helps website owners create and submit sitemaps for their websites, which is necessary for Google to find your published content and to make your website appear in the search results. The plugin helps you setup sitemaps for categories, articles, pages, tags and custom post types, such as products or services. It also helps you create news sitemaps that can be submitted to Google News and it offers a few other functionalities, such as the ability to exclude certain items and configuring various settings.
You can also set up notification emails for when Google visits the sitemap, alerts when new content is published, and the regularity of pings or notifications for when Google visits a specified page. Additionally, you can also set up a cron job to ping Google automatically about new content instead of waiting for them to come and index new content at regular intervals. This ensures that your website is quickly indexed and makes it easier for people to find your content.
The plugin also offers a number of customization options. You can select which posts to include in the sitemaps, and decide whether or not to include pages, categories, tags and custom post types. You can also set the priority for each of these posts so that your most important content is indexed faster than the rest. Additionally, you can modify the frequency which signals Google to come check for new content. You can also enable Gzip compression to reduce the size of your sitemaps and further optimize them.
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