SEO (with tips for MediaWiki and WordPress): Difference between revisions
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Google Sitemap XML does get along with Yoast. Sort of. Instead of using the sitemap_index.xml, it uses the sitemap.xml file name | Google Sitemap XML does get along with Yoast. Sort of. Instead of using the sitemap_index.xml, it uses the sitemap.xml file name | ||
WP Sitemap Page generates a human readable sitemap if one puts shortcode on each page to be "sitemaped". Note, this is not for search engines. | |||
Other SiteMap plugins focus on very specific search engines, like google news. (XML Sitemap and Google News) | |||
Yoast doesn't like to "share" the sitemap_index.xml URL file name, but apache rewrite could change it, then the individual yoast generated sitemaps could be used with a static sitemap_index.xml OR, better yet, just notify Google and define in the Robots.txt file a different index name. But if the latter choice is taken, then the automatic notification (AKA ping) of google by Yoast would need to be modified. So why not keep Yoast "stock" and modify at the Apache level? And with a quick bit of experimenting, just discovered that a physical file in the root index will override anything generated by WordPress. Copy the MediaWikiFormat or follow these instructions: https://www.google.com/sitemaps/protocol.html | |||
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