Allow google to crawl your site easier and also allow user to have an overview of your site directories.
Most commonly, a website’s XML sitemap will be located at this URL address: “https://domain.com/sitemap.xml.”
If you have access to your website’s Google Search Console (GSC), there’s a chance the sitemap has been submitted there.
A robots.txt file tells search engine crawlers which sections of the website they should crawl and which they should avoid.
It should go in the root folder of your site: “https://domain.com/robots.txt”
If the robots.txt file follows best practices, it’ll link to the website sitemap. Just search for “sitemap” within the robots.txt file.
Google encourages users to follow best practices outlined by sitemaps.org.
- Refer to the help center for your website builder for sitemap builder. If your platform doesn’t provide an XML sitemap, you can use a sitemap generator tool.
- The main benefit of using Yoast to make your XML sitemap is that it updates automatically (dynamic sitemap).
- If you don’t use Yoast, there are lots of other plugins available for WordPress (like Google XML Sitemaps) that you can use to create a sitemap.