XML Sitemap Generator for Google vs Magic robots.txt

Generate XML and HTML sitemaps for your website with ease using the XML Sitemap Generator for Google. This plugin enables you to improve your SEO rankings by creating page, image, news, video, HTML, and RSS sitemaps. It also supports custom post types and taxonomies, allowing you to ensure that all of your content is being indexed by search engines. With a user-friendly interface, you can easily configure the plugin to suit your needs and generate sitemaps in just a few clicks. Keep your website up-to-date and make sure that search engines are aware of all of your content by using the XML Sitemap Generator for Google. The plugin supports all kinds of WordPress generated pages as well as custom URLs. Additionally it notifies all major search engines every time you create a post about the new content. Supported for more than a decade and rated among the best, it will do exactly what it’s supposed to do – providing a complete XML sitemap for search engines! If you like the plugin, feel free to rate it! 🙂 Related Links: Support Forum License Good news, this plugin is free for everyone! Since it’s released under the GPL, you can use it free of charge on your personal or commercial site. Translations The plugin comes with various translations, please refer to the WordPress Codex for more information about activating the translation. If you want to help to translate the plugin to your language, please have a look at the sitemap.pot file which contains all definitions and may be used with a gettext editor like Poedit (Windows).

In a nutshell: You don’t want robots wasting your resources and slowing down your site if they don’t give you some kind of direct or indirect benefit. An optimal configuration will maximize your SEO results and reduce your operating costs. You’ll need less than a minute to set your site characteristics and get a customized robots.txt configuration installed, matching your needs and easily updated without headaches. Let us to apply our experience in maintaining and optimizing sites. A clear knowledge of what we want to do and why, moved us to change the decission method from human created robots.txt to an automated system, things are simpler as they seems. Here comes to help this plugin, doing all the magic for you. Some of your site specs will be automatically detected to reduce the manual config needs to the minimum. A few simple questions about your site will be enough to vast majority of sites. Update procedure Any change required to the robots.txt is applied in real time when operating in virtual file mode. If you are working in real file mode, after updating the plugin version you should click the Save Changes button in the configuration screen to regenerate the robots.txt file.