Osclass plugins: Osclass Sitemap Generator Plugin

Osclass Sitemap Generator Plugin Help

Welcome to the new help page of the Osclass Sitemap Generator Plugin.

General Questions regarding XML Sitemaps

What is a Sitemap?

Basically, a Sitemap is a file which contains URLs and some additional information for all public pages or documents of your website. Google and other search engines can read this file and add the defined pages to their index.

How can I create Sitemap for my Osclass website?

That is the major function of the Osclass Sitemap Generator Plugin. It is easy to install and will generate a sitemap containing all your Osclass website content.

Will Osclass Sitemap Generator Plugin affect my ranking?

There are no evidences that Generating a Sitemap will directly affect your ranking. However, it can help Google to index and crawl your page better which may result in a more complete index of your page.

Questions regarding the installation

How do I install the plugin?

Just install it like any other Osclass plugin. The easiest way is via the “Add plugin” function in Osclass. You don’t need to change anything in your webserver configuration, file permissions or upload any other files.

Do I need to change any settings?

The default settings are fine for most Osclass websites. Feel free to change the priorities, change frequencies or what you want to include in your sitemap.

Settings explained

Update notification

Notify Google about updates of your website: This will ping Google every time you publish a new content or edit an old one. Google will fetch your sitemap afterwards and probably index your new content soon.

Notify Bing about updates of your website: This will ping Bing every time you publish a new content or edit an old one. Bing will fetch your sitemap afterwards and probably index your new content soon. Since the Yahoo Search is powered by Bing, your content should also appear in Yahoo soon.

Add sitemap URL to the virtual robots.txt file: If activated, the plugin will add the URL of your sitemap to your robots.txt file. This allows search engines, which don’t support the ping notification like Baidu or Yandex, to find your sitemap.

Additional pages

Here you can specify files or URLs which should be included in the sitemap, but do not belong to your Osclass website. For example, if your domain is www.austree.com.au and your blog is located on www.blog.austree.com.au you might want to include your homepage at www.austree.com.au

Note: If your blog is in a subdirectory and you want to add pages which are NOT in the blog directory or beneath, you MUST place your sitemap file in the root directory.

Post priority

Do not use automatic priority calculation: All posts will have the same priority in your sitemap. It can be defined under “Priorities”

Sitemap content

Osclass standard content: Check the items you want to include in your sitemap.

Change frequencies / priorities

Change frequencies: With this settings you can give search engines a hint, how many times the content of your blog changes. Note that it is up to the search engine how many times older content is rechecked again.

Priorities: With this settings you can give search engines a hint, how important the content of your blog is. This value is always in relation to all other content of your blog, so setting everything to highest (=1.0) doesn’t make any sense.

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