Osclass Sitemap Generator Plugin Help
General Questions regarding XML Sitemaps
What is a Sitemap?
How can I create Sitemap for my Osclass website?
Will Osclass Sitemap Generator Plugin affect my ranking?
Questions regarding the installation
How do I install the plugin?
Do I need to change any settings?
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.
Osclass Sitemap Generator Plugin

