One of the things you’ll want to do for your blog or website is to create a
sitemap and submit it to the search engines. If you use WordPress, you can
follow along with the steps below to download a plug-in and create a Google
sitemap.
To Manually install the plugin:
  • Download the Google (XML) Sitemaps Generator plugin for WordPress to your computer
  • Unzip the folder to your computer, its easiest to place it on your desktop
    but you can unzip the folder called google-sitemap-generator anywhere you
    like.

  • Open your FTP program, log into your domain where wordpress is installed.
    You have your own domain for your blog, right? If not, you should invest in a
    domain for your blog.

  • Transfer the google-sitemap-generator folder from your computer to the
    wp-content/plugins folder in wordpress.

To Automatically Install the plugin:
  • Go into the plugins section of your WordPress site
  • Click Add New
  • In the Search box, type GOOGLE XML SITEMAP and click Search
  • Click Install under the Google XML Sitemap plugin
Now complete the installation by following these steps:
  1. Log into your WordPress Admin interface, click on Plugins and Activate
    the Google Sitemap plugin
  2. Click on Settings in the WordPress Admin interface, then click on
    XML-Sitemap
  3. Scroll down and click on Rebuild sitemap. You should now have a sitemap
    that is ready to be used by the search engines, AND it should be automatically
    crawled by the search engines.
The location of the the sitemap should be

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