Why You Need to Have a Proper Sitemap for Your Website | EP 213

Why You Need to Have a Proper Sitemap for Your Website

1. You should never have to create a sitemap manually 01:04
   • Use a plugin like Yoast or All in One SEO to create a sitemap for your website.
2. So Google knows which pages to index 01:52
   • Obviously, you want Google to be able to index the correct pages on your website.
   • One thing that you may not think about though is index errors.
   • By default, Google will index your whole site, and this may return some errors.
   • Also, you might not want every page on your website to be indexed. In your SEO plugin, you can specify which pages to include or not include in your sitemap. You want to only index the pages that you have content for, so your sitemap is as lean as possible.

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