I’ve always backed Arne’s Google Sitemap generator plugin and the reasons are pretty obvious, it’s one of the only XML sitemap generator that follows the guidelines of Sitemaps.org, an noble idea to build standard sitemaps and is supported by Google, Microsoft and Yahoo. However, it is highly criticized because of the high memory usage.
Sometime back, I’d written a post that how can one utilize WordPress template system and customize a 404 error page and ensure that the visitors will be able stick to your blog even if they end up landing on 404 page. Here’s a quick and simple tip which will help in ensuring that in case a visitor lands up on 404 page, they’ll be presented with an HTML based Sitemap with all the articles listed with categories.
Search engine optimization is really important for any blog or website because a good optimized blog will get loads of traffic from search engines and it can count up to 60-70% of your total traffic. Having Site map for a blog is one of the important part of Search Engine optimization as Site Maps allow search engines to reach all the content of your blog with ease and thus benefits in better placement in the search engines.
