This WordPress plugin automatically appends all your blog tags generated by the Ultimate Tag Warrior (UTW) WordPress Plugin onto the end of the Google XML Sitemap (sitemap.xml) file as generated by the Google XML Sitemaps for WordPress Plugin.
For example, say you have 60 UTW tags in your blog, and you execute the Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress plugin to re-create your latest sitemap, then this plugin will automatically append all 60 tag URLs onto the end of the newly generated sitemap.xml file.
This means that the Google / Yahoo / MSN (Windows Live) search engines will be made aware of all your internal tags and should then scan and index your tagged directories for your specialised (tag-sorted) content. This should help your blog to achieve higher search engine rankings for your tagged pages.
The following prerequisites are needed for this plugin to work:
- Minimum version of WordPress 2.0.4+ or 2.1.0+ required
- This plugin has been tested up to WordPress 2.0.10 and 2.2.1
- Ultimate Tag Warrior Plugin for WordPress Plugin v3.1415+
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Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress Plugin v3.0b6+
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Upload the UTWgoogleSitemaps2_1.php file into your wp-content/plugins directory or to a new sub-directory e.g. ../plugins/AddTagsToSitemap/
- Activate the Google Sitemaps - Append UTW Tags in the Plugin options page
- Goto the Admin - > Options - > Sitemap Administration Interface, click on the rebuild the sitemap hyperlink to create the Google XML sitemap
- Check the outputted sitemap.xml file to make sure that all UTW tags have been added and points to the correct page URLs - if you use Google Sitemap Generator for WordPress Plugin v3.0b6+ the sitemap is nicely formatted for easier viewing and validation)
- Click on several URLs in this XML Sitemap to make sure they are pointing to valid web pages within your site
No mandatory configuration changes are needed for this version 2.0+ of this plugin. Just activate the plugin.
You can optionally modify the google sitemap refresh internal and priority on line 122 if you want to.
All parameters are taken from the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin configuration settings and from its own tag tables.