WordPress Sitemaps
After Google produced Google Sitemaps, sitemap has become one of the essential things every website must have. With your sitemaps submitted, Google web crawler will be able to crawl each page of your site much easier.
Although Google Sitemaps can accept RSS as an alternative of sitemap, there's still drawback for using RSS. Here's what Google says about RSS:
Generally, a syndication feed does not include all URLs, so if you want to use the feed to let Google know about all URLs in your site, you may need to adjust your feed settings. If your feed includes only recent URLs, Google can still use that information to find out about other pages on your site during its normal crawling process by following links inside pages in the feed. If you use this format for your site, simply submit the URL of the file.
Thus, I do a quick search for generating sitemap with WordPress. And, I found this blog entry with Google Sitemap generator plugin, by Arne Brachhold.
All I did was to install the plugin, just the way I install every other plugin. The site has already provided a very complete installation guide. Head over to get it if you have not installed it.
UPDATE: To avoid write premission problem, you will need to upload 2 blank text file, "sitemap.xml" and "sitemap.xml.gz" to the root of your WordPress. Then, chmod the files to allow WordPress to write the files.
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