SEO Hack #6: Sitemaps Explained
42sExplains a crucial yet simple SEO step that many beginners overlook, making it highly educational and actionable for viewers looking to improve their site's crawlability.
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nailing SEO hack number six we need to have a site map you should submit an XML sitemap to Google search console we'll talk about Google search console another time but you should also have an HTML sitemap that's actually on your website so it's really easy for Google to crawl the whole site one and done for this I keep it easy and I just use rank math just to make sure that you have site map turned on
and then under the sitemap settings I can grab the URL for the sitemap that it's automatically generating and updating every time I add new content to the site grab this URL that's what we're going to give to Google search console but right here I can click HTML sitemap and turn that on then I can either use the short code right here to embed that site map on any page I want on my website or I can
click page and I can just choose a page a blank page on my website create a blank one and just select that and it will place that HTML sitemap for you then what I do is I actually put a link to the HTML site map in the footer of my website and voila we're done with the site map having both the XML and the HTML sitemap further sets you up for