Yoast Download Sitemap
Azarias Alvarez
Search engines discover new pages and updated content by following links. However, an even more efficient way for them to find content is by following a map. An XML sitemap generated by Yoast SEO is a treasure map for search engines. It gives them directions to all of your content and tells them when your pages were last updated. With Yoast SEO you automatically get robust XML sitemaps for all of your content types.
Ok, so XML sitemaps are important. But, why do you need a Yoast XML sitemap in WordPress? After all, since the release of WordPress 5.5, all WordPress installations automatically get an XML sitemap as well. Well, not all XML sitemaps are built the same. We have been working on the Yoast XML sitemap for years. Over time, it has become more and more sophisticated. In comparison, the default WordPress XML sitemap is quite basic. Read the FAQ: XML sitemaps in WordPress 5.5 and Yoast SEO to learn more!
The XML sitemap is a standardized way of offering these overviews to search engines. Because this is standardized, search engines know exactly where to find them and what to expect in these files. Therefore, this file helps search engines discover your content.
Maybe you need a different guide after enabling the sitemap. Is your sitemap not updating? Do you wonder why it shows grey links? Is your sitemap a blank page? Or are you looking for common XML sitemap errors? You can also use our search bar at the top to search for your specific issue.
One of the many great things about the Yoast SEO plugin is that it automatically generates an XML sitemap for your website. This file acts as a resume for your website. It tells the search engines how to crawl and index the pages of your website.
Our plugin can create sitemaps for the various sections of your website. That makes it easier for search engines to understand your site structure. We combine all of the individual sitemaps into a sitemap index. This means you only have to submit the sitemap index link which is automatically updated as you add, remove, or change your content. The same sitemap index is used by our add-ons like Yoast SEO: News and Yoast SEO: Local.
Did you know that Yoast SEO Premium contains an internal linking tool that helps you build a site structure that search engines can easily navigate? Plus, it comes with SEO workouts that take you by the hand and let you make your content easy to find! Using these tools pays off more and is more sustainable than just relying on the XML sitemap!
The Yoast SEO plugin generates a sitemap of your site. It is a crucial feature of the plugin, and it helps search engines find and crawl your pages. The sitemap index includes links to a variety of sub-sitemaps for posts, pages, authors, categories, tags, and other taxonomies. In Yoast SEO, you can customize the XML sitemap index, and choose what you show in it. If you are not sure what needs to go in the sitemap, read this article first.
Whilst Yoast SEO provides sensible default behaviors for XML sitemaps (and UI controls for inclusion/exclusion), custom themes or plugins sometimes need to alter our markup or logic.In those cases, you can use the examples below to modify how our sitemaps are generated and output.
While we worked with Google to bring XML sitemaps natively to WordPress, we offer a superior version of sitemaps in Yoast SEO. The WordPress one is basic, not nearly as fine-tuned, and fully featured as the one in Yoast SEO. If you install Yoast SEO, we automatically disable the WordPress sitemap for you.
XML is a markup language (in the same way that HTML is a markup language) designed to store and transport data. It stands for eXtensible Markup Language. XML is the language that stores data about the pages that you want search engines to index on your site. Here are 3 key things to know about the relationship between XML, sitemaps, and Yoast.
The gray links in your XML sitemap identify the URLs that your browser has recently visited. As this is browser-specific, you may or may not see different gray URLs depending on the browser and computer you are using to view your sitemap.
The Yoast plugins create sitemaps on the fly. This means sitemaps are updated automatically when you add, edit, or delete content. Therefore, there is no need to generate or rebuild the sitemaps in most cases. However, if you have modified content or added developer filters, you may need to force an update.
Firstly, this problem could be caused by WordPress integrated cache. If you have installed a cache plugin like W3 Total Cache or WP Super Cache, please check your settings and exclude the sitemaps from being cached. Not sure how to do that? Please contact the support team for your cache plugin or visit our guide here for common caching plugins.
The sitemap xmls are also generated fine, but I would need to add additional pages to it.We have a search page on the site, we search by a rental custom post type.Rentals can be searched by location. The search page is eg.: /rentals.
You get to this page if you search hotels paris. If you have a look at this page, this is already a search result, search parameters are set.Now we would like to do the same with the Wordpress site.I have done a redirection for the urls:/rentals/budapest/rentals/hungary... there are more locations.so they go to the rentals page, where I set the search parameters, I have changed the canonical urls of these pages, but I would like to add these pages to the xml sitemap also. The problem is that these page do not exist in the database.
I have found the answer! There is a wpseo_do_sitemap_ filter, I had to use that one. Also, This filter only created a custom sitemap, I also needed the 'wpseo_sitemap_index' filter to add my custom sitemap xml to the sitemaps index page.Detailed solution was found under this link!
Since 5.5, WordPress comes with its own in-built XML sitemaps. Together with Google, we proposed to get this feature into every WordPress site out there. XML sitemaps offer an additional way for search engines to find out about your content. Now that XML sitemaps are a core feature in WordPress, over 41% of the sites on the web will have these enabled by default. Crawlers will be delighted to stumble upon all that fresh content. Cool, right? But what about the XML sitemaps in Yoast SEO?
Yoast SEO creates XML sitemaps, which by default include an entry for every public post and page on your website. If those pages contain images, we include information about them in the XML sitemap entry.
The wpseo_xml_sitemap_img filter allows you to modify the sitemap images and the code below will remove the images when the sitemap updates. You can force an update by disabling and enabling the sitemaps.
The wpseo_xml_sitemap_img_src filter allows you to manually change the image URL. The code below will replace the URL when the sitemap updates. You can force an update by disabling and enabling the sitemaps. For example:
Some themes or page builder modules may not show the images on the sitemap. You may need to add them via a filter: wpseo_sitemap_urlimages. This filter will then register images to appear on the sitemap. For example:
I was trying to simply add a route to my Frontity theme in order to redirect the traffic from andreaprovino.it/sitemap to server-andpro.it/sitemap.xml thus let Yoast SEO continue doing his job while keeping FrontEnd logic as basic as possible.
Also, if the issue is due to the amount of resources required to generate the sitemap, you can reduce the amount necessary to generate the sitemap by reducing the number of entries in the sitemap. By default, the number of entries in the sitemap is set to 1000 but by decreasing this value it will decrease the amount of resources required to generate the sitemap.
To decrease the number of sitemap entries you can use the filter wpseo_sitemap_entries_per_page. We have more information on using this developer filter at the following link: -sitemaps-in-the-wordpress-seo-plugin/#limit
Thank you for providing us additional information. The default number of maximum entries per sitemap is 1000. When you have more than 1000 entries, it will split it into a new sitemap. Notice that the entries limit is required for sitemap optimization and server resource management.
You should open CPanel, find PHP and Apache error logs. After this, please try to access to problematic post sitemap. After this, check for new errors in these logs (you will see timestamp in logs). Please make sure that errors are related only to the last access.
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I did change the wp-config for the limit of 256 and now my sitemap is working. Thank you so much for the help.
And thanks to everyone on this forum that gave me some hints on this matter. You guys are the best!
URLs are not set as a canonical anywhere. I crawled the whole domain again. Also double checked the plugins and they are all updated to the latest version. I do not understand why Yoast would list these 301 Redirects in the sitemap. Any other hint I could investigate?
Our plugin generates sitemaps dynamically when you enable the sitemap feature. In some cases, you may need to add server-level redirects if you receive an Apache server error or a wrong page when loading the XML sitemaps. If you are using...
However, when using Yoast on large scale publishing sites you will likely run into some significant performance bottlenecks. The most common problem we have had to deal with is the automatic XML sitemap generation offered by the plugin.
Generating all of the required sitemaps for a site with 200,000+ posts is a tall order for any software, and often Yoast falls short at this scale. It tends to generate 5XX server timeouts and unnecessary database load.
To ensure this happens, here at the Code Company we have created a custom must-use plugin to generate the root sitemap offline via WP CLI. Instead of the sitemap being generated on the fly when a bot hits it, the sitemap XML is already generated and ready to go.
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