How to create a sitemap for your wordpress blog

Sitemaps are of two types - one for human eyes and the other for crawlers and search engines. We’ve already discussed how to create a sitemap for search engines.Now, let’s create a sitemap page in HTML for user’s visual navigation.

Sitemaps are an essential part of a blog since it helps people to get an overview on what’s your blog content without having to spend time on pages.It makes it easy for them to select what’s appropriate for them.

Here’s a cool tool - Sitemap Pro. It helps you to create a HTML sitemap with the following options.

- CSS Styled HTML page.
Either you can link the document to a local style file or an online location.The resulting HTML sitemap will be in the selected CSS styled format.

- Filenames
You can select if every link to a page should also show it’s filename or not.

- Snippets of content
You can also select if each title should show the first few lines of post from the page.

- Column structure
The sitemap can be generated in two, three column format. See examples here.

- Sort in alphabetical order
With this option, when the sitemap is generated, irrespective of your post timings, all the contents will be sorted in any fashion you require(A-Z,1-0 etc)

The tool is available for evaluation as well. I think every blog should have a HTML sitemap, as it’s important to give the user’s an option to select what they want to read.It’s easy to skim through the contents on a sitemap and select what you just need.

After running the program, all you need to do is upload the html file to your server and link it on the navigation links.

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