Mike Koepke

Denis de Bernardy

<p>The XML Sitemaps plugin for WordPress will automatically generate XML Sitemaps for your site and notify search engines when they’re updated.</p>
<p>Contrary to other plugins that generate sitemap files, this one will add a rewrite rule and store your cached sitemaps in the wp-content/sitemaps folder.</p>
<p>The XML Sitemaps plugin automatically assigns the rate of updates and the weight based on statistics collected on your site.</p>
<p>Pings occur automatically, on an hourly basis, if the sitemap file is updated.</p>
<p>Lastly, and contrary to the zillions of plugins that try to do the same as this one, this plugin will use the WP internals to determine the number of blog, category and tag pages on your site. This means it’ll play well with the likes of custom query string or <a href="http://www.semiologic.com/software/sem-seo/" rel="nofollow ugc">Semiologic SEO</a>.</p>
<h4>Configuration</h4>
<p>Starting with version 2.0 there is now the ability to control the inclusion or exclusion of date archives (years and months), author, category and tags pages in your sitemap.</p>
<p>Additionally specific pages can also be excluded by entering their page IDs.</p>
<p>Go to Settings->XML Sitemaps to update settings.</p>
<h4>Help Me!</h4>
<p>The <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/xml-sitemaps" rel="ugc">Plugin’s Forum</a> is the best place to report issues.</p>


XML Sitemaps

Works well and the code behind it is simple.
I would like to contribute to this plugin. Please contact me about how I can get you my update that adds AMP pages.



Good and simple.

Automatically generates XML Sitemaps for your site and notifies search engines when they're updated.

EkoJR

<p>So, why Gofer SEO?</p>
<p><strong>Gofer</strong>: An employee whose duties include running errands for other people. Derives from “Go and Fetch”.</p>
<p>As a result, the main focus of this plugin is…</p>
<ul>
<li>Quality Work: To provide the best results and reduce the workload.</li>
<li>Be Optimal: Performance with speed in mind.</li>
<li>Extensive: Similar to someone you’d depend on to “go for coffee” or “go for donuts”, Gofer SEO is designed to be extensive and dev friendly.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Credits</h4>
<p>This plugin is forked from All in One SEO.</p>
<h3>General</h3>
<p>Control what content renders SEO data, including support for custom post types & taxonomies. As well as the text and format of title & descriptions to help visitors see a glimpse before navigating to the website. If you have many posts/pages, you have the option to generate a description & keywords.</p>
<p>This also includes general support for Google Analytics, and website verification (Google, Bing, Pinterest, Yandex, & Baidu).</p>
<h3>Social Media</h3>
<p>Additional settings to use specifically for social websites like Facebook & Twitter. Allows you to control how articles are displayed on social sites, as well as any other sites that utilize Open Graph.</p>
<h3>XML Sitemap</h3>
<p>Adds an RSS & News Sitemap, and additional support to WP Sitemaps giving you full control what content is provided, the data that is provided, and how it is provided.</p>
<p>Built consistently with WP’s XML Sitemaps Functionality and as an extension to the Core Sitemaps. This makes it easier to adapt to change and provide a familiarity that other developers could easily understand.</p>
<h3>Schema Graph</h3>
<p>Currently, adds essential support for Schema graphs to add for content to stand out more in search results. Gofer SEO still provides a rich standard to post/pages, and will further expand on this.</p>
<h3>Crawlers</h3>
<p>Allows you to give crawlers more of a directive where and where not to go. Most crawlers respect these rules to help improve their results, but please note, not all crawlers will. Which is why it’s also possible to blacklist certain User-Agents if need be.</p>
<h3>Development</h3>
<p>Plugin was developed with 10+ years of experience in WordPress & SEO, so development has an intuitive understanding of WordPress and its practices. WP Standards are followed to provide both a solid plugin and a dev friendly environment.</p>


Gofer SEO

Search Engine Optimization tool to improve a website's search results rank, and increase traffic with Search Engines by improving site discovery.

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