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so how do you create a sitemap for your
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website uh the short answer is usually
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we don’t have to do this manually
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anymore um any CMS Worth or salt is
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going to be creating a site map by
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default um so you won’t even really have
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to click any boxes it’ll just happen on
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its own I know with WordPress if you’re
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using a plugin like yo or rankmath a lot
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of times they will create their own
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version of a sitemap and kind of
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override the the normal um and put it in
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a different location handle it
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differently but even then they’re still
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creating the sit map
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um uh I know that using it you know CMS
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like WordPress and and yast or rankmath
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you can then go in and exclude things
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from showing up in the site map which
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can be really good um because if you
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have Pages like um blog category Pages
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or blog AR Pages or author Pages or
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stuff like that um I generally like to
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trim down the number of pages that are
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showing up in the sitemap because I’m
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not always 100% sure I know what the
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craw budget is going to be for the
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website and I want to make sure that the
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pages that have SEO value um have a
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higher chance of of being crawled by
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Google so removing the some of the pages
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that may not have any search value like
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category Pages or author Pages or
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archive Pages um can help
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you know shorten the list that Google’s
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going to have to go through uh when
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crawling