What Is the Optimal Way to Create a Sitemap? | Ep. #452

<p><span style="font-size: 10pt;">In Episode #452, Eric and Neil discuss the optimal way to create a sitemap. Tune in to learn why creating a sitemap manually is NOT beneficial for you—especially with all the online tools you can leverage today. </span></p> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Time Stamped Show Notes:</span></h3> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">00:27 – Today’s topic: <em>What Is the Optimal Way to Create a Sitemap?</em></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">00:35 – Eric searches sitemap tools and uses sitemap plugins for <a href= "http://wordpress.com/">WordPress</a></span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">00:52 – You don’t want to create your sitemap manually</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">01:05 – Your site continuously updates and a sitemap tool can do the updates for you automatically</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">01:40 – Sitemaps are important because it is crawled by search engines</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">02:01 – <a href= "http://marketingschool.io/">Marketing School</a> is giving away 90-day FREE trial to <a href="https://www.crazyegg.com/">Crazy Egg</a> which is a visual analytics tool</span> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">02:10 – Go to <a href= "http://singlegrain.com/giveaway">SingleGrain.com/giveaway</a> to get your FREE copy</span></li> </ul> </li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">02:16 – That’s it for today’s episode!</span></li> </ul> <h3><span style="font-size: 10pt;">3 Key Points:</span></h3> <ol> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Leverage the sitemap tools and plugins that are available for you online.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">Don’t create your sitemap manually as it needs to be automatically updated.</span></li> <li><span style="font-size: 10pt;">A sitemap is SEO 101—put it on your checklist of things-to-do when creating your website.</span></li> </ol> <p><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><strong>Leave some feedback:</strong></span></p> <ul> <li><span style="font-size: 10p