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

Marketing School - Digital Marketing and Online Marketing Tips

Eric Siu and Neil Patel

Business, Marketing, Careers

4.6 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2017

⏱️ 3 minutes

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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. Time Stamped Show Notes: 00:27 – Today’s topic: What Is the Optimal Way to Create a Sitemap? 00:35 – Eric searches sitemap tools and uses sitemap plugins for WordPress 00:52 – You don’t want to create your sitemap manually 01:05 – Your site continuously updates and a sitemap tool can do the updates for you automatically 01:40 – Sitemaps are important because it is crawled by search engines 02:01 – Marketing School is giving away 90-day FREE trial to Crazy Egg which is a visual analytics tool 02:10 – Go to SingleGrain.com/giveaway to get your FREE copy 02:16 – That’s it for today’s episode! 3 Key Points: Leverage the sitemap tools and plugins that are available for you online. Don’t create your sitemap manually as it needs to be automatically updated. A sitemap is SEO 101—put it on your checklist of things-to-do when creating your website. Leave some feedback: What should we talk about next? Please let us know in the comments below. Did you enjoy this episode? If so, please leave a short review. Connect with us: NeilPatel.com Quick Sprout Growth Everywhere Single Grain Twitter @neilpatel Twitter @ericosiu Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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0:00.0	Get ready for your daily dose of marketing strategies and tactics from
0:06.8	entrepreneurs with the guile and experience to help you find success in any
0:11.4	marketing capacity. You're listening to marketing school with
0:14.9	your instructors Neil Patel and Eric Sue.
0:18.6	All right guys before we start we got a special message from our sponsor.
0:27.0	If you want to Rank hire on Google, you got to look at your paid speed time.
0:31.5	The faster your website loads, the better off you are. With
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0:49.3	great way to improve your load time.
0:51.6	Welcome to another episode of Marketing School.
0:56.0	I'm Eric Sue, and I'm Neil Patel.
0:58.0	And today we are going to talk about the optimal way to create a site map.
1:02.4	So I'll keep this simple.
1:03.5	This is how I've done it in the past.
1:05.1	I just look for site map tools out there.
1:07.3	And there's even a site map plugin available for
1:09.7	WordPress as well.
1:11.1	My sites are mostly on WordPress. So I just take a plugin like that. I make a site map. I
1:15.2	plug it into my Google Search console. I'm good to go.
1:18.0	What Eric mentioned is totally true. It's so much easier. You don't want to do it manually
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