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00:00 come on
00:11 so in this video we are going to be
00:13 looking at implementing sitemap within
00:15 SEO helper
00:17 so here is an example of sitemap this is
00:20 the actual site map that I have used on
00:23 Weaver space it's the one currently in
00:26 use so we can see exactly how I am doing
00:29 it
00:30 now first step that you need to do
00:32 before we use sitemap within SEO helper
00:36 is we need to go into your Project's
00:39 advanced settings
00:41 and we need to turn off generate search
00:45 engine sitemap
00:47 okay so turn that one off
00:49 now if you had this on and published
00:51 another thing you'll have to do is
00:52 remove the sitemap.xml file that is on
00:55 your server okay so use your FTP client
00:58 or somewhere in cpanel where you're
01:01 going to delete the sitemap.xml
01:03 okay because uh SEO helper does not use
01:07 sitemap.xml we'll get into that a little
01:09 bit later
01:11 so you'll probably notice that there are
01:13 multiple SEO helper sitemap Stacks there
01:17 are there's site map
01:18 sitemap index and sitemap ping okay we
01:23 will uh go through all three of these
01:25 stacks
01:27 right now the basic sitemap stack that
01:29 we're going to look at is sitemap this
01:31 is what most users are going to be using
01:35 so chances are you're going to just be
01:36 creating a a page on your on your
01:39 project that is called sitemap and
01:42 that's going to be what we submit to
01:43 Google
01:45 on this page you do need to make sure
01:48 that it's the only thing on the page
01:49 okay so the only thing on this page
01:51 needs to be sitemap nothing else
01:55 now if you want you can go ahead and set
01:57 this to be a different theme it doesn't
01:58 really matter okay sitemap will take
02:01 care of it when you add this uh to your
02:04 page you will have one entry by default
02:07 here we see I have multiple you can
02:09 easily add different entries by just
02:11 going ahead and say site map location or
02:13 you can actually do a batch load okay
02:16 let's look at adding a new location here
02:20 okay so let's look at I some of my
02:22 existing pages that I have here so what
02:24 you're going to do is you're going to
02:25 add the full URL
02:27 to the web page that you want to index
02:30 then you're going to set the priority
02:32 okay this is kind of like uh in your own
02:35 like you can read this whole tooltip
02:37 here that kind of uh explains what the
02:39 priority is but it essentially tells the
02:42 search engines this page is a really
02:45 important page or not a very important
02:47 page okay so do search engines really
02:50 use this I don't know it's a feature of
02:52 sitemap so there we go you can set your
02:55 priority from zero to one basically
02:58 then you can tell search engines here
03:01 how often your page is changing just to
03:05 kind of give them an idea of how often
03:08 that page changes okay so uh whether or
03:11 not it's going to be hourly daily weekly
03:12 yearly never changes now all these in
03:16 the optional settings here these are
03:18 definitely all optional you don't have
03:19 to set them path page what this is is if
03:23 you go ahead and link to the page so
03:25 basically you're gonna find like this is
03:27 my support page I can go ahead and Link
03:29 this to the support page
03:32 now what this does is if you take the
03:34 time to do that
03:35 whenever you publish that support page
03:38 that the site map will automatically see
03:40 that it changed and it'll flag it'll
03:43 basically add the last modified time to
03:45 your sitemap file okay so it's a nice to
03:48 have you do have to link those two pages
03:50 together
03:52 um or link this with the actual web page
03:55 but you know there are benefits to that
03:57 if you want to take the time to do that
04:00 next is you can actually add a CSV of
04:03 image urls
04:05 so if you want particular images that
04:08 are associated with this webpage to be
04:10 indexed by your search engines basically
04:13 like Google image search or you know so
04:15 on and so forth if you want those images
04:17 to be indexed now they will be indexed
04:20 throughout just by finding them on the
04:22 page but this just gives them more
04:24 priority right so if you add images to
04:29 your sitemap the search engines are more
04:31 likely to index those and serve them up
04:34 via image search
04:37 now there are more advanced options here
04:40 and we can go ahead and enable that with
04:43 this button
04:44 when you click this enable you'll see
04:46 that and you can do this for every
04:48 single page
04:50 okay
04:51 um so these are Advanced options for
04:54 each and individual URL
04:57 now you'll see that that shows us a new
05:00 plus button we go ahead and click that
05:03 and here we have more options we can do
05:06 alternate language image
05:09 video or hosted video all right so let's
05:12 go through those
05:13 alternate language so if you have a dual
05:16 language website and let's say your
05:18 default is English but you have an
05:20 alternate page
05:22 um for this particular URL that is in
05:24 German or English or whatever right
05:27 um You can go ahead and and Supply that
05:30 alternate
05:31 um URL
05:32 for that particular language okay and if
05:35 you have multiple you can actually add
05:36 multiple alternate language tags
05:40 this is very beneficial this is
05:42 definitely a lot of work if you are
05:45 building a multi-language website but
05:48 this is really the only way to do this
05:50 throughout the entire ecosystem
05:52 um it's the only add-on that lets you do
05:53 that a particular feature so it's a
05:56 must-have for alternate language sites
05:58 really really great
06:01 next up is you can add images now
06:03 earlier on I said that we could go ahead
06:05 and in the main you can add a CSV of
06:07 images this is just a way of adding it
06:10 one by one if you wanted it to just a
06:12 different way
06:14 um I I wanted to be able to make it
06:16 super easy if you wanted to Define
06:17 multiple images all at once just by
06:19 having a CSV of them here but you can
06:22 provide them one by one right here
06:27 next is if you have a self-hosted video
06:29 that's associated with this URL you can
06:32 go ahead and add that
06:34 okay so that video will be added there
06:36 and then if you have a hosted video such
06:39 as YouTube or Vimeo or things like that
06:41 you can go ahead and add the hosted
06:44 video so there we go and you can have
06:46 multiple videos multiple uh you know
06:49 images multiple link you can have as
06:51 many of these as you want
06:53 um all associated with a single URL
06:56 all right now an option I skipped
06:58 earlier was this sitemap location batch
06:59 load okay and so what this allows us to
07:03 do is you can actually load a comma
07:05 delimited list of urls
07:08 and then it allows you to add priorities
07:11 and change frequencies basically it'll
07:13 sign uh the same priority and same
07:16 change frequency for every URL that you
07:18 define inside the CSE so it's just a
07:20 little bit quicker I kind of like the
07:23 interface of showing each individual one
07:25 and managing them individually but
07:28 um if you just want to get the quick and
07:30 dirty thing done you can go ahead and
07:32 just batch out a list of URLs uh along
07:35 with the frequency and the priority of
07:37 those urls
07:39 okay so now that we've built our site
07:42 map how do we actually submit this to
07:44 search engines let's show you how to
07:46 submit this inside Google right now so
07:49 what you're going to want to do is
07:50 um
07:51 most like I said I have a quite complex
07:54 setup which we will dive into in a
07:56 minute
07:57 um on Weaver space
07:59 um so but mostly what you're going to do
08:01 is you're going to be publishing you're
08:04 going to have a single site map for all
08:06 of your entire site and you're going to
08:08 have it set to slash sitemap and the
08:11 file name is going to be index.php
08:13 okay that's how I'd recommend you set it
08:16 up okay if you have a single sitemap
08:18 file
08:19 so now that we know that
08:22 um we're going to dive into let's head
08:24 over into Google search console
08:26 okay so now we are in Google search
08:28 console and we're going to go ahead and
08:30 you go into the sitemaps tab and if you
08:33 have any site Maps it'll they'll be
08:35 shown here okay now if here's another if
08:38 you had sitemap.xml before and you
08:40 weren't using SEO helper you're going to
08:42 want to delete that so you're going to
08:44 go in here and then you can actually
08:45 delete a sitemap file actually once you
08:47 delete it from the server and Google
08:49 doesn't find it anymore
08:51 um Google will flag it and delete it
08:53 automatically eventually
08:55 um but actually it doesn't look like you
08:57 can delete uh oh that's a directory
09:00 though let's see can you delete
09:02 you can't I don't see a way of actually
09:05 deleting oh remove sitemap so once you
09:07 go into a particular sitemap file you
09:09 can go ahead and say remove sitemap I'm
09:11 not going to do that
09:13 for obvious reasons this is my active
09:15 live account so um Google will already
09:19 have your url right here and you're just
09:21 going to type sitemap
09:24 slash
09:25 okay so um you could add index.php if
09:29 you want to put the full path that's
09:30 okay
09:31 um you know but my server does do
09:33 sitemap slash and um what you're gonna
09:36 do is you're going to submit that and
09:37 that's it assuming you used the setup
09:39 that I recommended having the folder of
09:42 sitemap the page index.php
09:45 um that's all you need to do
09:48 so you just submit this and it will show
09:51 up in here uh within Google
09:54 um and if we go ahead and click on like
09:56 here's that pages one that we were
09:57 looking at I click on pages and it'll
10:00 show us how many pages were discovered
10:01 so on and so forth right and that was a
10:04 rather small one if you notice that
10:06 seven so one two three four five six
10:09 seven all my pages were discovered
10:11 okay so pretty good
10:13 what's the next step like if you have a
10:16 more advanced website I will let's show
10:18 you what I do on Weaver space
10:21 so on Weaver space you'll notice here in
10:23 the sidebar I have actually three
10:26 different
10:28 sitemap files
10:30 okay I've won the kind of for my static
10:32 pages I have another one for all my
10:36 stacks pages and then I have another one
10:39 still of my all my external demos for
10:42 Stacks because some of my stacks have
10:44 you know demos on the actual product
10:46 page and some have external so I want to
10:48 make sure those external uh demos are
10:51 all indexed let's let's look at that we
10:54 already saw the pages right if you
10:56 notice I the URL here is site map Pages
11:00 index okay this is the page that we were
11:02 looking at before again
11:04 for you I told you to set it to sitemap
11:06 if you have one I have it set it to be
11:09 sitemaps pages
11:10 okay so this site map here builds out
11:14 all of my stacks all of my product URLs
11:17 now this particular page I just say
11:21 um no one else has access to so we're
11:23 not going to dive into it um this is
11:25 just an unreleased version uh that
11:27 integrates with total cms2
11:29 um however I do have to say that there
11:31 is sitemap integration built in total
11:33 cms1 for blog okay
11:36 um and ultimately in total CMS 3 we will
11:38 have something similar to this
11:41 um but yeah we're gonna we're gonna skip
11:43 this
11:45 next is my demo URLs and this is all of
11:49 the demo URLs as I said earlier and to
11:52 make it easy on me basically all I did
11:54 is I just did a comma delimited list of
11:56 URLs that all have my external
12:00 um demos
12:01 so and then I just use the same priority
12:04 and frequency for all of them
12:06 now now that I have my three different
12:08 site Maps enabled I could submit all
12:12 three of these site Maps individually
12:15 however
12:17 um there is another stack that I had
12:20 mentioned earlier called sitemap index
12:23 now what is that so this page this page
12:27 is slash sitemap okay so this is my
12:30 default sitemap on Weaver space
12:34 so this is what you would normally use
12:35 if you were just having one sitemap to
12:37 control your entire site but on my site
12:40 I have multiple so my default sitemap
12:43 which is slash sitemap has a site map
12:45 index and then what I have here is we
12:49 can add multiple sitemap files so this
12:52 is basically like a directory of
12:54 sitemaps okay so if we look at all of
12:57 these individual site Maps basically
12:59 what I do is I put in the urls
13:02 to my three site maps that I pages that
13:05 I just showed you so basically this is a
13:07 site map of sitemap files
13:11 so this is why when we look in Google
13:13 search console at Weaver space you'll
13:15 see that at the top at the top I only
13:17 have one sitemap submitted and if I
13:20 click on it it takes me inside it's like
13:22 a folder right and then inside there I
13:25 have multiple different
13:27 um site Maps which are the ones that we
13:30 looked at one way I mentioned earlier
13:33 how total cms1 currently has a Blog
13:38 um integration for sitemap so as you
13:41 probably know blog already creates a
13:43 sitemap file for you automatically okay
13:46 you can copy that from the admin area on
13:49 the blog list okay and what you would do
13:52 is you would just get the site map that
13:54 total CMS creates and you're going to
13:56 add that into your sitemap index so
13:58 you're just going to copy that from your
14:00 admin area
14:01 um and then paste it right here and then
14:04 that way if you have multiple blogs or
14:07 you know even if you're you know abusing
14:09 blog for products or whatever other
14:11 reason you basically just put in those
14:13 site maps for every single total CMS
14:16 blog inside of a sitemap index and then
14:20 submit that that way you only have it's
14:22 super easy to manage you have one
14:24 sitemap file and then that indexes
14:27 multiple different ones throughout your
14:29 website the last stack I mentioned was
14:32 sitemap ping okay and what this does is
14:35 you're going to add this you're not
14:37 going to add this to your sitemap pages
14:38 this is one that you're going to add to
14:40 maybe an admin page or something like
14:43 that probably an authenticated page and
14:46 basically you can add whatever button
14:48 you want in here okay add any button
14:51 inside of this and when you click on it
14:53 what it will do is it will actually go
14:56 ahead and
14:57 request Google to re-index your site map
15:01 so basically you configure your sitemap
15:03 URLs in here
15:05 and then you can have a confirm message
15:06 okay to confirm are you sure you want to
15:09 submit your sitemap now this doesn't
15:12 this just requests Google eventually
15:16 re-index your site map it doesn't like
15:18 do it immediately it's just a hey Google
15:21 and Bing please re-index my sitemap
15:26 I personally don't use this because I
15:29 find that that API with Google and Bing
15:32 just
15:34 it's not a guarantee it's going to
15:35 happen right now anyway it's just a a
15:38 request so you can add that to your
15:40 admin Pages if you'd like a way to
15:43 request Google and ping
15:45 um Google and Bing to uh index re-index
15:49 your site Maps but again there's no time
15:52 frame when they guarantee they're going
15:53 to do that so it'll just eventually
15:55 happen which it will eventually just
15:57 happen anyways so I'm not really sure if
16:01 it actually does anything
16:07 foreign