How to Add a Sitemap to Your Drupal Website

Drupal Sitemap

Why Add a Sitemap?

I’ll be honest and say that I don’t believe sitemaps improve your ranking in search engines. However, they do make sure more pages get indexed and that they get indexed more quickly. This article presents evidence that the difference is astounding:

  • Google with a sitemap: 14 minutes
  • Google without a sitemap: 1375 minutes
  • Yahoo with a sitemap: 245 minutes
  • Yahoo without a sitemap: 1773 minutes

How to Add a Sitemap to Your Drupal Site

  • Step 1: Click here to download the latest version of “XML Sitemap”. Choose the top link under “Recommended releases”.
  • Step 2: Extract the files into a folder on your desktop. The folder will be called “xmlsitemap”
  • Step 3: Login to your site’s files via FTP and navigate to /sites/default/. If there isn’t a folder called /modules/ here, create one.
  • Step 4: Upload the “xmlsitemap” folder to /sites/default/modules/
  • Step 5: Go to Administer >> Modules >> Administration menu and check the box next to “XML sitemap” and click “Save Configuration”.
  • Step 6: After saving you’ll presented with more options. Checking all the boxes would be a good choice.

Drupal Sitemap

Submitting the Sitemap to Search Engines

  • Step 7: Go to Administer >> Site Configuration >> XML Sitemap and you’ll have more options to choose from.
  • Step 8: Inside the screen on Step 7 you’ll see that XML Sitemap allows you’ll see a box entitled “Search engines”. This will allow you to submit your sitemap to Google, Yahoo and Bing (plus some others, if you care). Here is where you go to register and collect the data you’ll need:

Drupal Sitemap

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  • Robbie Adair

    Robbie started her career in corporate training until starting her own custom training and media company almost seventeen years ago. In 2010, she began doing classroom training for OSTraining while running Media A-Team. She is often presenting about various tech topics such as Joomla, Fabrik, Web Development, Social Media, and Augmented Reality. She loves seeing that "ah-ha" moment in peoples eyes in her sessions and workshops. She lives in Houston, Texas, but enjoys all the travel for client work and speaking gigs.

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Dlugi
Dlugi
13 years ago

my personal experience with this module, saying… does work at all

Mandeep Singh
Mandeep Singh
11 years ago

I like this because its very helpful for me.

Pixelstolife
Pixelstolife
11 years ago

Massive help, many thanks

alireza
alireza
7 years ago

please say explaining next steps to work with this module

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