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Hi everyone, welcome to K2 blogging and in this video I will show you how you can create
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a HTML sitemap page in your WordPress website. So if you are using WordPress and you want to create a HTML sitemap page, then this video
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is for you. And by the way, if you found this video helpful, then make sure to hit the like button
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So to create a sitemap page in WordPress, we need to install the RankMath SEO plugin
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So let me just go to the plugin section and click on install plugins here
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And here as you can see, I have installed the RankMath SEO plugin and in recent version
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1.0.103, you will get the HTML sitemap feature in RankMath. So first of all, you need to update your existing RankMath plugin or install your RankMath SEO
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plugin in your WordPress website. So you can do that by clicking on add new button and you can simply search for RankMath
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and here you can install this plugin. And after installing this plugin, you will see this option RankMath and under the RankMath
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you will see this option sitemap setting. So just click on here and here you will see this option HTML sitemap
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Just click on here. Now you need to enable the HTML sitemap button and here you will get the shortcode
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You can paste this shortcode in a blank page and your HTML sitemap page is ready
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Or you can also select that page from here. So let's select the sorted by modified date and or you can select as published date here
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and here you can select item titles and click on save changes first
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Now we need to create our HTML sitemap page. So I will go to pages and I will click on add new here and I can simply set the title
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as HTML sitemap. Now you need to save the draft first and then here you can change the permalink like HTML
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sitemap and here you can publish this page. So before that, let me just select the page layout to something like narrow and let me
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just publish this page. Now you can just paste that shortcode here in this page or you can just go to RankMath
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and select this page as HTML sitemap. So I will go to RankMath and I will go to sitemap settings and I will go to HTML sitemap
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and here I will click on page and I can select that HTML sitemap page here like this and
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I will click on save changes. And you can also copy the shortcode and paste it in the page
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So let me just go to pages here and let me just open that HTML sitemap here in a new
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tab and as you can see the HTML sitemap page is added like this and here you can see this
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date and here you can see all the links like this. So this is how the HTML sitemap page looks like using the RankMath SEO plugin and you
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can also further customize it using CSS code if you want. Now you can just copy the HTML sitemap page link here and you can add this link in the
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header menu or footer menu. So let me just change this link with the new HTML sitemap and what I can do is just go
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to customizer here and I will go to footer section here and I will select this element
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wizard 2 and I will select the HTML sitemap here and I will change the HTML sitemap link
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here like this and let me just publish this page. Let's close this page
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Now let me just refresh this page and let's go to homepage first
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Let me scroll down and I will click on sitemap and it will take me to the HTML sitemap page
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So I think we need to refresh it first and then let's click on sitemap here and as you
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can see it is taking me to the HTML sitemap page. So in this way you can add this page in the footer section and I can also add this page
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in the header section. So for this let me just go to dashboard and I will go to appearance and here I will click
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on menus here and then I can add the page here. So I will click on HTML sitemap and I will click on add to menu and I can add the menu
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under the block here like this and let me just save the menu
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Now let's go to visit site and under the block I will see the HTML sitemap and user can easily
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navigate to different posts in your WordPress website through this HTML sitemap page
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Now let's understand what are the benefits of HTML sitemap. So if you use HTML sitemap then it helps you organize your large website in WordPress and
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it also helps search engine bot to crawl the web pages faster and index the pages faster
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in Google search and it also distribute your page rank across your website and helps in
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internal linking. So you should use your HTML sitemap page in WordPress and by the way if you are not using
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RankMath then you can just download the RankMath plugin and use it in your WordPress website
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I have included the link in the description. So if you found this video helpful then make sure to hit the like button and do subscribe
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our channel for more upcoming videos like this. I will see you in the next video
