With the coming of Google webmaster tools, having a dynamic sitemap in the Google sitemaps compliant XML-Sitemap has become one of the most important steps of Search Engine Optimization. But creating sitemaps manually for dynamic websites blogs can be very much uncomfortable. For the purpose, the Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for wordpress has been released. This plugin creates a sitemap.xml file in the web server and updates this file whenever a new page or post is created or whenever there is any changes in the blog. Also, every time you edit or create a post, your sitemap is updated and all major search engines that support the sitemap protocol, like ASK.com, Google, MSN Search and YAHOO, are notified about the update.

In other words, with this new plugin, the blogger no longer needs to update his sitemap as everything is done by its own. All the blogger has to do is install this plugin in the wordpress blog.

Where to Get the Latest Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for wordpress

You can read the documentation of Google Sitemap Generator Plugin for wordpress here.

Download Google Sitemap Generator v3.1.0.1

Akismet is a free wordpress plugin which checks your comments against the Akismet web service to see if they look like spam or not. This plugin is a free plugin and it comes with the wordpress package but you need a WordPress.com API key to use it. You can review the spam it catches under “Comments.”

How to activate Akismet plugin?

You need WordPress.com API Key to activate the free Akismet Plugin. You can get the WordPress API key by registering in wordpress.com. Once registered, log in and go to your global dashboard and then go to “profile”. There, you will be able to see the API key. It is a lettered word consisting of only numbers and alphabets. Now, In your wordpress blog’s admin panel, go to plugins and activate “Akismet”. It will then ask you to enter the Akismet key and you can enter the key you got above and it’s activated.

Akismet Is a very important plugin because of the increasing number of spammers. Without it, it is almost impossible to check all the comments you receive as a large number of them will be spams. You can also change the settings of Akismet under the Plugins tab > Akismet Configuration. You can set the Akismet to automatically discard spam comments on posts older than a month by checking the check box.

In other words, Akismet is the most important and the first plugin that you need to install once you create your wordpress blog.

Get Latest Akismet Plugin

Click here to get information on the the latest Akismet Plugin or Download here.

Until recently, I had been using the free sitemap generator of xml-sitemaps.com. The sitemap generator works fine and is useful for getting your page indexed by Google. Specially for putting the sitemap in Google Webmaster Tools, the sitemap generated by this tool is great. However, the main problem with this tool is that it can’t create a sitemap with more than 500 pages if you are using the free version. You can definitely create a sitemap with infinite number of pages using the pro version but hey, who gets a paid one these days? Everyone’s looking for a free one.
But now with the new Free Google sitemap generator plugin for wordpress, your blog doesn’t need to buy a pro version. All you have to do is download and install the free plugin which is available here. With this new plugin, you will be able to dynamically generate xml sitemaps which are compatible with google and therefore can be much more useful and easy to use. With this new plugin, you don’t need to recreate the sitemap again and again. So, cheers to Arne Brachold who created this plugin. By the way, feel free donating him a few bugs if you really like this plugin.