WordPress 5.5 was recently released for production use. One interesting new feature with WordPress 5.5 is a built in sitemap. However, by default this feature is turned on.
I was a bit confused as to where this sitemap is located. There are quite a few WordPress plugins that are free or paid for that you can use to create a sitemap. Now this sitemap I am talking about is for search engines like Bing, Google, etc.
You see search engines often times look for Uniform Resource Locators by browsing a website’s robots.txt file. Generally, the robots.txt file is located in the document root folder of a website on the server side. For example:
/home/user/public_html/robots.txt
Now not all web servers have the same directory structure to your websites root folder location. The WordPress 5.5 sitemap is actually located at this example below.
http://www.governmentsucks.com/wp-sitemap.xml
According to this WordPress 5.5 sitemap core blog post, WordPress 5.5 now automatically creates a sitemap by default named sitemap.xml.
http://www.governmentsucks.com/sitemap.xml
However, this file does not exist, because actually I had disabled a free plugin that would create a sitemap.xml file for Bing, Google, etc. search engines. I actually found this sitemap instead, wp-sitemap.xml. You see before WordPress 5.5, you had to either manually create a sitemap or install a plugin in order to have a sitemap for Bing, Google, etc. search engines.
Also, the new WordPress 5.5 is supposed to automatically change your robots.txt file with the new default WordPress 5.5 sitemap. However, this website you are reading this blog post on, did not have an updated robots.txt file after I upgraded WordPress to 5.5. Actually, I had upgraded another one of my websites that I administer, and I found this entry in that websites robots.txt file.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /wp-admin/
Allow: /wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Sitemap: http://www.xxxxxxxxxxxxxx.com/wp-sitemap.xml
The most important line is the one above highlighted with bold font. I browsed to:
http://www.anetcomputers.com/wp-sitemap.xml
Sure enough the new WordPress 5.5 sitemap had been successfully created. I went ahead and manually edited this domain’s robots.txt file with the correct Sitemap: declaration. Also, I updated my Google Webmasters sitemap declaration for the WordPress 5.5 sitemap.
You do not necessarily need to include information in both your Google Webmasters account and or robots.txt file about your sitemap location. Some search robots will ignore this file. Also, it is well known that Google indexes websites now a days without you evening notifying their search robot about your websites sitemap file.
Finally, I had already disabled the plugin that had created the old sitemap.xml file. I went ahead and deleted this plugin. I am satisfied for now with this built in WordPress 5.5 sitemap. In summation, if you are confused as to the location of your WordPress 5.5 sitemap, look for sitemap.xml or wp-sitemap.xml using my example domain name above.
WordPress 5.5 Sitemap – Location Video Transcript
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all right well i believe
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i am live and these motherfuckers at
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youtube i’m telling you
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they they fucking changed the goddamn
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streaming platform when on the back end
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it you it used to ask you to click on
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go live you would hit your encoder
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and start streaming and then you had to
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click another button
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that said go live well
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when i started the stream
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the button disappeared and so now
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there’s another button called end stream
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and then also i wasn’t able to edit the
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title of this live stream
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normally it asks you to enter in the
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title and some additional information
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before you even start
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i had to click on edit because it
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pre-filled
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from my from some default all right
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so this is my live stream about
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wordpress 5.5
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which is an the most recent version
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up to this you know video creation
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and one interesting feature of
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wordpress 5.5 is a built-in default
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site map so that’s what this live stream
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is going
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to become now
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two live streams ago i complained about
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how atrocious youtube was
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and then
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my last live stream was perfect
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it was archived within an hour
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and i you know that’s why i live stream
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it so it saves me time
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but i was not aware of the new changes
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all right so let’s get into this
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now let me go through my blog post and
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it’s
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basically 100 percent written except for
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i need to
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add it something additional to it that i
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just thought
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but let’s go over that now so maybe you
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were confused or you’re just
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you know similar to me i’m not an expert
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and speaking of experts how are the
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youtube technology shills surviving
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during this alleged pandemic when they
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live
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in their gated communities how are the
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youtube technology
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shills surviving in their gated
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communities
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complaining about how bad youtube is for
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them
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meanwhile the rest of us we’re just
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lucky like myself that i’m self-employed
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alright
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so topic of discussion and i hope i
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won’t digress again
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i was not ready for that i went i i
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clicked
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you know i went into my encoder i
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started streaming and then all of a
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sudden youtube said that it was live and
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there was a counter and i’m like wait a
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minute i didn’t even get to prepare
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all right which i don’t fucking care
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because i do not
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script any of my videos i actually
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freestyle all them so
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but anyways wordpress 5.5 sitemap
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location i had no idea where it was at
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so with the newest version of wordpress
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up
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until this point of this video creation
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which was what two days ago
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or yeah i think two days ago is when
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wordpress officially released 5.5
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into production and i decided to upgrade
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that same day
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or was it the day after anyways whatever
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it’s been like two or three days
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now i’m not going to go through all the
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features but one interesting feature
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that is brand new
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never before used in wordpress is a
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default
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site map now caveat
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mtor i am only talking about the site
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map that you
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use for search engines if you’re
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a webmaster you know what i’m talking
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about
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there are technically two different site
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maps
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the first site map is xml which is a
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markup language
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sitemap.xml that’s the one i’m
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discussing
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that one is what
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search robots search engines like bing
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and google and others use that is what
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i’m talking about
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i am not talking about the other site
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map that you
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would use for your users
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here’s a here’s a tip i’m going to give
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you a tip right here that i’ve learned
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now i’m not going to discuss maybe
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that’ll be a little bit over time i’ll
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discuss whether or not a site map
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xml the one that search robots use to
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you know browse your domain and then
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gather
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uniform resource locators otherwise
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known as urls otherwise known as what i
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just highlighted at the top of the
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screen here
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ain’t computers dot com slash wordpress
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dash
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five dash five dash site map dash
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location that is a
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url also known as a uniform resource
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locator
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that’s what search engines gather
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and order and then they build big
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databases and then you type in search
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terms
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and then you know boom it displays your
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your link to your website and then you
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land on the uniform resource locator
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a here’s a tip you may want to also
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include
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a separate site map that you can build
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manually
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or with a plug-in for your viewers your
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audience
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somebody browses to ain’tcomputers.com
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and they get the worst you know
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information technology help on the
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internet
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as most of the haters and the trolls
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view my me
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probably possibly
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that would allow them and i actually
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have one right here
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so that that’s a bonus tip but i’m not
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going to talk about that in this video
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but that is a bonus tip
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it may or may not be good for search
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engine optimization
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but this is the other site map which i
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am not talking about
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again okay it just makes if if anybody’s
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interested in your website
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it shows all your posts it shows all
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your pages and it may
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be searching optimize beneficial okay
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now let’s get
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back to the site map that search engine
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robots like bing and google use
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to find out web pages from your website
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so with wordpress 5.5 you they by
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default
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create a sitemap for you and i didn’t
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know where the fuck was that
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i found out about it because i read
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through the new changes i always do that
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well i try to especially the main
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updates you know
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wordpress five to five point one to five
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point
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two to five if it’s five point two point
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one i don’t
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neces i use two but i don’t as much or a
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lot of times i do not
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but this one i went through the new
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features and i was like
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oh they embedded
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their own site map i was like well you
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know what
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i’ve been using a plug-in for like over
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a decade
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and i wonder how good it is and i i
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wanted to see what it looked like but i
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couldn’t find it
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so this is what this video is about is
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where is it located
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now according to the wordpress official
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core blog post pertaining to
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the site map which will be in my blog
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post so
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some people learn in the abstract better
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some people learn visually some people
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learn both whatever
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click on the link in the description box
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of this youtube video
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it’ll take you to my website
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anikapeers.com
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with my blog post about the wordpress 5
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5.5 site map location and it’ll take you
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to the official blog post for the
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fucking
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wordpress core or xml sitemap
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plug it at one time it was a separate
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plugin now
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it’s not a separate plugin that that
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could be also confusing
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now it’s actually built into the
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wordpress core some people don’t like it
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i don’t really fucking care at this
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point and
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so whatever
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according to the wordpress core
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official blog post they claim that the
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site map would be located in the root
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directory of
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your domain name and then it
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the name would be site map dot xml
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well it did not exist on my website and
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i was like well where the fuck is it
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now here is where it could be just me i
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could be an idiot and a moron i’m not
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perfect i’m not an expert i know the
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youtube technology shills
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that live in their castles and their
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gated communities
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while the rest of us are lucky that we
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have jobs or we’re lucky that we’re
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still self-employed
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and you’re gonna see what you know what
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there’s 30 million
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unemployed people in america now because
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of this alleged pandemic
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and they’re not receiving any more
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emergency
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unemployment from the federal government
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because that expired and
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the landlord
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eviction moratorium that also expired so
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you’re gonna see a lot of problems
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in the next couple days weeks months
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years possibly
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all right
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i’m thinking that possibly because i
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think when i upgraded my website
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to wordpress 5.5 i still
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had i think i fucked up i meant to
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disable it
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and i did not that’s what i’m thinking
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so
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it should be located at your domain name
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and i have an example here
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so here’s an example
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of where it
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should be located now this is just an
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example domain name i don’t know if
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anybody has created the
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website government sucks.com if they do
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i would that’d be great
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that would be one of my favorite
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websites ever
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government sucks.com slash sitemap.xml
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that’s according to this official blog
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post that i will show you really quick
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and it show and it stipulates right here
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it says here
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here we’ll just search for it
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it says right here by default the plugin
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creates a sitemap
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index at slash sitemap.xml
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well it did not exist so i thought that
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you know
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they’re trying to pull a fast one now
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this blog post i think may have been
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written before
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5.5 was released and it may have
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referenced the
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the old sitemap plug-in that that
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doesn’t it still exists but you don’t
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need it
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because now with wordpress 5.5 core it’s
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it’s built into wordpress okay
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so then i’ll then i upgraded an another
0:11:19.360,0:11:23.200
one of my websites
0:11:20.800,0:11:25.600
which i will not disclose because of the
0:11:23.200,0:11:29.360
youtube trolls
0:11:25.600,0:11:31.560
and i tried to go to you know
0:11:29.360,0:11:32.720
you know government sucks dot com slash
0:11:31.560,0:11:36.079
sitemap.xml
0:11:32.720,0:11:39.600
it did not exist well then i
0:11:36.079,0:11:44.120
i think i i found it on somebody else’s
0:11:39.600,0:11:47.200
another plugin and they mentioned wp
0:11:44.120,0:11:47.839
sitemap.xml i was like well what the
0:11:47.200,0:11:49.680
fuck
0:11:47.839,0:11:52.160
sometimes you have to you have to just
0:11:49.680,0:11:54.959
that’s just how the internet works
0:11:52.160,0:11:55.920
and sure enough it existed so government
0:11:54.959,0:11:59.839
dot com
0:11:55.920,0:12:02.560
and then slash wp
0:11:59.839,0:12:04.000
minus sign or dash sitemap.xml in it and
0:12:02.560,0:12:06.880
it existed
0:12:04.000,0:12:08.079
so here is i don’t know if it’s a fact
0:12:06.880,0:12:10.560
but i think this is
0:12:08.079,0:12:11.760
maybe what has happened or maybe it’s
0:12:10.560,0:12:14.399
you know what i’m saying
0:12:11.760,0:12:15.600
i think possibly because they know that
0:12:14.399,0:12:16.800
there are plugins
0:12:15.600,0:12:18.560
out there already that will
0:12:16.800,0:12:19.920
automatically create a government
0:12:18.560,0:12:23.920
sucks.com
0:12:19.920,0:12:25.680
slash sitemap.xml file which the plugin
0:12:23.920,0:12:26.560
that i had been using for like at least
0:12:25.680,0:12:30.000
10 years
0:12:26.560,0:12:32.000
it did create that file i disabled it
0:12:30.000,0:12:33.360
and once you disable it that sitemap no
0:12:32.000,0:12:36.560
longer exists
0:12:33.360,0:12:39.680
well my logic tells me that they either
0:12:36.560,0:12:40.480
you know may have in the script it may
0:12:39.680,0:12:44.240
actually
0:12:40.480,0:12:47.839
create wp dash sitemap.xml
0:12:44.240,0:12:50.000
if you’re if the plugin is enabled or
0:12:47.839,0:12:51.440
maybe by default or you know what i’m
0:12:50.000,0:12:53.279
saying that’s what i’m thinking
0:12:51.440,0:12:55.360
because i think i still had it enabled
0:12:53.279,0:12:58.800
even though i i
0:12:55.360,0:12:58.800
told myself to disable it
0:12:58.959,0:13:02.560
so that’s it that’s the location right
0:13:00.959,0:13:06.160
there it’s either
0:13:02.560,0:13:08.160
it could be it could be sitemap.xml2
0:13:06.160,0:13:09.680
it may actually create it it could have
0:13:08.160,0:13:10.320
been because i already had a plug-in
0:13:09.680,0:13:12.560
that had
0:13:10.320,0:13:13.600
already created it and so it then
0:13:12.560,0:13:15.519
renamed it
0:13:13.600,0:13:17.120
i just don’t know because i don’t have a
0:13:15.519,0:13:19.279
website
0:13:17.120,0:13:21.200
that did not have that plug-in enabled
0:13:19.279,0:13:23.920
you know what i’m saying
0:13:21.200,0:13:23.920
and so
0:13:24.320,0:13:28.639
here is where the location could be it
0:13:26.320,0:13:31.920
could be government sucks.com
0:13:28.639,0:13:37.279
for slash sitemap.xml
0:13:31.920,0:13:40.399
or wp dash sitemap.xml
0:13:37.279,0:13:42.560
that’s where it should be located and i
0:13:40.399,0:13:45.680
can even show you on this website
0:13:42.560,0:13:47.440
where it’s located and then i’m done
0:13:45.680,0:13:48.959
the rest is overtime you can leave you
0:13:47.440,0:13:49.600
probably probably are i don’t give a
0:13:48.959,0:13:50.880
fuck
0:13:49.600,0:13:52.720
you probably already left alright i
0:13:50.880,0:13:55.519
don’t give a shit
0:13:52.720,0:13:56.399
i never ever record videos for my
0:13:55.519,0:13:58.720
subscribers
0:13:56.399,0:13:58.720
never
0:13:59.600,0:14:04.240
i record videos to try to help people oh
0:14:02.639,0:14:05.199
that’s right the youtube technology
0:14:04.240,0:14:07.680
shills
0:14:05.199,0:14:08.800
they sell coffee mugs and peanuts and
0:14:07.680,0:14:11.839
popcorn
0:14:08.800,0:14:14.720
and tickets as they complain
0:14:11.839,0:14:16.399
about how bad youtube is to them even
0:14:14.720,0:14:19.199
though they live in gated communities
0:14:16.399,0:14:19.920
and while the rest of us you know the
0:14:19.199,0:14:23.519
irony
0:14:19.920,0:14:25.519
the irony the irony the irony of it all
0:14:23.519,0:14:27.519
those that live privileged lives you
0:14:25.519,0:14:27.920
notice yell and scream the most about
0:14:27.519,0:14:31.360
how
0:14:27.920,0:14:33.120
you know they’re being oppressed jesus
0:14:31.360,0:14:36.959
fucking christ
0:14:33.120,0:14:37.839
all right so i’m going to show you that
0:14:36.959,0:14:41.040
indeed and it
0:14:37.839,0:14:44.160
exists it’s not a conspiracy you know
0:14:41.040,0:14:47.120
theory or anything which which
0:14:44.160,0:14:49.279
actually conspiracies do exist though
0:14:47.120,0:14:52.079
they do
0:14:49.279,0:14:54.320
but not everything is a conspiracy but
0:14:52.079,0:14:56.800
yes conspiracies do exist
0:14:54.320,0:14:58.160
if you talk about them you get censored
0:14:56.800,0:15:00.000
off of youtube though
0:14:58.160,0:15:01.360
if you tell the truth on youtube you get
0:15:00.000,0:15:05.440
terminated at midnight
0:15:01.360,0:15:09.440
or earlier wp
0:15:05.440,0:15:13.839
dash site map i’m going to show you my
0:15:09.440,0:15:13.839
site map
0:15:14.399,0:15:21.279
there it is look see
0:15:17.680,0:15:24.320
it exists this is the new
0:15:21.279,0:15:28.079
site map for search engines only
0:15:24.320,0:15:32.160
bing google et cetera that is
0:15:28.079,0:15:35.360
built into the wordpress 5.5 core look
0:15:32.160,0:15:36.800
and you know not i don’t want to go any
0:15:35.360,0:15:39.440
further because this is just
0:15:36.800,0:15:40.639
you know technical but this link on the
0:15:39.440,0:15:44.160
top wp
0:15:40.639,0:15:46.720
site map dash posts dash post one
0:15:44.160,0:15:47.440
this is where all your wordpress posts
0:15:46.720,0:15:51.199
are
0:15:47.440,0:15:55.839
listed look 919.
0:15:51.199,0:15:55.839
i have written 919 blog posts
0:15:56.399,0:16:02.560
it works it works great look
0:15:59.920,0:16:03.360
i’m happy with it this is only for
0:16:02.560,0:16:05.360
search engines
0:16:03.360,0:16:06.720
this xml sitemap is generated by
0:16:05.360,0:16:08.800
wordpress to make your content more
0:16:06.720,0:16:11.759
visible for search engines
0:16:08.800,0:16:12.720
that’s all it is and you know what i’ve
0:16:11.759,0:16:15.680
done
0:16:12.720,0:16:18.240
on all of my websites i went ahead and
0:16:15.680,0:16:22.480
upgraded to 5.5 wordpress
0:16:18.240,0:16:24.800
and i went ahead and disabled and
0:16:22.480,0:16:26.320
removed that plug-in that i’ve been
0:16:24.800,0:16:28.639
using for over 10 years
0:16:26.320,0:16:31.040
to build a site map for search engines
0:16:28.639,0:16:34.000
that’s how much i like it
0:16:31.040,0:16:36.079
because it’s it’s you know it’s
0:16:34.000,0:16:39.839
self-explanatory it does the job
0:16:36.079,0:16:39.839
i mean it works
0:16:40.160,0:16:45.519
there see so it saves me
0:16:43.519,0:16:47.279
resources actually because now i don’t
0:16:45.519,0:16:49.040
have to have an additional plug-in now
0:16:47.279,0:16:50.079
you could manually build one but you
0:16:49.040,0:16:51.519
know
0:16:50.079,0:16:53.279
that can take a lot you could probably
0:16:51.519,0:16:55.360
script it but i don’t want to go off
0:16:53.279,0:16:57.519
into that
0:16:55.360,0:16:59.680
all right so that’s it it actually works
0:16:57.519,0:17:01.519
anything else
0:16:59.680,0:17:03.040
i have all the details and oh here’s
0:17:01.519,0:17:06.160
some additional tips
0:17:03.040,0:17:08.160
now i found the site map
0:17:06.160,0:17:10.319
i think on another blog post that was
0:17:08.160,0:17:12.799
written but then i also double checked
0:17:10.319,0:17:15.439
it by looking at my robots.txt
0:17:12.799,0:17:18.640
so this is completely over time i don’t
0:17:15.439,0:17:21.839
know why i’m talking about this but
0:17:18.640,0:17:22.240
you know what i’m saying a robots.txt
0:17:21.839,0:17:25.280
file
0:17:22.240,0:17:28.720
is just a text file hence the extension
0:17:25.280,0:17:29.200
that tells search engine robots like
0:17:28.720,0:17:33.679
bing
0:17:29.200,0:17:35.360
and google and ad nauseam at infinite
0:17:33.679,0:17:37.280
and i’m sure the youtube technology
0:17:35.360,0:17:38.240
shields they have robots that scour the
0:17:37.280,0:17:41.280
internet
0:17:38.240,0:17:43.280
as they complain about how
0:17:41.280,0:17:45.039
terribly treated they are by youtube at
0:17:43.280,0:17:47.840
the same time that they live in gated
0:17:45.039,0:17:47.840
communities
0:17:50.720,0:17:54.960
it’s just it it tells the robots what to
0:17:54.320,0:17:57.360
do or
0:17:54.960,0:17:58.960
it tells them what directory is allowed
0:17:57.360,0:18:01.520
it tells them what directory
0:17:58.960,0:18:02.240
is not allowed and and another thing you
0:18:01.520,0:18:06.880
can include
0:18:02.240,0:18:06.880
is the sitemap declaration
0:18:07.280,0:18:12.000
so that’s another and then that’s how i
0:18:09.280,0:18:14.240
found out i died i verified it
0:18:12.000,0:18:16.720
on another website that i will not
0:18:14.240,0:18:16.720
discuss
0:18:17.039,0:18:20.240
it was similar to government sucks.com
0:18:19.200,0:18:21.760
but it was not
0:18:20.240,0:18:23.520
you know i don’t think that domain
0:18:21.760,0:18:25.840
exists not yet hopefully somebody will
0:18:23.520,0:18:25.840
create
0:18:26.320,0:18:31.440
and youtube probably will not allow any
0:18:28.720,0:18:33.280
videos you know uploaded
0:18:31.440,0:18:34.720
you know what i’m saying youtube they
0:18:33.280,0:18:37.120
kiss the government’s ass what are you
0:18:34.720,0:18:37.120
talking about
0:18:37.360,0:18:41.200
susan wojcik is a big commie all right
0:18:39.520,0:18:42.960
all right i better stop otherwise i’ll
0:18:41.200,0:18:46.720
get censored
0:18:42.960,0:18:47.120
all right so wp-sitemap.xml i found it
0:18:46.720,0:18:50.240
and
0:18:47.120,0:18:51.440
and i fixed all three of my robot.txt
0:18:50.240,0:18:53.360
files on all my
0:18:51.440,0:18:55.360
websites or actually on all my websites
0:18:53.360,0:18:59.120
not just three
0:18:55.360,0:19:01.919
okay now some people
0:18:59.120,0:19:03.039
think that you don’t need a sitemap.xml
0:19:01.919,0:19:05.200
for robots
0:19:03.039,0:19:06.080
i’m not sure i’m old school i’ve always
0:19:05.200,0:19:08.160
used one
0:19:06.080,0:19:10.240
i’ve just gotten to the habit you could
0:19:08.160,0:19:13.120
test it you could test on
0:19:10.240,0:19:14.000
a website that you already run run
0:19:13.120,0:19:16.880
administrate
0:19:14.000,0:19:18.720
now and see the differences you could
0:19:16.880,0:19:19.600
test the website how much traffic you
0:19:18.720,0:19:22.440
receive
0:19:19.600,0:19:25.840
without a sitemap.xml without a
0:19:22.440,0:19:30.240
robots.txt file
0:19:25.840,0:19:33.600
declaration with the sitemap you just
0:19:30.240,0:19:35.280
sitemap with a capital s colon space and
0:19:33.600,0:19:39.280
then you tell them where the sitemap is
0:19:35.280,0:19:42.640
located take that out
0:19:39.280,0:19:43.760
i don’t know supposedly google and maybe
0:19:42.640,0:19:45.919
bing and i don’t know
0:19:43.760,0:19:48.240
quite a few them they will automatically
0:19:45.919,0:19:49.840
find your website however
0:19:48.240,0:19:52.480
there’s a lot of complaints on the
0:19:49.840,0:19:54.720
internet when you have people that are
0:19:52.480,0:19:56.640
trying to become affiliate marketers
0:19:54.720,0:19:58.960
and they claim that their fucking
0:19:56.640,0:20:02.080
website isn’t receiving any traffic
0:19:58.960,0:20:03.520
even though they used and this is
0:20:02.080,0:20:06.720
another part of overtime
0:20:03.520,0:20:08.720
the google webmasters tool and declared
0:20:06.720,0:20:10.159
the site map there and they still
0:20:08.720,0:20:12.480
weren’t getting traffic
0:20:10.159,0:20:13.200
so it’s up to you and then i’ll give you
0:20:12.480,0:20:15.520
a warning
0:20:13.200,0:20:16.960
you may not want to make any major
0:20:15.520,0:20:19.919
changes
0:20:16.960,0:20:20.880
to certain features like a sitemap that
0:20:19.919,0:20:24.400
xml
0:20:20.880,0:20:25.280
or a robots.txt file or a dot htaccess
0:20:24.400,0:20:27.120
file
0:20:25.280,0:20:28.400
if you’re if if you’re worried about
0:20:27.120,0:20:31.520
traffic
0:20:28.400,0:20:32.240
if you rely on your website for you know
0:20:31.520,0:20:34.240
income
0:20:32.240,0:20:36.919
you may not want to go around fucking
0:20:34.240,0:20:40.400
around with the sitemap.xml
0:20:36.919,0:20:42.159
robots.txt declaration or
0:20:40.400,0:20:45.679
you know without you know thinking it
0:20:42.159,0:20:48.200
through or you may not want
0:20:45.679,0:20:50.080
you may not want to disable your
0:20:48.200,0:20:51.440
sitemap.xml plugin that you’ve been
0:20:50.080,0:20:54.799
using all these years
0:20:51.440,0:20:57.760
just yet i’m i’m satisfied
0:20:54.799,0:20:58.240
so here’s another bonus tip what you can
0:20:57.760,0:21:01.200
do
0:20:58.240,0:21:02.159
is you can go to your to bing also has a
0:21:01.200,0:21:05.440
feature but
0:21:02.159,0:21:06.159
google webmasters and i this is where i
0:21:05.440,0:21:10.159
need to
0:21:06.159,0:21:13.200
edit my blog post and add to it
0:21:10.159,0:21:15.520
i’m not going to go deep into it but the
0:21:13.200,0:21:16.880
google has what’s called google
0:21:15.520,0:21:20.159
webmasters
0:21:16.880,0:21:20.480
and what you do is you add your domain
0:21:20.159,0:21:22.799
name
0:21:20.480,0:21:24.559
government sucks dot com and then you
0:21:22.799,0:21:28.400
tell google
0:21:24.559,0:21:33.240
where your site map is located the exact
0:21:28.400,0:21:36.440
location government sucks dot com slash
0:21:33.240,0:21:40.320
sitemap.xml or slash wp
0:21:36.440,0:21:43.520
sitemap.xml and then google
0:21:40.320,0:21:46.720
they will browse that right away because
0:21:43.520,0:21:49.600
i know because all my websites now
0:21:46.720,0:21:50.760
i went ahead and changed it to the new
0:21:49.600,0:21:53.600
wordpress
0:21:50.760,0:21:55.520
sitemap.xml and
0:21:53.600,0:21:56.960
it it already found it and it already
0:21:55.520,0:22:00.080
browsed it and i already
0:21:56.960,0:22:01.760
listed i didn’t get well one
0:22:00.080,0:22:03.679
i think one website it was still working
0:22:01.760,0:22:06.640
on but
0:22:03.679,0:22:07.360
one other website it found all of them
0:22:06.640,0:22:10.400
and i and i
0:22:07.360,0:22:13.520
compared i compared how many blog posts
0:22:10.400,0:22:16.240
and how many pages i had on that website
0:22:13.520,0:22:18.080
and it matched up what google had found
0:22:16.240,0:22:21.200
in using google
0:22:18.080,0:22:24.240
webmaster tool okay
0:22:21.200,0:22:27.840
anything any other bonus tips that i can
0:22:24.240,0:22:27.840
go through
0:22:28.960,0:22:32.320
if you’re satisfied you may want to test
0:22:31.200,0:22:35.280
it like i said i’m not
0:22:32.320,0:22:36.559
here to cause problems i’m here to help
0:22:35.280,0:22:38.640
people
0:22:36.559,0:22:39.600
so you may want you know caveat emptor
0:22:38.640,0:22:43.039
you may not
0:22:39.600,0:22:45.600
want to do what i do and i when when i
0:22:43.039,0:22:47.360
if i can save resources by disabling a
0:22:45.600,0:22:50.159
plug-in
0:22:47.360,0:22:50.960
i will generally you want to shy away
0:22:50.159,0:22:54.000
from using
0:22:50.960,0:22:55.600
plugins on wordpress the more you
0:22:54.000,0:22:57.200
have the more problems you could have
0:22:55.600,0:23:00.720
all it takes is one plugin
0:22:57.200,0:23:02.960
this is a fact one plugin could be buggy
0:23:00.720,0:23:06.400
it could be slow and it’ll fuck up your
0:23:02.960,0:23:08.960
website and it’ll slow down your website
0:23:06.400,0:23:10.320
so i’m always looking now you can you
0:23:08.960,0:23:13.280
know program a lot of it
0:23:10.320,0:23:14.240
in which is what some people do but so
0:23:13.280,0:23:16.480
once in a while
0:23:14.240,0:23:18.000
in my case i have to i have to try to
0:23:16.480,0:23:20.159
find a plug-in
0:23:18.000,0:23:21.440
but if i can limit the amount of
0:23:20.159,0:23:23.200
plug-ins oh yes
0:23:21.440,0:23:24.880
so i was kind of happy that wordpress
0:23:23.200,0:23:25.760
decided to have their own built-in site
0:23:24.880,0:23:27.840
map
0:23:25.760,0:23:29.840
now i don’t debate i don’t argue i know
0:23:27.840,0:23:31.600
you goddamn fucking nationalistic
0:23:29.840,0:23:33.440
americans that’s all you do is argue
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with each other the the left versus the
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right
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when it’s a pale skinned european
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military dictatorship supremacy society
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based on racism
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you know what i’m saying i know you love
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to argue i don’t
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some people will say well you know
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don’t ever use the sitemap sitemap.xml
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well you don’t need to worry about it
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google will take care of it it’ll find
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your website anyways well you’re just
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wasting resources however
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you must know that some robots
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some search robots they ignore the
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robots.txt file did you know that
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yeah i found that out some search engine
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robots
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they don’t heed your instructions you
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tell the motherfucker what to do
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and they ignore you they don’t follow
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the robots.txt file which i include in
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my blog post which is this is a simple
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declaration
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user agent call star disallow
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and it tells you what directory to
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disallow
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allow it tells you what directory or
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directories plural tool
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to allow and then this one the site map
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declaration
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some fucking robots ignore that well
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then what’s the point of having a
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robot.txt file
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i don’t know does google and bing do
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they lie to you like they do a lot
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and ignore your robots.txt file they may
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or they may not
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you may have to test that so that is
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that’s another additional tip
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and then but i don’t argue and i you
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know it’s up to you
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you could test it like i said you could
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test it before on a brand new website or
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or website that you already receive a
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lot of traffic it’s up to you whether
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you use a sitemap.xml for your
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for your you know for search engines it
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you know what i’m saying i’ve i’m just
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old school i’ve always gotten
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under the habit of having a goddamn
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fucking x
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sitemap.xml file and now wordpress has
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it built in
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anything else that i included uh
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oh another before i run finally in some
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well not summation but
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in closing if if you’re not
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familiar with maintaining a website
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you know what you may want i don’t know
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but if you’re interested in learning how
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to maintain websites this might be
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useful
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if you’re confused about where the
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robots.txt file is
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it’s in the root folder
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of your domain so government sucks.com
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slash robots.txt
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now that is the domain name
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that’s what the the real world sees
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on the server it’s not that that
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location
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now it can depend on the type of web
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server you’re using if you’re using
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nginx
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if you’re using apache if you’re using
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something else
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it may not be the exact folder that i
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but i gave you an example
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you want to go to the root folder of
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your website
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where wordpress is installed or if you
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know what i’m saying
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the root folder okay you should you
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should know that where that is
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if you’re gonna work on if you’re gonna
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set up a website if you’re gonna
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maintain your own website
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if you’re gonna learn how to you know
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administer a website
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you better know at the very least what
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the root folder is
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that’s where all of the files are
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located for your website
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it could be a generic it could be hand
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coded manual coded
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html it could be wordpress it could be
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joomla it could be
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what’s the other one drew paul i almost
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switched my websites to drew paul but
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that mother
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drew paul holy fuck man and i don’t want
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to talk about drew paul
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you know what i’m saying
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this is an example slash home slash user
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slash
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public underscore html slash robots.txt
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that is an example where the robots.txt
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file is located
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on the server when you log in via
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secure shell like ssh through a command
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line
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you know i’m saying that’s where it
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would be located you can manually edit
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it
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and you can learn what veri variables to
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include in your robust text file but
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like i said
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i know that some robots ignore it
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ah don’t you just love
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the internet don’t you just love
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government
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i would love somebody to create
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government sucks.com
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that would possibly be my favorite
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website
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adios