Should dynamic pages make their way to a XML Sitemap?

  • This is just as much an SEO question as it is a question of “is this working right?”…forgive my noob’ness.

    OK. I am a REALTOR and I have listings on my wordpress site. Each listing page is dynamically populated and has a url structure such as:

    https://www.gojerry.ca/realestate/listing-801-3329-no-3-rd-east-chester-ns/

    I am using the Google XML Sitemap plugin to create a site map in attempts to help get as many listings indexed in Google as possible. When I use the plugin\sitemap generator it fails to create a page link for my listings, presumably because the actual pages are not in the wpdb as traditional static pages and posts.

    What is the best way (if any) to get the listing “pages” in my sitemap? Do I need to worry if they are not there as google will crawl them anyway? In my hopes for the later, I have created a php script that does nothing but generate text only links (on the fly as the page loads) to each listing and I have this as the template for a static page called “listings sitemap”. This page is recognized in the main site sitemap so hopefully that will encourage google to index the listing pages found within?

    Now, using an external sitemap generator such as https://www.auditmypc.com‘s sitemap generator DOES create page links for those listing pages. Are there any external sitemap apps, or scripts, that can do an external crawl that I can automate via a cron job etc….listings are updated daily and so to will the need to rebuild a sitemap daily.

    Maybe I am making to big a deal of this?

    Thanks

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  • Hi,

    I’m in a similar situation and cant find any WP tools that facilitate this. Is there any way of doing this from within WP?

    Thanks in advance,

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    When I use the plugin\sitemap generator it fails to create a page link for my listings, presumably because the actual pages are not in the wpdb as traditional static pages and posts.

    That’s exactly right. The plugin can only tell you what’s in the database. If you’re doing custom work OUTSIDE the WordPress DB, then you need to have that custom work write to it’s own sitemap.

    oranblackwell – Same answer to you. If you’re not using WP to manage your pages, they don’t show up in a plugin that pulls from WP.

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