Float up to the top in Google search! Yes, only Google not Baidu the second largest search engine in the world.
Why Sitemap
Day 7 with Hexo, another task done.
Goal: add sitemap for search engines
Why: I just realized today, to let search engines, like Google, to find your blog, you need to create a sitemap.
Lan’s Complain: I failed to add my sitemap to dear Baidu.com (Chinese alternative to Google). I don’t have a Baidu account and it requires Chinese phone number for registration. This is one of the hundreds trails failed during this Hexo development project. How difficult to be a Chinese aboard?! I don’t mention the time wasted try different plugins and services.
Sitemap Creation
This is the easy part. The time consuming part will follow in the next section.
Step 1: install the plug-in
1 | npm install hexo-generator-sitemap --save |
Step 2: setup sitemap in blog _conf.yml. Add the following:
1 | sitemap: |
Step 3: generation
1 | hexo g |
Step 4: check public folder and you should see sitemap.xml
Submit Sitemap to Google
Go to Google Search Console and login with your Google account.
Step 1: Add Property
Step 2: Verification File
Lan: here I chose HTML Tag
Step 3: Add Verification Code
Go to theme_name\layout_partial\head\head.swig and add the HTML tag:
Step 4: Deploy your Hexo blog and Google Search Console will show
Step 5: Submit sitemap
Step 6: Click URL inspection. Important: Wait Patiently!
Lan: It took me approximately 1 hour until I saw the following picture. I did lots of research to figure out why I encountered nth failure today during this very long hour…instead I suggest you just relax and maybe go to bed. Miracle will happen tomorrow morning when you get up fresh.
Step 7: You are on Google finally! Let me celebrate my 8th Day with Hexo…
