SEO question

[rcstribe]

I am using Yoast SEO plugin. It seems that the “virtual” pages, e.g. /events/ and /events/upcoming are not written out to the site map. Not really surprising, since the SEO plugin doesn’t know about them. However, doesn’t this mean I am taking a big SEO hit?! especially on /events/ – that is the landing page I want people to know about and the search engines won’t even know about it! Or am I missing something?

[Jonah]

Hi rcstribe,

I’m not sure about how big of a hit you are taking by not having these pages in the sitemap. At the very least, all of your single events are still going to be indexed, so it’s not like there’s no event content at all showing up for events. I would suggest contacting Yoast to see how virtual pages can be manually added to the sitemap. There must be some way and we’re not the only plugin that uses virtual pages so I would think others have brought this up.

Let me know if you need anything else here.

Thanks,
Jonah

[rcstribe]

Good idea – I’m sharing Josst’s response for others that may want to do the same thing and come across this thread:

There’s a filter wpseo_sitemap_post_content (where post is whatever post type sitemap you wish to add URLs too). It gives an empty string, you can just return whatever you wish to add on to the XML sitemap and it’ll be added before the closing .

[Jonah]

Hi rcstribe,

Thanks for sharing that! I’m sure it will be helpful for other users. Is there anything else you need here?

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