Title: SEO recommendation
Last modified: September 30, 2026

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# SEO recommendation

 *  Resolved [achimudo](https://wordpress.org/support/users/achimudo/)
 * (@achimudo)
 * [1 day, 13 hours ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-recommendation/)
 * Hello Kayıhan,
   Static Porter is great. The current version is much better than
   the previous one and very well-organized. Thank you. You might want to describe
   the SEO aspect in a bit more detail (even in the FAQ or Plugin Site). Since I’m
   not exactly sure what’s happening in the .htaccess file, I’d to ask you for some
   more information on SEO with this plugin.
 * Your FAQ states that the URLs do not change. 
   3 Questions: Do I need a new sitemap.
   xml for my website, or can the old one be used? (I guess no) What happens if 
   I use asset mirroring? Does the old sitemap.xml containing image-links etc. need
   to be updated in this case? In general, is there anything you recommend for improving
   SEO rankings after using your plugin?
 * Kind Regards and Thanks

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 *  Plugin Author [Kayıhan Turgutoğlu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kturgutoglu/)
 * (@kturgutoglu)
 * [22 hours, 5 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-recommendation/#post-19033608)
 * Thank you, really glad the new version feels more organized. I appreciate you
   taking the time to write this up.
 * Good questions, let me answer them directly one by one.
 * **Do you need a new sitemap.xml?**
   No. Static Porter only crawls your posts, 
   pages, categories, tags, and 404 page (whatever you’ve enabled under “Content
   to crawl”) — it never touches or generates sitemap.xml itself. Since there’s 
   no static copy of your sitemap, the .htaccess rule finds nothing to serve and
   simply passes the request through to WordPress, so your existing sitemap (from
   Yoast, RankMath, or whichever SEO plugin you use) keeps generating itself dynamically
   and staying current, completely independent of Static Porter.
 * **Does Asset Mirroring affect the sitemap?**
   No. Asset Mirroring only rewrites
   the src/href references inside your crawled static HTML pages, pointing them 
   at locally mirrored copies of your CSS, JS, and images. It doesn’t modify your
   sitemap file, and the live image URLs your sitemap already lists keep working
   exactly as before on your WordPress server, whether or not mirroring is enabled.
 * **General SEO recommendations:**
   The plugin’s main SEO benefit is indirect but
   real: faster page loads improve your Core Web Vitals, which is a direct Google
   ranking factor and you get that automatically just from running a crawl, no extra
   configuration needed. Two things worth checking on your end:
    1. Browse your site logged out (or in an incognito window) after a crawl, since
       that’s exactly what Googlebot sees and confirm nothing looks broken or missing
       compared to the logged-in view.
    2. Make sure anything duplicate, private, or irrelevant (like WooCommerce cart/
       checkout) is in your Excluded Paths, so it’s never accidentally served as a 
       static page to crawlers.
 * This is genuinely useful feedback. I’ll add a proper SEO section to the FAQ so
   this is documented for everyone, not just in this thread. Thanks again for the
   thoughtful question.

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 * Last reply from: [Kayıhan Turgutoğlu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kturgutoglu/)
 * Last activity: [22 hours, 5 minutes ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/seo-recommendation/#post-19033608)
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