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two sitemaps - possible problems?
I am using a web shop software and for some reason the main page (http://www.mysite.com/) is not being listed / generated within the automatic sitemap.xml while every other page is.
My question now: ...
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Can a sitemap index file reference sitemap files under different domains?
My company owns several domain names. We also host websites for our users at their custom domains.
Our domains:
company.com
product1.com
product2.com
Users's domains:
user1.com
user2.com
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index pages that only can find with search [duplicate]
I have a website that have 5 static pages and more than 700 dynamic contents that only can access them by search.
I create sitemap.xml that include 5 static pages and whole of dynamic contents.
But ...
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Site indexed in Google but not in Bing [duplicate]
I have a site, with an XML sitemap, that has tens of thousands of pages. Google's webmaster tools show that almost all fo the pages are indexed, but Bing's show that only about 300 pages are in the ...
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Paginating sitemaps
My sitemap is huge (200k+ articles), so I want to implement pagination of the sitemap itself.
My question is what parameter do most search engines look for in a sitemap pagination? page=... or maybe ...
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Google's webmaster tools saying invalid URL in sitemap
I've recently made some big changes to my site and as a result, have had to change my sitemap. In doing so, I resubmitted my sitemap file only to see 3 errors reading invalid URL's. I'm not sure if ...
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Need I submit sitemap in Webmaster Tools?
I have uploaded my sitemap on server root folder. Do I need it submit it in Google Webmaster Tools?
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Webmaster tools show old URLs are crawled
We renewed our website last year (2012) in December. After that we have put 301 redirection in place for the required pages. We removed some pages in old site when we moved to new site.
For example ...
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If my index page has no textual content, should it be present in sitemap?
My index page contains no textual content at all (except some footer links, copyright notice and some stuff in tag). It has, however, big Google's map with some pins attached which lead to articles. ...
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In regards to seo, is a site map important for a small 3 page website?
In regards to seo, is a site map important for a small 3 page website? I understand that it is not needed for the convenience of a user visiting the site, but will it help the search engines find it?
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Right canonical pages for encylopedia-style site
I have a website that contains a lot of short (150 word) descriptions of key concepts. The concepts are organised hierarchically so a description of Cheese will be a subsection under the heading "Milk ...
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What is the process of dynamic sitemap creation? [closed]
I am working on a website which have 12Lack pages, so, I want build dynamic sitemap hence I want to know the process of dynamic sitemap creation. tell me if have another way to create sitemap for such ...
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How often does GWT check dynamic sitemaps?
I'm working on a fairly large site, that generates a dynamic sitemap hourly. Now in Google Webmaster Tools the sitemap isn't submitted yet and I'm shying away because I'm afraid that the new content ...
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Are there specific advantages or disadvantages of an XML sitemap over a TXT based sitemap?
Are there any specific advantages or disadvantages in generating an XML based sitemap in place of a simple txt based sitemap (list of URLs)?
I realize that in the XML format I can set priority and ...
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SoLoMo landingpage localized regionalized down to cities and SEO sitemap.xml
I'm working on an SoLoMo (social local mobile) web application. How would you realize the site and the landingpages that they are seo and crawler friendly? Any best-practises out there?
I know there ...
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Blog entry visibility to search engines [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Dynamic sitemap file
I am completely new to seo thing, so I need help for optimizing my webportal for search engines. I am developing a web-portal in which users can ...
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Sitemaps - do I need to submit each sitemap in sitemap_index.xml to Google Webmaster tools?
I am having a Wordpress blog on my CentOS server. There is no sitemap.xml in the root directory but there is sitemap_index.xml file in the root directory which contains the following code:
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SEO consideration for duplicate sites
I am building a brochure-ware website for a company that sells products all across the world. They need the site to ask the user what region they are in before using the site; there are 5 regions. ...
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mod_rewrite and SEO friendliness
My website has an atypical structure and I'm not sure if this could create problems in the long run, specially for SEO positioning purposes.
I have a unique, large PHP script, and I use the Apache ...
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Which kind of public sitemap should I build for a search based navigation site
I have a search based navigation web-site. Each query has filters as well as sort-by. The search results point to end-pages inside the site. Each of those pages has many outlinks to other end-pages. ...
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Handling SEO for Infinite pages that cause external slow API calls
I have an 'infinite' amount of pages in my site which rely on an external API. Generating each page takes time (1 minute). Links in the site point to such pages, and when a users clicks them they are ...
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browse-able hierarchy vs. sitemap
The current site navigation is done through a search form. UX wise, I feel it's the best solution we can currently offer our uses. Because this is the case, I have a sitemap that covers all the pages ...
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SEO: Make hashtag links look static
So I have a website which displays all my content vertically. (like modern websites often do these days). Thus I can't create static links to each section. I'm currently handling the scrolling with ...
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462 views
Flat vs. Hierarchical Tree Structure
I'm a developer in the middle of the development of a medium-sized website. A requirement that we just received from the resident SEO person on the project is for all the URLs on the site be just off ...
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How to secure robots.txt file?
I would like for User-agents to index my relative pages only without accessing any directory on my server.
As initial thought, i had this version in mind:
User-agent: *
Disallow: */*
Sitemap: ...
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Why does google crawl my page only once even I set changefreq:daily?
I have built a new site, submitted my homepage URL to Google, and my sitemap(I have about 6,300 pages.).
Now when I type site:mydomain.com, there have 1,992 pages have crawled. But they were all ...
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Question about paginated based URLs and category URLs with XML sitemaps
I have a blog site that has this URL structure:
http://website.com/category/
http://website.com/category/page1/
http://website.com/category/subcat/
http://website.com/category/article_title
A flow ...
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HTML sitemap link to root
I have a HTML sitemap composed by the following elements (the sitemap is linked to my footer)
logo (linking to / )
link for the first block of 150 links
link for the second block of 150 links
....
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Displaying thumbnails in google search results for flash games?
Some sites are somehow displaying video preview thumbnails for pages that contain flash games in google search results. For example search for:
site:www.thorgaming.com game
I see this only on small ...
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.XML Sitemaps and HTML Sitemaps Clarification
I've got a website with about 170 pages and I want to create an effective Sitemap for it as it is long due. The website is internally linked very well but I still want to take advantage of creating a ...
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best/simplest way to inform search engine of sitemap location
AFAIK, there are 2 ways to make search engines aware of a sitemap's location:
Include an absolute link to it in robots.txt
Submit it to them directly. The relevant URLs are:
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Website configuraiton for SEO Optimization
In order to promote our product in the various search engines, we've changed our index.html
to redirect to ourapp.com/product/index.html and moved all our HTML code to ourapp.com/product/index.html
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Does sitemap.xml have to be in the root directory?
This may be a simple and absurd question, but is it completely necessary for sitemap.xml file to be in the root directory of the wordpress install directory of the site, or is it ok to create a ...
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Google SEO - remove site map from search result
I am an amateur to SEO. I have a new site recently and submitted the site map to GWT. But after several weeks. I found when I search my domain in google. The site map also appears to be one of the ...
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How to improve a single-paged site search result [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to SEO a Single-Page website
I created an online CV of mine a couple of weeks ago and it has had quite a few visits. Now I want to improve the chance it will appear ...
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RSS vs Sitemap for SEO
What are the differences of the two and how can they help in SEO? I'm creating a custom-scripted CMS and I'm thinking if should I either add RSS/Sitemap/Both?
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Frequency to submit sitemap to search engines
i have went live with my site and being new to search engines and SEO fields not sure what should be the best way to handle sitemap.xml.
I have created sitemap.xml and submitted it to
Google using ...
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Why google doesn't index youtube videos in sitemap?
I've created a sitemap for youtube hosted videos in my website. you can find it here.
http://www.informaincasa.it/wp-content/uploads/sitemap-video.xml
I've also created a sitemap for videos hosted on ...
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My website google index suddenly increase and also suddenly reduced
Yesterday before i sleep, i check my site index. i get about 50 index on google.
today morning when i wake up, i get 250 index on google. and my page ranking better on several keyword.
than i add 1 ...
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Why is <my site url> not indexed by search engines? [closed]
was indexed fine until about a year ago.
The only thing I can think of is that search engines throw up at using h5 before h4, or that some person (fantasizing now) has reported my site as unsafe to ...
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Does Google penalize daily updated <lastmod> tags in sitemaps if the data is not daily updated?
I've got a sitemap that is generated daily with a lot of links to product pages. These products are imported daily from another data source. Because the update consists of throwing away all current ...
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multiple urls serving same content - how to handle better?
Urls go like
domain/approved/education/kids/female
but I also have filter page in place that lets you do this
domain/approved/education-entertainment-business/kids/female and so on
which means ...
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How to control what appears on google search results?
So I have just built a site and all is well... but I want to control what appears on google search results.
Lets say I google for "thefwa", first what comes is the link to www.thefwa.com, then ...
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Can a sitemap index file list sitemaps in a different directory?
If I have a sitemap index, can the sitemaps listed in the index be located in a subdirectory, but have links that isn't specific to the subdirectory? I'm trying to avoid having multiple sitemaps in ...
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Huge drop in indexed pages [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why the # of indexed pages got dicreased?
My site's indexed pages drop every now and then. It suddenly drops from ~800.000 to ~20.000 pages, along with a huge drop in ...
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Sitemap tool fails to find all URLs in my site
I added my url to Google http://www.google.com/addurl.html
I added a meta tag with description and keywords
I added it in Google web master tools and submit the site map
There is no any robots in my ...
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Google is not indexing the entirety of my site [duplicate]
I require google to index the entirety of my site: 10 or so basic sections with 80,000+ individual job offer pages. However, to date, only 2,900 pages have been indexed by google.
I'd like to know ...
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Can a sitemap index file point to sitemaps in another directory?
I am creating multiple sitemaps for a site, and for the sake of organization I would like to put these sitemaps into their own directory (of course the sitemap.xml file will be in the root site ...
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Should Image Sitemaps be Supplied to Google?
I hear controversial things regarding image sitemaps.
On Google Webmasters forum people say that submitting a sitemap for images doesn't make sense, because Google won't use it to index images anyway.
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How to create google video sitemap urls for very large video files with distinct segments?
I have a large video files about 1 hr in duration, with different sections of the video corresponding to different distinct sub topics . For example, the whole video may be about an yoga exercise ...
