A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.
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2 the same page addresses in generated sitemap?
I tried different sitemap generators and they generate 2 data structures refering to the same webpage:
On the beginning:
<url>
<loc>http://pundaquit.republika.pl/</loc>
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Google anonymous sitemap submission
By searching for "How to submit a sitemap to Google" you can find dozens of links, and all of'em truly explain the how to very well.
But all of'em start with this first step:
Login to your Google ...
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Why does google only index a part of my site?
For a while now I have been having issues with google indexing my site. For some reason it would'nt take over 33 pages from my xml sitemap: (images not allowed for new users...)
It has been the case ...
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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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sitemap and crawler
I am still newbie in the entire world of SEO. Let's take a look at my example. I have a website very similar to blog style site. There few patterns for urls, all of the are very simple and allowed to ...
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Google Webmaster Tools URLs in the index differ from the sitemap. How comes?
Google Webmaster Tools says ~14000 URLs in the index but as you can see in the following picture there are only ~6500 from the sitemap. How comes?
I mean: my website is not properly "crawl-able". So ...
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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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If Apache applies compression with mod_deflate, is there a reason to serve compressed files?
I have an Apache HTTP server which is configured with mod_deflate to compress content "on the fly".
Is there any benefit if I serve a compressed sitemap.xml.gz file, or should I rely on mod_deflate ...
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sitemap.xml : shall I put all my URLs including the ones that have “empty result” for a dataset?
Here's my problem: on my website, you can click on all the regions, and the new web page is the result of the search of the region. Thus the result may be empty.
Shall I include all those "empty ...
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How long does Bingbot typically take to process a sitemap submission?
I submitted a domain's sitemap.xml to Bingbot (in Webmaster Tools).
It's been a couple of days but the status is still pending. Does anyone know how much time does Bing Webmaster Tools takes to ...
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Sitemap with pages missing better than no sitemap at all?
I've inherited a site built with a CMS I'm not familiar with. I've created new pages for the site and I can see they do appear in a html sitemap, but not the xml sitemap.
Assuming I can't add the ...
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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]
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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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Sitemap creators not visiting most pages
I am trying to generate a sitemap for a customers website, http://www.ruralmarketing.co.nz . When I use the online generators it only ever creates a sitemap with two urls, the index and contact page. ...
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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 ...
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online site map generator that has an access via URL [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for a sitemap generator
I am looking for a service that I can access daily based to generate a sitemap.xml file for SEO.
Something like
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Sitemap to display hash tag links or not?
I am just creating sitemap for my site and wanted to find out if I should include # links for SEO?
For Example:
www.mydomain.com/#comment1
www.mydomain.com/#comment2
Does this help with SEO or ...
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Digital “Post It” notes for organizing content of sites/pages
We're restructuring our old intranet into a new one and are going through each site to find content and use our new standard structure/look-and-feel. Do you recommend a tool where you can do "digital ...
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Robots.txt and sitemaps
If i where to block a web page, say 404Error.aspx, in robots,txt (i see no reason for this page to be indexed by google). However, do i still include this page in the xml sitemap or not?
Edit:
If i ...
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ASP.NET MVC SEO friendly URLs and Sitemap
I've created an ASP.NET MVC 3 application and generated sitemap.xml using some free online tools.
It contains the following URLs:
http://www.mydomain/
http://www.mydomain/About
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Site.xml with #!, still ok to have bare URL as home page?
I'm trying to get some ajax content on my main page indexed by google. I've implemented the #! url structure for that content and the corresponding piece on the server which renders what users see ...
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How to fix Google 404 not found Crawl Errors?
I was checking on Google webmater tool for my blog site to see if there's any indication on why my blog traffic decreased to half in one day and i saw 43 Not Found crawl errors and 5 in Sitemap Not ...
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Is this Sitemap code correct? [closed]
I'd like to check whether I have any of the code not as it should be in my Sitemap file.
Not sure if this is too general a question for here...
If it's an ok question, here's the sitemap URL: ...
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WWW in Sitemap URL's
I was under the impression that WWW was deprecated but a lot of the sitemap generators seem to rather i use it. I know that Google doesn't like if i mix the two, IE if the URL of the sitemap is ...
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Making search engine crawl my site
I have a site with visitors from all over the world, and I'm trying to optimize indexed pages on search engines beside Google (he indexed most of my pages).
I see that on Japan search engines I'm ...
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What is the optimal way to apply categories to a new site?
To whit: I run a men's lifestyle Q&A site. I have a total of 25 categories in which questions are submitted. Currently, however, these "categories" are in fact sub-categories, such that ...
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I want the links in my HTML sitemap to be crawled but I do not want the sitemap in the SERPs
I have a website that has some pages and then it has a folder that has the majority of the pages. All the pages that exist in this folder could only be accessed by using my website search engine, then ...
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Why sitemap gives higher priority to category and archive pages?
I am using wordpress along with Google (XML) Sitemap Generator Plugin, and have got a question about sitemap priorities.
By default, The plugin gives higher priority to category, tag and archive ...
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Sitemap vs nofollow
I have a sitemap on my site, which includes all users from the site. On the user profile page, tho, I don't want google to index all users, only those with more than 10 posts, so I've added a meta ...
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Is it possible to Ping Google to ask them to take a look at a new Sitemap? [closed]
I submitted a Sitemap in my Webmaster Tools.
Is there a way to Ping Google and let them know there's a Sitemap to look at?
(Like they haven't got anything else to do.)
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Which of these url for Feeds for the Sitemap should I use?
Does it matter which of these I add to my Sitemaps file?
http://example.com/?feed=rss
http://example.com/?feed=rss2
http://example.com/?feed=rdf
http://example.com/?feed=atom
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Forward slash on urls in the Sitemap file?
At the following page:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=183668#2
the urls given in the Sitemap example don't have a forward slash at the end.
But i think i heard ...
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How to find out the url of a popup?
I'm creating a Sitemap by hand.
I want to add in the url of a popup -- I presume it has a url.
At the top of this page: http://wordfruit.com -- there's a yellow-highlighted link with the text 'How ...
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Sitemap file entries for blog and main php site
I'm creating a sitemap manually.
It's a PHP site with a WordPress blog.
Here's the main site: http://wordfruit.com
And here's the blog: http://blog.wordfruit.com
Can I put the blog URL in the ...
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Code for sitemap — 'weekly.?
I'm creating a Sitemap manually.
If I want to specify a url to be crawled weekly, is this the right code:
<url>
<loc>http://wordfruit.com/</loc>
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Sitemap and url are laid out differently from each other
There is a website and the layout looks something like below:
home->approved->
education entertainment business
| ...
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sitemap - following mvcsitemapprovider but categorization is confusing me [closed]
I'm using mvcsitemapprovider for sitemap. http://mvcsitemap.codeplex.com/
public class StoreDetailsDynamicNodeProvider
: DynamicNodeProviderBase
{
MusicStoreEntities storeDB = ...
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Problem with Google indexing URLs in my XML SiteMap
My XML sitemap has a lot of links - for example:
nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=1
nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=2
nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=3
nanoc.gigfa.com/post.php?id=4
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Should sitemaps list their dynamic data, newest first or oldest first?
When we create an xml sitemap for a site with dynamic data, should we prepend all new data to the start of the sitemap OR append it to the end? Do search engines hate it when a sitemap is 100% ...
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Website Tree Structure [closed]
I am currently helping redesign a poorly built website that suffered with a case of PHP spaghetti.
In an attempt to structure the site I have the following tree (apologies for the length):
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Unlimited free sitemap generator for Nginx? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Looking for a sitemap generator
Google has listed a couple of SMGs but I don't want to try every single one to find the best. Google's own Sitemap Generator is released ...
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Magento Default Sitemap.xml
Is the default magento sitemap.xml optimized as is for ecommerce products? I'm thinking about adding image links as well. Is it worth time investing in this for SEO gains?
<url>
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Can a sitemap index contain other sitemap indexes?
I have a bi-lingual website with a sitemap index for each language that links to several different sitemaps (one for videos, one for static content, and one for articles). I would like to introduce ...
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how do i tell google that my landing page is a blog?
I have written my own very simple CMS and everything i publish on my page will go on the landing page (http://xyious.com). so every time i write a new page, regardless of where it ends up on the ...
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Is it possible to 'trigger' indexing on a site?
We're launching a redeveloped site soon. Google has already indexed the site that we're going to replace, but the links that google indexed are no longer applicable, because the new site has a totally ...
