Questions tagged [sitemap]
A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.
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Google stopped indexing my site. Is there a substitute for a XML sitemap?
On my site is a page that hosts all my ad entries. Each URL and its content is different. Google was indexing all the different URLs until entry 4570. As I can see in GWT Google Index they also ...
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Sitemap for multiple language site
I have a multiple site. For example:
English language page: mysite.com And mysite.com/en
Farsi language page: mysite.com/fa
Japanese lanuage page: mysite.com/jp
The content posts in English ...
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sitemap.xml for two domains - This URL is not allowed for a Sitemap at this location
I have two domains running on the same server with the same IP (different content).
I have read that it is ok to provide only one sitemap containing information for both domains, so this is what 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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what's wrong with my sitemap?
Google Webmaster Tools says that my sitemap is in a wrong format. I don't see my mistake, I think I followed every guideline provided by Google.
Can someone help me?
Inline sitemap below, but in ...
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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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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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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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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
nanoc.gigfa.com/post....
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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 only ...
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Do or don't submit the comment-feed of your blog?
A commentsfeed (of a blog) might serve perfectly as a commentssitemap. I'm wondering if it's a good idea to submit this feed to Google's webmaster tools.
What are the pros & cons?
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Where should sitemap be? (not separate sitemap file)
Most of the big companies got included sitemap at the bottom of thier site. e.g. Piriform / PCTools. I would like to know if there's reason why to put the sitemap above the copyright
or they just put ...
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Do names of sitemaps linked within the main sitemap matter?
I am mantaining a Wordpress site developed with a third party theme that has a custom post type called "team-members". We are using that post type to add info about the guests featured in ...
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How to Make Dynamic Website SEO Friendly?
The content of every page on my website is generated after user input, which in turn modifies the URLs. However, upon accessing the website, only a basic landing page is displayed, and all the ...
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Why is google search console misreading my URLs and sitemap.xml?
I have a very stranget issue on my site with Google Search Console.
I've added my sitemap here: https://formulastocks.com/sitemap.xml
which links to 2 other site maps:
https://formulastocks.com/...
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Should include very similar pages in sitemap.xml?
I would like to know if it's a good practice for SEO to include very similar pages in the sitemap.xml file.
Context:
I have a real estate website, with listed projects (buildings), and each project ...
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Which pages get their own canonical URLs?
I am currently working to improve my site's SEO and I need to use canonical URLs. My doubt is related to which pages need to be canonical.
I know for sure that my root home page needs its own ...
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Should the same hreflang localization links be repeated under the <loc> for different languages in an XML sitemap?
So I know that alternative links should be put like the below in a sitemap...
<url>
<loc>http://www.mywebsite.com/lang/french/</loc>
<xhtml:link
rel="alternate&...
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Sitemap does not get render correctly
I recently did some changes to my sitemap because i updated my website to support two languages but now i get an error when submitting the sitemap and i don't see where the problem is.
Your Sitemap ...
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Do I need to submit sitemap.xml to google if I already have it in robots.txt and hosted on S3?
I have a static site hosted on S3 bucket which will have a robots.txt at root directory level.
This robots.txt file will have reference to my sitemap.xml file which is hosted on another S3 bucket. It ...
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Google Search Console reporting only a small fraction of the URLs in my sitemap index have been discovered
My sitemap index file does not show any errors on google search console, but it only shows 397 discovered urls whereas it should have been over a million.
Basically my sitemap index file looks like ...
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Optimize lastmod fields in sitemap index files for a large website that are expensive to compute
I am trying to create sitemaps for a very large multilingual website; means that every single URL is duplicated with as many languages there are; however the more pressing issue is that content is ...
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Google Could Not Fetch Sitemap [duplicate]
Sitemaps are necessary part of our web work, and we need them to get more "Google love". But for the past one month or so, I have not been able to submit sitemaps on Google search console.
I used ...
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How to fix 404 error caused by WordPress attachment URLs? Using Yoast causes 404 errors
Right now I am using Yoast for SEO. I found 3000+ URLs indexed in Google Search Console, while I have just 100+ posts. By adding other stuff like tags and categories there should be around 300+ URLs. ...
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Bing Webmaster Tools finds my Wordpress RSS feed and uses it as a sitemap
I have submitted my Wordpress XML sitemap to Bing Master Tools. It is properly crawled and working as expected.
Bing also automatically finds my WordPress category listing pages RSS feeds and ...
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Sitemap for news aggregator - What are the essential links to be included?
I have created a community driven news aggregator like Hacker News. Each news link has a comments page. Hundreds of links are added each day. I tried to create an XML sitemap for Google Search Console ...
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Are text sitemaps sufficient to get content indexed by Google or are XML sitemaps needed?
I am currently using sitemap.txt (Type: URL List) in Google Search Console.
I am not using XML, just have added URLs line by line in notepad & saved as sitemap.txt.
After uploading it to my site,...
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Accident with a lot of indexed pages - Google is not happy
We had more than 500 pages indexed, we are a relatively new site but I think we have good content so Google was ok with our pages.
Most of this pages were profiles and had a url structure like /place/...
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How to Remove URL from Google Cache which is not available in Sitemap?
I have a site Hot Deal INDIA. I have added around 1200 Links in my sitemap. Around all the Links are cached by google, so there is no problem with Caching. But when I checking Google Index-> Total ...
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Google Search Console error with path to sitemap.xml
I have site-shop and the platform created a sitemap.xml automatically. But in Google Search Console there is an error because robots.txt like this:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /my/
Disallow: /cart/
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Historic sitemap contains <mobile:mobile/> - is an additional sitemap without it required?
We are reviewing an old sitemap which requires a refresh, and it contains the mobile tag for each URL (the site is dynamically served). Do we have to generate and upload an additional sitemap which ...
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Is it an SEO problem to link to short URLs that redirect to canonical URLs but put the canonical URLs in the sitemap?
I have a URL that I have added to my sitemap that reflects a health-tip entity
http://www.example.com/health-tips/232344/this-is-perfect-for-your-health
where 232344 is the id of the entity.
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Is it bad practice to have "parent" sitemap name inconsistent with "child" sitemaps?
My client is using the Fitpro Theme for WordPress which comes with predefined post types i.e fitness_class. However he wanted it changed to "classes" for the permalink and seo reasons. So I made the ...
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Include "www" in sitemap URL in robots.txt when site redirects to no-www?
Website is redirected to remove the www so www.example.com is redirecting to example.com.
Question is do I need to include the www in the sitemap for the robots.txt?
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Sitemap.xml on separate server (can't use robots.txt)
We have several domains managed by the same code base. They share content and assets between each other but are separate entities online.
I have started generating sitemaps for these sites and ...
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Forcing google to rescan sitemaps instantly
When URLs no longer exist on my site, I give a page and issue an HTTP 410 status (the GONE error).
I created a script that allows my co-administrator to add and remove pictures from the site and ...
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What Gzip compression level can safely be used for sitemap files?
I can use PHP's gzencode function to set the compression level of data to compress and I want to compress my sitemap files then submit them to google.
Currently my compression level is set to 2 ...
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hreflang tags in sitemaps - your site has no hreflang tags
We are using hreflang tags in our sitemaps and we're currently experiencing a number of issues with errors in WMT suggesting 'no return tags' and 'your site has no hreflang tags' that don't seem ...
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Should I include both GZ and XML sitemaps in robots.txt?
My sitemap generator has created a sitemap.xml and sitemap.xml.gz file. Should I include just the .gz file in the robots.txt or both?
And does it do any harm to submit both sitemaps to Google et al?
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Google Webmaster Tools complains about invalid namespace in my sitemap
I'm having trouble defining my sitemap to Google's liking. I'm having a hard time testing this, because I can only test the validity of our sitemap using Google Webmaster Tools, when the newest code ...
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How do I replace all my XML Sitemaps without hurting SEO?
I am looking for someone to tell me the appropriate procedure to replace all Google sitemaps. I can clearly go in and delete the old ones and simply replace them, but as it can sometimes take many ...
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Sitemap.xml generates 404's for URLs with single quotes and commas
I'm going to try and keep this as terse as possible: when it comes to single quotes and commas in the URL, I'm damned if I encode and damned if I don't.
If I leave the single quote unencoded in the ...
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How to let Google's crawler know about new Atom/RSS updates?
What is the right way of letting Google's crawler know about new Atom/RSS updates?
The documentation about sitemap is clear about how to ping the crawler, but when it comes to Atom/RSS, there is ...
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How to create and upload a sitemap when pages can be created by multiple users?
I am using Google Webmaster Tools for my web site.
There are multiple users in my website and they dynamically create pages like the following and many more combinations.
/site1/Home
/site1/Topic/...
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Google not indexing video from video sitemap
I run a website serving video content. I run my own player.
I have added Google’s structured markup to the video tags.
Here’s the link to test a page.
I also have the sitemap pointing to a video ...
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Google not indexing New Forum
Over two months ago we installed a new forum system to our website. The new platform uses a different URL pattern, therefore we have installed a global 301 redirect, from old to new. We have updated ...
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Incorrect rel-alternate-hreflang implementation
Google Webmaster Tools advised the following to us:
We have noticed that on a number of the pages on your site the
rel-alternate-hreflang implementation is incorrect. In particular,
there ...
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Regenerate sitemaps for every registered user?
I have a .Net website where the main functionality is viewing user profiles.
Suppose if my URL to view a profile is www.mywebsite.com/viewprofile?id=20, to see a user with an id of 20. My question is ...
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Should I create a sitemap file and, if so, what should I add to it?
I submitted my website/app to Bing and Google recently. I subsequently received this email from bing:
Dear Webmaster, This is a weekly report on the open issues categories
we have detected on ...
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Responsive design websites: one or two sitemaps?
Assuming one develops a website where the layout of pages depends on the device (PC, smartphone, etc...) - in other words it follows the responsive web design principles - should one create one or two ...
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