A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.
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How to get Google to display a list of posts in the SERPs for a self hosted Wordpress blog?
My website is javatechig.com and is around 6 months old. I have used All-in-One SEO Wordpress plugin for SEO tricks. Definitely after using SEO plugin, my website page view is increased, but still it ...
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Is cloaking of sitemap.xml permitted?
I have a scenario where my sitemaps are generated when visiting /sitemap.xml due to the contents being dynamic in nature. For that reason I'd like to not call the services that are used to create my ...
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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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Should I add the CDN or the source URL of an image to the XML image sitemap?
I'm creating a WP plugin and I have the source URL for the image and the CDN URL to the image as well that is generated by replacing the host to the CDN host. Which is better, if I add the source URL ...
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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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How frequently Googlebot fetch sitemaps? Is it depending on PageRank?
How much frequently Google fetches sitemaps?
I am now working with a high traffic website normally have 30 new posts per minute but currently it provides sitemaps which links to new 100 posts (3 ...
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Using Extension:Maintenance to generate sitemap MediaWiki
I'm using MediaWiki 1.19.2. I want to generate a sitemap.xml. Here's the documentation.
We have to use a maintenance script to generate the sitemap.xml. So I use the extension Maintenance but I ...
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How are the sitemaps of big sites generated?
The question is related to my questions about things the filesystem of Wikipedia and generating sitemap for Wikipedia. It is more general.
Problem: Suppose a site on MediaWiki with about 10,000 ...
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How to let Google know about dynamic content?
I'm looking for the best practice to let Google know about a vast number of dynamically created content.
Let's say (I mean - dream) that I'm Facebook, and I want to let Google to index all the users' ...
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Blogger still visible after moving to WP; Google Indexing issues after moving from Blogger to WP
I recently migrated from Blogger to Wordpress and am having two major transition issues that are really hurting. Despite literally hours of searching and experimenting, I cannot resolve the following:
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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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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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Update Google Sitemap for Mobile
I have a series of utilities to generate Google sitemaps for my whole site. These files are massive, and slow to build. We want to start telling Google these pages are mobile-crawl-able too, by ...
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Trying to create my first sitemap
I'm inserting a website map for the first time. I found this page:
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html
That page shows examples about sitemaps with xml, should I insert and xml code in my html? ...
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Multiple Sitemaps Doesn't Index Quickly - How To Get Quick Index
I have a serious problem in my site: http://www.coimbatorematrimony.com
I will create multiple sitemaps.xml with all terms & conditions of Google Webmaster and some other search engines. I have ...
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Sitemap file linked from another Sitemap file
I currently have a site setup that, in addition to regular static pages, also has a WordPress blog. This results in my main site having a sitemap.xml file listing the basic pages and then a sitemap ...
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Tumblr and Sitemaps
I was wondering if anyone knew how to add a sitemap to a tumblr blog.
It was what i use to share stuff online. Since tumblr doesn't let you upload to
example.com/sitemap
So there lies my ...
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what should be my initial address for sitemap and robots.txt if I'm using redirection
What should be my initial adress when using this site: http://www.xml-sitemaps.com?
I have a folder inside my root where I have all my files.
For example I have domain.com and my start directory is ...
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ampersand (&) sign in sitemap generating error
I have ampersand sign in urls and Google is not able to parse my sitemap.xml due to this.
I can't remove the sign but i have to submit my xml to google.
Is there any solution for this.
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Does Google reprocesses submitted sitemaps from time to time?
Assuming one submits a sitemap for a website in Google Webmaster, does Google reprocess it from time to time? If yes, at which rate?
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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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Is there an XML sitemap generator with command line interface for nginx on Linux?
I'm looking for an XML sitemap generator that can be triggered from the command line, supports nginx, and works on Linux (Debian). What can you recommend?
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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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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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How to tell Google that I have changed my website URLs?
I have done major updates to my website, and renamed all my URLs.
How can I tell Google that I have renamed these URLs and let Google refresh its index?
My website URL: http://www.pndmasr.com/
My ...
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403 Error Crawling Pages
I am receiving more than 6000 errors in Google Webmaster Tools. It is showing "access denied"; can anyone please help me out with resolving this?
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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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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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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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Proper sitemap.xml setup
I have a dynamic site which has many (well, less than 50) users. Each user is allowed to create as many pages as they want. I know that there is a limit to how many pages you can be listed in ...
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Solution for large scale site maps
I'm working on a nationwide retail web site with thousands of categories and product pages and my client wants to move from a single sitemap to multiple sitemaps based on page categorization. Here is ...
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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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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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Is there a way to add embedded youtube videos to my website sitemap?
The goal is to make embedded youtube videos appear in video search results as part of my website.
I searched very extensively how to do this; I found through google some articles that claim that it's ...
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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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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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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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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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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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In Google Webmaster Tools we have 3 sitemaps attributed to 1 domain
I have a website that has been on the internet for almost 10 years created in "Microsoft FrontPage" with over 900 pages. Currently in Google Webmaster tools it shows up as 2 domains and 3 sitemaps:
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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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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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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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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 ...
