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 says my sitemap index was “processed successfully”, yet “total discovered URLs” is 0
I submitted a new version of the sitemap index for my site in Google Search Console two days ago. Soon after submission, GSC started saying that the index was "processed successfully", and yet has ...
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How to create a sitemap for my sub-sites that duplicate pages from my main site?
I have a website containing around 8000 vacancies (and growing each day): https://www.example.com , this website consists (at the moment) out of 3 languages, www.example.com/nl-be/, www.example.com/fr-...
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In a sitemap, should I update the lastmod tag of a url based on the text content or html content? [duplicate]
Imagine I have this blogging / ecommerce website with 1000 posts / products. And I've built a sitemap for it, which is dynamically generated. Basically it's a list with a bunch of <url> and <...
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If I make changes in the template I use for a product page, do I need to update all <lastmod> tags for all product pages in my sitemap.xml?
I'm currently building a sitemap for my web app.
Note: my app is a single page app built with React and Firebase.
Basically I wan to index blogPost and product pages. So I intend to generate my ...
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Create a sitemap of the directory tree of website from a link
After trying all the online services I haven't been able to create a sitemap of the following link (for which http://amd.cdn.example.com/adultswim/episodes//us_geo/ should be the starting point)
http:...
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Would Google accept a text sitemap if the URL had a .php extension?
Google accepts a sitemap as .txt file with a list of URLs separated each by a newline.
Would Google also allow the same text file format with a .php? Ie.mysitemap.php instead of mysitemap.txt?
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Can alternate URLs for hreflinks be in different XML sitemap files when using <xml:link rel=“alternate”
Regarding the XML sitemaps (that use alternative languages), in this page it is specified the following:
Common Mistakes
Here are the most common mistakes with hreflang usage:
Missing ...
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Google Search Console is making up URLs which don't exist in my Sitemap and then complains that these pages have error
I am working on an e-commerce website. I used to have a sitemap with category Ids, something like:
<url>
<loc>https://my-domain.com/home/browse/2/45/139</loc>
<changefreq&...
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Google Search Console reports it is not crawling the hompage but it shows up in a site: search
I recently retouched a corporate site for a client. They also have an ecommerce version of their site at another URL. I've submitted the sitemap and did a manual re-crawl request for the homepage of ...
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Change image names or create an image sitemap? Or both?
The environment is a classifieds site, where there's products with their description, title and photos and, except for images, all data is stored in a MySQL database.
Although there's friendly titles ...
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Using prerender.io for SEO on my AngularJS app - Dynamic and static web pages
I have a website that was built with AngularJS. I want the website to be crawled by search engines (with the dynamic content).
I've tried to use Google services to do the crawl (from a sitemap.xml ...
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Why the new Google Search Console does not read my sitemap?
I have the following problem:
I cannot submit any sitemap recently to Google Search Console.
Let me give you an example:
https://ru.azrhymes.com/static/sitemaps/ru/sitemap-main-1.xml.
(validator says ...
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How should be sitemap strucuture for QnA website like Quora and stackoverflow?
We have a Question and Answer section on our website and want to create sitemap for that. What should be sitemap format for that.
Basically there are types of pages:
1) Question listing page - Where ...
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How many links per page maximum can we have in an HTML sitemap?
In the XML sitemap, there is a limit of 50,000 per XML sitemap. Is there a limit of links to be present on the HTML based sitemap?
If I have more than 100k pages or posts, Should I used them as ...
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Sitemap best practice for multilingual website - Should I list my urls in each language or is the use of rel=“alternate” + hreflang enough?
I'm working on the sitemaps of a multilingual website and I have a doubt regarding the best practice for referencing each language version of a page.
For a bit of background, the website references ...
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Dynamic Pages & SEO Friendly URL in sitemap
I have a website built with C# that has some dynamic pages. And I've recently added some code to allow using SEO friendly URLs. (if you know C#, I'm using Context.RewritePath(....) to do it)
For ...
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Effect of Submitted URLs being blocked by robots
I've got an alert on my site for pages being blocked by Robots, and am in the process of fixing it. But I'm curious what the ranking effect is, if there is one at all?
And if there is an effect, does ...
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all my website links is lables as Indexed, not submitted in sitemap in google search console [duplicate]
I have a weird problem with my WordPress website and I am using Yoast plugin with my SEO .. after submitting my sitemap inside my google search console and the status of the sitemap is Success .. I ...
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How to create 32 crores pages XML sitemap for HTML website [closed]
I have created an HTML website having 32 crore pages on it. this is a flight booking website. Now I want to create an xml sitemap for this and implement
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Mark coverage issue as resolved
After submitting my sitemap.xml url to Search Console, I'm getting emails about a "coverage issue" and that example.com/sitemap.html has a meta no-follow on it.
I imagine the Wordpress plug-in I used ...
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How to test multiple Sitemap.xml file?
Is there a way to test multiple sitemap.xml file?
Validation works fine, Google is accepting all sub files, but "Server response check" in Yandex is returning "Document contains no text".
By the ...
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Would google index our page if we have it in sitemap but do not have any links for that on website? [duplicate]
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Would google index my web-page if it's not on my website but it's in the sitemap?
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We have a few product price pages i.e. for product bwm-x3, following are 3 URLs:
-> bmw-x3-price-in-...
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Google Could Not Fetch Sitemap
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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Should my sitemap and robots.txt have http or https urls for the given scenario [duplicate]
My website is running on node.js and runs in http on port 3000
I am using NGINX to enable https access so that all pages are served as https
I have placed my sitemap.xml and robots.txt inside the ...
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Should I have a sitemap or not?
The articles posted on our website can be viewed through the feeds such as this one for Content Creation category: https://digitalsplendid.net/category/content-creation/.
So, my query is that, should ...
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How to change the structure of my URLs along with the Sitemap for a live website?
I am changing my website's URL to improve the SEO. The current sitemap contains URLs like this:
mysite/browse/1 /* 1 is the ID for fashion */
mysite/browse/2 /* 2 is the ID for real estate */
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Sitemap in Bing pending for two weeks
I built a new website a month ago. Two weeks ago I had submitted the sitemap in Bing search console.
At this point, it is still in pending status. What should I do to get Bing moving on it?
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Hierarchical vs Flat sitemap
I want to create a sitemap for my e-commerce website.
On the home page, there is a multi-level menu like this:
User can click on any of the following links from the Home Page:
Fashion: enter ...
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GSC: Sitemap Couldn't Fetch
I'm trying to submit a very simple sitemap (for testing only) to Google Search Console but, unfortunately, I'm constantly receiving the following error message:
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Google Search Console crawled my shopify site but not appearing in google search with site: prefix
About 1 month ago i submitted my Shopify site to Google Search console, i set the sitemap.xml path which points to the Products, Blogs and Collection. I used the site: prefix on google as follows: ...
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Changed website from http to https: what to do in Webmaster Tools?
So now I have two domains in my Webmaster Tools, as I have migrated to HTTPS. Migration here means that I have enabled HTTPS and enforced it, that's it.
My question: should I do something in ...
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How to configure sitemap for a mediawiki website?
I'm mainly referencing this line:
If you want to see a human-readable sitemap, allow read access for
sitemap.xsl file in your site config (.htacces file or other)
Which is related to a ...
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If all web pages are interchangeably linked by taxonomy (categories), do I still need a sitemap for SEO?
I have a mediaWiki web site with about 350 web pages.
If all web pages, without exception, are interchangeably linked by taxonomy (categories), and moreover, there are also other indicators for web ...
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Can i use 301 redirect for sitemap.xml file location
I want to keep the autogenerated sitemap.xml on a different server.
Will google follow 301 redirect while trying to fetch sitemap.xml?
https://example.com/sitemap.xml --301--> https://static....
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How to update a dynamic sitemap?
I am working on an e-commerce website, where users can create a new product to sell. When a user creates a new product, that new product gets an auto-incremented Id, let's say 25, so the link for the ...
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Sitemap on Google Search Console not helping top 6 links to change [duplicate]
I am currently attempting to alter the way Google will display the top 6 links when you search for our URL on Google's search engine. I have read about creating a sitemap.xml file and created the file ...
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strange “w.”-subdomain appearing in Google search results
The name of my site is https://www.example.com, but during a routine check, I've found that along with the usual search results, Google also brought up 1 weird "subdomain" page (only a single page) in ...
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Main Website with Sub Directory = 2 Robots & Sitemaps respectively?
I have a website example.com and a subdirectory with example.com/blog/. (I can consider it as two websites)
The main website example.com is the service based and it is not a WordPress site. So, I ...
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google says Indexed, not submitted in sitemap but it is not indexed [duplicate]
Search Console of google shows my url is "indexed but not submitted in sitemap".
I have tested for https://www.dreamboxgate.net/forum/dream502062/ which is in sitemap but Google says its not and not ...
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How to create Sub Domain Sitemaps
I've a website
www.example.com
and subdomains aaa.example.com, bbb.example.com.
I've URLs:
www.example.com/category1
www.example.com/category2
aaa.example.com/aaa-category1
All domain and ...
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Why did Yoast put a no-index tag in my XML sitemap?
I recently removed an SEO plugin from my WP site and replaced it with Yoast. I made some other changes to the site as well, adding no-index to my category pages.
I just tried inspecting the new ...
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Separate sitemap for subdomain? [duplicate]
Suppose I have a main website, www.example.com, and we have recently launched a new product in a subdomain, newproduct.example.com. Would it be better to create a separate sitemap in the subdomain (...
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Can I delete sitemap.xml from my website, Will it have a negative impact?
For some reasons, I want to delete the sitemap.xml from my website.
Will it have a negative impact in Google SEO ranking ?
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How to fix html sitemap error on Google search console
I have a problem with my sitemap, all my submitted URLs does not contain a "noindex" Tag, but google keeps saying that we are in 2019 the last crawl for my sitemap was in 2018! how to fix that and re-...
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Hosting sitemap files on a subdomain [duplicate]
I have a website lets say xyz.com for which i have the sitemap index at xyz.com/sitemap.xml
Within the sitemap index file there are multiple sitemap links which are hosted on a subdomain of xyz.com ...
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Show categories both on homepage and on categories page?
I'm creating a "directory" website that has many pages, each belongs to a category and a sub-category.
I have category pages that will list all the pages that belong to the categories.
Example:
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Shrinking site's size by removing pages from sitemap and from internal links
We are an eCommerce site with about 50,000 pages. We decided to focus on about 2,000 so google will crawl our site better.
We planning to remove 48,000 pages from the sitemaps and from the site links, ...
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What I need to pay attention to when generating a XML sitemap file [closed]
I want to generate an XML sitemap for my website.
After a lot of searches I found that the XML file has a lot of tags like loc, lastmod, changefreq, priority etc.
And there's an images sitemap.xml, ...
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Google Search Console Sitemap Can't Fetch
I'm trying to get my wife's site to show up when searching google but I'm having some issues. Her site is a Squarespace site, which creates the Sitemap automagically. I've submitted this through the ...
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When submitting a cross-domain sitemap, does robots.txt need to list individual XML file, or just the index?
I am trying to move a bunch of sitemap files out of my website into a separate site that just has static assets, however I am struggling to understand the cross-site submissions mentioned on sitemaps....
