A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.
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Google Search Console reports more pages from the sitemap are indexed than the overall count. A site: search gives yet a third number
When i checked in Google Search Console in Google Index -> Index Status that time only 36 URL Indexed.
But When i check in Crawl Section --> Sitemaps that time 616 webpages submitted and 249 ...
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Manual Sitemap or Yoast Sitemap [on hold]
I am in real confusion regarding sitemaps. I know what a sitemap is but the question here is:
First option:
Use a XML Sitemap generator create one
Upload it to my public HTML directory in my ...
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Submitting sitemap to Baidu [duplicate]
I've created a Baidu account to submit my sitemap.xml file to Baidu Search Console. I've also verified my phone number & email address. But when I try to submit my sitemap, they want the name as ...
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Google webmaster tools: Sitemap submitted but only 2 URL are indexed [duplicate]
I have eCommerce website in Magento, And its 5 years older site.
I have submitted sitemap.xml in webmaster tools, sitemap submitted 535 URLS (webpages), but only 2 URL are indexed.
This indexing ...
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Should I submit the redirects in the old website search console?
I have redirected https://www.example.com to https://example.com. Should I exclude all the redirected pages of the first website in its own search console?
For instance should I include https://www....
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should I submit the same sitemap for all the search console accounts?
I'm gonna have 4 properties in my search console for my website as below:
http://example.com/
http://www.example.com/
https://example.com/
https://www.example.com/
The main URl is: https://example....
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Soft 404 Question: Will It Impact Site Ranking If 404 Status Code is Sent on URL That Exist on Sitemap?
I have a site that have pages for certain category based on region.
For example:
/services/region1
/services/region2
and so on
The content of these pages are user generated. So naturally some pages ...
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Ampersand (&) in actual URL and sitemap
I have a sitemap (which is submitted to Google for indexing) in which I am adding URLs which have an ampersand (&) in it. Since in sitemap & has to be escaped I replaced & with & ...
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Do i need to add robot.txt file in sitemap?
In google new search console, we are fixing (Indexed, not submitted in sitemap) issues. In that category robots.txt file taken place. Do i really need to add robot.txt file in sitemap?
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Sitemap generation strategy for massive dynamic website
I need to put in place a system that will generate sitemap files (https://www.sitemaps.org) for a huge website with content changing dynamically. These are example figures, but I'm thinking of ...
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When should I update lastmod value in the sitemap?
I have a website like Stackoverflow. I'm creating a sitemap for it. I want to know, what timestamp should be as the value of last-modified for a page? (a question and all its answers)
All I'm trying ...
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What is the recommended way to make inline SVG images indexable?
On pages that have many SVG images, it would be desirable to inline
all the svg images since this will reduce the number of HTTP requests
and significantly reduce the size of all SVGs combined because ...
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Page Rank: Is it okay for /general-content/ to also have all the content that is on /general-content/specific-content/?
I'm building some pages with before-and-after photo galleries on them, and I'm trying to figure out the best site structure that would yield the highest ranked pages.
There is a page called /before-...
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Precautions while reorganizing sitemaps
I am reorganizing my sitemaps. I am breaking some large sitemaps into smaller ones, merging some and so on. More importantly I am renaming all the sitemaps (I am assigning meaningful suffixes ...
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Google does not accept sitemap with error “Main tag: url, tag: link”
In my Google console, I am getting 1 error and can not understand the given error. All sitemap validators say it is correct but Google does not accept this sitemap.
I edit it for this error and ...
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Resubmitted sitemap after 404 error correction. Is delay normal for re-crawl?
I submitted a sitemap of about 500 urls. Due to an unexpected server downtime, the pages had returned 404 errors during crawl. (The errors were reported in search console.) Now the server is up again ...
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Sitemap not indexed [duplicate]
My sitemap says it's submitted but urls are not indexed yet. Is there something I can do to make them indexed and visible in search?
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Is it ok to delete sitemaps after search console has processed
I have submitted around 10 sitemaps in search console. Each sitemap pertains to a different section of the site covering over 100 urls each. The reason for so many sitemaps is just easy administration ...
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Prevent Indexing of Images from my website but hosted on S3 / Cloudinary
I understand that as a website/domain owner (eg: example.com), we can prevent images from our website from being indexed by Google (GoogleBot / GoogleBot-Image).
We could add a meta tag to the whole ...
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SEO impact of adding a list of our clients' websites at end of site map page?
We're a design company.
I wonder if adding a list of client websites we have completed as a section after our site map webpage (rather than XML file) will hurt our SEO? (or even help our SEO?)
They ...
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Does the file name of my XML sitemap matter? An SEO tool complains when it is not in the default location [duplicate]
I have added a Yoast sitemap which has the default URL example.com/sitemap_index.xml/
I use rtye to monitor different aspects of SEO which Yoast referred me to. This tells me that a critical error is ...
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Warning after submitting sitemap to Google: “We found that some URLs redirect to other locations”
I noticed that I have three warnings when I submitted my Sitemap. They all say this:
When we tested a sample of URLs from your Sitemap, we found that some
URLs redirect to other locations. We ...
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Google image sitemap : maximum length [duplicate]
I read that you could put 50k urls in a sitemap. Problem : in an image sitemap, you got the page url, and a url for each image provided.
Does the limit apply to the number of pages, of images, or the ...
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What's the difference between Google's “submit URL” tool and just having a URL on your submitted xml sitemap?
I've used Google's "submit URL" feature in hopes of getting certain URLs indexed (or updated in the index), but I'm curious if submitting the URLs you want to be indexed via the xml sitemap is ...
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shop sitemap with each product on its own subdomains
My client has a shop and he want's me to create sitemap with products.
The problem is that each product has its own subdomain. Every products uses the same layout as homepage and non-subdomain pages.
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Google Web Master Tools not Indexing Sitemap Properly [duplicate]
My Search Console shows 221 submitted pages and 65 indexed from my sitemap.xml file on my website, lit.life. You can try it yourself. Search on Google "site:lit.life" and see that maybe 15 pages are ...
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Should .webp images get included in my image sitemap XML when the same images are also available in more widely supported image formats?
I have an image sitemap xml. This points to my .jpg, .png etc images. However, Google has a new format .webp. Since not all browsers support this format yet I have to keep both the .webp image as well ...
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URL not crawled to Google webmaster [duplicate]
This is the website sitemap url - https://www.geeks.sydney/sitemap.xml. I have submitted this url to Google search console/webmaster about 6-8 months ago. Still now I can see that, 171 url are indexed ...
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How to notify Google of a new page appeared of the site
I have a blog website coded by me (not Wordpress or any). I'd like to automatically notify Google (and other search engines like Bing, Yahoo...) each time I add a new post.
From my prospective I see ...
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How to create sitemaps with only non-www URLs in MediaWiki website?
I usually prefer the non-www URL for my website (http://example.com, not http://www.example.com). While submitting the site to Google one needs to set a preferred domain by choosing either the www or ...
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Google search console error: “Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace” when using HTTPS namespace URL [duplicate]
We migrated our site from HTTP to HTTPS. Then we verified our property in search console and submit the new sitemap with HTTPS URLs.
After submission it has the error "Your Sitemap or Sitemap index ...
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After HTTPS migration can we leave the old sitemap as it is and upload the new sitemap with HTTPS URLs?
We are migrating from HTTP to HTTPS. We left our old sitemap as it is and uploaded the new sitemap with HTTPS pages with new name.
I read it at Google’s Search Console Help: Move a site with URL ...
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“video markup” vs “video sitemap”
I already implemented a video sitemap, based on Google's recommendation. Now, I am reading about video markups. The only information, I got on the relationship of both approaches to each other, is:
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Google is indexing my pages, but removing them constantly and replacing them [duplicate]
So Google is indexing pages from my sitemap.xml file. There are pages getting indexed however, pages are also getting removed from Google. There is only 5 pages total indexed. My sitemap.xml has 190 ...
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one sitemap file to images/videos/urls/mobile
My web site is writing sitemaps dynamically when a user created a post. But I have a problem with sitemap types. I have to write separately to sitemap_image.xml,sitemap_url.xml,sitemap_video.xml files ...
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If I remove URLs from an XML sitemap will Google still index them?
How can I update sitemap file without losing the old URLs? In other words, does the Google search engine keep the old URLs indexed and add the new ones, or does it erase removed URLs?
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URL in sitemap with 404 error. Strange parameter at the end of the URL
in my sitemap generated with SEO Yoast, there are some URL in 404 error.
In the image you can see a strange parameter at the end of the URL.
The sitemap is "attachment-sitemap1.xml", so there are ...
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Image sitemaps still necessary in light of Google’s recent change to image search?
In light of Google’s recent update to their image search, where now searchers have the ability to “visit” page rather than “view image”, is it still valuable to submit a separate image sitemap?
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How to use sitemap.xml on main domain for subdomains? [duplicate]
I have website with subdomains, example: example.com, de.example.com, fr.site.com ... language support. Is it correct to use one Sitemap.xml on main domain example.com?
Example sitemap.xml:
http://...
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HTTP 403 error (Forbidden) URLs not accessible
I have a domain that has "fallen off a cliff" for searches in Google. Searches that used to be in position 1-4 are now gone from page 1.
In reviewing Google Webmaster Tools, I am seeing two problems: ...
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How often do search bots typically visit a website?
A few weeks ago, I completed a website and submitted its Sitemap to Google. To date, I have had no real problems, with most of the URLs now successfully indexed.
When a search engine returns for ...
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When redirecting HTTP to HTTPS, which URLs should be in the sitemaps?
Recently I've installed SSL certificate on my website and added a 301 redirection on my website for all links. Previously my sitemap included HTTP links and almost my 5000+ pages are now indexed on ...
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Page in sitemap excluded from Google index according to Search Console beta [duplicate]
Recently I tried new Google Search Console Beta and noticed there are some new stuff, one of them is sitemap, and in the sitemap > Index coverage > Excluded (tab)
On the Excluded tab we got 3 kind of ...
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On-page Markup and Sitemap Multi-language
I have:
example.com/en/product-a-en
example.com/es/product-a-es
example.com/ru/product-a-ru
If i use this:
On-page Markup Use the lang attribute in the html tag: <html lang="en">
Use rel ...
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Add page in another directory to the sitemap in root
So I recently added a blog section to our website. The main site is not a wordpress site. I added the blog section by creating a new folder called blog and installing wordpress in it. Added the ...
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Does sitemap file need to have extension .xml
Im using a cms that generates a sitemap automatically but without ".xml".
IS this ok?
Can we put this is our robots.txt:
Sitemap: https://www.mydoamin.com/sitemap
or must it be:
Sitemap: https://...
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Are links in canvas/WebGL with a sitemap good enough for SEO, or do I need normal a href links too?
The main page of my site is comprised of big graphics and animations implemented with Canvas/WebGL using pixi.js library. The problem is all links are also implemented as interaction with WebGL layer.
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Can the sitemap contain URLs only differentiated by a # (hash)?
My website is a single page and uses the anchor tags to navigate.
When I generated my sitemap using an online tool, it generated 2 URLs:
<url>
<loc>https://www.example.com/</loc>
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Clean up hacked site by getting Google to crawl and index only the URLs in the sitemap
So recently, our website has been hacked and we're trying to clean everything right now. But, when doing the "site:" search it still shows the cached japanese websites.
So we tried playing with ...
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How do I submit a sitemap for URLs on a redirected domain?
I have domain www.example.ca and the domain is redirected to www.example.com. I have sitemap in www.example.com.
How do I submit sitemap hosted in www.example.com for www.example.ca?
