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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WWW version of site missing from Sitemap [on hold]
I moved from blogger to Wordpress 5 months ago, changing URL structure from https://example.com to https://www.example.com
Deleted a lot of useless posts, leaving just 96. But suddenly Google is ...
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Master Sitemap holding child sitemaps on different domain
I have a master sitemap, index.xml on https://www.example.com/index.xml
This XML contain childmaps pointing to a subdomain URL of mine like below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<...
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Do I Need to add Separate Sitemaps and Properties in Google Search Console for http:// and https:// [duplicate]
When using Google Search console do I need to add the 4 separate properties for my site with the new Google Search console?
In online video tutorials it shows people adding the different http:// and ...
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How to deal with great number of URLs that will not be in anchor and should be known only for friendly crawlers?
I have a hypothetical page, that contains pages like:
example.com/see/cat
example.com/see/mouse
example.com/see/<basically anything>
I can have thousands of such pages. The number of pages ...
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Google SearchConsole can't see my sitemap
I have created an xml sitemap.
I have used Google SearchConsole to send it in, but the SearchConsole status says it can not be fetched.
I cannot see why. Anyone who can spot the error, or have some ...
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GSC Sitemap Coverage questions
I recently noticed that my sitemap listed the urls in my site beginning with http:// although the canonical tags of the page are https://, so I resubmitted my sitemap with the correct urls.
I am not ...
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How can I tell which URLs in my sitemap Google Search Console is complaining about?
I've seen many people complaining about this error, but they all seem to know what the URL is. For example, one reporter said that Google was complaining about URLs which weren't in their sitemap at ...
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How to tell bots to forget a website and reindex it from scratch
I was wondering if there was anything I could add to robots.txt or sitemap to tell bots to completely forget everything they know about a website and index it from scratch?
Context: After replacing a ...
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How to structure a multilingual site? [duplicate]
On my Drupal 8 site, I activated the French and English language.
See the 3 available URLs for languages :
https://www.example.com (in french)
https://www.example.com/en (in english)
https://www....
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How do I get a list of all the URLs from multiple sitemaps which are listed using an index sitemap?
I have a gz index sitemap file that lists 4 different sitemaps that each are 50mb big. What I want to do is I want to get all the URLs in those 4 sitemap files.
I tried to use https://robhammond....
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Is URL required when making an Image Sitemap
The reason I ask, is I am making a script that searches a folder for images, so I don't necessarily know where they are used or the exact page. Example from google
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="...
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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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Should we Put Coupon Pages into sitemap because they do have a faster expiry rate?
Is it a good practice to keep coupons/ voucher pages into a sitemap. because they do have a faster expiry rate.
Case:
We are updating our sitemap once in 24 hours so, will it be a good practice to ...
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What criteria should be used for priority & change frequency in an XML sitemap?
On what criteria we can define the priority and change frequency in the sitemap.
Example if the website is a coupon/service website.
The Home Page must be priority 1 Updated Daily
Category Pages ...
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Can i put pagination URL on sitemap? [duplicate]
I read here https://blog.spotibo.com/sitemap-guide/ on the section "Which URLs should be put in a sitemap" that i should exclude Paginated Pages, i seached it on google and i did'nt found a person ...
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What sitemap format should be used for a video platform site like YouTube?
What sitemap format should be used for a video platform site like YouTube?
I want to submit our video site's sitemap to Google search.
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Can we safely add pages that Google has already indexed to our XML sitemap?
Most of my website pages are indexed in Google. But in my website's XML sitemap we have fewer pages than the number indexed.
Can we add all those indexed pages in my sitemap.xml file? It hurt ...
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How to get Google to crawl our product pages as soon as they are updated for in-stock or out-of-stock?
We have an automobile website where we have different cars and bike models. We have product pages for every car/bike. Each page has the products price, Offers, reviews , news, images and videos.
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Should I serve a customized sitemap to Baidu that only contains URLs with Chinese content?
I'm working on a multilingual website which has Chinese as one of the supported languages. I have a sitemap that includes links to all the pages on the website.
Should I serve to the Baidu bot a ...
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What URL can I submit as a sitemap for a Blogger blog to Google Search Console?
In many of the articles, I found that I can submit sitemap of my blogger blog by inputting atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
as my sitemap URL. But when I did this, I got a ...
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How can I upload a sitemap to my Google Sites site with a custom URL?
I created a site for an e-portfolio using the new Google Sites. Google sites automatically generates a sitemap for you at sites.google.com/yoursite/system/feeds/sitemap, which can then be submitted ...
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Difference between sitemap urls number and Search Console urls number
My sitemap is 4000 urls but Google Search Console shows 9603 sent web pages, why? Should I be concerned about it?
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SEO Multilingual Sitemap structure
I have noticed in a few articles that xml sitemaps for Multilingual websites are setup like this...
http://example.com/sitemap_fr.xml
http://example.com/sitemap_en.xml
http://example.com/sitemap_es....
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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 [closed]
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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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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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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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 ...
