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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why impression drop after submitting sitemap [closed]
we newly launched a new webiste in the last month, and we are using google search console to investigate how to improve the traffic.
we found that there was a big increase after we submitting the ...
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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....
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Google search console says XML sitemap “can't fetch”, yet sitemap passes test and is visible in browser
I've submitted a couple of sitemaps in search console but they are stuck on the 'cant fetch' status and have been for weeks now.
If I go to the URL I can see the sitemap OK and if I go to the old ...
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A sitemap index needs to be in the website root, but do the referenced sub-sitemaps also need to be in the root?
My Website have to split on three Sections , Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7 .Now build Three articles which explain how install Virtual Box on Windows 10, Windows 8 and Windows 7 , therefore ...
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Sitemap confusion on Google Console: One website accessible by two URLs
I am a novice when it comes to websites, the language and technical side. Excuse if this sounds elementary.
If you have one website accessible by two URLs, do I need to add a sitemap for each one? ...
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Sitemap “Couldn't fetch” in Google Search Console
I've submitted a sitemap to my website and Google Search Console status is "Couldn't fetch". I've had my xml verified by XML Validation, and my xml is also publicly available to be viewed.
Google's ...
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Google SEO / Search - Returning Sub Categories with Search ? SiteMap ? XML ? Yoast? [duplicate]
What is the correct way to get Google to display a search result like (syncfusion) shown below ?
Is there a sitemap layout ? XML pattern one should use ?
Secondly.. if you use Wordpress + Yoast SEO (...
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Google reports no discovered URLs in my sitemap and thousands of errors
My question is related to my previous question How to remove indexed pages from google effectively where I was advised to create XML sitemap and submit it to google. The advice looked solid so I ...
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Should mobile sitemaps point to canonical urls
I've recently developed a mobile-friendly version of an old site.
The old site still does really well in the SERPs for key terms, so I don't want to redirect everyone (yet). But I do want to give ...
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How to remove indexed pages from google effectively
My site was getting traffic and it was on the rise, then I added https and somewhere in that time I also created tons of extra link for google to crawl, thinking this will increase traffic in those ...
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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 ...
