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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When the site changes to use `www` does the XML sitemap need to be resubmitted via Google Search Console?
My website's sitemap was previously submitted to Google Search Console without www. Now I asked the domain provider to change my domain URL include www. Do I need to resubmit the website URL in my ...
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How to organise a large sitemap using child sitemaps in each folder
I have a google sitemap which is 1 massive file now because the site has grown large... I want to separate it out so every folder would have its own sitemap instead of 1 giant map in the root folder. ...
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Sitemap and 2 URLs pointing to the same page
I have recently put my site of 17 years with Wix. It is going down fast in Google rankings.
My home page in Wix has the slug /home-1 but my site is just example.co.uk/ when I search the home-1 it ...
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Why Google cant see and index my root page from Sitemap?
I will firstly ask a question and below the question you will see an explanation.
Can you tell me where is the actual issue in indexing, is my Sitemap correctly set up, and how do I solve this problem ...
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Do I need to submit sitemap.xml to google if I already have it in robots.txt and hosted on S3?
I have a static site hosted on S3 bucket which will have a robots.txt at root directory level.
This robots.txt file will have reference to my sitemap.xml file which is hosted on another S3 bucket. It ...
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I have duplicate home page, How Can I fix it?
Using some website audit tools I found that it says a lot that I have a duplicate content like so:
https://example.com/
https://example.com/index.php
in my sitemap I only have:
<url>
<loc&...
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Advice for a good sitemap structure
Who can me explain sitemaps? I am interested in the more complexed structure.
For example: on the homepage I have hyperlink to a page with categories A category can have a subcategory or a product.
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Cache-Control for ads.txt, robots.txt and sitemap.xml files that are generated dynamically
I have some "static files" that I build on the fly, because they are generated dynamically.
ads.txt
robots.txt
sitemap.xml
What is the ideal Cache-Control for those files? PS: My server is ...
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what is the difference between “allow: /” and “disallow:” in robots.txt? [duplicate]
I know how robots.txt works but I am confused at one point, the point is what is the difference between these two, I know that they have the same function but which one is more valid than the other, ...
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Change the canonical URL within a product variations group when one goes out of stock?
Ecommerce shop has different pages for different product sizes:
/shirt-size-s/
/shirt-size-m/
/shirt-size-xl/
They all point to /shirt-size-s/ as canonical and only this page goes to sitemap.xml
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Google Search Console reports error for 'noindex' tag on sitemap
My sitemap is dynamically generated by Yoast SEO WordPress plugin, and is returned with noindex. I submitted the sitemap URL to Google Search Console, but it reports an error:
Submitted URL marked ‘...
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I submitted 500 sitemaps to Google and now it keeps downloading them every 30 minutes nonstop. What is going on?
I used the google.com/ping service to make it download 500 sitemaps for a customer of mine, that was about 30 hours ago.
Googlebot reacted immediately, downloaded all 500 sitemaps.
Now I have more ...
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Sitemap File for Multiple Languages
Hi Currently my site is in 3 languages:- English, French, Dutch.
My main sitemap file is example.com/sitemap.xml
I have 2 questions:
Since I don't have a root folder for other languages (I only have ...
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Google Search Console reporting only a small fraction of the URLs in my sitemap index have been discovered
My sitemap index file does not show any errors on google search console, but it only shows 397 discovered urls whereas it should have been over a million.
Basically my sitemap index file looks like ...
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How can I post a news URL and sitemap to AOL
I have a news website. How can I upload my news post URL and sitemap to AOL?
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Do I need to use “hreflang” when expanding a website to a new country using a different ccTLD domain
I have a website that has really good SEO in Portugal.
I use a ccTLD .pt domain, so it's automatically geotargeted for portuguese audience.
But now I'm expanding the website to Brazil. And I'll use a ...
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Why can't Google index my site? [closed]
I want Google to index a number of pages on my website, but when I request Google to index the site, it raises an error. How come?
Am I doing anything wrong somewhere?
The error it's throwing is a ...
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For sitemaps, do I need to urlencode URLs with international characters?
We have urls that will contain international characters...
ex: https://example.com/title/oh-wie-schön-ist-panama
Do these special characters need to be URL encoded for the our sitemap for the crawlers?...
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Sitemap's lastmod field update for performance related CSS and JS changes
I understand Google mostly ignores lastmod field in sitemaps. However, as a practice, I used to update the tag whenever I make visible changes like content updates. Now, I made significant ...
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Google console indexing request rejected due to FAILED_DOCUMENT_REQUEST
First, let me say that Shopify couldn't figure this out, nor people I tried to hire on Fiverr.
My site seemingly, and for no apparent reason, got messed up on Google.
My traffic went down to 0 and the ...
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Google not indexing product pages of my website [duplicate]
After many months and many changes to sitemaps/pages trying to solve the problem, Google still is not indexing the product pages of this site (link removed).
Here's the sitemap i'm using (link removed)...
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Two sitemaps - one human one bot?
Is there anything "wrong" with having a very simple page in my WordPress site with HTML and text links showing the key pages that I'd like to send my human visitors to?
And - in addition, I ...
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Problem with how Google indexes multi-language and multi-domain website
I have a problem with how Google indexes multilanguage/multidomain website.
Website itself handles two regions/languages and two domains. Language is identified by url param, not by the domain. ...
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Can I combine sitemap and sitemap index together?
I want to create a sitemap for Google and Bing.
Referring to sitemap protocol: https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#sitemapXMLExample
I want to combine sitemap file and sitemap-index file in one. ...
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What is difference between robots.txt, sitemap, robots meta tag, robots header tag?
So I am trying to learn SEO and I am honestly confused and have following 8 questions.
Do I tell a bot not to visit a certain link through X-Robots-Tag or through robot meta tag or robots.txt?
Is it ...
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Maintaining 1 sitemap.xml in two subdomains
Im trying to include an auto-generated sitemap.xml file whenever we build our frontend application.
Unfortunately due to legacy reasons, we use the same frontend build script on our production and ...
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Notify search engines on 404 pages
How to pro-actively notify search engines (Google and others) of removed pages 404s that are still indexed?
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Is it okay to host sitemap.xml outside the domain root?
Let's say I have a website www.example.com. Is it okay to host the sitemap.xml outside www.example.com such as https://example.cloudstorage.com/static/sitemap.xml? All the entries in the sitemap ...
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Nested reference of URL'S in sitemap.xml good or bad for SEO?
I am having thousands of URL's in the website, If I put all URL's in sitemap.xml it's getting too large in size. There is some suggestion to split those URLs into different files and referring in main ...
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Optimize lastmod fields in sitemap index files for a large website that are expensive to compute
I am trying to create sitemaps for a very large multilingual website; means that every single URL is duplicated with as many languages there are; however the more pressing issue is that content is ...
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XML Sitemap submitted but few page show indexed via Google site: search [duplicate]
I submitted a sitemap of my website to Google. (japan1900.com)
The sitemap : (https://japan1900.com/en/module/lgsitemaps/sitemap?fc=module&name=product_1_1)
The robots.txt : https://japan1900.com/...
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How to target different countries using same URL? [duplicate]
We are based in India Digital Marketing company , we want to target us, uk, middle east countries with the same website, language is English.
How to tell to robots this from sitemap?
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Does Google index your sitemap? [duplicate]
I have submitted a sitemap for my domain but I have a concern. I don't want my sitemap to appear in Google Search results, I only want Google to use my sitemap to index my actual site through the ...
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Google Search Console cannot read my XML: Sitemap appears to be an HTML page
I'm working on a web application written with AngularJS (v8) and deployed on an apache2 using proxy to forward requests (frontend, api, backoffice).
My problem is that I'm trying to submit the ...
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Sitemap: Should I dynamically update sitemap for dynamic content or create a page containing all the dynamic links
Say i have the following route http://<my-domain>/{category}/subjects/{id}/{title}
the ones in the brackets are dynamic, I'm struggling with what is better or any better way to let google crawl ...
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Sitemap for one website in multiple domains
I have 2 domains (A and B). The first one (A) is the website.
In sitemap.xml of "A" domain, I have a sub-sitemap in "B" domain with "A" URLs.
A/sitemap.xml :
<...
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What URL am I supposed to use in <video:player_loc> for my sitemap when adding a YouTube video?
I'm somewhat confused. I'm following this example on how to create video sitemap. So say, I need to add the <video:video> tag to my page's sitemap that contains this YouTube video:
https://www....
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URL is not on Google [duplicate]
URL is not on Google
This page is not in the index, but not because of an error. See the details below to learn why it wasn't indexed. Learn more
Coverage
Discovery
Sitemaps N/A
Referring page None ...
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Google crawlbot parses & on sitemap.xml wrong
I have a sitemap.xml file with entries of the form:
<url>
<loc>https://www.example.com/?page=x&item=5</loc>
<changefreq>weekly</changefreq>
</url>
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Should I include a trailing slash for my <xhtml:link rel=“alternate” href=“URL” hreflang=“en-US”/> URLs?
I'm implementing hreflang on my web app.
Google does not mention anything on https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en
But they use it (trailing slashes) on their own Sitemap.
https:...
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Handling “rel hreflang” for specific languages in countries “en-US” and generic languages ex: “en”
If I have 3 english versions of my website:
/ FOR USA
/au FOR AUSTRALIA
/gb FOR United Kingdom
I would add them to my Sitemap using rel hreflang to serve those 3 countries:
Sitemap....
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Handling international SEO indexing for “country-specific” and “language-specific” URLs on the same website?
I'm developing an international website and this is my current situation.
My home URL is country-specific, i.e: every country has specific content that differs from the others.
/ USA
/au ...
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Google Search Console not finding all Sitemaps within Sitemap Index. How to fix? [duplicate]
I created a valid Sitemap Index (/sitemap-dec2019/sitemap_index.xml) for a site as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/...
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My XML sitemap contains spam content, while the HTML sitemap is not. What can I do?
My website just recovered from an attack. I find out that my XML sitemap still contains spam contents:
<url>
<loc>http://xn--qucu-hr5aza.com/7pwclknq****hux0rx.so</loc>
<lastmod&...
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Where do I place sitemap for fourth level domain?
Where should I place sitemap.xml file in case of fourth level domain (e.g. en.subdomain.example.com)?
From sitemaps.org:
All URLs listed in the Sitemap must reside on the same host as the
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Googlebot keeps indexing old pages
Recently, I moved all pages from subdomain.domain.com/<lang>/ to <lang>.subdomain.domain.com and submitted new sitemap.xml in Google Search console inteface.
From the server logs, I see ...
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Google is not indexing an original post, but indexing pagination page and facebook post [duplicate]
I built https://talksub.com/, and I am having trouble with SEO for individual posts.
I implemented JSON-LD and have all necessary meta tags like (title, description, canonical url, og, twitter ...) ...
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Is it possible to create txt sitemaps index file?
I am creating sitemaps using Google Search Console and we are exploring an option of creating txt sitemaps.
There are many sitemaps so using a sitemaps index file is basically a requirement but I ...
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Search Console URL Inspection shows “URL is not on Google” even though I can find it through Google search
I am using Google Search Console's URL Inspection Tool but I am not exactly sure how it works.
I have submitted a sitemap to Google Search Console and the link shows up in google search but when I ...
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How to check if sitemap index has been successfully submitted and can be properly read
Recently, I have submitted a sitemap index with a slew of xml files and URL links.
I see that the sitemap index has been successfully submitted and I understand that the discovered URLs is possible ...
