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 is my WordPress website not getting indexed on Google Search Console despite using Yoast SEO and manually creating a sitemap and robots.txt?
I have added my website in my Google Search Console but it's not getting indexed. It's a WordPress website and I'm using Yoast SEO but since it didn't work out. I had to create Sitemap manually and ...
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Sitemapindex containing nearly identical sitemaps? - is that a problem
I am currently in the process of migrating content from one domain to another domain,
In this case I have some difficulty on how I should map the sitemap.
I currently have a sitemapindex file, which ...
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How to place subdomain in the sitemap
A site made this sitemap for me:
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http:/...
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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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Do names of sitemaps linked within the main sitemap matter?
I am mantaining a Wordpress site developed with a third party theme that has a custom post type called "team-members". We are using that post type to add info about the guests featured in ...
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How to solve a Sitemap error: Submitted Sitemap Under Folder
I have submitted a sitemap that is under a folder of root domain.
Example: https://www.example.com/sitemap_in/sitemap.xml
And now it is showing me error in GSC. Showing me status "Couldn't Fetch&...
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How to Make Dynamic Website SEO Friendly?
The content of every page on my website is generated after user input, which in turn modifies the URLs. However, upon accessing the website, only a basic landing page is displayed, and all the ...
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How long for Google to index all site maps?
We recently uploaded new sitemaps, as the old ones were out of date and we've also upgraded our forum which changed the URLs of a lot of our website (we're 301 redirecting of course).
We uploaded the ...
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Google Search Console detects issue with noindex pages excluded from sitemap, why? How to resolve?
Google emails me this:
Message type: [WNC-10030322]
Search Console
Page indexing issues detected in [DOMAIN]
To the owner of [DOMAIN]:
Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 1 ...
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Can a sitemap contain URLs that have noindex meta tag?
I have a quite complex logic based on several fields to decide whether one of my URLs should set the noindex meta tag or not.
Moving that logic to the sitemap generation could over-complicate my code.
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I have All in one SEO plugin, how can I remove my sitemap.xml.gz?
My website currently facing 2 sitemaps, one is sitemap.xml and the other is sitemap.xml.gz.
I want to remove sitemap.xml.gz from my website. How can I do that with my "All in one SEO plugin"?...
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SEO: Sitemap & Multilingual website with different content
I introduced English language on my website and it's ranking super bad, not sure why so trying to find a reason.
The content comes through /en/ prefix in URL and 90% is different from main language, ...
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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 to have 1 billion URLs in sitemap for Google?
Google sitemaps can contain max 50k URLs, and you are allowed to have max 500 sitemap index files, leading me to believe you can have at most 25 million URLs in sitemap files.
What if you have more ...
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Does pinging a sitemap under a certain path affect crawling of parent directories/sitemaps?
I couldn't find much information about this topic in the official docs, but under Google's best practices:
"You can host your sitemaps anywhere on your site, but a sitemap affects only ...
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How to fix an XML sitemap that Google says doesn't properly declare the namespace?
I am getting error on Google search console for XML Sitemap.
Sitemap.XML
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9&...
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Page is in sitemap but google says "No referring sitemaps detected"
On this website that I'm managing, there is an inexplicable error that is effecting SERPs and rankings.
Specifically, this page /botox-nyc/ is showing as indexed in GSC
However, when expanding the ...
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The Sitemap Paradox
We use a sitemap on Stack Overflow, but I have mixed feelings about it.
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow ...
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If .htaccess redirects domainroot to a localized start page, should the domain root (which should be canonical) be in the sitemap.xml?
When you host a webpage, e.g., https://mydomain.example and .htaccess already takes care of the rewrite from www to without www and from http to https and it is also rewriting with RewriteRule ^$ ...
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Shall I submit sitemap containing all the bad (now 404) URLs after the spam URL hack?
Earlier this month, one of my sites got hacked and an attacker created near 1 million spam URLs. The site has been fixed relatively fast, however, after one month Google search results still shows ...
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Adding Custom robots.txt in blogger
I was looking at examples to add the file to my blogger website and came across a code:
User-agent: Mediapartners-Google
Disallow:
User-agent: *
Disallow: /search
Allow: /
Sitemap:https://example.com/...
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How to create a custom sitemap of multiple subdomains? [duplicate]
how can I achieve a certain well structured layout in the Google search results as presented below? I am working with multiple WordPress instances on several sub domains (not a multisite). Google does ...
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Should I be putting paywalled URLs in a sitemap?
I have a subscription site, with a paywall on about 1/3 of content, and a login wall on about 1/3 of the content.
I am looking for best practices on whether or not to include these URLs to Google ...
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Cross-domain sitemap submission
I am verified owner of 10 different domains in Google Search Console.
I am hosting sitemaps for all 10 websites under one of these 10 domains. Based on the Official Docs, this should not be a problem, ...
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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 submit a new sitemap to GSC with API
I would like to programmatically submit new sitemaps to Google Search Console. I found that it can be done with Google Search Console API.
However, in this docs they say that request require ...
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Google Search Console not recognising sitemap or crawling the site [duplicate]
I am having trouble getting Google to find my sitemaps, which is a problem because it can't seem to crawl the site properly either (A SPA built with Angular).
We have thousands of products listed but ...
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Setting up sitemaps of multisite network in google search console
I have a multisite network and each site has its own sitemap.
e.g. the main site's sitemap is at main-site.com/sitemap-index.html and the subdomain's sitemap is main-site.com/site1/sitemap-index.html
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Sitemap parsing error
I've upload a sitemap file to google search console recently, but they tell that it could be read but has errors with namespace and namespace prefixes.
This is my sitemap (https://bizibuz.com/sitemap....
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How do I debug "Couln't fetch" in the sitemap page of Google Search Console?
I read a lot of questions related to this problem, but it seems nothing applies to this case. From the Google Search Console, the sitemap for a Wordpress website using Yoast is reported as "...
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Why my sitemap.xml isn't recognized by the Google Search Console?
I have generated this sitemap.xml file :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi=...
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Is it true that Google won't index my site if I do not use a FQDN?
I have personal blog, and in one week my site is still not indexed in Google Search.
I have submitted to Google Analytics and Google Search Console and it's still not indexed.
Then I read in their ...
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Nextjs slugs are indexed in search console
I'm building a webapp using Nextjs. As some parts of the app is server side rendering, I have two sitemaps. One generated by Next and the other one generated dynamically.
All pages are successfully ...
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fixing Search Console index problems after submitting no subdomain or extension in canonical URLs and sitemap
I prefer clean URLs... so my internal links lack the .html or .php extension, and I'm omitting the www. subdomain. The links are resolved by .htaccess rules, and the browser shows example.com/my-page. ...
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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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Are HTML sitemaps important from a SEO perspective?
Are HTML sitemaps (like this one http://www.google.com/sitemap.html) important from a SEO perspective, or is uploading an XML to Google enough?
Beside from visualizing a data structure for the user, ...
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Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable
I am trying to add a valid sitemap to Google Webmaster. Yet, it says:
Network unreachable: robots.txt unreachable. We were unable to crawl
your Sitemap because we found a robots.txt file at the root ...
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Why do some websites hide their sitemaps and exclude mentioning it from the robots.txt file? Does this affect SEO at all?
A lot of websites hide their sitemap.xml file.
What I mean by this is that they make the URL something that a person cannot guess and then do not mention them in the robots.txt file.
So my question is ...
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Can I ping Google with a sitemap from another domain
I already know that a Sitemap.xml file can be hosted on a different website and point to it via the robots.txt file like so
In awesomewebsite.example/robots.txt
Sitemap: https://sitemaphost.example/...
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Submitting Sitemap URL Variations for GoogleSearchConsole?
I understand that in order to index and rank on Google you are required to submit Sitemaps to GoogleSearchConsole.
However I can't seem to find any information on whether you need to add different ...
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Sitemap.xml for multi language pages without canonicalized
I have a case of an old site that is causing me problems.
It's an old wordpress site, which has several pages, with an option to change languages. But, the system makes that for each page, it keeps ...
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Manage sitemaps for multiple sites in Google Search Console
We are dynamically generating sitemap.xml files and hosting them on content delivery network (CDN) which is not on our primary web site domain.
Primary website: https://bla.example/sitemap-index.xml &...
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sitemap.txt stops being indexed at 999 lines in Google Search Console
This is a weird behaviour of the sitemap upload tool in Google Search Console. Uploading a sitemap with anything past 1000 lines doesn't get indexed. The "Discovered URLs" stops at 999.
I ...
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Lighthouse SEO score does not improve when sitemap.xml is expanded
I am currently working on improving my sites SEO score by identifying to Google which pages are canonical, and based on my research and feedback the best and easiest way is to expand our sitemap.xml ...
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All posts went to “Indexed, but not submitted in sitemap”
I have potentially a sitemap issue on my website.
In GSC, all my pages went from ‘submitted and indexed’ to ‘indexed, but not in sitemap’ overnight.
If I do a live test of any page, it says ‘Sitemap: ...
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All-In-One-SEO plugin sitemap is blank
recently I was working on a project and needed to upload the sitemap to Google search console, I am using All-in-One-SEO plugin for generating sitemap and SEO of this site.
However when I go to the ...
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Facebook Page URL Showing up in Sitemap (WordPress) [closed]
Using SEO Framework, Beaver Builder. Sitemap is adding my business facebook page. I want to remove it from the sitemap to get rid of the Google sitemap error.
My sitemap https://whitesandsnaples.com/...
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Is nested reference of URLs in sitemap.xml good or bad for SEO?
I am having thousands of URLs in the website, If I put all URLs 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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Should I have separate sitemaps for each brand/client under the same domain?
I have a multi-client website, each brand/client name is under the same domain, for example: example.com/nike, example.com/addidas, and so on...
Should I have a separate sitemap for each brand/client ...
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Should a Sitemap include the home page?
I have seen some sitemaps that include the home page, eg http://example.com and others that do not.
Is including a home page of any use and recommended in any reputable documentation?
Edit: The ...