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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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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Google discovers my URL in sitemap-image.xml not sitemap.xml
Looking at GSC, many URLs on my site are listed as "URL is on Google" and "Page is indexed." However, traffic has TANKED and I just noticed that the URLs that are not doing well ...
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Should I index user-generated content (UGC) products on my website or not? Should I add them to the sitemap?
We are a marketplace and our users introduce their products on our website through seller panels. In other words, these contents are user-generated content (UGC).
Considering that the introduced ...
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I am not able to generate .XML sitemap through xml-sitemaps.com
I want to generate an XML sitemap for my website. Since my website's CMS is custom PHP and the blog's CMS is Wordpress. Here is my website provided below:
My problem is that I am not able to generate ...
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Is it OK to dynamically generate sitemaps upon request?
So I am building a custom website that will support multiple languages through different domains, I.E. example.com, example.nl, etc. Now I am having trouble with how I should generate the sitemap for ...
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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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How to make and submit a sitemap for a multilingual (translated) website (subdomains)?
I run a website that's been translated over Weglot to 5 languages, and now I have 5 different subdomains for https://www.example.eu/, like https://it.example.eu/, etc. First, I was worried will Google ...
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Edit sitemap in google search console
i have put the sitemap URL into the google seach console, however the sitemap that the website generates is really bad (full of sites that are only visible after signing in as an admin) and I can not ...
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Multiple Images in the Article, but Only 1 Image Is Showing in the SITEMAP
there are multiple images in my posts but the sitemap is showing only 1 image, will it affect the indexing of my image in Google?
We use rank math plugin for sitemap.
How can I fix this
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URL Structure Without WWW
I've recently generated a sitemap.xml for my website to help with its visibility on search engines. With this in mind, I have a specific concern about the structure of the URLs listed within the ...
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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 and its structure
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Sitemap indexing
I recently started working for e-commerce website and I noticed their website was missing a Sitemap. They sell more than 10 million titles and google indexed only 200 pages when I checked in google ...
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Shoud a sitemap include favicon.ico and robots.txt?
Should a sitemap include favicon.ico and robots.txt? They are in mine (and do exist) and I'm worried removing them will cause some problem.
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Google Search Console not showing new sitemap pages [duplicate]
I published a new sitemap on GSC and it appears that it was published successfully and that 9 pages were indexed, but when I click to see the pages, it shows me 5 pages not indexed which are the pages ...
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How to let site:example.com show results?
I set up a website example.com several months ago but it does not show up in site:example.com, so I submitted it in Google search console. After several days, I saw there were some pages indexed in ...
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Google Search Console and sitemap-index file gzip
I googled for a long time and tried to find something at https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#index about gzip compression for sitemap INDEX files, but I couldn't find anything.
I have a very large ...
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I have added this in my Bloggerspot blog's robot txt file, is it in the correct format?
User-agent:*
Disallow:
Allow:/
Sitemap:https://example.com/?m=1
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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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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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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"
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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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