Questions tagged [sitemap]

A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.

Filter by
Sorted by
Tagged with
0 votes
1 answer
16 views

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 ...
Marcelo Guerra's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
14 views

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 ...
Mersad Nilchy's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
16 views

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 ...
Reinier68's user avatar
  • 131
0 votes
0 answers
38 views

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 ...
Marija Kondić's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
21 views

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 ...
Jacknife's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
36 views

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
khushal's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
243 views

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 ...
Ravikant's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
36 views

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 ...
Rahul Tallam's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
414 views

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.
ysth's user avatar
  • 121
0 votes
0 answers
23 views

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 ...
Olifel Visualgest's user avatar
2 votes
2 answers
61 views

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 ...
William's user avatar
  • 173
0 votes
1 answer
19 views

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
Anum ishtiaq's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
60 views

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 ...
pkguy's user avatar
  • 1
1 vote
0 answers
25 views

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 ...
Carlton Banks's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
44 views

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:/...
Saeed Asmani's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
28 views

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 ...
PaulJ's user avatar
  • 487
2 votes
1 answer
70 views

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 ...
Underwood's user avatar
  • 123
1 vote
1 answer
42 views

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&...
Samikshya Panda's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
153 views

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 ...
2540625's user avatar
  • 111
1 vote
1 answer
122 views

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. ...
Alfonso_MA's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
33 views

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, ...
lesha_89's user avatar
1 vote
2 answers
78 views

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 ...
Lance's user avatar
  • 521
1 vote
1 answer
253 views

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"?...
Steve john's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
18 views

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 ...
CPHPython's user avatar
  • 101
1 vote
0 answers
303 views

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&...
Mehul Kumar's user avatar
0 votes
0 answers
1k views

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 ...
K H's user avatar
  • 105
0 votes
0 answers
102 views

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/...
Muhammad Ahmad's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
72 views

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 ^$ ...
Peter206's user avatar
  • 181
4 votes
1 answer
111 views

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 ...
Andrew Alexander's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
51 views

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 ...
jeyy's user avatar
  • 11
4 votes
1 answer
123 views

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, ...
NeNaD's user avatar
  • 276
1 vote
1 answer
136 views

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 ...
NeNaD's user avatar
  • 276
0 votes
0 answers
22 views

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 ...
Sparrowhawk's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
63 views

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 ...
Sandra Dudley's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
503 views

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 <?xml ...
tuan.tran's user avatar
  • 101
2 votes
1 answer
91 views

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 ...
Anas Fanani's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
251 views

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=...
jozinho22's user avatar
1 vote
0 answers
57 views

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/...
Clément Rigo's user avatar
2 votes
1 answer
231 views

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 "...
Luca Carlon's user avatar
3 votes
1 answer
28 views

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 ...
Reanimation's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
369 views

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 ...
Zekura's user avatar
  • 111
2 votes
2 answers
89 views

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. ...
chillywilly's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
59 views

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 &...
Alex's user avatar
  • 21
0 votes
1 answer
77 views

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: ...
Nick Groeneveld's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
453 views

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 ...
Mehdi Amenein's user avatar
0 votes
1 answer
46 views

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/...
markcw1's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
74 views

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 ...
BeepJared's user avatar
1 vote
1 answer
45 views

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 ...
Doaa Ismael's user avatar
2 votes
0 answers
227 views

Date in Sitemap invalid but the date is correct, maybe too old?

I have a sitemap where a lastmod date is 1969-08-26, the format is correct: https://www.w3.org/TR/NOTE-datetime , however Google says that it is incorrect. Is there a min value for a date? I can not ...
basZero's user avatar
  • 177
1 vote
0 answers
24 views

hreflang sitemap with multiple language-region

i have 2 sitemaps only usage for template purpose, and use 2 sub-directory English(also other lang) and China with same contain. en-sitemap with 15urls (EN sub-directory), the contain like follow: ...
Alfan's user avatar
  • 11

1
2 3 4 5
17