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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Sitemap best practice for multilingual website - Should I list my urls in each language or is the use of rel=“alternate” + hreflang enough?
I'm working on the sitemaps of a multilingual website and I have a doubt regarding the best practice for referencing each language version of a page.
For a bit of background, the website references ...
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Dynamic Pages & SEO Friendly URL in sitemap
I have a website built with C# that has some dynamic pages. And I've recently added some code to allow using SEO friendly URLs. (if you know C#, I'm using Context.RewritePath(....) to do it)
For ...
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Effect of Submitted URLs being blocked by robots
I've got an alert on my site for pages being blocked by Robots, and am in the process of fixing it. But I'm curious what the ranking effect is, if there is one at all?
And if there is an effect, does ...
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all my website links is lables as Indexed, not submitted in sitemap in google search console [duplicate]
I have a weird problem with my WordPress website and I am using Yoast plugin with my SEO .. after submitting my sitemap inside my google search console and the status of the sitemap is Success .. I ...
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How to create 32 crores pages XML sitemap for HTML website [closed]
I have created an HTML website having 32 crore pages on it. this is a flight booking website. Now I want to create an xml sitemap for this and implement
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Mark coverage issue as resolved
After submitting my sitemap.xml url to Search Console, I'm getting emails about a "coverage issue" and that example.com/sitemap.html has a meta no-follow on it.
I imagine the Wordpress plug-in I used ...
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How to test multiple Sitemap.xml file?
Is there a way to test multiple sitemap.xml file?
Validation works fine, Google is accepting all sub files, but "Server response check" in Yandex is returning "Document contains no text".
By the ...
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Would google index our page if we have it in sitemap but do not have any links for that on website? [duplicate]
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Would google index my web-page if it's not on my website but it's in the sitemap?
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We have a few product price pages i.e. for product bwm-x3, following are 3 URLs:
-> bmw-x3-price-in-...
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Google Could Not Fetch Sitemap [duplicate]
Sitemaps are necessary part of our web work, and we need them to get more "Google love". But for the past one month or so, I have not been able to submit sitemaps on Google search console.
I used ...
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Should my sitemap and robots.txt have http or https urls for the given scenario [duplicate]
My website is running on node.js and runs in http on port 3000
I am using NGINX to enable https access so that all pages are served as https
I have placed my sitemap.xml and robots.txt inside the ...
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Should I have a sitemap or not?
The articles posted on our website can be viewed through the feeds such as this one for Content Creation category: https://digitalsplendid.net/category/content-creation/.
So, my query is that, should ...
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How to change the structure of my URLs along with the Sitemap for a live website?
I am changing my website's URL to improve the SEO. The current sitemap contains URLs like this:
mysite/browse/1 /* 1 is the ID for fashion */
mysite/browse/2 /* 2 is the ID for real estate */
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Sitemap in Bing pending for two weeks
I built a new website a month ago. Two weeks ago I had submitted the sitemap in Bing search console.
At this point, it is still in pending status. What should I do to get Bing moving on it?
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Hierarchical vs Flat sitemap
I want to create a sitemap for my e-commerce website.
On the home page, there is a multi-level menu like this:
User can click on any of the following links from the Home Page:
Fashion: enter ...
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GSC: Sitemap Couldn't Fetch [duplicate]
I'm trying to submit a very simple sitemap (for testing only) to Google Search Console but, unfortunately, I'm constantly receiving the following error message:
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Google Search Console crawled my shopify site but not appearing in google search with site: prefix
About 1 month ago i submitted my Shopify site to Google Search console, i set the sitemap.xml path which points to the Products, Blogs and Collection. I used the site: prefix on google as follows: ...
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Changed website from http to https: what to do in Webmaster Tools?
So now I have two domains in my Webmaster Tools, as I have migrated to HTTPS. Migration here means that I have enabled HTTPS and enforced it, that's it.
My question: should I do something in ...
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Can i use 301 redirect for sitemap.xml file location
I want to keep the autogenerated sitemap.xml on a different server.
Will google follow 301 redirect while trying to fetch sitemap.xml?
https://example.com/sitemap.xml --301--> https://static....
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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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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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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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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 [duplicate]
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 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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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 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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