All Questions
5 questions
1
vote
1
answer
397
views
Should I add links to the Sitemap that are disallowed in robots.txt?
My robots.txt contains the line Disallow: /search.php.
Shall I nevertheless include http://example.com/search.php into my sitemap?
- 113
2
votes
1
answer
231
views
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 ...
- 23
6
votes
1
answer
1k
views
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 ...
- 185
5
votes
2
answers
2k
views
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 ...
- 689
1
vote
1
answer
131
views
Will there be a conflict between my Sitemap.xml and robots.txt?
I have a robots.txt with the following in it:
User-agent: *
Disallow: http://tests.compkerworld.com/report_question_error.php?question_id=*&url=*
Sitemap: http://tests.compkerworld.com/...
- 11