Questions tagged [xml-sitemap]
XML Sitemaps are XML files created to make it easier for Search Engine crawlers and other bots to efficiently and fully crawl a website.
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I use curl to submit sitemap but doesnt get reflection in webportal [duplicate]
this is TWO things confused me that how should I submit my sitemap.
First.
It is understood that a sitemap can be submitted with cURL. https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/183668?hl=en
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XML Sitemap Couldn't Fetch for about 2 months
I am really fed up now. I am trying to get my xml sitemap to be read in Search Console but for past 1 months it saying it can't be fetched. Every time I submit the index sitemap its submits it with a ...
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Separate sitemap for subdomain? [duplicate]
Suppose I have a main website, www.example.com, and we have recently launched a new product in a subdomain, newproduct.example.com. Would it be better to create a separate sitemap in the subdomain (...
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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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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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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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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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Weird URL in the search console reports
We have been fixing some issues according to the Google Search Console reports. However we have come accross an issue that we dont know where to look for fixing.
As you can see in the image, google ...
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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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Should I index 404.html in my “sitemap.xml” file?
I'm a beginner with websites and I want to know if the sitemap.xml file of my website should or shouldn't index the 404.html page, which is a custom 404 page.
This question is quite similar to Should ...
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Can I Update Daily My XML Sitemap
I have one website & WE will Incress Daily 10 to 20 Landing page on my website. and we update daily my xml sitemap with included new landing page.
so i ask any problem for these activity or not
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Sitemap couldn't fetch
I'm trying to submit my sitemap on my Google console but every time I add it, it keeps saying it couldn't fetch, I have uploaded my sitemap.xml into my domain root directory but still Google is not ...
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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.
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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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XML site map generator can't crawl my website
We used https://www.xml-sitemaps.com/ to crawl our website to create a sitemap but for some reason, only a page can be found, but we have more than just a page. And this is our site (https://www.wgvs....
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Can we safely add pages that Google has already indexed to our XML sitemap?
Most of my website pages are indexed in Google. But in my website's XML sitemap we have fewer pages than the number indexed.
Can we add all those indexed pages in my sitemap.xml file? It hurt ...
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What URL can I submit as a sitemap for a Blogger blog to Google Search Console?
In many of the articles, I found that I can submit sitemap of my blogger blog by inputting atom.xml?redirect=false&start-index=1&max-results=500
as my sitemap URL. But when I did this, I got a ...
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Is it harmful to have irrelevant xmlns attributes in a sitemap urlset element?
For example, if a site has absolutely no videos and is not a news site, is there any negative (or positive) impact to having a sitemap urlset element like this:
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps....
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SEO Multilingual Sitemap structure
I have noticed in a few articles that xml sitemaps for Multilingual websites are setup like this...
http://example.com/sitemap_fr.xml
http://example.com/sitemap_en.xml
http://example.com/sitemap_es....
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Are hreflangs needed in the XML sitemap if they are used in the head of each page?
I have a multi-language website like this:
example.com/de/about
example.com/fr/about
example.com/about (English)
I decided to put the hreflang link elements in the <head> of each file.
Now I ...
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Manual Sitemap or Yoast Sitemap [closed]
I am in real confusion regarding sitemaps. I know what a sitemap is but the question here is:
First option:
Use a XML Sitemap generator create one
Upload it to my public HTML directory in my ...
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Submitting sitemap to Baidu [duplicate]
I've created a Baidu account to submit my sitemap.xml file to Baidu Search Console. I've also verified my phone number & email address. But when I try to submit my sitemap, they want the name as ...
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Should I submit the redirects in XML sitemaps in the old website search console?
I have redirected https://www.example.com to https://example.com. Should I exclude all the redirected pages of the first website in its own search console?
For instance should I include https://www....
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Submit pages to indexing by Google but censor the search terms in the page?
I am creating a site with phone numbers of staff, if someone googles the phone number I want them to find this site. However, on the site, before logging in, the number is partially censored (eg. 123-...
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Google does not accept sitemap with error “Main tag: url, tag: link”
In my Google console, I am getting 1 error and can not understand the given error. All sitemap validators say it is correct but Google does not accept this sitemap.
I edit it for this error and ...
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URL inspection tool in Google Search Console shows “N/A” for sitemaps and a bizarre referring page
I recently used the "URL Inspection Tool" on the new Google Search Console BETA version.
When I check the homepage of my website, it shows "N/A" on the "Index Coverage" card under "Discovery" in the ...
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Is it possible to bulkly remove faulty pages from google search console?
Due to error in my sitemap after a hack event, so many non-existing pages were listed in my site map which google tried to index them. Currently these pages are not present in my sitemap anymore, but ...
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Domain Change and Old Sitemap in Search Console
We recently changed our domain from www.OldDomain.com to www.NewDomain.com.
All four properties have been setup in Google Search Console for the new domain, and the sitemap has been added to the ...
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Does the file name of my XML sitemap matter? An SEO tool complains when it is not in the default location [duplicate]
I have added a Yoast sitemap which has the default URL example.com/sitemap_index.xml/
I use rtye to monitor different aspects of SEO which Yoast referred me to. This tells me that a critical error is ...
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Do we NEED separate HTTP and HTTPS sitemaps for corresponding GSC properties?
We are in the midst of migrating from HTTP to HTTPS. According to Google Support, we need to have separate properties in GSC for each protocol. I also read that Google recommends that each property ...
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What's the difference between Google's “submit URL” tool and just having a URL on your submitted xml sitemap?
I've used Google's "submit URL" feature in hopes of getting certain URLs indexed (or updated in the index), but I'm curious if submitting the URLs you want to be indexed via the xml sitemap is ...
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What resolution images should go in my XML sitemap for SEO?
I’m about to set up an image sitemap for SEO.
Each of my images is available in several different sizes (for mobile vs. desktop etc.), ranging from 400px to around 4000px wide.
Which resolution(s) ...
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Google search console error: “Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file doesn't properly declare the namespace” when using HTTPS namespace URL [duplicate]
We migrated our site from HTTP to HTTPS. Then we verified our property in search console and submit the new sitemap with HTTPS URLs.
After submission it has the error "Your Sitemap or Sitemap index ...
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After HTTPS migration can we leave the old sitemap as it is and upload the new sitemap with HTTPS URLs?
We are migrating from HTTP to HTTPS. We left our old sitemap as it is and uploaded the new sitemap with HTTPS pages with new name.
I read it at Google’s Search Console Help: Move a site with URL ...
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If I remove URLs from an XML sitemap will Google still index them?
How can I update sitemap file without losing the old URLs? In other words, does the Google search engine keep the old URLs indexed and add the new ones, or does it erase removed URLs?
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Should I submit sitemaps manually or via a plugin when using WorldPress?
Which one of these is a better solution?
Submitting sitemaps via a plugin like Yoast or Google Sitemaps OR
Manually creating an xml file and submitting that to the webmaster tools?
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Image sitemaps still necessary in light of Google’s recent change to image search?
In light of Google’s recent update to their image search, where now searchers have the ability to “visit” page rather than “view image”, is it still valuable to submit a separate image sitemap?
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How to use sitemap.xml on main domain for subdomains? [duplicate]
I have website with subdomains, example: example.com, de.example.com, fr.site.com ... language support. Is it correct to use one Sitemap.xml on main domain example.com?
Example sitemap.xml:
http://...
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How often do search bots typically visit a website?
A few weeks ago, I completed a website and submitted its Sitemap to Google. To date, I have had no real problems, with most of the URLs now successfully indexed.
When a search engine returns for ...
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Do robots.txt and sitemap.xml need to be physical files? [closed]
I have both setup in my routes:
Route::get('/robots.txt', function() {
// robots.txt contents here
});
Route::get('/sitemap.xml', function() {
// sitemap.xml contents here
});
I can access ...
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Does sitemap file need to have extension .xml
Im using a cms that generates a sitemap automatically but without ".xml".
IS this ok?
Can we put this is our robots.txt:
Sitemap: https://www.mydoamin.com/sitemap
or must it be:
Sitemap: https://...
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Clean up hacked site by getting Google to crawl and index only the URLs in the sitemap
So recently, our website has been hacked and we're trying to clean everything right now. But, when doing the "site:" search it still shows the cached japanese websites.
So we tried playing with ...
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Why is the sitemap validator returning an error for the “lastmod” tag?
The sitemap of my company's brand's website seems to be fine when I look at it at first glance. I don't particularly see any errors as such. However, SEMrush, the SEO tool, reports that our sitemap is ...
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Is it okay to ping Google multiple times in a day when my sitemap is updated?
I have a site where Sitemaps are dynamically generated cos I use an awesome framework.
The framework also has a ping google method.
I'm thinking of pinging Google every time some-one posts something ...
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Making a sitemap for a site with multiple subdomains
I currently own a site that has 20+ different subdomains. (like foo.google.com and subdomain.google.com) and the XML sitemap generators that i try to use dont go into those sites will i have to do it ...
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How to handle sitemap with large amount of dynamic urls
We are currently building sitemap for our website, and it is clear for me that we need to create a sitemap with ALL urls for each entity we wish to be indexed by google.
It seems completely reasonable ...
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How do you get a permanent link for Vimeo hosted videos for use in a video sitemap?
It seems Vimeo uses video file URLs with tempoary (?) tokens like https://fpdl.vimeocdn.com/vimeo-prod-example-std-us/0x/xxxx/x/xxxxxxx/xxxxxx.mp4?token=xxxxxxx-0xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx in ...
