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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Can you request refresh of the sitemap in Google Search Console?
TL;DR My Sitemap shows a last crawl date of 2-3 days ago in Search Console and I wondered if there was a method of requesting Google re-crawl the sitemap, in the same way as you can ask it to re-crawl ...
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Can I combine sitemap and sitemap index together?
I want to create a sitemap for Google and Bing.
Referring to sitemap protocol: https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html#sitemapXMLExample
I want to combine sitemap file and sitemap-index file in one. ...
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Nested reference of URL'S in sitemap.xml good or bad for SEO?
I am having thousands of URL's in the website, If I put all URL's in sitemap.xml it's getting too large in size. There is some suggestion to split those URLs into different files and referring in main ...
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Disallowing a handler in robots.txt while adding its dynamic URLs to the XML sitemap
I'm using ASP.NET webforms, and I have a page lets call it Subjects.aspx, I don't want crawlers to crawl that page but I want them to crawl the dynamic URLs that are powered by it. For example /...
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Does Google index your sitemap? [duplicate]
I have submitted a sitemap for my domain but I have a concern. I don't want my sitemap to appear in Google Search results, I only want Google to use my sitemap to index my actual site through the ...
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Sitemap: Should I dynamically update sitemap for dynamic content or create a page containing all the dynamic links
Say i have the following route http://<my-domain>/{category}/subjects/{id}/{title}
the ones in the brackets are dynamic, I'm struggling with what is better or any better way to let google crawl ...
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“General HTTP Error” for XML sitemap in Google search console
Google search console says that the XML sitemap specified in robots.txt could not be read due to:
General HTTP Error
When I click on the link on right top, "OPEN SITEMAP," it shows an error:
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No discovered URLs and index covered button is disabled [duplicate]
I am using Rank Math as an SEO plugin
As per there recommendations as well as google recommendations, I should only add the index XML file
But I got discovered URLs= 0 and index coverage button is ...
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I have redirected my homepage to internal page. Should I include my homepage in the new sitemap?
I have redirected my above homepage to one of my internal page. So, I am confused whether I should include it in the new sitemap??
And what would be my canonical tag?
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Google Search Console only reports URLs discovered in sitemap.xml on HTTP property which is redirected to HTTPS
The whole content of the website is running on HTTPS and WWW, while Google Search Console is reporting discovering URLs in the sitemap.xml only without https and www. However, there are no pages ...
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Google Search Console not finding all Sitemaps within Sitemap Index. How to fix? [duplicate]
I created a valid Sitemap Index (/sitemap-dec2019/sitemap_index.xml) for a site as follows:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/...
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“See Index Coverage” link from sitemap not working in Google Search Console
Why is my “See Index Coverage” button is disabled? I created the property 2 months ago and also submitted sitemap then. I still can't see my index coverage for the sitemaps I submitted.
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My XML sitemap contains spam content, while the HTML sitemap is not. What can I do?
My website just recovered from an attack. I find out that my XML sitemap still contains spam contents:
<url>
<loc>http://xn--qucu-hr5aza.com/7pwclknq****hux0rx.so</loc>
<lastmod&...
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How to Create XML Sitemap in Magento for multiple Stores? [duplicate]
I have created the sitemap for multiple stores on below format Because there are multiple stores has been created from one admin and there is no option to create multiple files by the name of sitemap....
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How to create an XML sitemap in Magento for multiple stores?
I have created these sitemaps because there are multiple stores. There is only one admin account for all the stores and it does not allow my to create multiple files names "sitemap.xml".
www.example....
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Search Console URL Inspection shows “URL is not on Google” even though I can find it through Google search
I am using Google Search Console's URL Inspection Tool but I am not exactly sure how it works.
I have submitted a sitemap to Google Search Console and the link shows up in google search but when I ...
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How to check if sitemap index has been successfully submitted and can be properly read
Recently, I have submitted a sitemap index with a slew of xml files and URL links.
I see that the sitemap index has been successfully submitted and I understand that the discovered URLs is possible ...
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Your Sitemap or Sitemap index file does not properly declare the namespace!
This is my sitemap, it starts like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset
xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/...
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In 2020, is there an established approach to describe an international site using XML sitemaps?
I've been writing XML Sitemaps for a decade, but I've never before needed to write an XML Sitemap for an international site.
It occurs to me that there are three clear approaches (and there may be ...
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Google indexed my sitemap successfully but showing 0 URLs discovered. How do I fix that?
About two weeks ago, I submitted my sitemap in webmaster of my site https://example.com. It's successfully index, but there's not any single URL discovered. It shows 0 there now. Three weeks have ...
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Google Sitemap tree results showing up as 0
I've made a Google Sitemap Tree, ie linking child xml files to the main xml. However, Google Search Console shows that 0 pages are discovered for the parent sitemap xml. Is Google Search Console not ...
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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:
Website: https://www.unifiedinfotech.net/
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How to force deindex URLs from Google index ASAP? [duplicate]
Remove pages from Google index
Hello,
I have bought previously owned domain.
Right now it have 150 - 200 URLs indexed by Google that are not related to my current website (powered by wordpress).
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Should an XML sitemap include redirecting URLs? [duplicate]
Should I include URLs that redirect in my site's XML sitemap?
If page X is permanently redirected to page Z, would I include the page X, or only page Z?
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Google Search Console couldn't fetch my XML Sitemap
I have an asp.net web form project.
For creating a sitemap on this project, I didn't use a regular asp.net Web.sitemap file in Visual Studio, like by doing:
menu File --> New File --> Web.sitemap ...
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Do I need an XML sitemap for just a few images and videos?
If a website has few images and one or two videos, do I need to include them in the sitemap or have a sitemap separately for them?
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Google search console error: Sitemap couldn't fetch [closed]
My webpage is heavily reliant on organic traffic, but my SEO updates haven't been captured since November 12th due to an error saying "Sitemap couldn't fetch" in GSC. This is critical to my business.
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“See Index Coverage” link from sitemap not working in Google Search Console (not able to click)
For the last week, I've had this problem in Google search console. The "see index coverage" link is not working. I'm not able to click it to see index and submitted URLs in sitemap.
I tried ...
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How should the fields be ordered in a sitemap when including hreflang?
I have a website with multiple languages and version for different countries. However it is all using the same domain and segregated by locale query parameter. Examples as below:
example.com is the ...
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Does the submitted sitemaps in google search console only show sitemaps submitted through the console?
I am using Rails sitemap_generator gem https://github.com/kjvarga/sitemap_generator#pinging-search-engines to ping google about an updated sitemap but the submitted date doesn't change in the Google ...
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How to create a sitemap for my sub-sites that duplicate pages from my main site?
I have a website containing around 8000 vacancies (and growing each day): https://www.example.com , this website consists (at the moment) out of 3 languages, www.example.com/nl-be/, www.example.com/fr-...
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How can I stop pagination URLs from getting indexed? [duplicate]
I want to prevent pagination URLs from being crawled or indexed anywhere.
When I check site:example.com, the search results looks like this.
/blog/page/69/
/blog/page/55/
I have not listed this ...
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Google Search Console and Sitemap set-up for a website subfolder
I'm managing a website https://www.example.com/ and I've just launched a new website https://www.example.com/talkabout (so with a subfolder).
I've already set up a GSC account, sitemaps (html and ...
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How can I indexing sitemap my website?
I want to optimize the sitelink on my website through the search console / webmaster
I want when searching on Google that appears are certain menus. for example menus, a, menu b and menu c
I am ...
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Google can't fetch large sitemap with 50k URLs, nor will browsers render it
My sitemap contains 50K URLs/7,8 MB and this following URL syntax:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3....
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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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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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Do the order of “Disallow” and “Sitemap” lines in robots.txt matter?
One can sort robots.txt this way:
User-agent: DESIRED_INPUT
Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap-index.xml
Disallow: /
instead:
User-agent: DESIRED_INPUT
Disallow: /
Sitemap: https://example.com/...
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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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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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Two wordpress with two sitemaps under same domain name
I have two wordpress installations under one domain name, as this:
www.exampleWP1.com
www.exampleWP1.com/exampleWP2/
I have both of them created in Search Console as independant properties, in Tag ...
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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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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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How do I add both a base domain and a subdomain to Google Search Console and submit an XML sitemap for each?
I have a WordPress website http://test.example and created a new subdomain with separate content and URL http://subdomain.test.example and I need to register both sites in Google Search Console now. ...
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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 ...
