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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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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Where is the best location for a XML sitemap for dynamic pages in Laravel [closed]
Im trying to create dynamic sitemap for a learning site that has series of videos but wondering where to place the sitemap on my shared hosting.
The Laravel application has different folders for ...
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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
My webpage (https://www.example.com/, sitemap can be found here: https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml) is heavily reliant on organic traffic, but my SEO updates haven't been captured since November ...
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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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How should be sitemap strucuture for QnA website like Quora and stackoverflow?
We have a Question and Answer section on our website and want to create sitemap for that. What should be sitemap format for that.
Basically there are types of pages:
1) Question listing page - Where ...
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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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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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Where can I put my sitemap in my directory structure under Laravel? It is 404 in the directory root
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.
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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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 ...
