Whenever you’re in an unfamiliar town, having a GPS makes navigating SO much quicker and easier. Well, XML sitemaps are the digital equivalent of GPS systems for search engine crawler bots. They provide search engines with a bird’s-eye view of your website’s structure and every URL that you want them to crawl. This greatly improves … Read more
XML sitemaps are essential for every site’s SEO strategy and are a big part of our core Yoast SEO product. Both Google and Bing have recently renewed emphasis on properly using the lastmod (last modified) tag in XML sitemaps. The leading search engines now advise site owners to use this feature properly for better crawling … Read more
What Is an XML Sitemap? An XML sitemap is a file that tells search engines like Google which URLs on your website should be indexed (added to its database of possible search results). It may also provide additional information about each URL, including: When the page was last modified How often the page is updated … Read more
Your eCommerce site’s goal should be to match shoppers to products as seamlessly as possible. To accomplish this, you’ll need to consider an important SEO file: the sitemap. Your sitemap (or, more likely, sitemaps) helps search engines understand the pages on your site and all of the products you offer — so they can better … Read more
SEO experts often recommend various practices, but how do you discern the most valuable ones? Here’s a list of prioritized sitemap best practices for you. 1.Page Prioritization. Prioritizing your pages allows you to efficiently channel more traffic to your most valuable content. Google’s sitemaps protocol enables you to assign scores ranging from 0.1 to 1 … Read more
Bing finally rolled out its XML Sitemap Coverage Report in Bing Webmaster Tools, which is a great addition for site owners. Using the report, you can check indexing levels based on the urls being submitted via XML sitemaps. This is similar to what Google offers in its Coverage reporting, but it’s great to have another … Read more
XML sitemaps just turned 18 in June, and in honor of its full-fledged introduction into adulthood, I’m breaking down how XML sitemaps work, how to build one, and why XML sitemaps offer a boatload of SEO benefits. What is an XML sitemap? In a nutshell, an XML sitemap is a protocol in XML format that … Read more
Dario Zadro Sitemaps are essential in ensuring web pages are indexed and easily accessible to both users and search engine crawlers. Sitemaps provide a comprehensive blueprint of a website’s structure, allowing search engines to navigate and understand the content more efficiently. However, two main types of sitemaps serve different purposes: XML and HTML. What is … Read more
Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that Google does indeed check to see if an XML sitemap has a change in it before reprocessing the XML sitemap file. The reason Google does this is because it doesn’t want to waste resources parsing and processing a file that is not changed from the last time that file was … Read more
October 25, 2022 | Posted by The In Search SEO Podcast What are the common issues found in XML sitemaps? What impact do they have and how do you fix them? That’s what we’re going to be discussing today with a lady who when she’s not working on projects or writing about SEO, … Read more
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