Just as it’s difficult to find a new destination without a map, it’s sometimes hard for Google to find all the pages on your website without a sitemap. Luckily, it’s quick and easy to create and submit an XML sitemap to Google. Below, we walk through how to do this step by step. But first, […]
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An XML sitemap is a powerful tool which informs search engines about all the pages that exist on your website. Without a sitemap, Google may find it difficult to navigate all the pages on your website. Luckily, you can create and submit an XML sitemap to Google within a few minutes. In this article, we’ll
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A sitemap guides your website visitors to where they want to go. It’s where they turn if they haven’t found what they are looking from those dropdown menus. Beyond helping your visitors navigate your website, which should be the primary focus of any marketing effort, there are many other reasons to use a sitemap. First,
Ever wonder what a sitemap is, how to update it, or if it really helps your website SEO? In this article, I will explain what to include in your website sitemap so that it will help your SEO. A sitemap is a list of your website pages that lets search engines know what type of
XML sitemaps are a good way to communicate directly with search engines, notifying them of new or updated content very quickly and allowing to speed up the process of indexing pages. Typically, Google likes to speak to website owners in riddles. Creating a sitemap is one of those rare chances in SEO that Google has
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Google has pushed an update within the new Google Search Console to the sitemap report to support new actions, the company announced on Twitter. Now you can open the contents of a sitemap in a new tab, delete a sitemap, review more detailed errors and more. Those actions include: Opening the sitemap content in a new tab
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Google just made an important announcement for merchants that depend on organic search traffic. It is now possible to update product listings in organic search results in real time! Advertisers have long had this capability on Google Shopping. Now, companies can use the same product feeds for organic search, and yes, you don’t pay a
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With this next installment of our series on Google Search Console, we’re going to cover how Google reports your site’s indexing. Simply put, indexing describes which pages Google stores from your site — it’s the database from which the search engine draws when it’s assembling search results pages (SERPs). (If you missed it, the first
This is a bit heartwarming – to see John Mueller back up Joost de Valk and Yoost when someone incorrectly claimed their was a bug with the Yoast SEO plugin causing major Google issues. John from Google came in and backed up Joost, confirming Joost and telling the plugin creator his plugin is not needed.
When it comes to getting your website ranked, you need to take advantage of as many SEO hacks as possible. Creating a sitemap is one technique that will definitely help improve your SEO strategy. What is a sitemap? Some of you may be more familiar with this than others. I’ll give you a quick crash
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