Google’s Daniel Waisberg stated in a new video that sites don’t necessarily need sitemaps unless they fall into one of three categories. This information was provided in the latest episode of Google’s Search Console Training series on YouTube. The video focuses on the basics of how to use the sitemaps report in Search Console. To […]
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Home / Plugins / Google XML Sitemaps vs Yoast SEO – Compared By Kevin Muldoon Last updated: December 23, 2019 Sitemaps help search engines to crawl your websites efficiently by showing them a list of your website URLs. Online tools, such as XML-Sitemaps.com, can be used to create a sitemap for your website. However, if
Google’s John Mueller recently stated there is no ideal sitemap size when it comes to optimizing a website’s crawl speed. The size of sitemap files generally won’t affect crawling, Mueller said in a Reddit thread. The original poster, who mentioned having a 5mb sitemap with 30k URLs, was asking whether large sitemaps can slow down
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When browsing on the internet, it is possible to come across different websites with a clustered layout. Due to advancements in technology, this problem has been solved by the use of Sitemaps. The role of a sitemap is simple. It helps to guide visitors to the different segments of your website. Whenever your guests are
Google’s John Mueller posted on Reddit that he agrees, that HTML sitemaps are not worthwhile for SEO purposes. He said “I agree. When it comes to SEO … for small sites, your site should be crawlable anyway (and if you’re using a common CMS, it’ll almost always be fine) & for large sites, they’re not
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There are two types of sitemaps: HTML and XML. HTML sitemaps guide visitors, mostly. XML sitemaps guide search engine bots, to ensure they find a site’s URLs to index. Understanding the strengths and weaknesses of each will help with your search engine optimization. XML Sitemaps XML makes information machine-readable. XML sitemaps provide search engines with an
The inclusion of XML Sitemaps as a WordPress Core feature has been proposed by a group of Yoast and Google team members as well as other contributors. In addition to a basic XML Sitemap, the proposal also introduces an XML Sitemaps API that would extend functionality for developers and webmasters. The proposed XML Sitemaps structure.
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For 10 years now, the crawler I use for the technical SEO website audits I do at Search Engine People is what’s nowadays called TechSEO360. A hidden gem; cost-effective, efficient (crawls any site of any size), forward looking (e.g.: had AJAX support before other such crawler tools did). I’ve written about this website crawler before
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One of the main benefits of combining programming and SEO skills is that you can find clever solutions that would be difficult to see if you only know SEO or programming separately. For instance, tracking the indexing of your most important pages is a crucial SEO task. If they are not being indexed, you need
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As the web evolves, so too does Google and SEO. This means what is considered best practice is often in flux. What may have been good counsel yesterday, is not so today. This is especially true for sitemaps, which are almost as old as SEO itself. The problem is, when every man and their dog
