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 […]
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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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
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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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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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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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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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
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