We have sitemaps of various types, not just URLs.
We are us to Sitemaps.xml referring to specific HTML pages, but in reality they can contain other types of information. Google has specifi 4 types of sitemap, among which the standard one (URLs) stands out:
Of course, when we want
To index multimia content (something I wouldn’t always recommend), sitemaps specializ in videos and images can be very useful. News sitemaps are also useful and could be us on news sites.
Finally, we can even mix these
Types of sitemaps by creating files that contain sitemaps of URLs, images, videos, whatever … I wouldn’t do it because it doesn’t help us understand things better, but that possibility exists.
7. Many fields (which take time to develop) are often ignor by Google (“for not doing it right” they say).
And here comes the big dilemma when working linkedIn data with sitemaps… do we put all the attributes or not?
Sitemaps offer us 3 fields to add to the URL:
lastmod : date of last change on the page
changeFreq : Approximately how often the content of this page changes.
Priority : from 0.1 to 1.0 (and only in relation juniors, middles and seniors: what’s the difference to the pages of the sitemap itself) how important each page is.
We have historically receiv very contradictory messages from
Google regarding its interpretation, but when you read them you realise that they all have a common thread. I am not going to repeat them because there are quite a few, but I will summarise them for you: on the one hand, they tell us that the modification date and frequency are ignor because no one did it right. On the other hand, they tell us that the priority is ignor because it did not provide the expect information. But always, in every comment yeezys shoes they make, we find the tag “in most cases”.