Table of Contents
1. Most sites don’t ne a sitemap.xml at all
2. Declare war on “sitemap” files, they are not the good guys.
3. We can send the sitemap to Google in several ways, not just through Google Search Console.
5. Google not only supports sitemaps in XML, there are more formats.
6. We have sitemaps of various types, not just URLs.
Many fields which take time to develop are
Often ignor by Google (“for not doing it right” they say).
8. A sitemap allows us to replace other indexing tags such as hreflang or canonical (although it is not as powerful).
9. Sitemap indexes are the best thing you can use, always take advantage of them!
10. IMPORTANT! check the indexation percentage of our URLs.
You can host sitemaps outside of your domain
12. You can use sitemaps to encourage spiders to visit URLs that you want to be look at (but not index).
As on previous occasions, we will break down the content in different points. In this case, we will talk about 12 things that are important for you to ios database know about these files. Some will be known, others I hope will surprise you and, of course, some will be valid for some projects or others.
What are sitemaps.xml and what you should know about them?
Sitemaps are nothing more than a way for search engines to tell them which pages they should crawl. Like most indexing tools, they are just suggestions and Google will actually visit the pages it wants in the order it wants. However, in many projects where the crawl budget is what the spiders are a bit lost (more due to the default of the web than to Google’s spiders), sitemaps.xml have proven to be very useful to guide them and help them find the content.
This is the normal format of a well-done sitemaps.xml file:
The most important thing about this structure is the initial declaration. If we don’t define the sitemap as an XML and its attributes as xmlns, it won’t yeezys shoes be interpret correctly. Then it’s just a matter of adding <url> nodes with their details (of which only <loc> is mandatory). In fact, you’ll see that the vast majority of sitemaps only contain the “loc” node and no other details about the URLs.