Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that the order of the URLs in your XML Sitemap files does not matter. He did say that you probably should save the "start of the file for the most awesome URLs." But he later added that "the order among them doesn't matter." He then clarified to make it clear "the order in the sitemap file doesn't matter at all." He said the awesome comment was that your web pages should be awesome in general.Here is his tweet:Save the start of the file for the most awesome URLs -- the order among them doesn't matter. Ideally, that covers your whole site already, so you're all set!— John ☆.o(≧▽≦)o.☆ (@JohnMu) June 13, 2018 Vanessa Fox responded on Twitter as follows:Yes, John - tell us more! Why put the most awesome URLs at the beginning of the file? (That can be difficult to with programmatic files generated for large sites, but also, you know that will lead to the mad dash trying to figure out how many Google considers … [Read more...] about Google Sitemaps URL Order Does Not Matter
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A Primer On How To Get The Most Out Of Sitemaps
Search crawlers are becoming more and more effective every day in discovering new content pages on websites. But, that process of organic discovery can be slow and spotty, so it’s hardly any solace to sites that publish hundreds of new pages a day, or publish extremely time-sensitive content such as news articles, or publish a huge amount of specialized digital media content such as video. Even with the continuing improvements in organic search for discovering your content, it still takes time for search to find it all. It takes patience on your part, and in many cases, the content found in a crawl has inadequate context to the needed, relevant keywords that make it discoverable to searchers. Wouldn’t it be cool if a webmaster could just identify a list of content pages you wanted the search engines to crawl, telling them “these are the most important content pages on my site,” and in some cases, even offering a little bit of keyword context to it? Well, great … [Read more...] about A Primer On How To Get The Most Out Of Sitemaps
Google SEO Snippets Video: Multiple Sitemap Files
Here is another SEO Snippets video, this one on the basic topic of submitting more than 50,000 URLs via your sitemap file to Google. In short, John Mueller of Google said you can submit multiple sitemap files if you need to submit more URLs and even if you have fewer than 50,000 URLs, you can still split up your Sitemap files into multiple versions because it is useful for debugging and other reasons.Here is the video:Here is the transcript:Today's question is about sitemap files. Mike from India asks, how do we add a sitemap for more than 50,000 URLs?Sitemap files are a great way to make your content known to Google and to other search engines. However, they're limited to 50,000 URLs per file.What do you do if you have more URLs? You can generate more than one sitemap file per website. You can either submit these individually, for example, through a Search Console, or you can create a sitemap index file. A sitemap index file is like a sitemap file for sitemaps. You can list multiple … [Read more...] about Google SEO Snippets Video: Multiple Sitemap Files
Google’s John Mueller Answers: How to Add Sitemaps for More Than 50,000 URLs
In Google’s latest SEO snippets Q&A video, John Mueller explains how site owners can submit a sitemap with more than 50,000 URLs.Sitemaps are limited to 50,000 URLs per file, so what’s a webmaster to do if they have a site that exceeds 50,000 pages?Mueller says multiple sitemap files can be created for a single website. Those sitemaps can then be combined into a sitemap index file. Or, as Mueller puts it, a “sitemap file for sitemaps.”This even works for sitemaps with fewer than 50,000 URLs, as site owners may want to use multiple sitemaps for different sections of their site.Multiple sitemap files can also be submitted individually, whether or not they’re contained in a sitemap index file.As a best practice, Mueller recommends having your sitemaps automatically generated by your server. That will ensure your updated content is picked up by search engines as fast as possible.So if you’re not sure how to generate sitemap files it’s OK … [Read more...] about Google’s John Mueller Answers: How to Add Sitemaps for More Than 50,000 URLs
How to Create and submit Sitemap for Website
Hi Guys! I’m Lalit Mittal and I’m again here to tell you about sitemap. Sitemap play very important role in SEO. Many of users don’t know How to Create and Submit Sitemap, so today I’m going to tell you this process. This is very simple so i’ll tell you in 3 easy Steps. But firstly we need to do 2 things after creating website or blog which are… Let me explain you what is sitemap. sitemap is the .xml file which contain all the details like all URL details which are important for all search engines. These details are store in search engines database. Sitemap help google for crawling and indexing the website. Know how to create Website/blog sitemap and submit it Generate sitemap for you wesbite. Add sitemap on your website Submit Sitemap to search engines. Click here to Know how to make Website sitemap How to make and submit Sitemap for WordPress Website If you create your website on WordPress then you can easily create and submit … [Read more...] about How to Create and submit Sitemap for Website