A good XML sitemap acts as a roadmap of your website which leads Google to all your important pages. XML sitemaps can be good for SEO, as they allow Google to quickly find your essential website pages, even if your internal linking isn’t perfect. This post explains what XML sitemaps are and how they help you rank better. What are XML sitemaps? You want Google to crawl every important page of your website, but sometimes pages end up without any internal links pointing to them, making them hard to find. An XML sitemap lists a website’s important pages, making sure Google can find and crawl them all, and helping it understand your website structure: Yoast.com’s XML sitemap Above is Yoast.com’s XML sitemap, created by the Yoast SEO plugin and later on we’ll explain how our plugin helps you create the best XML sitemaps. If you’re not using our plugin, your XML sitemap may look a little different but will work the same way. As you can see, … [Read more...] about What is an XML sitemap and why should you have one? • Yoast
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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
Know What is Sitemap for SEO and Why Sitemap is Important for SEO?
Easy explanation on Sitemap in SEO and Why Sitemap is Important for SEO? Hi Guys! Welcome to Best SEO Advise. Today I want to tell you about what is sitemap and i’ll explain everything about sitemap. Let me tell you Sitemap is very Important in On page SEO. It play vital role in On page SEO as well as Off page SEO, But Most importantly in On page SEO. You know Sitemap play important role to get organic ranking. “Sitemap is a .xml file which contain every information about website like pages, post, images etc” These sitemap give all the information to search engines because whenever search engines crawlers come to the website to collect data from website, so no problem come to collect information. Let me give very Easy example which makes you to understand very easily about sitemap. Like you are an HR in an company and your boss order you collect all employees data. Now Guess you have 50 employees with 50 cabins in your company and … [Read more...] about Know What is Sitemap for SEO and Why Sitemap is Important for SEO?
How to Optimize your XML Sitemap for Maximum SEO
by Alex Chris8 Comments When optimizing your website for SEO, one of your goals is to provide Google the right signals so that it can index your website better. An optimized XML sitemap is one of those signals that can lead to faster indexing and higher rankings.What is an XML Sitemap and why do you need it?In simple terms, an XML sitemap is a file that lists all important pages of your website that search engine crawlers should know about.Even if you don’t have a sitemap, they are still able to index your website but having a sitemap makes their job easier and also it gives you the opportunity to let them know about pages and parts of your website the may not discover easily.There are different kind of sitemaps, you can submit a sitemap for your posts, images and videos.When is a sitemap really important?For websites with many pages, a sitemap helps search engines discover pages that are new or updated.For websites that don’t use good internal linking practices a … [Read more...] about How to Optimize your XML Sitemap for Maximum SEO
Internal Linking for SEO: Examples and Best Practices
Internal linking is a key SEO tactic for publishers. In this post I’ll look at what it is, why it’s important, and some key tips for effective linking. I recently wrote about the ways in which SEO and content marketing can work together, and I see internal linking as one of the most important ways. What is Internal Linking? Web practitioners from various disciplines may have different terms for this, but I think this is a term that’s well understood in the SEO ‘community’ and beyond. Broadly speaking, internal linking refers to any links from one page on a domain which lead to another page on that same domain. This can refer to the main site navigation, like the links you see above this article to our sections on SEO, PPC etc. It also refers to links within articles to related content, such as this link to an article on duplicate content. For the purpose of this post, I’m mainly going to confine myself to the latter – the editorial links within … [Read more...] about Internal Linking for SEO: Examples and Best Practices