Creating & Submitting Sitemaps If you're having DNS issues, server connectivity issues, problems reaching the robots.txt file, or a laundry list of 404 errors, you can review them here and begin fixing them.
Another thing you can do to help your crawl efficiency is to monitor your indexation accurately by using segmented XML files ‐ you can do this by splitting your XML sitemaps into categories, then use the following search operators – site: geturl...
Video Sitemaps Tag your video with these terms and consider naming the file of the video with these terms in mind. Videos are 50 times more likely to rank on the first page of Google results, according to Nate Elliot at Forrester.
urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
Submitting your XML sitemaps directly to engines can help them to discover new content on your site. Also, make sure that you include your XML sitemap location in your robots.txt file. Google Webmaster Tools also provides detailed list of broken...
In our case we judged this to be too time-consuming so as to be inefficient and opted for the XML sitemaps option instead. Peter then suggested to them that we try implementing rel="alternate" hreflang="country" in XML sitemaps.
To force recrawls, SEOs typically use tactics like resubmitting XML sitemaps, or using a free ping service like Seesmic Ping (formerly Ping.fm) or Ping-O-Matic to try and coax a crawl, or firing a bunch of social bookmarking links at the site.
Here’s where you can submit new sitemaps, and be informed of the success/error status of the sitemap. You’ll also see some basic information on your sitemaps, top keywords, and top pages linked to. Sitemaps
Here’s where you can access all of the information about the sitemaps that GWT has been informed of. Users with “Restricted” permission have the same restrictions as those with “Full” permission plus the following: they only have viewing...
This might include obvious sources and tasks you might overlook, such as analytics, sitemaps, your robots.txt file, and more. Google and Bing have a long and storied history of taking shots at each other whenever the opportunity presents itself and...
For the most part, the Googlebot has been set to behave identically to the news crawler when it comes to news content; a negative "Googlebot-News" entry in the robots.txt file will still halt just the news crawling, sitemaps will still be crawled...
Next, go to your Google Webmaster Tools account and upload your new sitemap in the Sitemaps section. Image, Video and News XML Sitemaps The image and video sitemaps are great ways to speak crawler, (XML) and inform Googlebot about the images on...
URL structure and canonicalization, internal linking, rel=canonical tags, XML sitemaps, robots exclusions, should all follow canonical standards for your site. Bing makes strong use of XML sitemaps (especially for large sites).
Microsoft also developed an SEO Kit for IIS, which has a number of options to make SEO a little easier -- including managing sitemaps, robots, and various reports. This is done fairly easily with an .htaccess file on an Apache web server, but can...
Leverage Baidu XML sitemaps: Baidu recently introduced the ability to read site maps. Unlike the global engines, which have Webmaster portals, you have to tell Baidu where to find the files via your robots.txt file.
XML sitemaps: These have been around a while, and are well worth the time it takes to build them (71 percent of new URLs are found through sitemaps when available, according to a Stanford paper). This is easy enough to do with an HTML file or meta...
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SEW Experts By The Numbers columnist, Eric Enge, CEO of Stone Temple Consulting, noted, "The announcement affects Web site owners who don't have the freedom to place a sitemaps file in the root directory of the domain.
In part 1, we looked at three key problem areas with sites that have dynamically generated content: information architecture and keyword research; robots.txt files; and the use of Sitemaps. Like the Robots.txt file there's a strong potential for...
We don't use Sitemaps on our clients' sites. He referred to Sitemaps as a "fast track to the supplemental index". We've outlined three key problem areas with sites that have dynamically generated content: information architecture and keyword...
