Sitemaps are a powerful tool for SEO pros and webmasters. They help Google and other search engines navigate through a website and find new pages and content. It’s not guaranteed that search engines will index the content but telling them what pages are important can make a significant difference. Sitemaps can help you: Get an … Read more
Google announced that it is discontinuing the use of several image and video sitemap extensions. Google stated they decided to sunset the use of these sitemap extensions after evaluating the value of the tags. The deprecated tags and attributes will have no effect after August 6, 2022. Google announced that the documentation for the removed … Read more
Sitemap auditing involves syntax, crawlability, and indexation checks for the URLs and tags in your sitemap files. A sitemap file contains the URLs to index with further information regarding the last modification date, priority of the URL, images, videos on the URL, and other language alternates of the URL, along with the change frequency. Sitemap … Read more
Popular WordPress SEO plugin, Rank Math, has been found to have a bug that causes it to generate duplicate sitemap files. This strange bug in how sitemaps are generated is similar to one that affects Yoast, but the way Rank Math handles it is different. Website Sitemap A sitemap is an important part of search … Read more
This week’s Ask An SEO question comes from Renee in Iowa, who writes: “I read somewhere that you should submit your sitemap every month. When you provide an XML URL, isn’t it just that – a URL and therefore updates are always in place? I’m using RankMath which generates my XML file. It didn’t seem … Read more
