Sitemaps are one of SEO’s oldies but goodies. In fact, they’re one of the most important elements of SEO, because they help Google and other search engines find the pages on your website. Not to mention they also help you rank better, because Google is able to locate new pages and identify updates to old … Read more
News sitemaps use different and unique sitemap protocols to provide more information for the news search engines. A news sitemap contains the news published in the last 48 hours. News sitemap tags include the news publication’s title, language, name, genre, publication date, keywords, and even stock tickers. How can you use these sitemaps to your … Read more
A sharp-eyed search marketer noticed that Yoast was generating duplicate sitemaps. It’s not known how long this has been happening, but the head of SEO at Yoast acknowledged the bug and noted that Yoast is aware of the problem and says it is working on a fix. Once this duplicate sitemap bug was discovered however, … Read more
Not to be confused with HTML sitemaps, which are designed to be viewed by humans, XML sitemaps are solely for search engines. Given that XML sitemaps are intended to assist Google, site owners may assume they play a role in search rankings. SEO experts even suggest XML sitemaps are so crucial to search that the … Read more
