Clarity on Sitemaps
Clarity on Sitemaps
H/T Bill Slawski
Originally shared by Bill Slawski
Better Rankings with XML Sitemaps - An XML sitemap will not improve your rankings in search results. They may make it more likely that your pages will get crawled and indexed by Google, but if your pages were only crawled and indexed by Googlebot crawling links on your site, those pages wouldn't rank any higher if they were discovered and indexed because of an XML sitemap. A client I once worked with was under the impression that if the URLs in an XML sitemap were categorized, that could help them rank higher, but that isn't true, and I let that client know that. I had another client who asked about if the priority setting could influence rankings, or the placement of URLs in a sitemap index would impact rankings, and we see Google saying that neither does in the attached Google Blog post
One of the most informative papers on XML sitemaps that I have seen is this one:
Sitemaps: Above and Beyond the Crawl of Duty
http://www2009.org/proceedings/pdf/p991.pdf
H/T Bill Slawski
Originally shared by Bill Slawski
Better Rankings with XML Sitemaps - An XML sitemap will not improve your rankings in search results. They may make it more likely that your pages will get crawled and indexed by Google, but if your pages were only crawled and indexed by Googlebot crawling links on your site, those pages wouldn't rank any higher if they were discovered and indexed because of an XML sitemap. A client I once worked with was under the impression that if the URLs in an XML sitemap were categorized, that could help them rank higher, but that isn't true, and I let that client know that. I had another client who asked about if the priority setting could influence rankings, or the placement of URLs in a sitemap index would impact rankings, and we see Google saying that neither does in the attached Google Blog post
One of the most informative papers on XML sitemaps that I have seen is this one:
Sitemaps: Above and Beyond the Crawl of Duty
http://www2009.org/proceedings/pdf/p991.pdf
Carl Turechek You are welcome...as always.
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