XML sitemaps just turned 18 in June, and in honor of its full-fledged introduction into adulthood, I’m breaking down how XML sitemaps work, how to build one, and why XML sitemaps offer a boatload of ...

When it comes to telling search engines about the content on a website, webmasters might be wondering if they should submit sitemaps or just setup RSS or Atom feeds. Google’s answer? Use both. In a ...

In this edition of Ask An SEO, we break down a common point of confusion for site owners and technical SEOs: Do I need both an XML sitemap and an HTML one, and which one is better to use for SEO? It ...

Paste a domain or a sitemap.xml link, click Try for free, and get a clean, deduplicated list of every page URL. Before you can scrape, summarize or embed a site's content, you need to know every page ...

Learn how to use Python to reorganize your XML sitemaps and help you isolate indexing problems on your website's most important pages. One of the main benefits of combining programming and SEO skills ...

Sitemaps & SEO: An Introductory Guide Sitemaps help ensure your site is fully indexed by feeding your content to search engines – be it a standard XML, or for images, video, news, or mobile. Here's a ...

Google's John Mueller was asked if it is helps after doing a big URL migration to keep the old XML Sitemap file up for a bit. John said "the effect would be minimal" by using this strategy. The theory ...

Google's John Mueller confirmed on Twitter that Google may stop fetching your XML Sitemap files if the URL to the Sitemap file is invalid. He said it is fine to have URLs that redirect but they should ...