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Incubator Q&A Will an XML sitemap improve SEO in terms of crawling, indexing, and ranking?

I've heard that I should create an XML sitemap containing all the URLs from my site for SEO. My site needs to improve: The number of URLs that get crawled by search engine bots The number of U...

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Incubator Q&A Can I ask Google to stop indexing every URL that isn't in my XML sitemap?

I have an XML sitemap containing all the URLs that I want search engines to index. Unfortunately Google is indexing some URLs that are not in my XML sitemap. Is there a setting in Google Search C...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A How do I choose a priority for each URL in my XML sitemap?

The XML sitemap protocol defines a priority field that is says "... is relative, it is only used to select between URLs on your site." It doesn't give any guidance on how I should rank my URLs for...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

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Incubator Q&A Should redirecting URLs be included in an XML sitemap?

I have some old pages on my website that I now redirect to new pages: /old.html -> /new.html Should I include https://example.com/old.html in my XML sitemaps so that search engines find the re...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by Stephen Ostermiller‭

Question xml-sitemap