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The authors views are entirely their own excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis Kazakhstan Phone Number and may not always reflect the views of Moz. In all my years of SEO consulting Ive seen many clients with wild misconceptions about XML sitemaps. like any power tool a little training and background on how all the bits work goes a long ways. Indexation Probably the most common misconception is that the XML sitemap helps get your pages indexed. The first thing weve got to get straight is this Google does not index your pages just because you asked nicely. Google indexes pages because a they found them and crawled them and b they consider them good enough quality to be worth indexing.
Pointing Google at a page and asking them to index it doesnt really factor into it. Having said that it is important to note that by submitting an XML sitemap to Google Search Console youre giving Google a clue that you consider the pages in the XML sitemap to be goodquality search landing pages worthy of indexation. But its just a clue that the pages are important... like linking to a page from your main menu is. Consistency One of the most common mistakes I see clients make is to lack consistency in the messaging to Google about a given page. If you block a page in robots.txt and then include it in an XML sitemap youre being a tease. Here.
The authors views are entirely their own excluding the unlikely event of hypnosis Kazakhstan Phone Number and may not always reflect the views of Moz. In all my years of SEO consulting Ive seen many clients with wild misconceptions about XML sitemaps. like any power tool a little training and background on how all the bits work goes a long ways. Indexation Probably the most common misconception is that the XML sitemap helps get your pages indexed. The first thing weve got to get straight is this Google does not index your pages just because you asked nicely. Google indexes pages because a they found them and crawled them and b they consider them good enough quality to be worth indexing.
Pointing Google at a page and asking them to index it doesnt really factor into it. Having said that it is important to note that by submitting an XML sitemap to Google Search Console youre giving Google a clue that you consider the pages in the XML sitemap to be goodquality search landing pages worthy of indexation. But its just a clue that the pages are important... like linking to a page from your main menu is. Consistency One of the most common mistakes I see clients make is to lack consistency in the messaging to Google about a given page. If you block a page in robots.txt and then include it in an XML sitemap youre being a tease. Here.