As Google’s search results have increasingly become more visual, the importance of image optimization has grown — particularly in ecommerce, travel, and other verticals where users expect multiple ...

WordPress released more details about the WordPress 5.5 XML sitemap feature coming in August 2020. There’s a lot of good news about the coming WordPress sitemap. Yet despite all the good things, some ...

In the early days of search engines, I wasn’t much of a believer in XML sitemaps. But over time, I began to see first hand how they can benefit websites. XML sitemaps serve as a way to communicate ...

So many of us may have heard the term sitemap and robots.txt being used in association with a particular platform or a website. Surprisingly, not a lot of business owners know about the sitemap.xml ...

Despite the fact that sitemaps are simply lists of canonical URLs submitted to search engines, it’s amazing how rare it is to come across a perfect one. Issues often arise when large site owners use ...

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that having an XML Sitemap file is "a minimal baseline for any serious website." Basically, all serious websites should have an XML sitemap file part of it or it ...

This XML sitemap is used by search engines which follow the XML sitemap standard. This file contains links to sub-sitemaps, follow them to see the actual sitemap ...

Microsoft Bing will soon rely a lot more on the date you specify in the lastmod field within your XML sitemap for crawling. Fabrice Canel, Principal Product Manager at Microsoft Bing said that ...

A Cre8asite Forums thread, one of the last non-Google forums to still have a webmaster related Googler stop by, has discussion around removing URLs from your XML Sitemap file. There is a myth that if ...