This question has a multi-faceted answer. There truly is a laundry list of things you. Need to do to ensure your website and. All its pages are being found by search. Engines and eventually web searchers. This article will focus on xml. Sitemaps and how we can manipulate. Them to submit only the most important. Pages we want search engines to find. But before we dig in, you might be asking…
What is an XML Sitemap?
“An XML sitemap is a file designed for search engine consumption.
Most website XML sitemaps are accessible by job function email database adding sitemap.xml or sitemap_index.xml to the end of your root domain, ex: www.MyWebsite.com/sitemap.xml. If you can’t find yours, check with your webmaster to be sure your website has one and that you are submitting it. When reviewing this file you will likely find a fairly ordered list of your website page URLs. As you take a closer look at the list, a good question to ask yourself is, “Do all these pages really need to be submitted and indexed?”
Why should I adjust my XML Sitemap?
Some would argue that submitting each and every page of your website is the best way to ensure ranking status, more pages equals more chances of being found and seen right? Not necessarily. What we really want to do to drown out the competition, is evaluate the quality of the page or pages we are submitting versus the quantity. One really chine directory well-written page of content that targets an entire concept by answering questions, providing resources, how-to’s, relevant imagery and quality content will be ‘rewarded’ with higher ranking status than, let’s say… 5 pages of mediocre content even if targeting the same concept, these 5 pages will inevitably compete against each other in search.
Google wants readers to focus on what they call
“beneficial purpose” of content and consider a “crawl budget”. Though it may seem Google has an infinite amount of resources, they don’t and how to protect your photos during the editing process they admit to it. Selecting and indexing only your most popular and content rich pages, we can better ensure Google finds the pages we want them to find versus the pages we don’t want them to find.
“So many sites create content solely for Google
without the user in mind. They just want their content with. ‘keyword keyword keyword’ to. Rank well, and hope the person converts. When they get there, whether by clicking an ad. Or affiliate link or perhaps going deeper into the site. But google wants their raters to think about. Whether a piece of content has a beneficial. Purpose or not, and this is something that any. Site owner, content creator or seo. Should think about when writing new conten.t or auditing current content on a site.