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Google Says Only Keep Old Redirected URLs In Sitemaps Files Temporarily

Google’s John Mueller said again on Twitter that you should only keep old URLs that have been redirected elsewhere in your XML sitemap file temporarily and not long term. John has said this a few times before – but now John is saying keep them there for one to three months, as opposed to less than six months. In fact, John previously stated these strategies have limited impact overall.
John said on Twitter this morning “for a temporary state it’s fine to have redirects in the sitemap file.” “Long term, you want the URLs listed there that you want as canonical,” he added.
So yes, your XML sitemaps should probably only contain URLs that work properly and do not 404 or 301 or 302 to other places. But in the short term, you can have those in place but don’t forget about them and make sure to remove those from your sitemap in the future.
John later added “The reasons for that differ: for redirects, the sitemap lightly helps with recrawling (finding the redirects). For stable URLs, the sitemap helps with canonicalization.””Temporary is when the move is mostly complete, and you want to focus on the new stable state. Practically, probably after 1-3 months. To be fair, I suspect the effect is minimal nowadays, but optimizers want to optimize,” he added.
Here are those tweets:
The reasons for that differ: for redirects, the sitemap lightly helps with recrawling (finding the redirects). For stable URLs, the sitemap helps with canonicalization.
— 🦝 John (personal) 🦝 (@JohnMu) March 30, 2022
Temporary is when the move is mostly complete, and you want to focus on the new stable state. Practically, probably after 1-3 months. To be fair, I suspect the effect is minimal nowadays, but optimizers want to optimize 🙂
— 🦝 John (personal) 🦝 (@JohnMu) March 30, 2022
Forum discussion at Twitter.
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Twitter Resumes Nofollow Attributes To Links

A few weeks or so ago, Twitter removed nofollow attributes from its links. Well, it seems like now those nofollow link attributes were added back. Glenn Gabe spotted this on this past Friday, right before the long July 4th weekend.
Here is a screenshot from Glenn from Friday but yes, the nofollow are still on links at the time I wrote this post:
Oh by the way, Twitter links are nofollowed again. 🙂 @rustybrick pic.twitter.com/BO5kIMOWdX
— Glenn Gabe (@glenngabe) July 1, 2022
So there goes that link building strategy – joking if that was not obvious…
As I wrote when Twitter removed nofollows from the links, I said I doubt Google would count them anyway.
In any event, figured I’d report on this so you are all updated on the current state of links on Twitter. 🙂
Forum discussion at Twitter.
Source: www.seroundtable.com
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