In part one, we learned more about Fabrice Canel of Microsoft Bing and spoke about indexing quality. In part two we dig more into the concern...
This week in search, we had yet another week of heated Google search ranking volatility without a confirmed Google search ranking update. Google said it would...
Google’s Gary Illyes confirmed that Google does indeed check to see if an XML sitemap has a change in it before reprocessing the XML sitemap file....
Google Search Advocate John Mueller and Analyst Gary Illyes share SEO tips for news publishers during a recent office-hours Q&A recording. Taking turns answering questions, Mueller...
Gary Illyes from Google said on LinkedIn the other day that sitemaps are hints, not orders. Meaning just because you submit an XML sitemap file to...
John Mueller of Google has always downplayed the importance of HTML sitemaps over the years, he is a fan of XML sitemaps, but HTML sitemaps, not...
Google’s John Mueller said that pinging Google that your sitemap file has been updated can help Google index your new content quickly. He said it is...
Google’s John Mueller said it is acceptable to restrict access of your XML Sitemaps to just search engines. So you can technically block humans from seeing...
News sitemaps use different and unique sitemap protocols to provide more information for the news search engines. A news sitemap contains the news published in the...
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...