Sitemaps Full Analysis
Introduction:
A sitemap is a blueprint of your website that helps search engines find, crawl, and index all of your website’s content. Sitemaps also inform search engines which pages on your site are most important. This article details the four main types of sitemaps: Normal XML Sitemap, Video Sitemap, News Sitemap, and Image Sitemap, and explains the importance of sitemaps for SEO.
Review:
The article emphasizes the role of sitemaps in increasing a website’s visibility in search results and provides best practices for creating and optimizing sitemaps. WordPress sites can automatically update their XML sitemap using the Yoast SEO plugin, while non-WordPress sites can use third-party tools like XML-Sitemaps.com to generate a sitemap. The article also provides methods for submitting a sitemap to Google, using the sitemap report to spot errors, and how to use sitemaps to identify indexing issues. Finally, the article offers advanced tips for sitemaps and answers frequently asked questions.
