XML sitemaps just turned 18 in June, and in honor of its full-fledged introduction into adulthood, I’m breaking down how XML sitemaps work, how to build one, and why XML sitemaps offer a boatload of ...

What was considered best practice yesterday does not hold true today and this is especially relevant when it comes to XML sitemaps, which are almost as old as SEO itself. The problem is, it’s ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about why some websites use multiple XML sitemaps instead of a single file. His answer suggests that what looks like unnecessary complexity may come from ...

Learn instances where using visual, HTML sitemaps make sense than simply relying on your website's navigational structure or XML sitemaps. Google search advocate John Mueller has always downplayed the ...

In an encouraging act of collaboration, Google, Yahoo and Microsoft announced tonight that they will all begin using the same Sitemaps protocol to index sites around the web. Now based at Sitemaps.org ...

Last week, Google, Yahoo, Microsoft & Ask.com To All Support Sitemaps Autodiscovery. So how do you ping these services to notify the search engines of an update to your Sitemaps, if you do not want to ...

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 around content generation through generative AI tools and ...