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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

Does Google Use the Priority and Changefreq Tags in My Sitemap?

Part of the SiteMap Series No. Google ignores both the priority and changefreq tags in…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

Why Does Search Console Show Fewer URLs Than My Sitemap Submitted?

Part of the SiteMap Series Search Console shows fewer URLs than your sitemap submitted because…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

How to Create a News Sitemap

News sitemaps help approved Google News publishers index time-sensitive editorial content quickly.…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

How to Create an Image Sitemap

Image sitemaps surface your images to Google, image search, and the AI…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

What Specialised Sitemap Types Are and When You Need Them

Standard URL sitemaps cover most cases. When they do not, specialised types…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

How to Maintain Your Website Sitemap Over Time

A clean sitemap today is not a clean sitemap in six months…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

How to Fix Common Website Sitemap Errors

Sitemap errors are predictable once you know the categories they fall into.…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

How to Validate Your Website Sitemap

A broken sitemap is worse than no sitemap. Validation is the step…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

How to Use IndexNow to Notify Search Engines About New URLs

Sitemaps tell search engines what exists. IndexNow tells them what just changed,…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

How to Submit Your Website Sitemap to Bing Webmaster Tools

Bing's direct traffic share is small, but its index feeds Copilot, ChatGPT…

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Guides

By Victor Ijomah

How to Add and Verify Your Website in Bing Webmaster Tools

Adding and verifying your website in Bing Webmaster Tools is a very…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

How to Submit Your Website Sitemap to Google Search Console

Robots.txt told Google your sitemap exists. Search Console is how you tell…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

Where Your Sitemap Should Live

A sitemap that exists but cannot be found is worse than no…

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Crawl Systems

By Victor Ijomah

How to Build a Website Sitemap Manually with XML

Total control, total responsibility. How to write a sitemap by hand for…