Crawl Systems
Crawl budget, robots.txt, XML sitemaps, discovery mechanics and Googlebot behaviour. The infrastructure layer that decides whether search engines find your pages in the first place.
Why Sitemap Setup Depends on Your Site Type
The sitemap spec is the same for every site. The decisions you…
When to Combine or Separate Specialised Sitemaps
The architectural decision behind specialised sitemaps. Three patterns, when each makes sense,…
Other Sitemap Formats and When to Use Them
Search engines accept more than XML for sitemap submission. Here is what…
How to Use Hreflang in Sitemaps for International SEO
Hreflang in sitemaps centralises international SEO signals into one file instead of…
How to Create a Video Sitemap
Video sitemaps help search engines discover and index video content. Here is…
How to Create a News Sitemap
News sitemaps help approved Google News publishers index time-sensitive editorial content quickly.…
How to Create an Image Sitemap
Image sitemaps surface your images to Google, image search, and the AI…
What Specialised Sitemap Types Are and When You Need Them
Standard URL sitemaps cover most cases. When they do not, specialised types…