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.
Where Your Sitemap Should Live
A sitemap that exists but cannot be found is worse than no…
How to Build a Website Sitemap Manually with XML
Total control, total responsibility. How to write a sitemap by hand for…
How to Build a Sitemap Using WordPress Plugins
The three main plugins, the settings that matter, and the configuration mistakes…
Choosing How to Build a Website Sitemap
Plugin, native, generator, or manual? The right choice depends on what your…
What’s Actually In Your Sitemap?
A sitemap can exist and still be wrong. Here is how to…
How to Find Your Existing Website Sitemap
Before you build, audit, or submit a sitemap, find what's already there.
The Limits of a Sitemap: What It Can and Can’t Do
Sitemaps do real work, but they don't do as much as articles…
Does Google Actually Use Priority and Changefreq in XML Sitemaps?
Google has confirmed it ignores priority and changefreq in XML sitemaps. Here's…