Sitemap Index Files for Sites Over 50,000 URLs
A single XML sitemap tops out at 50,000 URLs and 50MB uncompressed. Past that, you need a sitemap index file — here's…
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A single XML sitemap tops out at 50,000 URLs and 50MB uncompressed. Past that, you need a sitemap index file — here's…
Googlebot crawls and renders JavaScript pages in two separate passes. Here is exactly what gets rendered, what gets skipped, and how to…
robots.txt supports two wildcards, * and $, and misusing either can block far more of a site than intended. The exact matching…
Server logs record every real request Googlebot made, not a simulation. Here is how to pull, filter, and read log files to…
Faceted navigation causes more crawl-budget waste than any other single site pattern. Here is how to decide which filter combinations to block,…
Google confirms it ignores XML sitemap priority and changefreq values. What Google actually uses instead, and where sitemap effort is worth spending.
Index bloat is when Google indexes far more of your URLs than you want ranked. Here's how to find the junk pages…
CSR sends Google an empty shell and a JS bundle; SSR sends finished HTML. The practical SEO difference, when CSR is fine,…
Infinite scroll and load-more buttons hide content from Googlebot unless paired with crawlable, paginated URLs. Here is the exact implementation that keeps…
The Search Console Removals tool hides a URL from Google Search for about six months, it does not delete the page from…
Image and video sitemaps help Google discover media a normal crawl might miss. When they earn their keep, when they're redundant, and…
Meta refresh and JavaScript redirects work for users but leak ranking signal and slow indexing. What Google actually does with each, and…
X-Robots-Tag is the only way to send noindex or nofollow directives on PDFs, images, and other non-HTML files. How it works, where…
A cross-domain canonical points one domain's page at the equivalent page on another domain. It is correct for syndication and un-redirected migrations,…
Four tools remove a page from Google: 404, 410, redirect, and noindex. Which one to use for a discontinued product, a merge,…
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A 12-point audit of your actual site: technical issues blocking indexation, on-page gaps, speed findings, and the three to five fixes we’d make first.