XML Sitemaps
Technical SEO Notes notes about XML Sitemaps
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What Is an HTML Sitemap Page, and How Is It Different From an XML Sitemap?
An HTML sitemap gives visitors an organized route to site content; an XML sitemap serves search-engine discovery instead.
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What an XML Sitemap Tells Search Engines—and What It Doesn’t
An XML sitemap identifies URLs a site owner considers important, but an entry is not evidence that a page was crawled or indexed.
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How to Turn Sitemap XML into Excel Rows and Columns
Use a sitemap parser to export page URL entries as spreadsheet rows, then check the columns and sample records against the XML.
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How to Export an XML Sitemap and Publish It at Your Site Root
Check for an existing sitemap, export the intended URLs, publish the XML at a stable root URL, and verify what that URL serves.
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How to Diagnose XML Sitemap Errors: Trace Each Report to Its Failure
Start with the reported error and URL, then test the published sitemap or the affected page—whichever the report actually identifies.
