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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [XML Sitemap Generator for Google] URLs to language pages wrong@planctology, it’s not clear what is happening there. In fact sitemaps are not working at all. Would you please email us the results of the debug tool so we can investigate further?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [XML Sitemap Generator for Google] Wrong multilingual URLs listed@kram09890, we tried duplicating this use case ourselves and couldn’t find an issue. Would you mind emailing us so we can perform a deeper investigation?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [XML Sitemap Generator for Google] Sitemap Capabilities@charlton1, yes, of course. Unfortunately, these signals are mostly ignored by search engines these days.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [XML Sitemap Generator for Google] Categories not showing in sitemap@topfra, we would love to inspect your site to ensure we get to the bottom of this issue. Would you please email us the results from the debug tool?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [XML Sitemap Generator for Google] Exclude Url page@frankpag1, you can email us to be put on the waitlist. Thanks!
Hi @frankpag1, yes the premium version does.
I think there’s a couple things to be done here that we cannot do on the forums:
- Compare the behavior of the latest release to v4.1.1 to ensure that all posts are being captured and following search engine guidelines
- Talk about our new premium features which are designed to help keep content in the search engine index.
What do you mean by “I changed the sub-sitemap structure”?
To be clear, I’m not attempting to debate with you or trying to change your mind. We just have to deal with facts and evidence:
Someone would report a bug causing traffic loss out of millions of users; otherwise, there wouldn’t be millions of users.
Search engines do not care about sitemaps’ file names or directory structures; they only care about their contents, syntax guidelines, etc.
If you’re saying that the *only* thing changing on your website is the version of the plugin used, then we should do some experiments with your low traffic sites in a scientific way.
We appreciate more than you can imagine your loyalty to our indexation plugin. However, maintaining multiple implementations is not possible. The project is already more work than we can handle.
Sitemap file names are literally irrelevant to search engines. Search engines care about the contents of the sitemap and that the sitemap’s context follows the correct syntax. Nothing else matters unless you’ve been changing your permalink structure without 301 redirects.
I agree that the timing of your AdSense approvals is suspect, but if this correlation was valid, there would have been thousands of similar reports over the past year, and there have been none other than yours out of millions of active installations.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [XML Sitemap Generator for Google] Stop Irrelevant Pages from Crawling@copiaurbietorbi. we would have to take a closer look at your exact site to answer your questions about /sitemap.xml and /robots.txt, but for now I can say that by default those files are dynamic (generated upon request) and won’t appear in the filesystem on your server when you browse it.
As for the indexaction of pages you wanted out search results, your sitemap doesn’t directly control that, sitemaps are for discovery, not control over your indexation. Robots.txt and meta tags serve that purpose.
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [XML Sitemap Generator for Google] Taxonomy-sitemap missing in sitemap-index@andreas-2013, you’re using the latest version?
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [XML Sitemap Generator for Google] Fatal errorI’m sorry, you’ll have to ask a developer to investigate.
We have planned features related to de-indexation of posts, but they are not related to sitemaps. If a page has been crawled by search engines and no longer appears in the sitemap for any reason, it does not become de-indexed.
The changes to the sitemap structure were made to follow best practices. If you see published pages/posts that should appear missing, we need to investigate a bug. Otherwise, we’re following best practices, and you can reduce the number of items per sitemap by setting a minimum. Again, this minimum comes from search engine guidance. Also, I’m curious, how do you know that the change in traffic is related to sitemaps?
@roam92, if the exact same file was not in conflict with prior releases, then we definitely need to investigate, especially because you have HTML sitemaps disabled. Have you already emailed support about this?