XML sitemaps serve as a way to communicate directly with the search engines, alerting them to new or changed content very quickly and helping to ensure that the content is indexed faster.
Copied Content From other Site:
It’s not uncommon for publishers to syndicate their content on other websites. Further, it’s also not uncommon for publishers to have their site’s content “curated” by other websites without a formal syndication agreement. Panda algorithm update focused in part on removing duplicate content from search engine results pages – meaning that if a site is not deemed the content originator, it’s at risk of being excluded from the results altogether.XML sitemaps are just one tool that can help content creators establish their stake as the content originator.
How It Works:
First, you’ll need to create an XML sitemap for your site. Some content management systems (CMS) have an integrated capability to auto-generate XML sitemaps. For WordPress users, I recommend using the Yoast SEO Plugin as Word Press does not have built in sitemap generation capability. If you have a particularly large website, you may also need to employ a sitemap index. Search engines will only index the first 50,000 URLs in a sitemap, so if your site has more than 50,000 URLs, you’ll need to use an index to tie multiple sitemaps together.After you have created your sitemaps. You will need to register them with the various search engines.Taking this step helps the search engines identify where your sitemap is – meaning that as soon as the sitemap is updated, the search engines can react faster to index the new content.
To submit a sitemap to Google:
- Ensure that the XML Sitemap is on your web server and accessible via its URL.
- Log in to Google Webmaster Tools.
- Under “Crawl,” choose “Sitemaps.”
- Click on the red button in the upper right marked “Add/Test Sitemap.” Enter the URL of the sitemap and click “Submit Sitemap.”
- Another great reason to register sitemaps with Google specifically is to catch Sitemap errors. Google Webmaster Tools provides great information about the status of each Sitemap. Google+
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