Home and category sitemap ?

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    (@omarcopolo)


    5 years, 1 month ago

    Hello

    I just installed this plugin and I have a question about the home sitemap generated and only give a link to homepage. What is it for ? Is it really important ?

    Before I used Yoast Plugin and it was generating 3 sitemaps : pages, articles and categories.

    So, do you recommend to activate a category sitemap or not ? By defaut it isn’t.

    Also, can I send to Google Search Console both sitemaps created by the plugin (XML sitemap with all the articles + google news sitemap with 48 last hours articles) ?

    Thanks a lot and sorry for my very bad english

    • This topic was modified 5 years, 1 month ago by omarcopolo.
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  • Hi, it does not really matter if you activate or deacivate the category sitemap. Search engines will normally (if your theme shows category meta info on post pages) find all your category pages on their own. The most important are the post/pages sitemaps, which will be useful for search engines to monitor new or modified content.

    By default the category and tag sitemaps are deactivated because these kind of pages are not where the value content of your site is. Most SEO plugins offer the option to add “noindex” meta tags to these type of pages. If you are using such meta tags, then these pages should not feature in your sitemap.

    The “home” sitemap is there to make sure that your home page is present even if it’s not a page but an auto-generated blog page. It can also contain multiple home pages when you are using a multi-language plugin.

    You should at least submit the main sitemap.xml in Google Search Console.

    The news-sitemap.xml is only for sites that are accepted in Google News. If your site has been submitted to Google News, then yes, you can submit the news sitemap in your search console ??

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