stevedaniel

Need help to make Sitemap

by @stevedaniel (121), 3 years ago

Hi, I am working on a website. I need help on the site map. Can I make a sitemap manual just like below?

<url>
  <loc>https://www.mywebsite.com/speaker-wires</loc>
  <lastmod>2020-09-11T21:26:54+00:00</lastmod>
  <changefreq>never</changefreq>
</url>

Actually the problem that I am facing there, Some non-interesting URLS are showing first numbers in sitemap when I create online. Can I change value up and down in XML sitemap? Will it effect on site or not?

Thank You.

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by @ms (3855), 3 years ago

Depends how it's generated. If sitemap items are ordered by last modification, you will get your newest articles/pages first (or last), but it doesn't matter. There is no correlation in sitemap order and ranking positions (at all).

So no, it won't affect. The only thing it may affect is WHEN given URLs will be processed. Your site is given crawl budget, and if your sitemap has too many records for single crawl, only portion of it will be crawled at once - likely from the beginning...

stevedaniel
by @stevedaniel (121), 3 years ago

Thanks. And Change Frequency & Lastmode, I think If i make these disable are better.

jibranahmed
by @jibranahmed (88), 3 years ago

If you have a WordPress Website, Install SEO Yoast Plugin and it will create a sitemap automatically. If you are working on different Technology, you can use Sitemap Creating Tool Online. You just have to enter your Website and the tool will create the sitemap.

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