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Sitemap Generator

A Sitemap is a file where you provide information about your site's pages, videos, and other files and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to crawl your site more efficiently. A sitemap tells search engines which pages and files you think are essential to your site and provides valuable information about these files. For example, when the page was last updated and if there were any alternate language versions.

Sitemaps are not mandatory, but a sitemap can still improve the crawling of larger or more complex sites or more specialized files.

To supply additional data about content pages, images, videos, and news content, the XML sitemap is the most preferred version of the sitemap format.

ESO can generate XML and HTML sitemaps for various content types, including images and videos. Sitemap generation can be automated by selecting the frequency.

Sitemap generator offers the following:

Regular webpage sitemap

Image sitemap

Video sitemap

Auto generation

Get To Know More About The Sitemap Generator

How is the priority for the URLs calculated?

The priority is set between 0.1 and 1.0. If the page can be accessed with a single click, its priority will be 1.0. If it is two or three clicks away, the priority may be 0.9 and 0.8, respectively. Other priority values are calculated similarly.

Any additional steps required to be completed before submitting the sitemaps after the inclusion of the hosting website?

Yes, two further steps must be completed according to the Google Image sitemap standards (https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/178636).

1. The hosting website must be validated in the Search Console.
2. The domain's robots.txt file does not prevent crawling of the hosting website.

What is an XML sitemap?

An XML (Extensible Markup Language) sitemap is used to detail all URLs on a website.

What is an HTML sitemap?

An HTML sitemap enables users to effortlessly traverse a website. An HTML sitemap helps lost human users discover a page on your website.

What is an Image sitemap?

The image sitemap comprises the domain's unique image URLs to avoid duplicate photos across your pages. The image sitemap is contained in a separate XML file.

Why is there a difference in count between Available images vs. Image sitemap URLs?

The 'Available images' are counted only for the successful image links, whereas the image sitemap may contain a few redirected URLs for the images and hence it may differ.

What is a Video sitemap?

A video sitemap has all the additional information about any video content hosted on the webpages of the domain.

What are the types of Sitemaps that can be generated?

Elite Site Optimizer provides four different types of sitemaps. XML sitemap,HTML sitemap,Image sitemap,Video sitemap

What are all the columns displayed in the table?

The columns displayed in the table are Date: The date on which the sitemap was generated. Domain: The domain or website URL for which the sitemap was generated. Type: The type of sitemap generated for the domain.

Total URLs: The total no. of URLs crawled for the domain.
Valid URLs: The total no. of valid URLs crawled for the domain.
Invalid URLs: The total no. of invalid URLs (Disallowed, No-robot, No-index URLs) present in the domain.
Change: The change of URL count comparing the previously generated sitemap and recently generated sitemap for the domain.
Total Time: The total time taken to generate the specific type of sitemap for the domain.
Action: It will display as "In -Progress" when the sitemaps are being generated and the Download button will be displayed when the sitemaps generation is completed. Clicking on the download button will allow you to download the specific type of sitemap for the domain.

Why Sitemap is used in a website?

By including an XML sitemap on your web server, search engine crawlers (such as Google) can determine which pages are present and which have recently changed, allowing them to explore your site accordingly.

Why is there an issue with generating new reports?

Sometimes, the website's server firewall, defenders, and security plugins implemented may affect Elite Site Optimizer from crawling the website and generating reports. To avoid this situation, Elite Site Optimizer's crawler IPs should be whitelisted in the website's server firewall, defenders, and security plugins implemented for the website.

Please add the following IPs in your firewall:

1) 44.240.233.25
2) 35.82.149.10

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