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integratedagency · 4 years ago

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What is Sitemap? And Why It Is Crucial To Improve The Ranking Of Your Website?

More exposure and prominent brand visibility have become a crucial aspect of success in digital marketing. With millions of sites targeting more traffic, the competition to stay on top is becoming fierce with every passing day. SEO has become a more important and complex field than we have ever imagined. The regular updates from Google to improve its algorithms have made it even more difficult to cope with.

Technical SEO plays a major role to enhance the technical performance of your website from a Google perspective. Technical issues include many factors such as site speed, sitemaps, robots.text, schema markup and more. A sitemap can easily be defined as the organization of website content in either visual or XML. Visual sitemaps can be seen and understood by users, while XML sitemaps are developed for search engines.

Organized things or data both are visually appealing and easy to evaluate for people. Similarly, sitemaps offer convenience for search engines to understand the organization of a website. Sitemap generation will play a vital role to boost your SEO that will ultimately improve the ranking of your website.

XML sitemaps are not visible to the traffic of a website; they are intended to guide search engines to intelligently crawl websites. A website will get indexed and work well without any sitemap as well. It can be used to clearly define and elaborate the structure of a website. Integrated IT Solutions pay special attention towards the process of sitemap generation in their seo services.

Sitemaps Will Help You To Boost SEO of Your Website

The benefits of sitemap are more comprehensive than one can imagine, they are a credible source to feed critical information to crawlers. It gives clear directions about important pages of your website and how often they are updated etc.

Sitemap creation is usually considered a complex and difficult task to accomplish. Though it is a fairly simple process to generate the sitemap for your website.

Improve Navigation & Visibility Of Your Website

Both HTML and XML sitemaps are equally important to boost the performance of a site with every aspect. There is a thinking that XML sitemaps will be enough for any site, as they affect the process of crawling and indexing. So there is no special need to create an HTML sitemap.

But we all know, that Google also pays special attention to some other factors as well such as easy navigation for better ranking etc.

Sitemaps will work more proficient than internal linking

According to Google, internal linking makes a site more accessible for crawlers to crawl and index. Sitemap generation is equally important for every type and size of website. Websites with plenty of pages fairly require a sitemap to guide crawlers about how to crawl your website. Otherwise, your site will not be crawled and indexed properly by the crawlers. The proper organization of your web pages into categories makes all pages more accessible to bots and crawlers.

Sitemap generation has become an important component of SEO services that are considered incomplete without sitemap generation. A sitemap will help you to boost your technical SEO strategy to get quick and effective results.

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hexseotools · 5 years ago

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How To Generate Image Sitemap In 2020

Similar to a normal XML sitemap and the way it presents your web pages in a hierarchical manner, an image sitemap is a raw web page which lists the exact links of your images in a well-structured format. As you know, the main goal of a normal XML sitemap is to transfer valuable information about each of your web pages to Googlebots. Examples of these data are the location of a web page, its last time modification, its change frequency, and its importance and priority in relation to other pages.

Based on what is said in Google Webmaster Central Blog, you can manually build the sitemap required for your images on your own website through the use of Google sitemap extensions for Images (image sitemap specific tags). You can also utilize an online sitemapgeneration tool which is able to automatically create image sitemap for your website.

If you decide to use automatic image sitemap maker, we proudly recommend you to generate the suitable image sitemap for your website via Hexseotools image sitemap generator. This easy-to-use image sitemap builder is able to build a separate sitemap file that organize your images’ required information for Google. This way, the images existed within your web pages will more likely to be in the index box of Google and all other search engines. In addition, if you want to integrate your images with your standard XML sitemap, you just need to let the generator know; it starts to crawl your URLs and all images available on them. Then, it automatically adds the Google sitemap extensions for images to the XML sitemap file based on the information collected by Googlebots.

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dhamaniasad · 6 years ago

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pwadev · 8 years ago

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SEO оптимизация сайта

Здравствуйте, сегодня хотелось бы написать о поисковой оптимизации сайта/блога.

Ведь для чего мы создаем свой проект? Чтобы он был полезным, ну по крайней мере мы так хотим, чтобы люди посещали наш блог или сайт, брали для себя полезную информацию или просто развлекались.

Сразу же возникает вопрос, где же взять этих людей? Как привлечь их на свой проект, есть много вариантов – один из них это оптимизация сайта под поисковые системы, про него мы сегодня и поговорим, а остальные способы обсудим в следующий раз.

1. И так с чего же следует начать? Чтобы поисковая система будь то Гугл, Яндек или, к примеру, Рамблер заинтересовались Вашим сайтом, и в выдачи он был на высоких местах, нужен хороший, а главно�� уникальный контент.

Ведь если Вы решите копипастить информацию с других сайтов причините вред не только себе, но и тому, у кого Вы эту информацию сперли. Так что пишите сами, по возможности без ошибок, чтобы юзерам было приятно все это читать, вставляете картинку в пост? И ее постарайтесь уникализировать, отредактируйте ее в каком-нибудь редакторе, добавьте логотип вашего сайта и т.д.

2. О контенте проекта мы поговорили, а как подготовить сам сайт?

Строите проект на готовой CMS типа WordPress, или пишите движок сами. Тогда не будем забывать про оптимизация страниц сайта:

TITLE - Заголовок страницы. < meta name=description content=описание страницы />

советую серьезно отнестись к заполнению этого поля, размещаются метатеги внутри тега(заголовка страницы).

ALT тега SEO оптимизация изображений с вашего сайта, довольно таки хорошо помогает в привлечении посетителей.

Теги применяются для создания заголовков. Поисковые системы уважают их, самый важный заголовок первого уровня, на странице он должен быть один.

3. Станицы мы подготовили, контентом наполнили, теперь добавляем сайт в поисковые системы, для этого есть специальные сервисы:

Добавить в Яндекс

Добавить в Google

Добавить в Рамблер

4. Добавьте сайт в парочку топ-рейтингов, например: Рейтинг от Маил.Ру

5. Вы можете добавить сайт в различные каталоги, есть белые и черные каталоги, пользуйтесь белыми, они не требуют от Вас обратной ссылки или баннера, это придаст небольшой вес вашей странице.

Как вариант попробуйте оставлять комментарии в блогах, где есть Тиц и PR, Яндекс врятли сильно отреагирует на это, а вот Гугл способен оценить такое действие.

Большое количество обратных ссылок на сайт даст свои плюсы при апдейтах поисковых систем, а если ссылка будет с сайта с высокими пузомерками, то Вам повезло вдвойне.

Не забудьте добавить карту сайта, Гугл ее любит, только сделайте так, чтобы ссылка на карту была на каждой страницы сайта. Для создания можно использовать программу, называется она SiteMapGenerator, думаю, что все смогут разобраться в программе.

Смотрите также:

Создание сайтов в Самаре от профессионалов

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cstesttaken · 8 years ago

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Start Your SEO Right with Sitemaps on Rails

After crafting your website, the next step usually involves taking care of search engine optimization (SEO). With that in mind, creating a sitemap is one of the tasks that you will need to solve. According to the , sitemaps are UTF-8 encoded XML files that describe the structure of your site. They are quite simple, but for large sites creating them by hand is not an option. Therefore, it’s a smart move to automate generating sitemaps.

There are a number of solutions for Rails to generate sitemaps available, but I prefer a gem called . It is being actively maintained and has a number of cool features:

It is framework-agnostic, so you may use it without Rails

It is very flexible

It has own configuration file and is not strictly bound to your app’s routes

It allows you to automatically upload sitemaps to third-party storage

It automatically pings search engines when a new sitemap is generated

It supports multiple sitemap files and various types of sitemaps (video, news, images, etc.)

In this article we will see SitemapGenerator in action by integrating it into a sample Rails app and discussing its main features. I will also explain how to export sitemaps to cloud storage so that everything works properly on platforms like Heroku.

The source code for this article is available at GitHub.

Creating a Sample Site

As usual, start off by creating a new Rails application:

$ rails new Sitemapper -T

I will be using Rails 5.0.1 but SitemapGenerator works with virtually any version.

We will need some sample models, routes, and controllers. Views can be omitted for this demo – it does not really matter what content the site actually has.

Suppose we are creating a blog that has posts and categories; one category can have many posts. Run the following commands to generate models and migrations:

$ rails g model Category title:string $ rails g model Post category:belongs_to title:string body:text $ rails db:migrate

Make sure that models have the proper associations set up:

[...] has_many :posts, dependent: :destroy [...]

[...] belongs_to :category [...]

Now let’s set up some routes. To make things a bit more interesting, I will make them nested:

[...] resources :categories do resources :posts end [...]

Also, while we are here, add the root route:

[...] root to: 'pages#index' [...]

Now create the controllers. We don’t really need any actions inside, so they will be very simple:

class CategoriesController < ApplicationController end

class PostsController < ApplicationController end

class PagesController < ApplicationController end

Great! Before proceeding, however, let’s also take care of sample data inside our application.

Loading Sample Data

To see SitemapGenerator in action we will also require some sample data. I am going to use the Faker gem for this task:

[...] group :development do gem 'faker' end [...]

$ bundle install

Now modify the db/seeds.rb file:

5.times do category = Category.create({ title: Faker::Book.title }) 5.times do category.posts.create({ title: Faker::Book.title, body: Faker::Lorem.sentence }) end end

We are creating five categories each with five posts that have some random content. To run this script use the following command:

$ rails db:seed

Nice! Preparations are done, so let’s proceed to the main part.

Integrating Sitemap Generator

Add the gem we’re using into the Gemfile:

[...] gem 'sitemap_generator' [...]

$ bundle install

To create a sample config file with useful comments, employ this command:

$ rake sitemap:install

Inside the config directory you will find a sitemap.rb file. The first thing to do here is specify the hostname of your site:

SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.default_host = "http://www.example.com"

Note that this gem also supports .

The main instructions for SitemapGenerator should be placed inside the block passed to the SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.create method. For example, let’s add a link to our root path:

SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.create do add root_path end

The add method accepts a bunch of arguments. Specify that the root page is being updated daily:

add root_path, :changefreq => 'daily'

What about the posts and categories? They are being added by the users dynamically so we must query the database and generate links on the fly:

[...] Category.find_each do |category| add category_posts_path(category), :changefreq => 'weekly', :lastmod => category.updated_at category.posts.each do |post| add category_post_path(category), :changefreq => 'yearly', :lastmod => post.updated_at end end [...]

Note that here I’ve also provided the :lastmod option to specify when the page was last updated (the default value is Time.now).

Running Generator and Inspecting Sitemap Files

To generate a new sitemap (or update an existing one) run the following command:

$ rails sitemap:refresh

Note that if, for some reason, a sitemap fails to be generated, the old version won’t be removed. Another important thing to remember is that the script will automatically ping Google and Bing search engines to notify that a new version of a sitemap is available. Here is the sample output from the command above:

+ sitemap.xml.gz 1 sitemap / 251 Bytes Sitemap stats: 62 links / 1 sitemap / 0m01s Pinging with URL 'http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.gz': Successful ping of Google Successful ping of Bing

If you need to ping additional engines, you may modify the SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.search_engines hash. Also you may omit pinging of search engines by saying

$ rails sitemap:refresh:no_ping

Generated sitemaps will be placed inside the public directory with the .xml.gz extension. You may extract this file and browse it with any text editor. If for some reason you don’t want files to be compressed with GZip, set the SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.compress option to false.

Now that you have a sitemap in place, the public/robots.txt file should be modified to provide a link to it:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml.gz

SitemapGenerator may create an index file depending on how many links your sitemap has. By default (the :auto option) if there are more than 50 000 links, they will be separated into different files and links to them will be added into the index. You can control this behavior by changing the SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.create_index option. Other available options are true (always generate index) and false (never generate index).

If you wish to add a link , use the add_to_index method that is very similar to the add method.

Multiple Locales

Now suppose our blog supports two languages: English and Russian. Set English as the default locale and also tweak the available_locales setting:

[...] config.i18n.default_locale = :en config.i18n.available_locales = [:en, :ru] [...]

[...] scope "(:locale)", locale: /#{I18n.available_locales.join("|")}/ do resources :categories do resources :posts end root to: 'pages#index' end [...]

It is probably a good idea to separate sitemaps for English and Russian locales into different files. This is totally possible, as SitemapGenerator supports groups:

[...] {en: :english, ru: :russian}.each_pair do |locale, name| group(:sitemaps_path => "sitemaps/#{locale}/", :filename => name) do add root_path(locale: locale), :changefreq => 'daily' Category.find_each do |category| add category_posts_path(category, locale: locale), :changefreq => 'weekly', :lastmod => category.updated_at category.posts.each do |post| add category_post_path(category, post, locale: locale), :changefreq => 'yearly', :lastmod => post.updated_at end end end end [...]

The idea is very simple. We are creating a public/sitemaps directory that contains ru and en folders. Inside there are english.xml.gz and russian.xml.gz files. I will also instruct the script to always generate the index file:

[...] SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.create_index = true [...]

Deploying to Heroku

Our site is ready for deployment, however, there is a problem: Heroku does not allow us to persist custom files. Therefore we must export the generated sitemap to cloud storage. I will use Amazon S3 for this demo, so add a new gem into the Gemfile:

[...] gem 'fog-aws' [...]

$ bundle install

Now we need to provide a for SitemapGenerator explaining where to export the files:

[...] SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.adapter = SitemapGenerator::S3Adapter.new(fog_provider: 'AWS', aws_access_key_id: 'KEY', aws_secret_access_key: 'SECRET', fog_directory: 'DIR', fog_region: 'REGION') SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.public_path = 'tmp/' SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.sitemaps_host = "https://example.s3.amazonaws.com/" SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.sitemaps_path = 'sitemaps/' [...]

SitemapGenerator::S3Adapter.new contains configuration for S3. To obtain a key pair, you need to log into and create an account with read/write permission to access the S3 service. Do not publicly expose this key pair! Also create an S3 bucket in a chosen region (default is us-east-1).

Next, we are setting tmp/ for the public_path option – that’s the directory where the file will be initially created before being exported to S3.

sitemaps_host should contain a path to your S3 bucket.

sitemaps_path is a relative path inside your bucket.

Some more information about this configuration can be found on this page.

Another problem is that some platforms (Bing, for example) require sitemaps to be located under the same domain, therefore we need to take care of it as well. Let’s add a route /sitemap to our application that will simply perform redirect to S3:

[...] get '/sitemap', to: 'pages#sitemap' [...]

The corresponding action:

[...] def sitemap redirect_to 'https://example.s3.amazonaws.com/sitemaps/sitemap.xml.gz' end [...]

As you remember, by default SitemapGenerator will ping search engines but it will provide a direct link to S3 which is not what we want. Utilize the ping_search_engines method to override this behavior:

[...] SitemapGenerator::Sitemap.ping_search_engines('http://example.com/sitemap') [...]

Do note that now you need to generate sitemap by running

$ rake sitemap:refresh:no_ping

because otherwise SitemapGenerator will ping search engines with both the direct link and http://example.com/sitemap.

Lastly, update the robots.txt with a new link:

Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap

This is it, now your site is ready to be published to Heroku!

Conclusion

We’ve reached the end of this article! By now you should be familiar with SitemapGenerator’s key features and be able to integrate it into your own application. If you have any questions, don’t hesitate to post them into the comments. Also, browse the gem’s documentation, as it has a number of other features that we haven’t discussed.

Thanks for staying with me and see you soon!

Source

https://www.sitepoint.com/start-your-seo-right-with-sitemaps-on-rails/

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