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Do sitemaps still matter?
Do XML sitemaps still matter? Martin Splitt and John Mueller look back at their history, ask whether crawlers can work out site structure alone, and discuss why fetch warnings in Search Console worry owners.
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XML sitemaps
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XML + Hreflang: A practical guide for large ecommerce sites - Nick Samuel - brightonSEO April 2025
Hreflang in XML sitemaps can work better than HTML tags in some cases, argues Nick Samuel, who weighs up both methods and gives tips on prioritising and troubleshooting.
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Optimize Sitemaps for 1M+ Pages for E-commerce Websites | Whiteboard Friday | Stevy Liakopoulou | 4K
Stevy Liakopoulou walks through six steps to optimise sitemaps for ecommerce sites with over a million pages, as guest host of a Moz whiteboard session.
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