Google launched a free service on Friday that gives Webmasters more control over what Web pages are crawled by the search engine. Until now, the most that Webmasters could do to encourage Google to ...

We know that each XML sitemap file can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs but what is counted as the 50,000 URLs? John Mueller was asked if Google counts both the location URL and the alternative URL in ...

Google has made a small note to the sitemap documentation to add that the lastmod date specified in the sitemap file "should reflect the date and time of the last significant update to the page." This ...

Google’s John Mueller answered a question about how many sitemaps to upload, and then said there are no guarantees that any of the URLs will be crawled right away. A member of the r/TechSEO community ...