Large Weblog Sitemaps Are Broken, Together With Lack Content
Wednesday, October 23, 2019
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Several owners of large blogs (500 posts as well as up) are reporting problems alongside indexing, inward Blogger Help Forum: Get Help alongside an Issue.
Upon investigation, nosotros bring discovered that both blogs using the classic feed based sitemap, as well as the current automatically generated sitemap, are missing sitemap contents, equally.
Right now, sitemaps for blogs alongside over 500 posts - as well as a paged sitemap - are missing pregnant amounts of content.
The work affects blogs using the classic sitemap, as well as the novel sitemap.
Large blogs cannot hold upward properly indexed, alongside the sitemaps containing solely 150 entries, instead of 500 entries, per page. Both blogs which role the classic spider web log feed based sitemap, as well as blogs which role the novel Blogger generated sitemap, seem to hold upward as affected.
The work appears to involved both blogs published to BlogSpot, as well as to custom domains.
The effects of the work tin hold upward easily seen, inward Search Console reports.
The work tin hold upward observed inward the Search Console - Crawl - Sitemaps displays, where the possessor volition notice a significantly smaller issue of indexed posts. Examine the pages inward the sitemap.
Or, yous may essay out the blog posts newsfeed sitemap, using a text browser. Then, search for "<title·type='text'>".
Load a "500 posts" feed segment, inward a text browser.
Search for "<title·type='text'>".
Right now, you'll instruct 151 hits - ane for the blog, 150 for 150 posts.
That's 150 posts, out of 500. What is that doing, to the spider web log reputation?
This spider web log has merely nether 2,400 posts published. Right now, Search Console shows 1,157 Submitted, alongside 1,388 Indexed.
This spider web log has merely nether 2,400 published posts. 1,157 submitted is a pregnant drop.
Blogs alongside to a greater extent than than 2,500 posts (and a fully populated sitemap) are similarly affected.
This is a pregnant impact, on traffic to large blogs.
With the sitemap capable of hosting 2,500 posts for submission as well as indexing, this is a pregnant drib inward indexing - as well as probably, inward search engine reputation.
The work has been reported to Blogger Support. If your spider web log is affected, as well as yous wishing to the world the URL of your spider web log here, I volition transcend it on to Blogger.
(Update 11/28 1:00): Blogger Engineering is directly offering a Blogger generated sitemap ("sitemap.xml"), alongside upward to xx pages of 150 entries / page. People using sitemaps based on spider web log feeds may bring to add together sitemaps, if feed segments are express to 150 posts / segment.
This spider web log possessor did nix to campaign this problem.I bring over 2500 posts, inward my blog. Each sitemap page, which should incorporate 500 posts, shows solely 150 posts. This reduces my indexed posts tremendously!
Upon investigation, nosotros bring discovered that both blogs using the classic feed based sitemap, as well as the current automatically generated sitemap, are missing sitemap contents, equally.
Right now, sitemaps for blogs alongside over 500 posts - as well as a paged sitemap - are missing pregnant amounts of content.
The work affects blogs using the classic sitemap, as well as the novel sitemap.
Large blogs cannot hold upward properly indexed, alongside the sitemaps containing solely 150 entries, instead of 500 entries, per page. Both blogs which role the classic spider web log feed based sitemap, as well as blogs which role the novel Blogger generated sitemap, seem to hold upward as affected.
The work appears to involved both blogs published to BlogSpot, as well as to custom domains.
The effects of the work tin hold upward easily seen, inward Search Console reports.
The work tin hold upward observed inward the Search Console - Crawl - Sitemaps displays, where the possessor volition notice a significantly smaller issue of indexed posts. Examine the pages inward the sitemap.
Or, yous may essay out the blog posts newsfeed sitemap, using a text browser. Then, search for "<title·type='text'>".
Load a "500 posts" feed segment, inward a text browser.
Search for "<title·type='text'>".
Right now, you'll instruct 151 hits - ane for the blog, 150 for 150 posts.
That's 150 posts, out of 500. What is that doing, to the spider web log reputation?
This spider web log has merely nether 2,400 posts published. Right now, Search Console shows 1,157 Submitted, alongside 1,388 Indexed.
This spider web log has merely nether 2,400 published posts. 1,157 submitted is a pregnant drop.
Blogs alongside to a greater extent than than 2,500 posts (and a fully populated sitemap) are similarly affected.
This is a pregnant impact, on traffic to large blogs.
With the sitemap capable of hosting 2,500 posts for submission as well as indexing, this is a pregnant drib inward indexing - as well as probably, inward search engine reputation.
The work has been reported to Blogger Support. If your spider web log is affected, as well as yous wishing to the world the URL of your spider web log here, I volition transcend it on to Blogger.
(Update 11/28 1:00): Blogger Engineering is directly offering a Blogger generated sitemap ("sitemap.xml"), alongside upward to xx pages of 150 entries / page. People using sitemaps based on spider web log feeds may bring to add together sitemaps, if feed segments are express to 150 posts / segment.