Tag Archives: Sitemap

On August 6, 2022, Google will no longer support some video and image sitemap extension tags. Gary Illyes from Google said it is removing support for those sitemap extension tags to simplify sitemap extensions and to help “reduce complexity of your codebases” by making sitemaps “less cluttered in general.” What is being removed. The following sitemap extension tags are no longer going to be supported: Within image sitemaps: caption geo_location title license Within video… Source link

Google announced that it is discontinuing the use of several image and video sitemap extensions. Google stated they decided to sunset the use of these sitemap extensions after evaluating the value of the tags. The deprecated tags and attributes will have no effect after August 6, 2022. Google announced that the documentation for the removed tags and attributes have already been removed. The image and video sitemaps will continue to be a part of the sitemap specs. The deprecation is limited… Source link

Google’s John Mueller advises site owners that deleting a sitemap won’t prevent URLs from being crawled in the future. This topic is discussed in the latest episode of the Ask Googlebot video series on YouTube. Mueller addresses a question asking if it’s possible to turn off or delete a sitemap from Google Search Console. Deleting a sitemap is possible, and it’s not hard to do either, but if the intention is to stop Googlebot from crawling the URLs then site owners will have to employ a… Source link

Sitemaps for Google Sites Google Removed Text About Building a Sitemap Google Leaves No Instructions for Sitemaps Screenshot of Current Google Developer Page for Sitemaps Citations Google Sites removed documentation on how to create sitemaps within the Google Sites. Google updated their documentation on March 1, 2021 to reflect that Google Sites does not auto-generate site maps. It’s unclear how long it’s been since this the sitemap creation function was removed. Sitemaps for Google Sites