2015/2016 Sitemaps Exclusions

[artdivision]

Hello fellow mozrs!
Been working on a few Property (Real Estate for our American friends)  websites recently and and two questions that constantly come up as we spec the site are:

1. What schema (schema.org) should the website use (throughout all pages as well as individual pages). Did anyone found that schema actually helped with their ranking/CTR?
2. Whilst setting up the sitemaps (usually Yaost is our preferred plugin for the job), what page would you EXCLUDE from the site map?

Looking forward to some interesting comments.
Dan.

[CraigBradford]

Hi Dan,

I depends on the model, I would recommend all the obvious stuff like:

• Branch information like opening times and addresses for individual agents
• Individual property information like area, price etc

Some of the more interesting/new things are actions. You could potentially use:

• Ask question action: https://schema.org/AskAction
• Rent Action: https://schema.org/RentAction

On the sitemap question, you want to make sure your sitemaps are "clean" meaning there are only pages that return a 200 response. There shouldn't be any redirects or 404s. Only put pages you want to show up in the index in the sitemap.

Hope that helps.

https://schema.org/RentAction