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    XML sitemap generator only crawling 20% of my site

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    • Nozzle
      Nozzle last edited by

      Use Screaming Frog to crawl your site. It is free to download the software and you can use the free version to crawl up to 500 URLs.

      After it crawls your site you can click on the Sitemaps tab and generate an XML sitemap file to use.

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      • TyEl
        TyEl last edited by

        Thanks Boyd but unfortunately I am still missing a good chunk of URLs here and I am wondering why? Do those check on internal links in order to find these pages?

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        • Graduationmall
          Graduationmall last edited by

          I think it's not a big deal if the sitemap covers the main structure of your site. If your sitemap is constructed in a really decent structure, then missing some internal pages are acceptable because Googlebot will crawl all of your pages based on your site map. You can see the following page which also doesn't cover all of its pages, but there's no influence in terms of site crawler.

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          • TyEl
            TyEl last edited by

            This doesn't really answer my question of why I am not able to get all links into the XML sitemap when using xml sitemap generators.

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            • Nozzle
              Nozzle @TyEl last edited by

              Patrick wrote a list of reasons why Screaming Frog might not be crawling certain pages here: https://moz.com/community/q/screamingfrog-won-t-crawl-my-site#reply_300029.

              Hopefully that list can help you figure out your site's specific issue.

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              • asdasdfasf
                asdasdfasf last edited by

                use Yoast or rankmath ot fix it

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                • Smantha
                  Smantha last edited by

                  My new waterproof tent reviews blog facing the crawling problem. How can I fix that?

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                  • HeinHaji
                    HeinHaji last edited by

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                    • ndsjiu7823
                      ndsjiu7823 last edited by

                      I'm using Yoast SEO plugin for my website. It generates the Sitemap automatically.

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                      • noahjohn7788
                        noahjohn7788 last edited by

                        If you are using WordPress then I would recommend to use Yoast plugin. It generates sitemap automatically regularly. I am also using it on my blog.

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                        • ChunkyChuck
                          ChunkyChuck last edited by

                          Yes Yoast on WordPress works fine for sitemap generation. I would also recommend that. Using on all of my blog sites.

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