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It does not, you can probably submit the same sitemap hundreds of times a day without any impact to you.

You gave the best answer yourself: "These sites aren't really relevant to our website" - That is SEO language for don't do it.

You don't have to do both, I would focus on making sure you have the LINK tags in the top of your HEAD so you can make sure that right away Google picks up on these signals. You can read more about that here: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/189077?hl=en you don't necessarily have to specify it per link in your actual content.

It depends a bit on how you leverage this tactic in your overall strategy. If you expect to start ranking just because you add it as an item in the overall menu structure then you probably don't have a lot of luck. If you're trying to leverage this as one of the ways to get a certain page ranking than you likely have more luck.

Hi there!

I would look at least into ItemList, Organization, Website, WebPage, BreadCrumbList. Those are the more generic ones that always provide more information about a specific webpage. If you can add more information around search functionality or the wallpapers itself there is likely a few more out there that you could leverage. But for that you probably would have to post a URL here so we can check out what else you could add.

Martijn.

No, it's called a change in search behavior and we haven't noticed in travel, not anything that comes close to an algorithm update.

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Go with option 2, there is no scaling issue here. I have worked with and for sites that have a high multiplier on the number of sitemaps and pages that they're submitting, in some cases up to 100M pages. In all cases, Google was totally fine in crawling and processing the data that was there. As long as you follow the guidelines (max 50K URLs in a sitemap) you're fine as you're just providing another file that usually doesn't exceed about 50MB (depending on if you also add images to the sitemap). If you have an engineering team build the right infrastructure you can easily deal with thousands of these files and run them automated every day/week.

My main focus on big sites is also to streamline their sitemaps to have sitemaps with just the last 50.000 pages and the same for the last 50.000 pages that were updated. This way you're able to also monitor the indexation level of these pages. If you are able to, for example, combine the data from log file analysis you can say: we added 50K pages and Google in the last days were able to crawl X percentage of that.

Hope this gives you some extra insights.

Martijn.

Yes you are correct, I would advise to only include canonical URLs in your XML sitemap files.

Hi,

There is a few things in your post that I want to help clarify:

• Just sending traffic and links to something doesn't always mean that it'll help drive your search rankings.
• Posting a PDF in Google Drive and linking to that won't help your site rank better, in the end the file is hosted on a Google owned domain, not yours. So as far as I can imagine it won't help you.
• Only if people would link to the actual PDF that is hosted on your site (including meta robots of noindex) it could help you. But only if that link is public for anybody to visit and not just something that you obviously send out in an email.

Martijn

Hi Scott, Interesting line of thought I must say, but unfortunately ads.txt is not a factor as there are also tons of sites out there that don't participate at all in using ads or anything of that nature that then immediately would be facing negative consequences of not using this file. I've worked for some sites that had this file up but first of all: the change that you make would be so small to dedicate just to that file that it would never ever be able to call itself a secret weapon in my opinion.

Look into lazy loading pictures and background images that aren't directly in the viewport of the user when you're loading the page. This way you can hopefully save hundreds of KBs in not having to download these pictures on their bandwidth and often that can save a ton of resources that you don't have to load.

Don't add nofollow to them, I'm also assuming that these are not original links but actually just link to an anchor # on the page itself (at least they should). If not, then I would advise you to make them work like that. In the end, I would never add nofollow to these links. The number of links doesn't matter that badly and in this case, it's actually helping users. I would say, there is many more other things to worry about in SEO than the number of internal links on your site.

Hard to say as it depends. I would test it on a few pages and see if it can drive any uplift compared to your standardized META tags. That way you have some actual proof instead of trying to reverse engineer it.

Can't agree more, don't even start this process if you don't think you can provide a more unique experience for every city. If you can't, you're likely exposing yourself more to risk than any potential benefits over time.

I must admit, you did a great job hiding the anchor text in this post

PBNs.. really that's your best advice? Please don't.

You can no-index these pages usually, I wouldn't say that Google considers them thin content pages though as they can be found on any website on the web and they can probably guess that the page isn't relevant for the user anyway. Some pages like thank-you can be no-indexed but in the end, Google shouldn't even be able to visit them as they require you to fill in a form. Overall I would mostly look at the priority of this task, in the end, there is likely a 100+ other things that I would do first in my strategy over no-indexing pages that have low relevance.

No, it doesn't matter at all. In most cases, Google doesn't need any signals on the page to figure out when the content was last updated.

Start figuring out here if you actually have implemented the FAQ Schema.org - https://search.google.com/structured-data/testing-tool/u/0/#url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.estakhrbilit.com%2F

First of all, I want to second the response from EGOL, don't do anything that you will regret later as at some point it'll likely hurt you more than it'll help you.

As a first tactic, I would start finding places that have unlinked mentions of your company that you can ask to be updated, or reach out to vendors, customers etc. to see if they're willing to refer back to your site via case studies etc. In a lot of cases, this will help you build the first couple dozen links and can help drive promotional efforts going forward.