🟣 Your Sitemap Is Doing the Opposite of What You Think - TechSEO Vitals #37


πŸ‘‹ Hey Reader, You submit 48K URLs in your XML sitemap. 11K get indexed. You keep asking why Google won't crawl more. You have it backwards. Google crawled plenty. It just disagreed with your definition of "worth indexing" on 77% of what you submitted. The pattern is almost always the same. Sitemaps full of pages nobody would defend in a content review, submitted on autopilot, signaling to Google that the overall quality of your site is weak. You're probably treating your sitemap as a list. A...