XML Sitemaps – Moz Blog Post

Published by Michael Cottam on

I did a post for the Moz main blog on XML sitemaps, all the ways people do them wrong, and how to use them to diagnose indexation issues. Read the full post here.
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Michael Cottam

Michael is an independent SEO consultant, specializing in organic SEO, technical SEO implementation, and Google penalty recovery. Michael lives in Portland, Oregon with his son Ben.

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