- Issue created by @pyretta
- 🇩🇪Germany gbyte Berlin
All hreflang pages are bundled in one sitemap. For SEO reasons it would be better to use a separate sitemap for each language. In our case: german, english, french.
If you split the sitempas into languages, you don't have hreflang sitemaps anymore. The whole point of this standard (developed by Google) is to combine all language variants of links into one.
but in the settings of the sitemap module still is the "ping" method used
If you are using the simple_sitemap_engines submodule to submit the sitemaps to search engines, got to /admin/config/search/simplesitemap/engines/settings and disable submission. Use IndexNow submission instead which this module suppports well.
Let me know if that helps.
- Status changed to Fixed
5 months ago 11:30pm 8 February 2024 - 🇲🇽Mexico djkozz Puebla
Thank you, same issue here. Finally, Google does not care about sitemap.xml! They track everything, and also report as error the new Drupal robots.txt exclusions! Shame on them!
- 🇺🇸United States W01F
Just following up here for clarification as we're also seeing some confusing reports for several sites in Google Analytics recently and are trying to track the cause down.
Uploading screenshot of what I'm understanding are the recommended settings to, again as I understand we should have to:
- avoid the deprecated 'ping' method
- continue to display the hreflang sitemap for the language variant standard recommended by Google
- 🇩🇪Germany gbyte Berlin
Finally, Google does not care about sitemap.xml! They track everything, and also report as error the new Drupal robots.txt exclusions! Shame on them!
They do care about the sitemap same as before. They just think they know when you update it without you having to ping them about it.
Uploading screenshot of what I'm understanding are the recommended settings to, again as I understand we should have to
You got it and your settings are fine.
Automatically closed - issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.