SEO for a small site
A sitemap is a list of pages you want crawled. 404s, noindex studio, and doorway junk do not belong.
robots.txt is not noindex, and a sitemap is not a ranking purchase. Search Console after publish is yours. This URL is the membership of the list. Lastmod should not be a lie on every row. Someone who submitted the whole domain including /create. If it should not be in Google, it should not be in the sitemap.
Put only public, indexable, 200 URLs in a sitemap. Do not include Bizzit Create, preview, dashboard, or API paths. Do not include 404s or city doorways. Free is you.bizzit.io with 50 Cipher turns and no daily cap. Pro is $12 a month. We generate a sitemap for bizzit.io; your tenant host is a different property you verify.
Who this is for
Someone who submitted the whole domain including /create. If that is not you, a different Bizzit guide will fit better, do not force this URL.
The actual answer
robots.txt is not noindex, and a sitemap is not a ranking purchase. Search Console after publish is yours. This URL is the membership of the list. Lastmod should not be a lie on every row. If it should not be in Google, it should not be in the sitemap. The short version is still the one in the box at the top of this page. The rest of the article exists so you do not have to guess the limits.
Do this in order
Publish 200 pages. Use tenant-sitemap thinking. Submit that host in Search Console if you want. Keep origin up, indexing a 502 teaches the wrong lesson.
- Publish pages that should be public
- Confirm they 200 on HTTPS
- List only those in XML
- Exclude studio paths
- Verify Search Console yourself if you want it
What not to do
Do not sitemap noindex URLs. Do not list both www and apex as 200s. Do not doorway. That is the usual way a useful page turns into a doorway, a fake comparison, or a brief Cipher cannot honor.
How this shows up on Bizzit
Our robots disallow studio paths and allow articles. Copy the spirit on the tenant: public yes, studio no.
Lastmod is a fact
If every URL says it changed today, you trained crawlers to ignore the date. Change lastmod when the page changed.
Limits
Do not sitemap noindex URLs. Do not list both www and apex as 200s. Do not doorway.
Limits and caveats
Do not sitemap noindex URLs. Do not list both www and apex as 200s. Do not doorway.
If a sentence would require a competitor SKU we have not verified, or a statistic we did not measure, it does not belong here.
What to do after you read this
If this page answered the query, open Create with the nouns from your own business, not a slogan. If it did not, you are probably in the wrong cluster: go back to the blog hub or SEO for a small site. Do not spin a second URL for a synonym. One intent per page is the whole point of this library.
Tools that actually do this job
These are public pages. Use them when the job is this job. They are not a second product you have to buy.
Primary sources
Questions people actually ask
Do you submit my sitemap?
No. We do not claim we clicked Submit for you.
Images sitemap?
Empty cell if we have not shipped one as a SKU. Honest page sitemap first.
Hreflang in sitemap?
We do not fake hreflang as a SKU. Bilingual NAP can still exist as visible copy.
Pro?
Custom domain sitemap is still your host. Unlimited Cipher does not replace a clean list.