Technical SEO

Dive into the technical side of Yoast SEO features. This category covers crawling, indexing, schema, sitemaps, canonical URLs, redirects, and all the behind-the-scenes elements that help search engines properly understand your site.


How to customize the author sitemap

How to customize the author sitemap The Yoast SEO plugin can create a sitemap that lists the author archive pages…
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How to customize the sitemap index

How to customize the sitemap index The Yoast SEO plugin generates a sitemap of your site. It is a crucial…
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FAQ: XML sitemaps in WordPress 5.5 and Yoast SEO

FAQ: XML sitemaps in WordPress 5.5 and Yoast SEO Since 5.5, WordPress comes with its own in-built XML sitemaps. Together…
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Error: the following file is blocking your XML sitemaps

Error: the following file is blocking your XML sitemaps The following file(s) is/are blocking your XML sitemaps from working properly:…
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Common XML sitemap errors

Common XML sitemap errors Are you getting an error on or about your XML sitemap? In this article, we’ve listed…
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Can I change the sitemap change frequency?

Can I change the sitemap change frequency? This is an optional sitemap field to describe how often a URL is…
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How to add an external sitemap to the index

How to add an external sitemap to the index Our Yoast SEO plugin creates sitemaps on the fly for the…
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Images in XML sitemaps

Images in XML sitemaps Yoast SEO creates XML sitemaps, which by default include an entry for every public post and…
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How to change the XML video sitemap URL

How to change the XML video sitemap URL You can change the XML video sitemap URL by following the steps…
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