How to Create an XML Sitemap: Format, Limits and Submission
How to create an XML sitemap step by step: the format, the 50,000 URL limit, which tags Google ignores, and how to submit it, with a free generator.
Search engines can only rank pages they can find, crawl and index. These guides cover the files and settings behind that: robots.txt rules, sitemaps, redirects, canonical tags, indexing reports, IndexNow and the page speed signals that affect how your site is crawled and shown.
How to create an XML sitemap step by step: the format, the 50,000 URL limit, which tags Google ignores, and how to submit it, with a free generator.
301 vs 302 redirect explained: how Google treats each, what happens to POST requests, browser caching we measured, and ready-to-paste rules for four platforms.
How to test robots.txt step by step: check the file loads, run URLs through a tester, read the winning rule, avoid false results and confirm in Search Console.
The parts of a URL explained with one example: scheme, host, port, path, query string and fragment, plus common traps and a free URL parser.
Copy-ready robots.txt examples for allowing, blocking and wildcard rules, plus how the longest rule wins, what robots.txt cannot do and the mistakes to avoid.
A UTM naming convention keeps GA4 data clean. See the lowercase rule, the utm_medium values GA4 recognizes, a copyable template and a free link builder.