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Noah
Noah
Jan 19, 2025, 11:07 AM
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Emily Pickelhaupt
Emily Pickelhaupt
Oct 28, 2024, 11:59 AM
Crawl Help:
A client just rolled out like 2500 city and state pages for car shipping routes and is struggling to get them crawled. They’re in the sitemap, but im wondering if theres a way to force a crawl other than sitemap and other than request indexing in GSC individually
Jared McKiernan
Jared McKiernan
Oct 28, 2024, 12:04 PM
Create a new sitemap with a different name that hasn’t been seen yet - google will crawl everything they find in that site map when they see it (doesn’t necessarily do anything about indexing, which may be an issue if these are “city to city” pairs with little unique content)
Kyle Faber
Kyle Faber
Oct 28, 2024, 12:10 PM
When you say “just rolled out” what kind of timing are you talking about?
In addition to xml sitemaps (assuming they’re in compliance, well optimized and submitted to GSC), internal links can help speed things up.
Also, what @Jared McKiernan said!
Emily Pickelhaupt
Emily Pickelhaupt
Oct 28, 2024, 12:29 PM
within a month launched 2500, and yeah theyre in compliance.
Dave Coppedge
Dave Coppedge
Oct 28, 2024, 2:12 PM
When you say they aren't being crawled, is the status "discovered not crawled" or not even "discovered"? Sitemaps only get you so far, especially when a significant number of new URLs have the same overall URL structure & content. Google may have crawled some and didn't see any value in crawling all the others if they looked like doorway pages or didn't have enough content that would be considered helpful for users.
Internal linking also plays a big role - if you aren't linking to it and demonstrating that it's an important page for users to access on your site, then that could be another signal that they are built for search and not users.
Edward Bate
Edward Bate
Oct 29, 2024, 12:22 AM
+1 to above, internal linking structures (i.e. state-level, region-level hierarchies) will help, as will a separate sitemap for them, but most of all do the pages have enough unique content and value on them for Google to crawl, index and rank them?

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