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I tried it on my company's website, surroundtech.com. It just produced a parent node and a very wide tree of child pages. Not useful in any way. The website is

I tried it on my company's website, surroundtech.com. It just produced a parent node and a very wide tree of child pages. Not useful in any way. The website is built using a CMS that's part of our product line, which auto-generates a sitemap.xml file. It also automatically produces a Sitemap page: https://surroundtech.com/sitemap https://surroundtech.com/sitemap. The two tabs of interest are "Cards", which shows how each page would look when shared via social media links, and "Sitemap Tree" which shows the (non-graphical) page tree. To be fair to the visual tool, our auto-generated xml is just a flat list of urls, and our auto-generated url routing is a flat list of uniquely named pages rather than a /-separated hierarchy. To create our own sitemap page we use the hierarchy that's built into our CMS, which also creates the top-level menu on the site.

artur_makly 6y ago
Doug here's a 50-page demo of your site fully mapped w/ high-res screenshots: https://app.visualsitemaps.com/share/0ab02eb852f0f5267291ce5b53118fef https://app.visualsitemaps.com/share/0ab02eb852f0f5267291ce5... *one thing we noticed is that your site does have an https certificate! I'd deeply consider fixing that since it will harm your google rankings[1]. [1]https://neilpatel.com/blog/does-a-ssl-certificate-affect-your-seo-a-data-driven-answer/ https://neilpatel.com/blog/does-a-ssl-certificate-affect-you...
- recursive 6y ago
  Your supporting link directly contradicts your claim. > He found that HTTPS is moderately correlated with higher search rankings on the search engine giant’s first page.
  - artur_makly 6y ago
    Google says it themselves : "https as a ranking signal" https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-s...
    - recursive 6y ago
      Yes, it's a positive ranking signal. They're definitely not penalizing sites for having certificates.
      - np_tedious 6y ago
        Seems likely it's a typo and he accidentally omitted the word "not"
  - virgil_disgr4ce 6y ago
    It was just a typo, he accidentally omitted "not"

artur_makly 6y ago

Doug here's a 50-page demo of your site fully mapped w/ high-res screenshots: https://app.visualsitemaps.com/share/0ab02eb852f0f5267291ce5b53118fef https://app.visualsitemaps.com/share/0ab02eb852f0f5267291ce5... *one thing we noticed is that your site does have an https certificate! I'd deeply consider fixing that since it will harm your google rankings[1]. [1]https://neilpatel.com/blog/does-a-ssl-certificate-affect-your-seo-a-data-driven-answer/ https://neilpatel.com/blog/does-a-ssl-certificate-affect-you...

recursive 6y ago
Your supporting link directly contradicts your claim. > He found that HTTPS is moderately correlated with higher search rankings on the search engine giant’s first page.
- artur_makly 6y ago
  Google says it themselves : "https as a ranking signal" https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-signal.html https://webmasters.googleblog.com/2014/08/https-as-ranking-s...
  - recursive 6y ago
    Yes, it's a positive ranking signal. They're definitely not penalizing sites for having certificates.
    - np_tedious 6y ago
      Seems likely it's a typo and he accidentally omitted the word "not"
- virgil_disgr4ce 6y ago
  It was just a typo, he accidentally omitted "not"