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We have a sitemap index and several dozen sitemaps based on how we segment our pages (and each sitemap has a limit of 50k). We use SEMRush and that's partly wh

We have a sitemap index and several dozen sitemaps based on how we segment our pages (and each sitemap has a limit of 50k). We use SEMRush and that's partly what's driving my questions: Their guidance is largely irrelevant for us: We're a niche search engine. We have several thousand backlinks and I wish I had a better strategy here, but our content is broadly unshareable (versus something like Stack Overflow, which is very shareable).

Minor49er 4y ago
Do you also use something like Google Analytics or Bing Webmaster Tools on your site?
- brntsllvn 4y ago
  Definitely. Daily tools include Google analytics, Google search console, mouseflow and SEMRush. Bing Webmaster is surprisingly good.
  - Minor49er 4y ago
    Have you tried Google's Index Coverage report? It may reveal why those pages are not yet crawled, if they are even known about https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203 https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203
    - brntsllvn 4y ago
      Absolutely. But the reasons are vague at best. The key reason seems to boil down to limited crawl budget simply because we don't have reputation. In which case, we need to rethink if our business has the ability to generate shareable content. It might not.
      - Minor49er 4y ago
        What is the business, if you don't mind me asking?
        brntsllvn 4y ago
        Aggregated used car listings. CarGraph.com
        RobSm 4y ago
        People don't care about such content and so does Google.
        brntsllvn 4y ago
        Firstly thank you for your time and effort on our behalf. We're grateful for your generosity. Next, I totally agree we should probably have an internal version of listing info so users stay on our platform versus bouncing and then having to come back. Good insight. I'll talk with the team about richer data as it furthers our SEO goals. I think the idea here would be that better engagement will improve our ranking? Is that correct? The tricky part is getting impressions and clicks but this could help.
        Minor49er 4y ago
        > I think the idea here would be that better engagement will improve our ranking? Is that correct? Absolutely. Rather than performing optimizations for SEO, it would be better at this point to add more to the site. Once that's done, post about it in different places like on Reddit. You should start to see more traffic from both web crawlers and people alike
        brntsllvn 4y ago
        Got it. Really appreciate you taking a look.
        4y ago

Minor49er 4y ago

Do you also use something like Google Analytics or Bing Webmaster Tools on your site?

brntsllvn 4y ago
Definitely. Daily tools include Google analytics, Google search console, mouseflow and SEMRush. Bing Webmaster is surprisingly good.
- Minor49er 4y ago
  Have you tried Google's Index Coverage report? It may reveal why those pages are not yet crawled, if they are even known about https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203 https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/7440203
  - brntsllvn 4y ago
    Absolutely. But the reasons are vague at best. The key reason seems to boil down to limited crawl budget simply because we don't have reputation. In which case, we need to rethink if our business has the ability to generate shareable content. It might not.
    - Minor49er 4y ago
      What is the business, if you don't mind me asking?
      - brntsllvn 4y ago
        Aggregated used car listings. CarGraph.com
        RobSm 4y ago
        People don't care about such content and so does Google.
        brntsllvn 4y ago
        Firstly thank you for your time and effort on our behalf. We're grateful for your generosity. Next, I totally agree we should probably have an internal version of listing info so users stay on our platform versus bouncing and then having to come back. Good insight. I'll talk with the team about richer data as it furthers our SEO goals. I think the idea here would be that better engagement will improve our ranking? Is that correct? The tricky part is getting impressions and clicks but this could help.
        Minor49er 4y ago
        > I think the idea here would be that better engagement will improve our ranking? Is that correct? Absolutely. Rather than performing optimizations for SEO, it would be better at this point to add more to the site. Once that's done, post about it in different places like on Reddit. You should start to see more traffic from both web crawlers and people alike
        brntsllvn 4y ago
        Got it. Really appreciate you taking a look.
        4y ago