2015/2016 Sitemaps Exclusions
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Hello fellow mozrs!
Been working on a few Property (Real Estate for our American friends) websites recently and and two questions that constantly come up as we spec the site are:1. What schema (schema.org) should the website use (throughout all pages as well as individual pages). Did anyone found that schema actually helped with their ranking/CTR?
2. Whilst setting up the sitemaps (usually Yaost is our preferred plugin for the job), what page would you EXCLUDE from the site map?Looking forward to some interesting comments.
Dan. -
Hi Dan,
I depends on the model, I would recommend all the obvious stuff like:
- Branch information like opening times and addresses for individual agents
- Individual property information like area, price etc
Some of the more interesting/new things are actions. You could potentially use:
- Ask question action: https://schema.org/AskAction
- Rent Action: https://schema.org/RentAction
On the sitemap question, you want to make sure your sitemaps are "clean" meaning there are only pages that return a 200 response. There shouldn't be any redirects or 404s. Only put pages you want to show up in the index in the sitemap.
Hope that helps.
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