{"id":28,"date":"2012-01-27T13:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-27T13:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/?p=28"},"modified":"2021-11-24T11:36:22","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T06:06:22","slug":"start-testing-your-sitemaps-before-submitting-them-to-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/start-testing-your-sitemaps-before-submitting-them-to-google","title":{"rendered":"Start Testing Your Sitemaps before Submitting Them to Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added a new feature to the Google Webmaster Tools which will allow end users to test their sitemap files before submitting them on Google.<br \/>\nPierre Far, a Google Employee, confirmed that Google had added this brand new feature to help webmasters debug their sitemap files prior to submitting them.<\/p>\n<p>Google Sitemap Files are often criticized for causing uncertainty with webmasters, who though create them but are never sure about their validity.<br \/>\nThe latest feature facilitates creation of these sitemaps besides testing them on the Google Webmaster Tools prior to submitting them on the search engine.<\/p>\n<p>To test these files, one simply logs in to Google and clicks directly on Site Configuration, then on Sitemaps. At the top right, there is an \u201cAdd\/Test Sitemap\u201d button.<\/p>\n<p>Some other features were added to the Tools as well, such as \u2018Changing the Average Position Calculation\u2019 and \u2018New Download Options\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Google has recently published a blog post on this latest development.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Contributed by:<\/span><br \/>\nIDS Logic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google has added a new feature to the Google Webmaster Tools which will allow end users to test their sitemap files before submitting them on Google. Pierre Far, a Google Employee, confirmed that Google had added this brand new feature&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6612,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6256,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28\/revisions\/6256"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idslogic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}