Case: Cached sitemap generation cut TTFB 4.2s → 180ms A dynamic sitemap rebuilt from a live query on every Googlebot fetch. Slow responses caused fetch timeouts. What we did: — Generated files to stat…
Case: Stopped daily resubmits, crawl unchanged A team resubmitted the sitemap in GSC every morning, believing it forced recrawl. We tested whether it mattered. What we did: — Stopped manual resubmits …
Case: 7 orphaned sitemap files, reconnected A migration left 7 sitemap files live on disk but absent from the index. ~40,000 URLs were never discovered. What we did: — Crawled /sitemap_index.xml and l…
Case: Video sitemap fix lifted video impressions 31% A tutorials site had video schema on pages but no video sitemap; thumbnails were missing in SERPs. What we did: — Built a video sitemap with requir…
Case: Image sitemap recovered 22% image traffic A recipe site had 140,000 images but no image sitemap. Google Images surfaced almost none. What we did: — Added <image:image> blocks under each pa…
Case: 18,400 noindex URLs in sitemap, removed An ecommerce site listed filtered/sort URLs that all carried noindex. GSC reported a rising 'Excluded by noindex' count. What we did: — Queried which site…
