Weekly Coding • 2025-10-05

Good evening. It's time to share my coding adventures from this week.

Search Engine Optimization for https://hinst.github.io/

I finished creating a sitemap.xml for my personal website, but the issue persists. When I submit my sitemap.xml to Google Search Console, it returns an error saying Couldn't fetch without any further explanation. The file is accessible at the provided URL, yet Google doesn't recognize it. So, I wrote code to individually register each of my URLs. I've already sent the first batch of pages and hit the daily limit of 200 pages. I still need to register 60 more pages. Interestingly, none of the 200 pages submitted so far appear in Google Search Console as indexed; they all show as NOT INDEXED, which might be a timing issue.

Bing : The situation with Bing is slightly better. My sitemap.xml file was recognized, and I received some suggestions for improvement that I promptly implemented:

• Add <meta description>
• Add <meta language>
• Add <h1> tags and make the <title> longer

However, my pages in Bing are still marked as red: indexing doesn't work as it does with Google. I'm unsure if I should continue trying to optimize or fix things at this point. Perhaps waiting is the better option.

In total, I dedicated 9 hours ⌛📈 to this task this week.