Good evening. Itβs time to talk about my coding adventures from this week.
Search Engine Optimization for https://hinst.github.io/
I finished the sitemap.xml for my personal website, but the problem wasn’t resolved. I submit my sitemap.xml to Google Search Console and receive a “Couldn’t fetch” error without any explanation. The file is accessible at the URL, but Google doesn’t see it. Therefore, I wrote some code that registers each of my URLs individually. I have already sent the first batch of pages and hit a limit of 200 pages per day. There are still 60 pages left to register. At the same time, none of the two hundred pages already sent are visible in Google Search Console yet; they are displayed as NOT INDEXED. Perhaps there is some kind of delay here.
The Bing search engine: The situation here is slightly better than in Google. My sitemap.xml was detected, and I received some optimization tips which I implemented right away:
- Add <meta description=/>
- Add <meta language=/>
- Add <h1> and make the <title> longer
However, the status of my pages in Bing is still red: indexing isn’t working, just like in Google. I don’t know yet if I will continue trying to improve or fix anything; I think I need to wait.
All in all, I spent 9 hours on this task this week βπ
