. Sitemaps Next I want to dive into our sitemaps. So as you know, russian phone number example it's a laundry list of URLs you want Google to see. Typically you throw 50,000, if your site is that big, into a sitemap, drop it at the root, put it in robots.txt, go ahead and throw it in Search Console, and Google will tell you that they've successfully accepted it, crawled it, and then you can see the page indexation report and what they're giving you about that sitemap.

having lately, especially at the site that I'm working at now with millions of URLs, is that Google doesn't always accept that sitemap, at least not right away. Sometimes it's taken a couple weeks for Google to even say, "Hey, all right, we'll accept this sitemap," and even longer to get any useful data out of that. So to help get past that issue that I've been having, I now break my sitemaps into 10,000 URL pieces.