Google's John Mueller said in a video hangout at the 3:16 mark that the URLs Google finds in your XML sitemap files are often used to define your canonical URLs. John said "we recommend doing that is ...

Google is reminding site owners that they shouldn’t add URLs that are being redirected in the sitemap they submit to Google. The question came up on Twitter about whether it should be avoided or if ...

Google's John Mueller responds to a sitemap technique that encourages search engines to crawl and index web pages every day.