{"id":7261,"date":"2022-12-09T14:13:44","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:13:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/googles-john-mueller-says-html-sitemaps-should-never-be-needed\/"},"modified":"2022-12-09T14:13:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-09T14:13:44","slug":"googles-john-mueller-says-html-sitemaps-should-never-be-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/2022\/12\/09\/googles-john-mueller-says-html-sitemaps-should-never-be-needed\/","title":{"rendered":"Google&#8217;s John Mueller Says HTML Sitemaps Should Never Be Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>John Mueller of Google has always downplayed the importance of HTML sitemaps over the years, he is a fan of XML sitemaps, but HTML sitemaps, not so much.  On Mastodon the other day he really showed his dissatisfaction of HTML sitemaps by saying that HTML sitemaps &#8220;should never be needed.&#8221;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Mueller of Google has always downplayed the importance of HTML sitemaps over the years, he is a fan of XML sitemaps, but HTML sitemaps, not so much. On Mastodon the other day he really showed his dissatisfaction of HTML sitemaps by saying that HTML sitemaps &#8220;should never be needed.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"h5ap_radio_sources":[],"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-best-seo-blogs"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":false,"author_link":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/author\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craighordlow.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}