Basics
Jobs can be created from the upper right button of Index Worker.
Input Fields
- Job Name: Give the job a name that is easy to understand.
- Notes (optional): Feel free to include any notes you wish.
- Search Console Properties: Select the Search Console properties you wish to investigate. (Google's API limit is 2,000 URLs/day per property.)
- URL Type: You can select XML sitemap, RSS feed, or manual input/CSV. For XML sitemaps and RSS feeds, a frame for entering URLs will appear immediately after. For CSV, no headings are required; just prepare a comma-separated list of URLs.
- Sampling period (RSS feed survey only): This can only be specified for RSS feed surveys. Please use this to determine the crawl status of the latest articles.
- Sampling size: You can input up to 2,000 URLs, though we recommend keeping it to around 500.
- Schedule: You can choose between "Schedule (recurring execution)" and "One-time execution (immediate execution).
- Remarks: Feel free to use this as a memo field.
- Ignored URL Parameters: Specify only if there are parameters in the survey URL that you wish to ignore.
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🧩 Important feature: After specifying an XML sitemap, try clicking the "Specify Sampling Conditions" button. This allows you to add sampling conditions. For instance, after selecting a sitemap containing all your URLs, you can narrow it down to "analyze only URLs from a particular directory.”
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📣 XML sitemaps can also be registered sitemap index files.
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TIPS
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🎨 When creating a job, URL groups let you filter which URLs to include. This makes it easy to focus on specific areas of your site, even when working with XML sitemaps.
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