: When 301 redirecting a page, what needs to be in the sitemap? In sitemap there was page a.html which has some PageRank. Now a.html is redirecting to b.html using 301 and sitemap has b.html
In sitemap there was page a.html which has some PageRank.
Now a.html is redirecting to b.html using 301 and sitemap has b.html entry, a.html is removed.
Queries are:
As a.html is not in sitemap then how search engines understand 301 redirection of a.html to b.html and add PageRank of a.html tob.html?
Will search engines still crawl a.html? How much longer?
Is it necessary for the sitemap to have both entries: a.html and b.html for some time so search engines resolve query 1 as mentioned above?
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My answers:
Search engines bots are web crawlers (like your web browser in some way) and when a 301 redirect is thrown, they are notified. Therefore, they follow the new redirect to reach the new page and know the PageRank must be transferred.
If the 301 redirect is up, search engines don't crawl a.html anymore, that's why after a long time, they remove this page from their index.
You did the right thing regarding the sitemap.xml, you must remove pages which are 301 redirected (indeed, the sitemap.xml file is useful for indexing and these pages mustn't be indexed anymore).
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