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Dear Community, I have the following problem and would be super helpful if you guys would be able to help. Cheers

• Symptoms :

• On the search console, Google says that some of our old URLs are indexed but not submitted in sitemap

• However, those URLs are in the sitemap

• Also the sitemap as been successfully submitted. No error message

• Potential explanation :

• We have an automatic cache clearing process within the company once a day. In the sitemap, we use this as last modification date. Let's imagine url www.example.com/hello was modified last time in 2017. But because the cache is cleared daily, in the sitemap we will have last modified : yesterday, even if the content of the page did not changed since 2017.

• We have a Z after sitemap time, can it be that the bot does not understands the time format ?

• We have in the sitemap only http URL. And our HTTPS URLs are not in the sitemap

What do you think?

Hi Guys,

We are operating a Single Page Application at the moment and are having difficulty to make the website rank. We are using Server Side Rendering when the user is landing on one of our SEO relevant landing page. But if the user is clicking on any link, then after clicking, the content that he gets is only client side rendered. Our assumption is that the Google Bot is going to do the following :

1. Land on a page AAA, that will be server side rendered (all good)
2. Navigate through the link existing on the page AAA and be exposed to the content of page BBB
3. Since content of page BBB is client side rendering only, then the Bot will not be able to properly understand what it is.
4. => Hence still able to crawl it but it won't rank it well.

Here our questions :

• Because SEO is critical to us, should we try to force SSR after a click ?
• How does the robot opens links ? Is it : open new tab behavior ? Because this would trigger SSR on our side.

Looking forward for your feedback

Hi Avaye,
The reason can be that your competitors are constantly working on their pages and improve them. So google could decide their pages are more relevant for the users.May be it is time for you to refresh the content? Make it more useful for the potential clients? When was the last time you improved the page?