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Working on a custom-built website with crores of products.
Ran into an issue with auto-updating sitemaps.
We built an automation with the dev team to update sitemaps dynamically.
On paper, everything looked fine.
In reality, Google could not crawl them.
After digging in, we found the root cause.
The sitemaps were being generated via an API, and Google does not have access to that API layer.
So while the sitemaps existed, they were effectively invisible to Googlebot.
Currently working on a workaround to make them crawlable.
Will share the fix once we crack it.
Curious. Has anyone else faced something similar at scale?
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Really impressive work! The attention to detail makes all the difference.
A little Webflow interaction I recently built! 🙌
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While everyone is busy spamming generic AI content and watching their traffic drop, here is what happens when you focus on real research and strategy instead:
30 days after launching content on a new site:
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Entity & Intent Mapping: Building content for answer engines, not just basic keywords.
Topical Authority: Structuring deep content clusters that Google actually trusts.
AEO / GEO Focus: Optimizing for both traditional search and AI search engines.
Raw AI content gets buried. Precise, strategic content ranks.
Now that the impressions are locked in, the next phase is tuning CTR to drive conversions!
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