How Dynamic URL Changes Broke Our Sitemap Indexing (And How We Fixed It)
Interesting SEO Observation from a Professional Listing Website Recently, we encountered a critical SEO issue related to a Dynamic Result Page section on a professional listing site. This issue highlights how URL inconsistency can directly impact Google’s ability to process XML sitemaps. What Went Wrong? Our development team unintentionally changed the internal linking structure of dynamically generated pages. New dynamic URLs were generated unexpectedly These URLs did not match : Submitted XML sitemap URLs Canonical URL formats The incorrect URLs were being used in internal links As a result, Google started seeing multiple URL versions for the same pages. Impact on Google Sitemap Processing Before Fix Google stopped processing the XML sitemap URLs Sitemap pages were ignored or delayed Indexing signals became inconsistent This happened because Google was confused about which URL version was the correct one . What We Fixed Updated all int...