seo-sitemap

Sitemap

Workflow

1. Fetch /sitemap.xml (or sitemap index)
2. Run scripts/parse-sitemap.ts → validate structure
3. Cross-check URL coverage vs crawled pages
4. Detect orphan URLs (in sitemap but not linked)
5. Detect missing URLs (linked but not in sitemap)

Best Practices

• Max 50,000 URLs or 50 MB per sitemap (use index if larger)
• <lastmod> actual file modification date (not generation date)
• <priority> and <changefreq> largely ignored by Google
• HTTPS only, absolute URLs
• Reference in robots.txt: Sitemap: https://example.com/sitemap.xml

Special Sitemaps

• News (publishers): sitemap-news.xml, only articles from last 48h
• Image: sitemap-image.xml with <image:image> tags
• Video: sitemap-video.xml with <video:video> tags

Templates

• templates/sitemap/sitemap.xml
• templates/sitemap/sitemap-news.xml
• templates/sitemap/sitemap-image.xml
• templates/robots/robots-saas.txt
• templates/robots/robots-ecommerce.txt