xml-sitemap
xml-sitemap enables AI agents to programmatically create XML sitemaps that improve search engine crawlability and indexing. This skill automates sitemap generation, helping ensure your site's content is discoverable by search engines and properly prioritized for crawling.
xml-sitemap automates XML sitemap generation to improve search engine crawlability. The skill programmatically creates properly formatted sitemaps listing your site's URLs with metadata like lastmod, changefreq, and priority. You can generate sitemaps for single sites or configure sitemap indexes for large sites with multiple files, ensuring search engines discover and crawl your content efficiently.
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How do I create sitemap.xml for my website?
xml-sitemap automates XML sitemap generation to improve search engine crawlability. The skill programmatically creates properly formatted sitemaps listing your site's URLs with metadata like lastmod, changefreq, and priority. You can generate sitemaps for single sites or configure sitemap indexes for large sites with multiple files, ensuring search engines discover and crawl your content efficiently.
What is sitemap.xml and why do I need it?
xml-sitemap helps you understand that a sitemap.xml is a structured XML file that lists all your website's URLs for search engines. xml-sitemap enables AI agents to create these sitemaps programmatically, improving URL discovery and indexing. Sitemaps are especially valuable for large sites, new content, or pages that lack internal links, ensuring search engines don't miss important pages.
How do I submit my sitemap to Google and verify indexing?
xml-sitemap supports the workflow of submitting your generated sitemap to Google Search Console and verifying indexing status. After creating your sitemap with xml-sitemap, you can reference it in robots.txt, submit it directly via Search Console, and monitor indexing metrics. xml-sitemap helps maintain a single URL source of truth for search engine discovery.
What are sitemap.xml best practices for optimization?
xml-sitemap implements SEO best practices including proper lastmod timestamps, appropriate changefreq values, and priority scoring. For multilingual sites, xml-sitemap supports hreflang configuration. For large sites, xml-sitemap enables sitemap index architecture splitting URLs across multiple files. The skill ensures your sitemaps follow XML standards and search engine guidelines for maximum crawlability.
How do I audit and troubleshoot sitemap issues?
xml-sitemap provides auditing capabilities to troubleshoot common problems like sitemaps returning HTML instead of XML, URLs not being indexed, or configuration errors. The skill helps identify and resolve issues preventing search engines from properly reading your sitemap, ensuring your site's content remains discoverable and properly prioritized for crawling.
Can xml-sitemap handle multilingual or large-site architectures?
Yes, xml-sitemap configures multilingual sitemap architecture with hreflang support and manages large-site sitemap strategies using sitemap indexes. The skill enables you to split sitemaps across multiple files, maintain proper URL organization, and implement language-specific discovery—essential for global sites and platforms with thousands of URLs.
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SEO Technical: Sitemap
Guides sitemap creation, auditing, and optimization for search engine discovery.
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Scope (Technical SEO)
- Sitemap: Create XML sitemap; submit to Google Search Console
- URL discovery: Help search engines find pages; especially important for large sites or poor internal linking
Task
Generate an XML Sitemap that complies with the sitemaps.org protocol from the project's page list, and declare it in robots.txt.
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