The sitemap helps search engines to index the community more efficiently. It is supposed to contain the community’s essential pages in order to making sure that robots can quickly and easily find and crawl those pages.
Currently, the Community’s sitemap contains all community parent categories and categories. It is however not possible to include custom content, such as important / high-value posts, into the sitemap.
High-value posts are any pieces of content that you want to push (and boost) to Google more quickly and make them stand out in between all of your other content. e.g.:
- Latest product launch
- Current sales campaign
- An upcoming event
- An essential tutorial or FAQ
I propose a new feature that will allow Community admins to manually add high-value content directly to the sitemap. Possible ways to do it:
- make the whole sitemap.xml editable (such as the robots.txt file)
- provide Community admins with a form that enables them to manually add (and later remove) URLs to (and from) the sitemap.xml
Being able to manually add high-value content will improve the organic visibility of this content in search engines by an estimated 5-10%.
