Our community platform auto-generates an XML Sitemap based on your category- and group pages. This sitemap helps search engines to quickly discover important and relevant URLs.
Locate your XML Sitemap
The sitemap is located at http://www.example.com/sitemap.xml where ‘example’ should be replaced by your domain name.
Example of XML Sitemap
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
<url>
<loc>https://example.com/category-1</loc>
<changefreq>hourly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
<url>
<loc>
https://example.com/category-2
</loc>
<changefreq>hourly</changefreq>
<priority>0.8</priority>
</url>
</urlset>Add sitemap to your Robots.txt
It’s a good practice to add a link the Sitemap.xml in your Robots.txt file, here’s how you can do that:
- Locate your sitemap ULR (see above)
- Go to Control → Settings → Robots.txt
- Add
Sitemap: http://www.example.com/sitemap.xmlto the Robots.txt file - Press Save changes
Use RSS Feed to generate an XML Sitemap
You can also use your RSS feed to generate a sitemap. See this article for instructions: Tips & Tricks - How to use the RSS feed to generate an XML sitemap
