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Sitemap XML

Where to find your site's sitemap.xml for submitting to search engines

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What is a sitemap?

A sitemap is a file that provides information about the pages and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to more intelligently crawl your site. A sitemap tells Google which pages and files you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these files: for example, for pages, when the page was last updated, how often the page is changed, and any alternate language versions of a page.

Standard sitemap.xml

Every site that is published has a sitemap.xml file that dynamically updates when you add or edit pages within your site.

https://www.exampledomain.com/sitemap.xml

Example: if your site's URL is https://www.exampledomain.com, then your sitemap.xml is located at https://www.example.com/sitemap.xml

Location pages and Local site sitemaps

These are special sitemaps that are available depending on your project type.

Local pages sitemap

https://www.exampledomain.com/sitemap-subsites.xml

Sitemap containing all Local Pages under the domain. Used for Local Pages projects where each location only has 1 page.

Local sites sitemap index

https://www.exampledomain.com/sitemap-index.xml

Sitemap with links to the Individual sitemaps for each Local Site. Should be used if each Local Site has multiple pages

Individual Local site sitemap

https://www.exampledomain.com/location/seattle/sitemap.xml

Individual sitemap containing all Pages within a Local Site.

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