URL: /rules/crawl/sitemap-domain

---
title: "Sitemap Domain"
description: "Checks that all sitemap URLs belong to the expected domain"
---

Checks that all sitemap URLs belong to the expected domain

| | |
|---|---|
| **Rule ID** | `crawl/sitemap-domain` |
| **Category** | [Crawlability](/rules/crawl) |
| **Scope** | Site-wide |
| **Severity** | error |
| **Weight** | 8/10 |

## Solution

All URLs in your sitemap should point to pages on your own domain. Cross-domain URLs in sitemaps are a configuration error - search engines will ignore URLs that don't match the sitemap's domain. Remove external URLs from your sitemap or fix the domain in URLs if they're incorrectly formatted.

## Enable / Disable

### Disable this rule

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["crawl/sitemap-domain"]
```

### Disable all Crawlability rules

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
disable = ["crawl/*"]
```

### Enable only this rule

```toml squirrel.toml
[rules]
enable = ["crawl/sitemap-domain"]
disable = ["*"]
```