Sitemap Exists

Checks if XML sitemap exists and is referenced in robots.txt


Rule ID	`crawl/sitemap-exists`
Category	Crawlability
Scope	Site-wide
Severity	error
Weight	10/10

Solution

XML sitemaps help search engines discover and index your pages. Create a sitemap.xml at your domain root listing all important pages. Reference it in robots.txt with ‘Sitemap: https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml’. Submit it to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. Keep it under 50MB and 50,000 URLs per file; use a sitemap index for larger sites.

Enable / Disable

Disable this rule

squirrel.toml

toml

[rules]
disable = ["crawl/sitemap-exists"]

Disable all Crawlability rules

squirrel.toml

toml

[rules]
disable = ["crawl/*"]

Enable only this rule

squirrel.toml

toml

[rules]
enable = ["crawl/sitemap-exists"]
disable = ["*"]

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