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  • What Is an XML Sitemap?
  • Who Can Manage the XML Sitemap?
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  • How to Include the Content-Type to the XML Sitemap?
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XML Sitemap

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Last updated 10 months ago

What Is an XML Sitemap?

Any public websites need an XML sitemap, it will help in publishing the websites' content and be available on the search engine for example Google. The XML sitemap will describe your content publicly in general if it was news, article, and etc.

Who Can Manage the XML Sitemap?

By default on Varbase, there are default roles who can manage XML Sitemap and they are:

  • Super Admin

  • SEO Admin

  • Site Admin

To make sure that SEO and Site Admin have XML sitemap administration please visit this section .

To create a user please visit this section .

How to Manage the XML Sitemap?

As a Super admin, Site admin, or SEO admin, navigate to Administration \ Configurations \ Search and metadata \ Simple XML Sitemap.

To masquerade a user please visit this section .

After navigating to the XML sitemap section, there are three main sub-section:

  1. Sitemaps:

    • Status - Sitemap can be regenerated and rebuild.

    • Variants - This part is where you can create more than one sitemap.

  2. Settings: This is the most important section, we will explain more in the below section.

  3. Inclusion:

    • Entities - Here is where you include/exclude entities for example content types from the sitemap.

    • Custom links: Here is where the user can add a custom link to be indexed in the XML sitemap.

XML Sitemap Settings

This is the most important section, to navigate to the XML settings page: Administration \ Configurations \ Search and metadata \ Simple XML Sitemap \ Settings

  • The user can set the sitemap to be generated after cron runs.

  • The Sitemap can be styled by displaying it as tables with sortable entries and thus become much friendlier towards human visitors.

  • The sitemap can be included/excluded in a certain language, with the removal of the hreflang from the sitemap.

In "Advanced settings", there is a field "Default base URL" where users can insert the final domain production link to avoid the sitemap from displaying the development links. Also, there is a field "Maximum links in sitemap" where users can set the numbers of links to be displayed in the sitemap.

XML Sitemap Inclusion

Users can include or exclude any entity on the site in the sitemap for example: Content-types, custom block, menus, entityqueues, taxonomy term, and user profiles to be indexed in the sitemap. To navigate to the XML sitemap inclusion page: Administration \ Configurations \ Search and metadata \ Simple XML Sitemap \ XML Sitemap Inclusion

How to Include the Content-Type to the XML Sitemap?

SEO admin roles nor Site admin role can't include the XML sitemap to a specific content-type unless if the user has a Super admin role then the user can include the content-type to be indexed in the XML sitemap.

Let us take a Super admin role, remember this role can manage everything on the site. Now let us include the content-type to the XML sitemap, navigate to: Administration \ Structure \ Content-type. After navigating to the content types page, click the drop-down arrow on any content-type for example "Blog post" then click "Edit".

In the content-type "Blog post" editorial page:

  1. Scroll down and click "Simple XML sitemap"

  2. Under "Sitemap variants" open the "Default" accordion field.

  3. Select the second choice "Index entities of type Blog post in variant Default"

  4. Then a set of settings will appear "Priority", "Change frequency" and "Include images"

We are not finished yet! Now let us go back to the to check if the content types are in fact being indexed in the XML sitemap.

XML sitemap inclusion page
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Add User
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XML Sitemap Masqueraded as SEO Admin
XML Sitemap Settings Page
XML Sitemap Advanced Settings
XML Sitemap Inclusion Page
Included Content-Types to the XML Sitemap
Content Types Page
Steps on Including a Content-Type to Be Indexed in the Xml Sitemap
Some Content Types Are Being Indexed in the Xml Sitemap