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How to check if your XML sitemap is working

How do I check if my sitemap is working?

5 min read

Short answer

Open yourstore.in/sitemap.xml. It should load as a list of addresses, and every address should open a normal page. Enter your site into the free sitemap checker on this site and it finds the sitemap, counts the addresses and opens a sample to catch the ones that do not load.

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What a healthy one looks like

It loads, with no error. It lists only pages that open normally. Each address is the final one, the https version a visitor really lands on. It stays under 50,000 addresses per file, and larger sites use an index that points to several files.

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Problems that waste crawling

Dead pages (404) in the list send search engines to nothing. Redirected addresses make them take a detour for every page. Pages marked noindex contradict the sitemap, which says to index them. Addresses on http, or on another domain, are normally ignored.

These pile up after a migration, when old products are removed but the sitemap keeps listing them.

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Submit it and watch it

In Google Search Console, open Sitemaps and add the address. It shows how many addresses Google found and any errors it hit reading the file. List the sitemap in robots.txt as well.

A sitemap only tells Google your pages exist. Whether they get indexed depends on the pages themselves.

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