[TIL] Sitemap.xml

sitemap.xml sometimes plays essential role, like SEO(Search Engine Optimization), and implementing Google Adsense.

Let’s find out to create a valid sitemap.

Basics

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://rollingpaper.site/</loc>
  </url>
</urlset>

These are the basic form of a sitemap.

• urlset encapsulates the file.
• url is a parent tag for each URL entity.
• loc is the actual URL string.

There are other tags like lastmod, changefreq…

See sitemaps.org - ‘XML tag definitions’ section

Beware

The URL string must be encoded properly. You can use JavaScript encodeURI() to handle this.

Characters like &, ', ", >, < must be properly escaped.

The URL string must start with protocol(http, https). Depends on your web server, URL string must ends with a trailing slash(/).

Referense

• [Google] Build and submit a sitemap
• sitemap.org - protocol