DOCUMENTATION / PRACTICAL GUIDES
Understand your sitemap.
Put it to work.
From your first XML file to a multilingual relaunch: practical explanations, copyable examples and clear next steps.
Sitemap examples →
Copy and understand a page sitemap, an image sitemap and a sitemap index.
Common sitemap errors →
Recognise broken sitemap entries and fix the underlying cause.
Sitemaps for WordPress, Shopify and static websites →
Find your platform’s existing sitemap before creating another one.
Sitemaps during a website migration →
Plan URL changes, redirects and sitemap updates for a domain move or relaunch.
Sitemaps for multilingual websites →
Understand language URLs, hreflang and the limits of a simple crawl.
Sitemap and crawling glossary →
Plain-English definitions of the technical terms used in our guides and FAQ.