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Check whether search engines can find your sitemap
Enter your domain. Lastmod looks for your sitemap the way a crawler does and says whether it is there and whether it can be read.
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What does a search engine see on your homepage?
Enter your domain. We read your robots.txt, your sitemap and your homepage, and show what can be improved technically.
What we look at
- Your robots.txtAre search engines and AI crawlers allowed to read your site?
- Your sitemapCan search engines find your pages?
- Your homepageTitle, meta description, canonical and noindex.
One page, without signing in. A scan of all your pages, with your Search Console data, is part of the trial.
What it reads
- Where it looks
- First the sitemap address your robots.txt names, otherwise /sitemap.xml on your domain.
- Found, missing or unreadable
- Whether the file exists and whether a crawler can read it as a sitemap, or as an index of sitemaps.
How to read the result
- Found
- A readable sitemap is there. The check does not judge what is in it.
- Missing
- No sitemap in robots.txt and none at /sitemap.xml. Search engines then find your pages only through links.
- Unreadable
- Something is at the address but it cannot be read as a sitemap: an error page, broken XML or a block. The addresses in it are of no use until it is fixed.
Common mistakes
- Addresses that do not belong in it
- Pages that redirect, return an error or carry noindex. A sitemap should list the addresses you want indexed.
- A sitemap nobody refers to
- A file at an unusual address that robots.txt does not mention is easy to miss. Name it in robots.txt with a Sitemap: line.
- A stale file
- A sitemap written once and never updated stops listing new pages. Generate it from the site itself.
What it cannot see
The check fetches the first sitemap it finds and only asks whether it can be read. It does not open every address inside it. A scan of all your pages is part of the trial.
Questions
Do I need an XML sitemap?
A small site with good internal links is usually found without one. A sitemap helps search engines discover pages sooner on larger sites or sites with few links.
Where should my sitemap be?
Anywhere on your own domain, as long as robots.txt names it. /sitemap.xml is the common default that crawlers try without being told.
Does a sitemap get my pages indexed?
No. It helps search engines find addresses. Whether a page is indexed is up to the search engine.
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