Configure a sitemap in the Content Editor

Configure the hostname

To ensure that the sitemap link is generated properly, you must configure the target hostname and scheme on the site host item.

To configure the hostname for your sitemap:

1. In the Content Editor, in the content tree, navigate to the site you want to configure, and find the <site collection>/<site>/Settings/Site Grouping/Site item.
2. Update the HostName and TargetHostName fields with the correct domains for your sitemap.
3. Publish the item.

Configure the sitemap

When an item is published on a site, SitecoreAI generates the Sitemap media item. This process can occur no sooner than a defined period of time (the refresh threshold) after completion of the previous sitemap generation job. The generated media item contains the Sitemap.xml file that is served to Experience Edge.

To configure the sitemap for your site:

1. In the Content Editor, navigate to <site>/Settings/Sitemap.
2. Fill in the following fields:
   • Refresh threshold - how much time must pass after a sitemap is generated on publish before it can be generated again. Measured in minutes.
   • Cache expiration - a time, in minutes, after which the current cache expires. Set this to match the refresh threshold value.
   • Maximum number of pages per sitemap - if specified, this determines the maximum number of pages in a sitemap.
   • Generate sitemap media items - this must be enabled to allow SitecoreAI to work properly with Experience Edge.

The following table gives a full description of all the parameters available for sitemap configuration.

<loc>https://sxa</loc>
<lastmod>2021-10-28</lastmod>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
<priority>0.5</priority>
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://sxa" />
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://sxa/en" />
<xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="da" href="https://sxa/da" />

| | Include x-default | Select to add the xhtml

Exclude an item from the sitemap

By default, pages that are excluded from publication by site publication restrictions or approval workflows are not included in the sitemap. However, you might want to exclude other pages from the sitemap that have been approved and published, such as the error 404 page.

To exclude an item from the sitemap using the Content Editor:

1. In the Content Editor, in the content tree, click the content item that you want to exclude from the sitemap. For example, the homepage located at <site collection>/<site>/Home.
2. Under the Sitemap settings section for the item, configure the Change frequency field to Do not include.
3. Click Save.
4. Click Publish to publish the item.

The next time your sitemap is generated and the cache expires, you can confirm that the item has been excluded.

Locate a site's sitemap

When configuring the sitemap in the Content Editor, if you've enabled the Generate sitemap media items setting, the generated sitemap will be stored in the Media Library.

You can locate a sitemap by doing any of the following:

• On the <site collection>/<site> item, the Sitemap media items field displays the sitemaps associated with the selected site. With raw values turned on, you can see the sitemap's ID, which you can then search for in the content tree.

• In the Media Library, you can find a list of sitemaps for a specific site in the following folder: Project<site>/<site>/Sitemaps/<site> .

• Use the following query to retrieve the sitemap for a site from Experience Edge:

  query SitemapQuery($siteName: String!) {
    site {
      siteInfo(site: $siteName) {
        sitemap
      }
    }
  }