XML sitemap
An XML sitemap is a structured file that lists all the important URLs on a website and provides metadata about each URL, helping search engines discover, crawl, and index the site's content more efficiently.
What is an XML Sitemap?
An XML sitemap is a structured file — written in XML (Extensible Markup Language) — that lists all the important URLs on a website and provides metadata about each URL, helping search engines discover, crawl, and index the site's content more efficiently.
Think of an XML sitemap as a map you provide directly to Google and other search engines: "here are all the pages that exist on my site, when they were last updated, and how important they are relative to each other."
What an XML Sitemap Contains
What an XML sitemap contains: URL (the full address of each page), Last modified date (when the page was last meaningfully updated — helps search engines prioritize recrawling), Change frequency (how often the page is expected to change), and Priority (a relative importance score from 0.1 to 1.0).
Types of sitemaps include: Single sitemap (all URLs in one file — suitable for sites under approximately 50,000 URLs), Sitemap index (a master sitemap that links to multiple sub-sitemaps — used for large sites including programmatic SEO sites), Image sitemap (lists images for Google Image Search indexing), and Video sitemap.
In Webflow, an XML sitemap is automatically generated and updated whenever you publish the site. It's accessible at yoursite.com/sitemap.xml by default. You can submit this URL to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to ensure Google discovers all your Collection Pages promptly.
At Appsrow, we verify sitemap configuration and submit it through Search Console as a standard part of every Webflow launch checklist.
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