#Googlesitemap how to

To load all pages regardless of the parent‑child hierarchy in the content tree, disable the Hide children for hidden parent property of the Google Sitemap web part.Ĭonfiguring sitemap settings for specific pagesīy filling in the sitemap properties of pages, you can exclude specific pages from sitemaps or give search crawlers additional details describing how to index pages:

Broken page hierarchy - sections of the website may be excluded due to parent pages missing in the sitemap.

You can use the asterisk (*) wildcard to specify all page types.

Add the page types that you wish to have in the sitemap. If the Page types property is empty, the sitemap only loads CMS.MenuItem pages.Incorrect content filtering - review the content filtering properties of your Google Sitemap web part.Manually excluded pages - specific pages may be excluded through their sitemap properties ( Show in sitemap or Exclude from search).If you encounter problems with pages missing in your sitemap, try checking for the following: The GoogleSitemap control on the page provides the same configuration options as the Google Sitemap web part. This page generates the default sitemap for websites that have an empty Google sitemap path setting. If you do not wish to use portal engine pages and web parts, you can instead edit the markup of the ~/CMSPages/googlesitemap.aspx system page. Search crawlers can access the sitemap either under the main URL specified in the Google sitemap URL setting, or directly through the URL of the page containing the Google Sitemap web part. The sitemap generated by the web part replaces the default sitemap. Enter the path of your sitemap page into the Google sitemap path setting.Open the Settings application and select the URLs and SEO category.For example, DocumentCreatedWhen DESC sorts the site map from the newest page (at the top) to the oldest page (at the bottom). Use the ORDER BY property if you need to change the order of the pages generated by the sitemap. By default, the sitemap is generated in the same order as the pages appear in the content tree.You can limit which pages are included in the sitemap by entering an appropriate Path expression.

Configure the content of the sitemap through the web part's properties.The web part only generates output when the page is accessed on the live site.Instead, the page returns an XML response with the sitemap data. Adding this web part stops the page from displaying standard content.Place the Google Sitemap (XML Sitemap) web part onto the page.Create a new Page (menu item) page in your website's content tree.You can modify the content of your website's sitemap by creating a dedicated sitemap page: Automatically excludes all pages whose parent page is not in the sitemap, such as pages stored under folders or custom page types.Only contains pages of the CMS.MenuItem type.The system generates sitemaps for websites based on the pages stored in the content tree.