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Sitemap Setup

A sitemap helps search engines discover and index all the pages on your website efficiently. This guide explains how to set up a sitemap for your eBroker web application.

Configuring Your Domain for Sitemap​

  1. Open the .env file in your project's root directory
  2. Add your web domain or subdomain URL to the appropriate variable

Add Web URL

Generating the Sitemap​

Sitemap will generate automatically when you're making the build for deployment i.e. when you run command npm run export with NEXT_PUBLIC_SEO=false or npm run build with NEXT_PUBLIC_SEO=false

For manual sitemap generation of the sitemap for your website:

  1. Run the following command:
node scripts/sitemap-generator.js
  1. This will automatically generate a sitemap.xml file in the public directory

Customizing the Sitemap​

If you want to customize the sitemap manually:

  1. Navigate to the public directory
  2. Open the sitemap.xml file
  3. Modify the file according to your needs

Sitemap

Sitemap Structure​

A typical multilingual website sitemap follows this XML structure:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
        xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
        xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
        xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
        http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
  <url>
    <loc>https://yourdomain.com/?lang=en</loc>
    <lastmod>2025-11-14T06:24:51.039Z</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://yourdomain.com/?lang=en" />
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="ur" href="https://yourdomain.com/?lang=ur" />
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="ar" href="https://yourdomain.com/?lang=ar" />
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://yourdomain.com/?lang=en" />
  </url>
   <url>
    <loc>https://yourdomain.com/properties?lang=en</loc>
    <lastmod>2025-11-14T06:24:51.040Z</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.9</priority>
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="en" href="https://yourdomain.com/properties?lang=en" />
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="ur" href="https://yourdomain.com/properties?lang=ur" />
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="ar" href="https://yourdomain.com/properties?lang=ar" />
    <xhtml:link rel="alternate" hreflang="x-default" href="https://yourdomain.com/properties?lang=en" />
  </url>
  <!-- Additional URLs -->
</urlset>

Submitting Your Sitemap to Search Engines​

After creating your sitemap:

  1. Deploy your website with the sitemap.xml file
  2. Submit your sitemap URL to search engines through their webmaster tools:

Best Practices​

For an effective sitemap:

  • Keep it up to date with your latest content
  • Include all important pages you want indexed
  • Set appropriate priority and change frequency values
  • Keep the file size under 50MB and fewer than 50,000 URLs (create multiple sitemaps if needed)
  • Make sure the URLs in your sitemap actually exist and return 200 status codes