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

Generating the Sitemap

To generate the sitemap for your website:

1. Run the development server with the following command:

npm run dev

2. 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 Structure

A typical sitemap follows this XML structure:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://yourdomain.com/</loc>
    <lastmod>2023-04-01</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>1.0</priority>
  </url>
  <url>
    <loc>https://yourdomain.com/properties</loc>
    <lastmod>2023-04-01</lastmod>
    <changefreq>daily</changefreq>
    <priority>0.8</priority>
  </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:
   • Google Search Console: https://search.google.com/search-console
   • Bing Webmaster Tools: https://www.bing.com/webmasters
   • Yandex Webmaster: https://webmaster.yandex.com

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