Knowledge base

sitemap.xml: valid, fresh, referenced

Medium impactCrawl & access

A sitemap is a simple list-file of all your important pages with the date each was last changed; this fix creates a correct, up-to-date one and makes sure your robots.txt points to it.

Why AI engines read this

It hands crawlers a clean map of every page worth reading and shows what's recently updated, so your full site gets found rather than just whatever happens to be linked on the homepage.

How to tell it applies to you

There's no /sitemap.xml, or it's present but stale, not referenced in robots.txt, or contains noindex/404 URLs.

Apply it on your platform

The exact place to make this change depends on your platform. Open the guide for the step-by-step on WordPress, Shopify, Wix, and more.

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Step-by-step for your CMS, with how to confirm it worked.

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How you'll know it's done

Mark the fix applied in your dashboard once you've made the change — Findrix re-checks the live page right away, and the weekly scan confirms it. Once the fix is live the matching check flips to pass; a change you made without marking it is caught by the same scan.