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sitemap.xml exists and is declared

crawlability/sitemap-present

Why this matters

A sitemap lets crawlers find pages without walking the internal link graph, which matters most for deep pages and pages with few inbound links.

How to fix it

Which advice applies depends on what the audit found. The label is the condition that triggers it.

  • missing

    Generate sitemap.xml and declare it in robots.txt with `Sitemap: https://…/sitemap.xml`.

  • undeclared

    Add a `Sitemap: {url}` line to robots.txt so crawlers do not have to guess the path.

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