If a page can be reached by two different URLs, for example and (and they both resolve with a ‘200’ response), then only a single preferred canonical version should be included in the sitemap. Outside of the above configuration options, there might be additional ‘internal’ HTML 200 response pages that you simply don’t want to include within the XML Sitemap.įor example, you shouldn’t include ‘duplicate’ pages within a sitemap. You can see which URLs are ‘noindex’, ‘canonicalised’ or have a rel=“prev” link element on them under the ‘Directives’ tab and using the filters as well. You can see which URLs have no response, are blocked, or redirect or error under the ‘Responses’ tab and using the respective filters. This can all be adjusted within the XML Sitemap ‘pages’ configuration, so simply select your preference. Pages which are blocked by robots.txt, set as ‘noindex’, have been ‘canonicalised’ (the canonical URL is different to the URL of the page), paginated (URLs with a rel=“prev”) or PDFs are also not included as standard. However, you can select to include them optionally, as in some scenarios you may require them. So you don’t need to worry about redirects (3XX), client side errors (4XX Errors, like broken links) or server errors (5XX) being included in the sitemap. Only HTML pages included in the ‘internal’ tab with a ‘200’ OK response from the crawl will be included in the XML sitemap as default. This will open up a number of sitemap configuration options. When the crawl has reached 100% and finished, click the ‘XML Sitemap’ option under ‘Sitemaps’ in the top level menu. Open up the SEO Spider, type or copy in the website you wish to crawl in the ‘enter url to spider’ box and hit ‘Start’. The next steps to creating a XML Sitemap are as follows – If you’d like to crawl more than 500 URLs, you can buy an annual licence, which removes the crawl limit and opens up the configuration options. You can download via the buttons in the right hand side bar. To get started, you’ll need to download the SEO spider which is free in lite form, for up to 500 URLs. This tutorial walks you through how you can use the Screaming Frog SEO Spider to generate XML Sitemaps. How To Create An XML Sitemap Using The SEO Spider
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