{"Status":true,"Message":"","Response":{"post":{"postuid":"29390164-50c2-43ad-9cec-b2962c2ef3e3","tenantuid":"d8b744fc-2e70-4089-bb80-dd1d08f6c7b2","projectuid":"fc6490ac-7527-4f49-b06e-46f701280e85","title":"Site Map","slug":"article/site-map","html":"\u003Cp\u003EHelpGuides automatically generates a \u003Ccode\u003Esitemap.xml\u003C/code\u003E file listing every published article on your site. Search engines use it to find your content and to see when it last changed. There\u0027s nothing to set up, and it updates as you publish.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2 id=\u0022where_to_find_the_sitemapxml_file\u0022\u003EWhere to find the Sitemap.xml file\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe sitemap is at the root of your site. For example:\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022code_wrapper\u0022\u003E\u003Cdiv class=\u0022code\u0022 data-language=\u0022plaintext\u0022\u003Ehttps://docs.helpguides.io/sitemap.xml\u003C/div\u003E\u003C/div\u003E\u003Cp\u003EYour \u003Ccode\u003Erobots.txt\u003C/code\u003E file also points search engines to it.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2 id=\u0022whats_in_the_sitemap\u0022\u003EWhat\u0027s in the sitemap\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003EOne entry for each published article, using your canonical domain. Drafts, unlisted articles, scheduled articles and deleted articles are left out.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EEach entry\u0027s \u003Ccode\u003Elastmod\u003C/code\u003E date is the date the article was last updated.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIf \u003Cb\u003EForce Trailing Slash\u003C/b\u003E is on in \u003Cb\u003ESettings\u003C/b\u003E \u2192 \u003Cb\u003EAdvanced\u003C/b\u003E, URLs end with a slash.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003EIf you use Pages, published pages are included too. They\u0027re also listed on their own at \u003Ccode\u003E/pages-sitemap.xml\u003C/code\u003E.\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003EThe sitemap is cached for up to 3 hours, so a newly published article can take that long to appear.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2 id=\u0022submit_your_sitemap\u0022\u003ESubmit your sitemap\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESubmit your sitemap URL in Google Search Console and in Bing Webmaster Tools so both search engines crawl your articles regularly. See \u003Ca href=\u0022/article/bing-webmaster-tools\u0022\u003EBing Webmaster Tools\u003C/a\u003E for the steps.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Ch2 id=\u0022keep_articles_out_of_search_results\u0022\u003EKeep articles out of search results\u003C/h2\u003E\u003Cul\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EOne article:\u003C/b\u003E in the editor, click \u003Cb\u003EAdvanced\u003C/b\u003E and turn off \u003Cb\u003EAllow Indexing\u003C/b\u003E on the \u003Cb\u003ESEO\u003C/b\u003E tab. The article gets a \u003Ccode\u003Enoindex\u003C/code\u003E tag, so search engines leave it out of their results.\u003C/li\u003E\u003Cli\u003E\u003Cb\u003EYour whole site:\u003C/b\u003E turn off \u003Cb\u003EAllow Search Engine Indexing\u003C/b\u003E in \u003Cb\u003ESettings\u003C/b\u003E \u2192 \u003Cb\u003EGeneral\u003C/b\u003E. Your \u003Ccode\u003Erobots.txt\u003C/code\u003E then asks search engines not to crawl any page.\u003C/li\u003E\u003C/ul\u003E\u003Cp\u003ESee \u003Ca href=\u0022/article/finding-broken-links-with-the-seo-report\u0022\u003EFinding Broken Links with the SEO Report\u003C/a\u003E for more on these settings, and \u003Ca href=\u0022/article/feeds-and-machine-readable-formats\u0022\u003EFeeds and Machine-Readable Formats\u003C/a\u003E for your site\u0027s other machine-readable files.\u003C/p\u003E","publish_status":0,"post_type":"Article","authoruid":"3dde8c16-763a-4a2b-ae0b-1d8c50c62e3d","author":{"authoruid":"3dde8c16-763a-4a2b-ae0b-1d8c50c62e3d"},"featured_image_updating":false,"meta_description":"Automatically generate and update your sitemap.xml for search engines to index your published articles and pages, with easy submission and SEO controls.","display_toc":true,"has_workingcopy":false,"allow_indexing":true,"sort_order":0,"total_views":653,"date_published":"2025-06-02T13:39:00","date_updated":"2026-10-04T21:49:38.88","date_created":"2025-06-02T13:35:11.527"}}}