Manage the sitemap for your store

A sitemap is an XML file that lists your store’s important pages, products, and articles. It functions as a roadmap for search engines, allowing bots to efficiently crawl and index your site, enhancing discoverability.

StoreConnect auto-generates a sitemap file for your store, which refreshes daily. To include store information on the sitemap, you need to ensure your articles, pages, products and product categories meet the conditions below.

Your store’s sitemap is available at all times via your-store.com/sitemap.xml. If you are running multiple stores, each store has its own sitemap. Learn more about Sitemaps.

Conditions for appearing in the sitemap

To have a page show up in the sitemap feed, the following must be true of each page:

1. It must be published
2. It must not be hidden
3. It must not be restricted to members only

To have an article show up in the sitemap feed, the following must be true of each article:

1. It must be published
2. It must not be restricted to members only

To have a product show up in the sitemap feed, the following must be true of each product:

1. It must be active
2. It must not be deleted
3. It must have an available on date in the past or be discontinued
4. It must belong to a product category within your store taxonomy

To have a product category show up in the sitemap feed, the following must be true of each product category:

1. It must not be hidden
2. It must belong to your store taxonomy

To have a location show up in the sitemap feed, the following must be true of each location group:

• It must be active

Once the requirements have been met, the page, article, product, product category, or location will show up the next day in your /sitemap.xml file on your store site.

Stealth mode

Stores with Stealth Mode enabled do not have a sitemap. The /sitemap.xml URL will return a 404.

Custom sitemap

If you need full control over your sitemap content, you can create a Content Page with the path sitemap.xml. When this page exists, StoreConnect will serve it instead of the auto-generated sitemap. This lets you use Liquid to build a fully custom XML sitemap.

View your sitemap

Your sitemap lives at yourstore.com/sitemap.xml. To view the latest version and avoid viewing a cached copy, open your sitemap URL in a private/incognito browser.

The sitemap looks like this:

```

http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9”>

https://getstoreconnect.com/
2021-09-23
daily
1.0


https://getstoreconnect.com/hidden-services
2021-08-22
daily
0.8


https://getstoreconnect.com/plans
2021-09-19
daily
0.8


https://getstoreconnect.com/annual-plans
2021-08-22
daily
0.8 ```