Sitemap Generator & Auditor

/digital-marketing-pro:sitemap-manager

by indranilbanerjee · MIT license · ★ 866 on GitHub

Audit or generate XML sitemaps: limits, lastmod, status codes, robots conflicts.

---
name: sitemap-manager
description: "Audit or generate XML sitemaps: limits, lastmod, status codes, robots conflicts. \"audit our sitemap\""
argument-hint: "[URL or generate]"
user-invocable: true
---

# /digital-marketing-pro:sitemap-manager

## Purpose

Analyze existing XML sitemaps for issues and opportunities, or generate new sitemaps with industry-specific templates and best practices.

## Modes

### Mode 1: Analyze Existing Sitemap (`/digital-marketing-pro:sitemap-manager [URL]`)

Provide a sitemap URL (e.g., `https://example.com/sitemap.xml`) to audit:

Overview

Analyze existing XML sitemaps for issues and opportunities, or generate new sitemaps with industry-specific templates and best practices.

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/digital-marketing-pro:sitemap-manager

Purpose

Analyze existing XML sitemaps for issues and opportunities, or generate new sitemaps with industry-specific templates and best practices.

Modes

Mode 1: Analyze Existing Sitemap (`/digital-marketing-pro:sitemap-manager [URL]`)

Provide a sitemap URL (e.g., https://example.com/sitemap.xml) to audit:

Fetch and parse: Download sitemap XML, detect sitemap index vs single sitemap
URL count: Total URLs, URLs per sitemap file (flag if approaching 50K protocol limit)
lastmod audit: Check for presence, format (W3C datetime), staleness (>6 months without update), fake lastmod (all same date)
Priority and changefreq: Check for deprecated/ignored signals (Google ignores both — flag if present, recommend removal to reduce file size)
URL health: Sample 20-50 URLs and check HTTP status codes — flag 404s, 301s, 302s, 5xx errors
Indexation alignment: Cross-reference with robots.txt and meta robots — flag noindexed URLs in sitemap, flag sitemap URLs blocked by robots.txt
Missing URLs: Compare sitemap against site crawl or provided URL list — identify pages missing from sitemap
Image/video/news sitemaps: Check for specialized sitemap extensions
Compression: Check if sitemap is gzip compressed (recommended for large sitemaps)
robots.txt registration: Verify sitemap is declared in robots.txt

Mode 2: Generate New Sitemap (`/digital-marketing-pro:sitemap-manager generate`)

Generate a sitemap plan or actual XML:

Discover site structure: Crawl from homepage or use provided URL list
Categorize pages: Group by type (homepage, category, product, blog, landing, legal)
Apply industry template: Use appropriate structure based on business model (SaaS, ecommerce, local, publisher, agency)
Set lastmod: Use actual page modification dates, not generation date
Split strategy: Plan sitemap index structure if >50K URLs or >50MB uncompressed
Exclude rules: Noindexed pages, paginated results, faceted URLs, utility pages (login, cart, search results)
Generate XML: Produce valid XML sitemap following the sitemap protocol (sitemaps.org)

Industry Templates

SaaS

Homepage, features, pricing, integrations, docs, blog, changelog, about, legal
Integration pages as separate sitemap (if 50+)
Blog with high update frequency

eCommerce

Homepage, categories, products, brands, collections, blog, about, legal
Product sitemap (largest — split if needed)
Image sitemap for product photos
Category pages with canonical handling for filtered views

Local Business

Homepage, services, locations, about, contact, blog, reviews, legal
Location pages as separate sitemap (if multi-location)
Service area pages

Publisher/Media

Homepage, sections, articles, authors, topics, about, legal
News sitemap (for Google News inclusion)
Video sitemap (if video content)
High-frequency article sitemap updates

Agency

Homepage, services, case studies, blog, team, about, contact, legal
Case study sitemap
Industry/vertical landing pages

Sitemap Protocol Reference

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <url>
    <loc>https://example.com/page</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-15</lastmod>
  </url>
</urlset>

Sitemap Index (for multiple sitemaps)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://example.com/sitemap-pages.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-15</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
  <sitemap>
    <loc>https://example.com/sitemap-blog.xml</loc>
    <lastmod>2026-03-28</lastmod>
  </sitemap>
</sitemapindex>

Protocol Limits

50,000 URLs per sitemap file
50MB uncompressed per sitemap file
Up to 50,000 sitemaps per sitemap index file (nest indexes if more are needed)
Must use absolute URLs
UTF-8 encoding required
Entity escaping for special characters (& ' " > <)

Output

Sitemap Analysis Report

Total URLs indexed, health status breakdown
Issues found with severity (critical/high/medium/low)
Missing pages that should be in the sitemap
Recommendations sorted by impact

Sitemap Generation Output

Complete XML sitemap(s) or sitemap plan
Sitemap index if multiple files needed
robots.txt sitemap declaration line
Submission instructions for Google Search Console

Agents Used

seo-specialist — Sitemap analysis, URL health checks, architecture recommendations

Scripts Used

tech-seo-auditor.py — URL health checking (status codes, redirects)

1	---
2	name: sitemap-manager
3	description: "Audit or generate XML sitemaps: limits, lastmod, status codes, robots conflicts. \"audit our sitemap\""
4	argument-hint: "[URL or generate]"
5	user-invocable: true
6	---
7
8	# /digital-marketing-pro:sitemap-manager
9
10	## Purpose
11
12	Analyze existing XML sitemaps for issues and opportunities, or generate new sitemaps with industry-specific templates and best practices.
13
14	## Modes
15
16	### Mode 1: Analyze Existing Sitemap (`/digital-marketing-pro:sitemap-manager [URL]`)
17
18	Provide a sitemap URL (e.g., `https://example.com/sitemap.xml`) to audit:
19
20	1. Fetch and parse: Download sitemap XML, detect sitemap index vs single sitemap
21	2. URL count: Total URLs, URLs per sitemap file (flag if approaching 50K protocol limit)
22	3. lastmod audit: Check for presence, format (W3C datetime), staleness (>6 months without update), fake lastmod (all same date)
23	4. Priority and changefreq: Check for deprecated/ignored signals (Google ignores both — flag if present, recommend removal to reduce file size)
24	5. URL health: Sample 20-50 URLs and check HTTP status codes — flag 404s, 301s, 302s, 5xx errors
25	6. Indexation alignment: Cross-reference with robots.txt and meta robots — flag noindexed URLs in sitemap, flag sitemap URLs blocked by robots.txt
26	7. Missing URLs: Compare sitemap against site crawl or provided URL list — identify pages missing from sitemap
27	8. Image/video/news sitemaps: Check for specialized sitemap extensions
28	9. Compression: Check if sitemap is gzip compressed (recommended for large sitemaps)
29	10. robots.txt registration: Verify sitemap is declared in robots.txt
30
31	### Mode 2: Generate New Sitemap (`/digital-marketing-pro:sitemap-manager generate`)
32
33	Generate a sitemap plan or actual XML:
34
35	1. Discover site structure: Crawl from homepage or use provided URL list
36	2. Categorize pages: Group by type (homepage, category, product, blog, landing, legal)
37	3. Apply industry template: Use appropriate structure based on business model (SaaS, ecommerce, local, publisher, agency)
38	4. Set lastmod: Use actual page modification dates, not generation date
39	5. Split strategy: Plan sitemap index structure if >50K URLs or >50MB uncompressed
40	6. Exclude rules: Noindexed pages, paginated results, faceted URLs, utility pages (login, cart, search results)
41	7. Generate XML: Produce valid XML sitemap following the sitemap protocol (sitemaps.org)
42
43	## Industry Templates
44
45	### SaaS
46	- Homepage, features, pricing, integrations, docs, blog, changelog, about, legal
47	- Integration pages as separate sitemap (if 50+)
48	- Blog with high update frequency
49
50	### eCommerce
51	- Homepage, categories, products, brands, collections, blog, about, legal
52	- Product sitemap (largest — split if needed)
53	- Image sitemap for product photos
54	- Category pages with canonical handling for filtered views
55
56	### Local Business
57	- Homepage, services, locations, about, contact, blog, reviews, legal
58	- Location pages as separate sitemap (if multi-location)
59	- Service area pages
60
61	### Publisher/Media
62	- Homepage, sections, articles, authors, topics, about, legal
63	- News sitemap (for Google News inclusion)
64	- Video sitemap (if video content)
65	- High-frequency article sitemap updates
66
67	### Agency
68	- Homepage, services, case studies, blog, team, about, contact, legal
69	- Case study sitemap
70	- Industry/vertical landing pages
71
72	## Sitemap Protocol Reference
73
74	```xml
75	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
76	<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
77	<url>
78	<loc>https://example.com/page</loc>
79	<lastmod>2026-03-15</lastmod>
80	</url>
81	</urlset>
82	```
83
84	### Sitemap Index (for multiple sitemaps)
85	```xml
86	<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
87	<sitemapindex xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
88	<sitemap>
89	<loc>https://example.com/sitemap-pages.xml</loc>
90	<lastmod>2026-03-15</lastmod>
91	</sitemap>
92	<sitemap>
93	<loc>https://example.com/sitemap-blog.xml</loc>
94	<lastmod>2026-03-28</lastmod>
95	</sitemap>
96	</sitemapindex>
97	```
98
99	### Protocol Limits
100	- 50,000 URLs per sitemap file
101	- 50MB uncompressed per sitemap file
102	- Up to 50,000 sitemaps per sitemap index file (nest indexes if more are needed)
103	- Must use absolute URLs
104	- UTF-8 encoding required
105	- Entity escaping for special characters (& ' " > <)
106
107	## Output
108
109	### Sitemap Analysis Report
110	- Total URLs indexed, health status breakdown
111	- Issues found with severity (critical/high/medium/low)
112	- Missing pages that should be in the sitemap
113	- Recommendations sorted by impact
114
115	### Sitemap Generation Output
116	- Complete XML sitemap(s) or sitemap plan
117	- Sitemap index if multiple files needed
118	- robots.txt sitemap declaration line
119	- Submission instructions for Google Search Console
120
121	## Agents Used
122
123	- seo-specialist — Sitemap analysis, URL health checks, architecture recommendations
124
125	## Scripts Used
126
127	- tech-seo-auditor.py — URL health checking (status codes, redirects)
128