How to Configure Sitemap in Magento 2
Configuring the sitemap in Magento 2 Admin allows you to apply an awesome Magento tool with a document file which contains all of the website’s URL and possibly direct people to any page on Magento stores quickly. In addition to the utility of direction, the sitemap is also an easy way to point what pages are ready for crawling to any search engines, that is very useful for your better SEO.
Moreover, for the visitors, the sitemap is the same as a traditional geographical map during the adventure around the real world because the Magento sitemap will help them visit pages easily they are looking for instead of losing or wasting much time going around a website. Thus, configuring the sitemap on your store is very necessary, but it is not required if a store is too small and uncomplicated in the page organization.
Step 1: Configure the Frequency and Priority of Content Updates
- On the Admin panel, click.
Stores
In the sectionSettings
, select.Configuration
- Select
XML Sitemap
underCatalog
in the panel on the left - Open the
Categories Options
section, and continue with following:
- In the
Frequency
field, select one of the following:- Always
- Hourly
- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- Yearly
- Never
In the field
Priority
, enter a value between 0.0 and 1.0. Set Zero if the priority is the lowest- Open the section
Products Options
. - In the 2 first fields: complete the
Frequency and Priority
settings as mentioned above In the
Add images into Sitemap
field, select one of the following to determine the extent that images are included in the sitemap- None
- Base Only
- All
Open the
CMS Pages Options
section, complete theFrequency and Priority
settings as mentioned above- When complete, click.
Save Config
Step 2: Configure the Generation Settings
Set Enabled
field into Yes
and follow the guide below
- In the
Start Time
field, choose the hour, minute and second that update the sitemap - In the
Frequency
field, choose one of the following- Daily
- Weekly
- Monthly
- In the field
Error Email Recipient
, enter the email address of the person who will be received notification whenever an error occurs during a sitemap update. - In the
Error Email Sender
field, choose one of the following:- General Contact
- Sales representative
- Customer support
- Custom email
- In the field
Error Email Sender
, choose the template used for the error notification.
Step 3: Configure the Sitemap File Limits
- In the field
Maximum No of URLs Per File
, enter the maximum number of URLs per file. The default limit is 50,000. - In the field
Maximum File Size
, enter the maximum file size in bytes. The default size is 10,485,760 bytes.
Step 4: Complete the Search Engine Submission Settings
Open the section
Search Engine Submission Settings
.In the field
Enable Submission to Robots.txt
, select toYes
provide instructions to search engines that crawl your site by using a robots.txt file.When complete, click
Save Config
Ref: Magento 2 User Guide