Sitemaps

Advanced SEO generates sitemaps for all of your collections and taxonomies. The sitemaps are organized in a sitemap index, which can be accessed at /sitemap.xml.

Generating sitemaps

Sitemaps are generated on demand whenever a sitemap is visited on the front end. If you have a content-heavy site, this might take a lot of resources and, in some cases, even result in a timeout.

To combat this issue, you may generate the sitemaps with the following command:

php artisan seo:generate-sitemaps

Add the --queue flag to generate the sitemaps in the background:

php artisan seo:generate-sitemaps --queue

Make sure that your current environment is enabled for crawling. Else, you won't be able to generate the sitemaps.

The recommended way to go about generating your sitemaps is to schedule the command:

Schedule::command('seo:generate-sitemaps --queue')->hourly();

You may change the path where your generated sitemaps are saved in the config:

'sitemap' => [
    'path' => storage_path('statamic/sitemaps'),
]

Disable Sitemaps

You may globally disable the sitemap feature by setting enabled to false in the config:

'sitemap' => [
    'enabled' => false,
]

This will remove all the sitemap-related configs in the control panel and also remove the sitemap front end routes.

Disabling Collections & Taxonomies

There are several ways to disable a collection or taxonomy from generating sitemaps.

Disabled Collection or Taxonomy

Sitemaps won't be created for any collection or taxonomy that has been disabled in the config:

'disabled' => [
    'collections' => ['people', 'subscriptions'],
    'taxonomies' => ['nations'],
],

Excluded collections and taxonomies

Sitemaps won't be created for any collection or taxonomy that has been configured to be excluded from the sitemap in the Indexing site defaults:

Enabled Noindex

Sitemaps won't be created if Noindex has been enabled in the Indexing site defaults:

Excluding individual entries and terms

A couple of factors determine whether an individual entry or term will be excluded from the sitemaps.

Disabled Sitemap

An entry or term will be excluded from the sitemap if the toggle is disabled:

Enabled Noindex

An entry or term will be excluded from the sitemap if Noindex has been enabled:

Canonical URL

An entry or term will be excluded from the sitemap if the canonical URL is anything else but Current Entry or Current Term. In the following example, the entry will be excluded from the sitemap:

Custom Sitemaps

Custom sitemaps are a great tool to add any Statamic or Laravel route to Advanced SEO's sitemaps.

Use the Sitemap::register() method to register a custom sitemap in a service provider. The method expects a closure and needs to return a sitemap.

use Aerni\AdvancedSeo\Facades\Sitemap;

Sitemap::register(function () {

    // Create a new sitemap URL.
    $signIn = Sitemap::makeUrl('https://statamic.com/sign-in');
    
    // You may also add optional attributes.
    $seller = Sitemap::makeUrl('https://statamic.com/seller')
        ->lastmod(now())
        ->changefreq('daily')
        ->priority('1.0')
        ->alternates([
            [
                'href' => 'https://statamic.com/seller',
                'hreflang' => 'en-EN',
            ],
            [
                'href' => 'https://statamic.com/de/seller',
                'hreflang' => 'de-DE',
            ],
        ]);
    
    // Create a sitemap and add the URLs to it.
    return Sitemap::make('user')
        ->add($signIn)
        ->add($seller);
        
});

You also have the option to move the sitemap-related code into its own class.

use Aerni\AdvancedSeo\Facades\Sitemap;
use App\Sitemaps\StatamicSitemap;

Sitemap::register(StatamicSitemap::class);

The sitemap class needs to extend the BaseSitemap and implement the urls() method.

namespace App\Sitemaps;

use Aerni\AdvancedSeo\Facades\Sitemap;
use Aerni\AdvancedSeo\Sitemaps\BaseSitemap;
use Illuminate\Support\Collection;
use Statamic\Facades\Entry;

class StatamicSitemap extends BaseSitemap
{
    public function urls(): Collection
    {
        $signIn = Sitemap::makeUrl('https://statamic.com/sign-in');   

        $seller = Sitemap::makeUrl('https://statamic.com/seller')
            ->lastmod(now())
            ->changefreq('daily')
            ->priority('1.0')
            ->alternates([
                [
                    'href' => 'https://statamic.com/seller',
                    'hreflang' => 'en-EN',
                ],
                [
                    'href' => 'https://statamic.com/de/seller',
                    'hreflang' => 'de-DE',
                ],
            ]);
            
        return collect()
            ->push($signIn)
            ->push($seller);
    }
}