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Validate your XML sitemap and robots.txt, check for missing sitemaps, invalid XML, HTTP URLs and crawl issues.
Fetching robots.txt and sitemap…
Enter your website URL above to validate its sitemap.
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The tool checks whether your robots.txt file references a valid sitemap, validates the sitemap XML format, and verifies that the URLs listed in your sitemap return 200 status codes.
Yes. An XML sitemap helps search engines discover and index your pages more efficiently, especially for sites with lots of content or pages not well-linked internally. Most charity websites should have one.
Errors in your sitemap can prevent search engines from indexing pages correctly. Common issues include invalid XML formatting, URLs returning errors, and sitemaps not referenced in robots.txt.
Update your sitemap whenever you add, remove, or significantly change important pages. Many CMS platforms such as WordPress can generate and update sitemaps automatically.
Your sitemap should be a valid XML file following the sitemap protocol (sitemaps.org), with a <urlset> root element and <url> entries containing <loc> tags for each page URL.