Sitemap Optimization
A sitemap that actually steers Googlebot where you want it, not wherever it happens to land. I audit an existing sitemap for priority values, change frequency, and robots.txt alignment, design crawl-budget methodology for larger sites, clean up canonical URLs so Google never gets a contradictory signal about the same content, and check whether the disallow rules in robots.txt actually match what the sitemap submits. This site doesn't ship a sitemap generated once and forgotten - its map is recomputed on every build directly from the route list in code, with no crawler, which couldn't handle next-intl's localized paths anyway. That's the exact process I offer as a service for your site.
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Long-term Partnership
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Sitemap Recomputed On Every Build, Never By Hand
This site's sitemap isn't a file someone edits by hand after adding a new page - it's a function that recomputes the full URL list from the service registry in code on every build, so there's no room for a forgotten update.
Priorities Computed By One Rule Function, Not Assigned Page By Page
Instead of manually setting a priority for every new page, this site computes it from a single rule function based on the URL path - I apply that same mechanism to sitemap optimization for clients, so priorities never drift out of sync over time.
What Sitemap Optimization Covers
XML Sitemap Audit
I check sitemap.xml's structural correctness - size limits, tag validity, URL encoding - and whether it actually reflects the site's current structure rather than the state a few deployments ago.
Crawl-Budget Methodology
For sites with a large page count, I build a methodology that shows exactly where Googlebot is wasting time on low-value pages instead of content that's actually meant to convert or rank.
Canonical-URL Hygiene
I set one, consistent canonical URL for every unique piece of content and remove situations where the same content is reachable at multiple URLs with no clear signal to Google about which one should be treated as primary.
Robots.txt Alignment
I verify that robots.txt and sitemap.xml agree with each other - no page excluded from indexing in one file should be simultaneously submitted in the other as an indexing candidate.
Priority And Change-Frequency Tuning
I recompute priority and changefreq values against the site's real hierarchy and how often each section actually updates, instead of leaving every page at the same default value.
This sitemap uses no crawler
- This site's sitemap (src/app/sitemap.ts) uses Next.js's native MetadataRoute.Sitemap function and is recomputed on every build from the route list in code - with no crawler, which couldn't handle next-intl's localized paths anyway, since it has no way to know that one Polish-locale URL and one English-locale URL are the same page.
- That route list comes directly from the service registry (src/data/services.ts) - adding a new service page to the registry automatically adds it to the sitemap, so it's not possible to create a page that exists but isn't submitted in the sitemap.
- Every entry carries a separate URL per locale, and each one ships a full alternates.languages map - including an x-default entry - per Google's guidance for hreflang-annotated sitemaps once URLs diverge by locale.
- Priorities are computed across three tiers - the homepage at 1.0, service pages at 0.8, everything else at 0.7 - and one page (/brand) is deliberately excluded from the sitemap, exactly as it's excluded in robots.txt, so both files say the same thing.
Transparent Process
No black boxes. You know exactly what is happening at every stage.
Existing Sitemap And Robots.txt Audit
I check whether sitemap.xml is even valid XML, whether priority and change-frequency values make sense against the site's actual page hierarchy, and whether any page excluded in robots.txt is simultaneously submitted in the sitemap as an indexing candidate.
Crawl-Budget Analysis
On larger sites, I check how many pages Googlebot actually visits relative to how many exist, and identify low-value pages - filter parameters, duplicates - that eat crawl budget at the expense of the pages you actually care about.
Canonical-URL And Priority Hygiene
I clean up canonical tags so every piece of content has exactly one designated source URL, and recompute sitemap priorities against the site's real hierarchy instead of the same default value handed to every page equally.
Deployment And Search Console Monitoring
I submit the updated sitemap to Google Search Console and monitor its processing for the first few weeks - how many URLs are submitted, indexed, and excluded - to confirm the changes actually affected how Google treats the site.
Sitemap Optimization FAQ
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A sitemap that actually steers Googlebot where you want it, not wherever it happens to land. I audit an existing sitemap for priority values, change frequency, and robots.txt alignment, design crawl-budget methodology for larger sites, clean up canonical URLs so Google never gets a contradictory signal about the same content, and check whether the disallow rules in robots.txt actually match what the sitemap submits. This site doesn't ship a sitemap generated once and forgotten - its map is recomputed on every build directly from the route list in code, with no crawler, which couldn't handle next-intl's localized paths anyway. That's the exact process I offer as a service for your site.
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