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Analyze existing XML sitemaps or generate new ones with industry templates. Validates format, URLs, and structure. Use when user says "sitemap", "generate sitemap", "sitemap issues", or "XML sitemap".
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SKILL.md---
name: seo-sitemap
description: >
Analyze existing XML sitemaps or generate new ones with industry templates.
Validates format, URLs, and structure. Use when user says "sitemap",
"generate sitemap", "sitemap issues", or "XML sitemap".
user-invocable: true
argument-hint: "[url or generate]"
license: MIT
metadata:
author: AgriciDaniel
version: "2.2.5"
category: seo
---
# Sitemap Analysis & Generation
## Mode 1: Analyze Existing Sitemap
Discover candidates before reporting a sitemap missing:
```bash
claude-seo run sitemap_discovery.py <url> --json
```
The helper reads every bounded `Sitemap:` declaration in robots.txt, validates
cross-host targets through the shared SSRF-safe fetch layer, and still probes
common paths when a declared sitemap is stale or invalid. Use only entries in
`found`; preserve declared failures as findings instead of treating a robots.txt
line alone as proof that a sitemap works.
### Validation Checks
- Valid XML format
- Per-file limit: **≤50,000 URLs AND ≤50MB uncompressed** (whichever is hit first)
- All URLs return HTTP 200
- `<lastmod>` accurate: must be a valid **W3C Datetime** and reflect the **last
significant content change** (main content, structured data, links, not
copyright/boilerplate edits). Google only honours `<lastmod>` when consistently
and verifiably accurate, so warn when values are suspiciously uniform or newer
than the page's real content.
- No deprecated tags: `<priority>` and `<changefreq>` are ignored by Google
- Sitemap referenced in robots.txt
- Compare crawled pages vs sitemap; flag missing pages
### Quality Signals
- Sitemap index file if >50k URLs
- Split by content type (pages, posts, images, videos)
- No non-canonical URLs in sitemap
- No noindexed URLs in sitemap
- No redirected URLs in sitemap
- HTTPS URLs only (no HTTP)
### Common Issues
| Issue | Severity | Fix |
|-------|----------|-----|
| >50k URLs in single file | Critical | Split with sitemap index |
| >50MB uncompressed single file | Critical | Split with sitemap index |
| Non-200 URLs | High | Remove or fix broken URLs |
| Noindexed URLs included | High | Remove from sitemap |
| Redirected URLs included | Medium | Update to final URLs |
| All identical lastmod | Low | Use actual modification dates |
| Priority/changefreq used | Info | Can remove (ignored by Google) |
### Extension sitemaps (image / video / news)
Google documents three subtypes with their own rules, validate per-subtype:
- **Image** (`http://www.google.com/schemas/sitemap-image/1.1`): only two valid
tags remain, `<image:image>` and `<image:loc>` (max **1,000** `<image:image>`
per `<url>`). `<image:caption>`/`<image:geo_location>`/`<image:title>`/
`<image:license>` were deprecated (2022), flag as info-level removable.
- **Video**: required `<video:video>` with `<video:thumbnail_loc>`,
`<video:title>`, `<video:description>`, plus `<video:content_loc>` or
`<video:player_loc>`; mRSS also supported. Flag deprecated/removed tags
(`<video:category>`, `<video:gallery_loc>`, `<video:price>`, `<video:tvshow>`,
player autoplay/allow_embed) as info-level removable; recheck Google docs before citing a removal date.
- **News**: max **1,000** `<news:news>` per file (not 50,000); include only
articles from the **last 2 days**; required `<news:publication>`/`<news:name>`/
`<news:language>`/`<news:publication_date>`/`<news:title>`; submit/discover through
Search Console or robots.txt/sitemap index; use Publisher Center only for
publication management where relevant. When the `news:` namespace is detected, override the generic
50k check with the 1,000 cap.
## Mode 2: Generate New Sitemap
### Process
1. Ask for business type (or auto-detect from existing site)
2. Load industry template from `../seo-plan/assets/` directory
3. Interactive structure planning with user
4. Apply quality gates:
- ⚠️ WARNING at 30+ location pages (require 60%+ unique content)
- 🛑 HARD STOP at 50+ location pages (require justification)
5. Generate valid XML output
6. Split at whichever comes first: 50,000 URLs or 50MB uncompressed, with sitemap index
7. Generate STRUCTURE.md documentation
### Safe Programmatic Pages (OK at scale)
✅ Integration pages (with real setup docs)
✅ Template/tool pages (with downloadable content)
✅ Glossary pages (200+ word definitions)
✅ Product pages (unique specs, reviews)
✅ User profile pages (user-generated content)
### Penalty Risk (avoid at scale)
❌ Location pages with only city name swapped
❌ "Best [tool] for [industry]" without industry-specific value
❌ "[Competitor] alternative" without real comparison data
❌ AI-generated pages without human review and unique value
## Sitemap Format
### Standard Sitemap
```xml
<?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>2026-02-07</lastmod>
</url>
</urlset>
```
### Sitemap Index (for >50k URLs)
```xml
<?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>2026-02-07</lastmod>
</sitemap>
<sitemap>
<loc>https://example.com/sitemap-posts.xml</loc>
<lastmod>2026-02-07</lastmod>
</sitemap>
</sitemapindex>
```
## Error Handling
- **URL unreachable**: Report the HTTP status code and suggest checking if the site is live
- **No sitemap found**: Run `sitemap_discovery.py` and report "not found" only
when its `found` list is empty after declared and common candidates are checked
- **Invalid XML format**: Report specific parsing errors with line numbers
- **Rate limiting detected**: Back off and report partial results with a note about retry timing
## Output
### For Analysis
- `VALIDATION-REPORT.md`: analysis results
- Issues list with severity
- Recommendations
### For Generation
- `sitemap.xml` (or split files with index)
- `STRUCTURE.md`: site architecture documentation
- URL count and organization summary