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  1. Check if the sitemap exists on your website by going to www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml. If a sitemap is already present, skip to 3.

  2. If the sitemap is missing, then ask your website developer or technical team to add a sitemap to your website. For more information on standard XML sitemaps please see:

    1. https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html

    2. Example: www.website.com/sitemap.xml

  3. The name of the sitemap must end with "sitemap.xml" in order to be crawled. It can be located under any directory (e.g. www.yourwebsite.com/site/first-sitemap.xml)

  4. Log in to your console and select the relevant collection.

  5. Navigate to Domains section and click on "Diagnose".Enter the Crawler crawl statuses section.

  6. In the textbox underneath the page heading, enter the URL of the sitemap, e.g. www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml as the URL and press "Diagnose".
    A message saying "Page not found in the index." will be returned.
    Select "Add to IndexA modal will pop up showing that the URL has not been crawled.

  7. Click "Crawl page".

The sitemap will be indexed and pages will start being added to your collection. It might take a few minutes or a few hours depending on the number of pages on your website and the number of pages waiting in index queues.

If you click on "See extended debug informationOpen in page debugger", you might see a MIME error on in the Page Debug tool. This error can be ignored, and your sitemap and all the links on your sitemap will be indexed.

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