Sitemaps can be helpful in pointing our crawler to webpages that are not internally linked within your website. This guide explains how you can index a sitemap for your website collection.
Instructions
Follow these steps to add your sitemap to your collection:
Check if the sitemap exists on your website by going to www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml. If sitemap is already present, skip to 3.
If sitemap is missing, then ask your website developer or technical team to add sitemap to your website.
Sitemaps must be present at the root of domain and should be named "sitemaps.xml" in order to be crawled (i.e. www.yourwebsite.com/sitemaps.xml).
Log in to your console and select the relevant collection.
Navigate to Domains section and click on "Diagnose".
Enter the URL of the sitemap, i.e. www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml as the URL and press "Diagnose".
It would return a message "Page not found in the index." Press "Add to Index".
The sitemap will be indexed and it might take a few minutes or a few hours depending on the amount of pages on your website and load in our index queues.
If you click on "See extended debug information", you might see a MIME error on the Page Debug tool. This error can be ignored, and your sitemap and all the links on your sitemap will be indexed.