@sphido/sitemap

Install

yarn add @sphido/sitemap

Example

#!/usr/bin/env node

import {dirname, relative, join} from 'node:path';
import {getPages, allPages} from '@sphido/core';
import slugify from '@sindresorhus/slugify';
import {createSitemap} from '@sphido/sitemap';
import got from 'got';

const pages = await getPages({path: 'content'});
const map = await createSitemap('sitemap.xml');

map.add({url: 'https://sphido.org', priority: 1});

for (const page of await allPages(pages)) {
	page.slug = slugify(page.name) + '.html';
	page.output = join('/', relative('content', dirname(page.path)), page.slug);

	// prepare sitemap item properties
	page.url = new URL(page.slug, 'https://sphido.org');
	page.date = new Date();
	page.priority = 0.5;
	page.changefreq = 'daily';

	// add page to sitemap
	map.add(page);
}

map.end();

Let them know

Google

Google expects the standard sitemap protocol in all formats. Google does not currently consume the <priority> attribute in sitemaps. You can also submit RSS or Atom files.

Google doesn't check a sitemap every time a site is crawled; a sitemap is checked only the first time that we notice it, and thereafter only when you ping us to let us know that it's changed. Alert Google about a sitemap only when it's new or updated; don't submit or ping unchanged sitemaps multiple times.

You can use e.g. got an HTTP request library for Node.js or visit URL manually

import got from 'got';
await got.get('https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/ping?sitemap=URL');

Bing, Seznam, Yandex

IndexNow is an open-source protocol that allows website publishers to instantly index across participating search engines, updating results based upon the latest content changes. IndexNow protocol is supported by Microsoft Bing, Seznam.cz and Yandex.

  1. Generate an API Key – This is submitted alongside URLs to ensure ownership of the domain. You can use Microsoft Bing API Key generator.
  2. Host API Key – Your API key is hosted on the root directory in txt format.
  3. Submit URLs with Parameters – You can either submit URLs individually or in bulk as sitemap file.
https://www.bing.com/indexnow?url=[URL]&key=[YOUR KEY]
https://search.seznam.cz/indexnow?url=[URL]&key=[YOUR KEY]

Source codes

@sphido/sitemap