jeremydw
commented
1 month ago I think there are two improvements to make (although I feel like depending on who I have review my sitemaps, I occasionally get different feedback):
- The localized routes should specify alternates as well, e.g.
/de/foo/should list/en/foo/as an alternate. - For sites that implement geolocation or "locale fallback" (i.e. at URLs without a locale specified in the path), there should be an
x-defaultitem that points to that URL.
I like to look at this sitemap as an example: https://mapsplatform.google.com/sitemap.xml (although it doesn't have the XML schema linked so you need to view source - that's implemented in your output correctly) :)
Oh, one other thing worth flagging (not sure if it's already accounted for though), the 404 route shouldn't be included in the sitemap (our non-Root.js projects had this as an issue for a while).
stevenle
@jeremydw this is a sample output:
this look correct to you? the localized paths are added as "alts" to the "default locale route" and also as their own line item. there isn't currently a way to "noindex" routes, i can add that in a future update when the use case is needed.