sitemap.xml lists your site’s URLs, helping search engines and AI crawlers discover and index all of your pages.
Why have a sitemap
- Helps search engines and AI crawlers find all of your pages.
- Speeds up discovery and indexing of new content.
- Improves your site’s coverage in AI-assisted answers and results.
Create your sitemap
Unlike the AI-generated files, the sitemap is built by discovering your site’s URLs.1
Discover URLs
Open Actions → sitemap and click Discover URLs. Cliro crawls your homepage and extracts internal links to seed an editable URL list.
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Edit the list
Review the discovered URLs, removing or adding pages as needed.
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Confirm
Confirm to lock the sitemap and enable downloading.
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Download & publish
Upload the file to your site’s root so it’s reachable at
https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml.5
Verify publication
Use Verify publication to confirm the live sitemap is in place.
Confirm in the Site Check
The Site Check confirms your sitemap is served correctly.