
XML sitemap is one of the most important SEO concepts that helps to get your pages crawled and indexed. Think of it as a roadmap for search robots who need to discover new "routes" (pages) while crawling your website.
As you might know, Shopify generates a sitemap.xml file with all the product images, pages and collections automatically. However, in our Shopify Blog App we have our custom blog XML sitemap and in this guide, you'll learn how to find and configure it.
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How to Find Shopify Blog Sitemap?
Your blog sitemap will always be available via the following path by default:
https://your-shopify-domain.com/a/blog/sitemap.xml
Note: if you've changed your app proxy — /a/blog/ — the sitemap path will be different.
Once you find your blog sitemap you can submit it to Google and other search engines.
Google Search Console Throws Errors
Sometimes it happens that Google Search Console can read your sitemap but has errors. Most often it happens because you use your admin domain in the URLs.
e.g. https://domain-name.myshopify.com/a/blog/post/post-path
To fix that you need to go to the Blog app permalink settings and set your live domain as the Domain used for frontend.
How to Configure Shopify Blog Sitemap?
Except for offering a custom blog XML sitemap, our app allows you to prioritize the indexing of blog pages and set how often to index them.
Note: this feature is available in the Pro plan.
To configure blog XML sitemap in Shopify:
1. Navigate to Apps > Magefan Blog > Configuration and scroll down to the XML Sitemap section.
2. Unfold the Blog Index Page tab and select enable to add this page to the blog sitemap.
3. Set Blog Index Page Frequency and Priority.
Blog posts and categories settings are the same, so you just need to fill them out in the same way.
Once you Save the settings you can view your sitemap and check if all the links and directives are added correctly.
How to Configure News Sitemap in Shopify?
If you use a blog to share the news in your store, and add the News markup to the posts, you can configure a separate News sitemap. Go to Apps > Magefan Blog > Configuration and scroll down to the News Sitemap section, just below the regular sitemap settings.
Once there, enable it, give your sitemap a Name and set the Number of News to include in the news sitemap.
By default, all blog pages will be added to the blog sitemap. However, you can exclude pages from the blog sitemap on each blog page: posts, categories, and tags.