Automatically Generate Text Sitemaps in Gatsby
When it comes to text‑based sitemaps in Gatsby, gatsby‑plugin‑sitemap falls short. Fortunately, it is straightforward to implement using Node.js and GraphQL.
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Sitemaps
Sitemaps are simple files which provide information about the pages, videos, and other hypermedia that makes up your website, whilst also offering an indication of the relationships between them. They are an essential part of SEO as they give additional information to search engines, allowing them to intelligently crawl and index your site.
Below you will find a subset of articles from my blog specifically about Sitemaps and related Next.js sitemap, robots and crawlability debugging. This is a topic I have worked with for many years, although it has not been one I have written about often. There are three articles collected here so far, which you can see and read below.
Automatically Generate Text Sitemaps in Gatsby. Automatically Submit Sitemaps to Google During Gatsby Build. Automatically Submit Sitemaps to Google During Gatsby Build
You can let Google know that your website (and the content within) has been updated by submitting an updated sitemap automatically via a simple Node.js script.
Automatically Generate urllist.txt from sitemap.xml. Automatically Generate
urllist.txtfromsitemap.xmlUsing PHP it is quick and easy to automatically generate your urllist.txt sitemap from your sitemap.xml file (for example, using gatsby‑plugin‑sitemap).
