Adding URLs to sitemap - Support

Resolved Oded Talmon
3 years ago

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Hello,
This is a continuation of question from support ticket: https://support.rankmath.com/ticket/adding-urls-to-sitemap/

This is the sitemap: https://nivbook.co.il/sitemap_index.xml

I have this code:
function nivbook_rankmath_sitemap() { $html = ''; $args = array( 'status' => array( 'publish' ), 'limit' => '-1', ); $products = wc_get_products( $args );
if( !empty( $products ) ) { foreach( $products as $product ) { $permalink = $product->get_permalink(); $date = $product->get_date_modified()->date( 'Y-m-d\TH:i:sP' ); $html .= '<url> <loc>' . $permalink . '?lp</loc> <lastmod>' . $date . '</lastmod> </url>'; $html .= '<url> <loc>' . $permalink . '?lp&ltr</loc> <lastmod>' . $date . '</lastmod> </url>'; } }
return $html; } add_action( 'rank_math/sitemap/product_content', 'nivbook_rankmath_sitemap' ); add_filter( 'rank_math/sitemap/enable_caching', '__return_false' );

For some reason https://nivbook.co.il/product-sitemap1.xml doesn’t open. I get an error saying:

XML Parsing Error: not well-formed
Location: https://nivbook.co.il/product-sitemap1.xml
Line Number 8032, Column 164:
<loc>https://nivbook.co.il/product/%d7%94%d7%90%d7%91%d7%98%d7%99%d7%97%d7%99%d7%9d-%d7%a9%d7%9c-%d7%a1%d7%91%d7%90-%d7%90%d7%91%d7%a0%d7%a8/?lp&ltr</loc>

Could you help out please?

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Oded Talmon
3 years ago

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Oh, apparently & needs to change to &
Another question though, why is product-sitemap1.xml so large while product-sitemap2.xml is so small compared. Is there any effect on SEO?

Oded Talmon
3 years ago

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Lol, the website removes htmlentitites, I mean & has to turn to

& a m p ;

Reinelle
3 years ago

Hello,

Thank you for contacting Rank Math and bringing your concern to our attention. I’m sorry for any inconvenience this issue may have caused you.

Your product sitemap seems to be loading fine now. You can manage your sitemap links in Rank Math > Sitemap Settings > Links per sitemap.

Also, Google recommends splitting large sitemaps into multiple small sitemaps then putting them in the main sitemap. As we know small-sized pages load faster than large pages. If your sitemap size is too large then it will take time to crawl in respect to the small-sized sitemap. Actually, this is from our tested result and that’s why we recommend between 200 and 500 links per sitemap.

Here’s a link for your reference:
https://developers.google.com/search/docs/advanced/sitemaps/build-sitemap#autositemap

I hope that helps.

Thank you.

Oded Talmon
3 years ago

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Hello,
Well, the code I’ve added as per your suggestion, makes the first product sitemap really large with 3298 URLs! How can I change that?

Thanks

Jeremy
3 years ago

Hello,

Have you tried adjusting the “Links Per Sitemap” option as suggested by my colleague? This option allows you to control how many URLs each sitemap displays and splits them into multiple sitemap files.

Let us know how that goes. Looking forward to helping you with this one.

Oded Talmon
2 years, 12 months ago

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Hello again,
I’ve set that setting to 300 and it doesn’t work for the first products file. Check it out: https://nivbook.co.il/sitemap_index.xml

Miguel
2 years, 12 months ago

Hello,

The filter that you added on your website to add the additional content bypasses the number of links per sitemap and adds the URLs to the first available sitemap from that CPT that it can find.

That’s why you see the first sitemap not respecting the numbers.

Hope this helps clarify your doubts.

Don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any other questions.

Oded Talmon
2 years, 12 months ago

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Hello Miguel, can you please offer a solution? I used the filter you have provided.
Thanks

Jaideep Asrani
2 years, 12 months ago

Hello,

The filter adds the URLs after the sitemap has been generated and that’s why it will not respect the limit that you have set for links per sitemap option.

However, since your sitemap is working fine, the links per sitemap will not affect the indexing of the URLs.

Please don’t hesitate to get in touch in case you need any other assistance.

Thanks.

Oded Talmon
2 years, 12 months ago

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Hello Jaideep,
I’m quoting @Reinelle:

that’s why we recommend between 200 and 500 links per sitemap

https://nivbook.co.il/product-sitemap1.xml has 2621 URLS and will only grow bigger in time.

Is there really no solution for this?

Thanks

Jaideep Asrani
2 years, 12 months ago

Hello,

Yes, we recommend using 200 to 500 links per sitemap but links per sitemap apply only on the initial sitemap load and the filter is triggered after that so there is no way to reduce the links in your first product sitemap.

However, as long as the sitemap is loading fine, Google will be able to crawl the URLs in your sitemap.

Hope this clarifies your doubts. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch in case you need any other assistance.

Thanks.

Oded Talmon
2 years, 12 months ago

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Thank you!

Jaideep Asrani
2 years, 12 months ago

Hello,

Glad that helped.

Please feel free to reach out to us again in case you need any other assistance.

We are here to help.

Thank you.

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