I get asked how to use the Sitemap stacks in SEO Helper all of the time. Before, the only video overview of them was inside a long form live stream that I did on SEO. While that video is amazing, I wanted to create a targeted video on just Sitemap. I hope that you enjoy this video.
Redirecting sitemap.xml
There are some SEO tools out there that are not very smart. They only have logic to look for sitemap.xml. If you are using a tool that has this flawed logic and you would like to use SEO Helper, this htaccess rule will help you setup a redirect so that these tools will work. This rule does assume that your sitemap URL is set to /sitemap/
RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^sitemap\.xml$ /sitemap/ [R=301,L]Adding your sitemap URL to robots.txt
You can add your sitemap URL to your robots.txt file. Google has a nice doc on this too.
Sitemap: https://www.domain.com/sitemap/