Getting the Most out of the Sitemap¶
Search Engine Optimization¶
Using robots.txt¶
Add a robots.txt file in the source directory which has a link to the sitemap.xml
or sitemapindex.xml
file. For example:
User-agent: *
Sitemap: https://my-site.com/docs/sitemap.xml
Then, add robots.txt to html_extra_path
in conf.py:
html_extra_path = ['robots.txt']
Submit Sitemap to Search Engines¶
Submit the sitemap.xml
or sitemapindex.xml
to the appropriate search engine tools.
Site Search Optimization¶
Site search crawlers can also take advantage of sitemaps as starting points for crawling.
Examples: