Getting the Most out of the Sitemap#

Search Engine Optimization#

Add a robots.txt file in the source directory which contains 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 the sitemap.xml or sitemapindex.xml to the appropriate search engine tools.

Site search crawlers can also take advantage of sitemaps as starting points for crawling.

Examples: