Sitemaps

Pubvana automatically generates an XML sitemap and a Google News sitemap to help search engines discover and index your content.

TL;DR

Enable sitemaps at Admin → Settings → SEO. The standard sitemap is available at /sitemap.xml. A Google News sitemap covering the last 48 hours is at /news-sitemap.xml. A dynamic robots.txt is served at /robots.txt and automatically includes a Sitemap: directive pointing to your sitemap URL.

Details

Standard Sitemap (/sitemap.xml)

The standard sitemap follows the Sitemaps Protocol and includes:

• Home page — with <changefreq>daily</changefreq> and a high priority.
• All published pages — with <lastmod> set to the page's updated_at timestamp.
• All published posts — with <lastmod> set to the post's updated_at timestamp.

The response is served with Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8. If sitemaps are disabled in settings, the route returns a 404.

Google News Sitemap (/news-sitemap.xml)

The News Sitemap follows the Google News Sitemap specification and includes only posts published within the last 48 hours. Each entry contains:

• <news:publication> with the site name and language
• <news:publication_date> in W3C date/time format
• <news:title> — the post title

If no posts were published in the last 48 hours the sitemap returns a valid but empty XML document. If the news sitemap is disabled in settings the route returns a 404.

Dynamic robots.txt (/robots.txt)

Pubvana generates robots.txt dynamically rather than serving a static file. The generated file:

• Includes standard User-agent: * and Disallow: directives.
• Always includes a Sitemap: directive pointing to the full canonical sitemap URL (e.g. Sitemap: https://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml).
• Can be extended by editing the Robots.txt settings in Admin → Settings → SEO.

Submitting to Search Engines

After enabling sitemaps, submit your sitemap URL directly to:

• Google Search Console — go to your property, click Sitemaps in the left menu, and paste /sitemap.xml.
• Bing Webmaster Tools — go to Sitemaps and submit the same URL.

Resubmit after major content updates or structural changes.