Building an XML sitemap for a small site

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I run a small static site, and manually listing URLs was getting old. Every new page meant editing the file by hand, and I’d forget half the time.

I tried an XML sitemap generator to build a fresh file and submitted it in Search Console. The process was quick, though I trimmed a few low-value pages out. Thin tag pages didn’t need to be there.

Do you include every URL, or only the ones you want indexed? I’ve also wondered how often small sites really need to update their sitemap. Interested in what others do, especially for sites that rarely change.

 

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