XML Sitemaps - Overview

This documentation provides technical information about how Yoast SEO generates and/or manages XML sitemaps.

Resources

• Our functional specification describes the logic we use to construct and output XML sitemaps for various content types and conditions.
• Our API documentation [coming soon] provides examples of how technical users and developers can modify the default behavior.
• You can learn more about the role of XML Sitemaps in our products on our feature overview page [coming soon].

Further reading

• XML Sitemaps feature overview [coming soon]
• A guide to what XML sitemaps are (and why should you have one)
• A guide on how to submit your XML sitemap to search engines .