XML Sitemap

Change the page's URL as follows.  The XML sitemap is created automatically by the UBCMS. 

This is independent of the Sitemap component -- you do not need to create a sitemap page first.

1. Take your normal live URL (confirm this loads in your browser).
   
2. Convert it to the equivalent URL with the path information from Author (confirm this loads in your browser).
   
3. Adjust the tail end of the URL from XXX.html to XXX.sitemap.xml (no need to activate, this will be visible immediately as a live page).

Example One

• Standard website URL: http://www.buffalo.edu/ubit.html
• Equivalent URL: http://www.buffalo.edu/content/www/ubit.html 
• XML Sitemap: http://www.buffalo.edu/content/www/ubit.sitemap.xml

Example Two

• Standard website URL: http://nursing.buffalo.edu/
• Equivalent URL: http://nursing.buffalo.edu/content/nursing.html
• XML Sitemap: http://nursing.buffalo.edu/content/nursing.sitemap.xml

Google Search Console sometimes requires a sitemap to have the format of '...sitename/sitemap.xml' instead of our UBCMS convention of '...sitename.sitemap.xml'. In that situation, the console provides ways to manually submit sitemaps in that format. In the console, look for the Sitemaps Report tool and the Ping tool.