{"id":20299,"date":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praguedesignstudio.com\/?p=20299"},"modified":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T09:00:00","slug":"what-is-sitemap-do-i-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praguedesignstudio.com\/cs\/what-is-sitemap-do-i-need\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is a Sitemap and Do You Already Have One?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sitemap is a machine-readable list of your pages \u2014 a table of contents you hand to Google so nothing worth indexing gets missed. It doesn&#8217;t boost rankings; it prevents omissions, which for new pages and small sites is half the SEO battle.<\/p>\n<h2>You probably already have one<\/h2>\n<p>WordPress with Yoast or Rank Math generates one automatically at <code>\/sitemap_index.xml<\/code> \u2014 try it on your own domain now. If it loads and lists your real pages, you&#8217;re covered; if it 404s or lists deleted junk, that&#8217;s a finding.<\/p>\n<h2>The two-minute hygiene<\/h2>\n<p>Submit the sitemap once in Google Search Console (then it&#8217;s monitored forever), and make sure it contains only what should rank \u2014 not tag archives, test pages or trashed content. 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