View and edit your HubSpot-hosted domain sitemap

Your sitemap is used to manage the content that is shown to search engines for each of your domains hosted on HubSpot. Sitemaps help search engine web crawlers determine the structure of your site so they can crawl it more intelligently.

Before you get started

Before you begin working with this feature, make sure to fully understand the limitations and considerations of the feature and potential consequences of using it. 

Understand limitations & considerations

• HubSpot automatically adds your live HubSpot-hosted website pages and blog posts to your sitemap. Landing pages are not added automatically and must be manually added to your sitemap.
• HubDB dynamic child pages will be included in your sitemap only if the parent page is included in the sitemap. Dynamic child pages will not appear in the sitemap within HubSpot, but will appear in the sitemap XML file. Learn more about building multilevel dynamic pages with HubDB.
• Images will be included in your sitemap. These image URLs will be hosted on the default file hosting domain.
• Removing a page from your sitemap will not explicitly tell search engines that a page should not be indexed. Learn more about blocking your pages from being indexed by search engines.
• Your sitemap.xml file will include the required <urlset>, <url>, and <loc> tags, as well as the optional <lastmod> tag. There is not a way to add additional tags to your CMS sitemap.xml file.
• Changes to your sitemap may take up to 30 minutes to take effect.
  

View your sitemap

You can view your sitemap to understand how your website content is structured and to ensure search engines can easily crawl and index your pages.

• To view your sitemap:

1. 1. In your HubSpot account, click the settings settings icon in the top navigation bar.
   2. In the left sidebar menu, navigate to Content > Domains & URLs.
   3. Click the Sitemap tab.
   4. Click View XML file. This will open your sitemap in a new tab or window. You can also add /sitemap.xml to the end of your website domain and paste the address into a website browser to navigate to your sitemap.xml file.

Edit your sitemap

You can edit your sitemap to manage which of your pages or posts are included. You can also edit the frequency and priority for search engines to crawl them.

• To edit your sitemap:

1. 1. In your HubSpot account, click the settings settings icon in the top navigation bar.
   2. In the left sidebar menu, navigate to Content > Domains & URLs.
   3. Click the Sitemap tab.
   4. Click the Domain dropdown menu and select a sitemap.

• To add a new page to your sitemap, click + Add a page. 
  1. In the dialog box, click the Choose a page dropdown menu. 
  2. Select an existing page published on the domain, then click Add.

• To  exclude  an existing page from your sitemap, hover over a page and click Remove. 

• To further customize the pages in your sitemap, hover over a page and click Options.
  1. In the dialog box, click the Change frequency dropdown menu, and select an option for how often this page updates and should be crawled. (e.g., Always, Hourly, Daily)
  2. In the dialog box, click the Priority dropdown menu, and select an option to rank how this page compares to the other pages on your site.
  3. Click Save.
  4. In the bottom left, click Save to take your edits live.