Marketing & search · Website help · Sitemap monitoring

A new guide is absent from the sitemap

The article appears in the library, but the sitemap generator never includes its new directory.

What to change

A missing guide can reveal a gap in the inventory rules rather than an isolated omission. Ask the supplier which source list or directory determines inclusion, then compare several articles with the same route pattern. Fix the selection rule and test the next normal publication cycle. The practice should receive evidence that future eligible guides in that location will be included automatically, without recurring manual sitemap edits.

A worked example

Illustrative example

Illustrative test: Add a harmless test resource under the newly supported route pattern.

How to check the result

Eligible new resources appear automatically after regeneration.

A mistake to avoid

A one-off edit to generated XML may disappear on the next build.

Your action checklist

Use these checks to prepare a discussion with your team or supplier. Tick a check when you have recorded the decision or evidence, rather than when a feature has simply been promised.

Decisions to record

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Healthcare SEO research with a search-results page, inspection lens, location pin and service card.
Match a useful service page to the searcher's task.
Healthcare technical SEO illustrated by a page hierarchy and connected internal links.
Give visitors and crawlers clear routes through the website.
Healthcare SEO measurement with unnumbered reporting charts, a source document and review checklist.
Read search evidence alongside useful enquiry outcomes.

Further reading

These primary sources provide additional context for the project decisions above.

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