shaileshofficial2019/netlify-plugin-submit-sitemap

Automatically submit your sitemap after production build

Netlify Build Plugin: Automatically submit your sitemap after every production build

Automatically submit your sitemap to Google,Bing and Yandex after every production build!

This plugin will notify the search engines after every production build about your latest sitemap. The plugin can be used without any configuration if using the defaults.

Usage

You can install this plugin in the Netlify UI from this direct in-app installation link or from the Plugins directory.

To use file-based installation, add the following lines to your netlify.toml file:

[build]
  publish = "public"

[[plugins]]
  package = "netlify-plugin-submit-sitemap"

	[plugins.inputs]

	# The base url of your site (optional, default = main URL set in Netlify)
	baseUrl = "https://example.com"

	# Path to the sitemap URL (optional, default = /sitemap.xml)
	sitemapPath = "/sitemap.xml"

	# Time in seconds to not submit the sitemap after successful submission
	ignorePeriod = 0

	# Enabled providers to submit sitemap to (optional, default = 'google', 'yandex','bing'). Possible providers are currently only 'google', 'yandex','bing'.
	providers = [
		"google",
		"yandex",
		"bing",
	]

	# Enable IndexNow (default = false ,Required for Bing and Yandex)
	enableIndexNow = true

	#keyLocation (optional, In Case if Your key is Located at someware else)
	keyLocation = ""

Instruction For Key

• Generate Your Key from https://bing.com/indexnow and put it in root of your site.

• visit https://www.indexnow.org for more information about key.

• Your-key should have a minimum of 8 and a maximum of 128 hexadecimal characters. The key can contain only the following characters: lowercase characters (a-z), uppercase characters (A-Z), numbers (0-9), and dashes (-).

• If Your Key is Located at some where else, put the path to the key in keyLocation.

• Make Sure That You are not exposing your key in sitemap.xml file.

• see example for better understanding.

• If You enable IndexNow then Set INDEXNOW_KEY Environmental Variable as your Key

Note: The [[plugins]] line is required for each plugin, even if you have other plugins in your netlify.toml file already.

To complete file-based installation, from your project's base directory, use npm, yarn, or any other Node.js package manager to add this plugin to devDependencies in package.json.

npm install -D netlify-plugin-submit-sitemap

Notes

• DuckDuckGo is not a supported provider because it currently doesn't offer any manual method where you can enter your sitemap or webpage URLs for indexing; more information can be found here