Sitemap
A sitemap is a map of a website's pages: for planning, a tree of pages and how they nest; for search engines, an XML file that lists every page a crawler should find.
How Xodia makes both kinds: the Plan tab draws your site's page tree and keeps it in sync with the site, and a site on Xodia hosting gets a sitemap.xml listing its pages at the site's own address.
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What it is
The word covers two related things. In design, a sitemap shows which pages a site has, which sit under which, and what each is for, before anything is built. In SEO, sitemap.xml lists the addresses of a site's indexable pages, often with when each last changed, and robots.txt points crawlers at it.
Both answer the same question: what pages exist and how they fit together.
In Xodia
The Plan tab's Sitemap view draws the planning kind: Home and the pages under it as cards, in their folders, each with its sections and the shared navigation and footer. It stays in sync with the real site, so pages added, moved or removed in the editor show up there, and Create the plan from your site draws it from the code in one click.
For search, Xodia's SEO skills tell your AI to keep the site's sitemap.xml and robots.txt up to date as pages are added or retired.
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Related terms
- WireframeA wireframe is a simple drawing of a page's layout, in grey boxes and placeholder lines, that shows what goes where before any design or copy is final.
- URL folderA URL folder is a part of a web address that groups pages under it, such as services in /services/web-design, so the address shows where a page sits in the site.
- Orphan pageAn orphan page is a page no other page links to, so visitors can't find it by clicking around and search engines may miss it or treat it as unimportant.