Sitemaps for PDL Prism Sites

Xinjiang Shao
Team M8's

2020/09/29

Why improve our Sitemaps?

Our websites are large. Our dynamic single sitemap structure timeout, share 1 service location with all brands
Help search engines to set the right time, priority to crawl
Help with Image Searches
SPA (Single Page Apps) are not well linked with href

Overall Structure for Sitemaps

Products, Categories, Images Sitemaps
Compressed with GZip
Update Daily at Midnight Every Day for 4 Brands
Martins' is live for static pages, Other brands are an ongoing process
The initial set of site maps for Products and Category is live last week, Image sitemap is planned to be released next week

- Size Difference

- Overall stats on how many products and categories are generated

- GA stats and Google Search Console stats

Site Map	Before Compressed	After Compressed	URL Count
Products	5.9M	371K	25078
Categories	525K	21K	2706
Images	20M	1.7M	26184
Index	647B	256B	3

A snapshot of MRTN's Sitemap on Sep 28, 2020

By Xinjiang Shao

A brief summary of what is done for enabling Search Engines to discover our brands' content better

Software Engineer at Peapod Digital Labs