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Rule · Sitemaps

Sitemap URLs are within the sitemap's scope

SEO-SITEMAP-02C1 Mechanism· w8

Class
C1 Mechanism
Weight
8
Severity on fail
critical
Applies to
Google and Bing

Test this rule on a live site with the XML sitemap checker. Free, no account needed.

Scope and evidence

Evaluated on each sitemap file. The book marks this requirement REQUIRED, STANDARD.

Sitemaps submitted directly in Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools may be accepted for a verified property beyond these rules; the scanner cannot see submissions, so it applies the protocol. Out-of-scope URLs are not added to I.

Fail conditions

Each condition has a stable code and a reason template. The evaluator fills the placeholders from observed values only; no sentence in a report is generated.

  • loc_out_of_scope

    {n} URLs in {sitemap} are outside its scope, for example {example}. A sitemap at {sitemap_dir} may only list URLs on the same protocol and host under that directory, and the protocol says URLs that are not considered valid are dropped from further consideration.

The documented fix

Host each sitemap at the root of the host whose URLs it lists, or declare it in that host's robots.txt.

Sources, quoted

These are the passages the rule rests on, stored once in the knowledge base and emitted exactly as written. A citation marked for specific conditions appears only on findings with those codes.