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Rule · Sitemaps

Sitemap URLs are absolute

SEO-SITEMAP-02BC2 Recommended· w4scanner

Class
C2 Recommended
Weight
4
Severity on fail
major
Applies to
Google

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 DOCUMENTED RECOMMENDATION.

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_not_absolute

    {n} entries in {sitemap} are not absolute URLs, for example “{example}”. Google asks for fully-qualified, absolute URLs in sitemaps.

The documented fix

Generate loc values from the canonical base URL.

Sources, quoted

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