Quick answer
A sitemap helps search engines discover and crawl your pages.
Sitemap Missing
A sitemap helps search engines discover and crawl your pages. Missing sitemap is not an error but limits discoverability.
Common causes
- No sitemap.xml at root.
- Wrong path or not submitted.
How to fix
- Create sitemap.xml and put at root.
- Submit in Search Console.
FAQ
- Where put sitemap?
- Root: example.com/sitemap.xml.
- Required?
- No but recommended.
Fix it now
Try in validator (prefill this example)