Sitemap Duplicate URLs

search What we check

Whether the same canonical URL is listed more than once in the sitemap, which wastes crawl budget and can give one URL two different lastmod dates.

build How to fix

1. 1 List each canonical URL exactly once in the sitemap.
2. 2 Remove an accidental bare root entry when you already emit explicit per-locale roots.
3. 3 Treat trailing-slash and case variants of the same path as one entry.

menu_book Sources

• Bing Webmaster Guidelines open_in_new
• Google: Build and Submit a Sitemap open_in_new

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