site.not-in-sitemap
Indexable pages discovered by crawling are not listed in the sitemap.
What to change
Add the missing URLs to the sitemap (or generate it from the router so it stays complete).
The documentation on developers.google.comA finding of this rule on a page carries the exact edits for that page: the markup it quotes, and what to write instead.
When it runs
Runs on a crawl or a build directory. Info is a best practice: worth doing, rarely urgent, and --no-info leaves it out. Each finding takes 1 point off the page's score.
The severity here is the rule's usual one: a finding can be raised or lowered when the page gives a reason.
Run it, or skip it
Check a page for this rule alone, after a fix for instance:
npx @rivi-software/agentic-seo-check crawl https://example.com --rule site.not-in-sitemap
Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_crawl_site:
{
"url": "https://example.com",
"rules": [
"site.not-in-sitemap"
]
}
To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable site.not-in-sitemap on the command, or disableRules: ["site.not-in-sitemap"] to a tool.
More in Site-wide checks
All 49 rules- Error
site.sitemap-noindex-pageThe sitemap lists pages that are set to noindex. - Warning
site.sitemap-non-canonicalThe sitemap lists URLs whose canonical points to a different URL. - Error
site.sitemap-broken-urlThe sitemap lists URLs that return 4xx/5xx. - Warning
site.sitemap-redirecting-urlThe sitemap lists URLs that redirect. - Info
site.orphan-pagesSitemap URLs that no crawled page links to. - Error
site.broken-internal-linksInternal links point to URLs that return 4xx/5xx or fail to load. - Warning
site.redirected-internal-linksInternal links point to URLs that redirect. - Warning
site.redirect-chainsInternal URLs go through two or more redirects (or loop).