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site.sitemap-invalid-url

WarningSEO auditcrawl

Sitemap <loc> values that are not full http(s) URLs, or are 2,048 characters or longer. Search engines crawl sitemap URLs exactly as listed and drop these, so the pages they name are not submitted.

What to change

Write every <loc> as a full URL with protocol and host (https://www.example.com/about/, not /about/), under 2,048 characters, generated from the production site URL.

The documentation on developers.google.com

A 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. A warning is a problem that costs a page ranking, clicks or citations. Each finding takes 5 points 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.sitemap-invalid-url

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_crawl_site:

{
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "rules": [
    "site.sitemap-invalid-url"
  ]
}

To leave it out of an audit, pass --disable site.sitemap-invalid-url on the command, or disableRules: ["site.sitemap-invalid-url"] to a tool.

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