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site.sitemap-other-host

InfoSEO auditcrawl

The site's sitemaps list URLs on other hosts. Google accepts them only for hosts verified in Search Console or whose own robots.txt names the sitemap.

What to change

List each host's URLs in a sitemap that host's robots.txt names. If the URLs use another domain by mistake (a staging or old domain), generate them 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. 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.sitemap-other-host

Or from an assistant, with the MCP tool seo_crawl_site:

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

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

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