CHECK GLOSSARY · SITEMAP-001

Broken URLs in sitemap

In plain words: Sitemaps listing dead or redirecting pages waste crawl budget and slow indexing.

How to fix it

Regenerate the sitemap from live URLs only and resubmit.

Official sources

• Google: Build a sitemap

Related checks

• ANCHOR-001: Generic anchor text
• CONTENT-DUP: Near-duplicate pages
• SITEMAP-002: Sitemap missing lastmod
• ROBOTS-001: No sitemap in robots.txt

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