Hi Firas,

1. I would recommend using a IIS rewrire rule to do this, e.g Rewrite sitemap.xml to /xml-sitemap

2. Take a look at the NavIt package which can be used to generate a page based sitemap, it could be easily adapted to out xml instead.

Hope that's helpful?

Jeavon

Hi Jeavon,

thanks a lot, 

it seems really usefull package.

but actually i got HTML sitemap not XML sitemap http://promoto.ae/sm

and the most important i cant find a solution in umbraco, is to create http://promoto.ae/sitemap.xml with MVC + Razor

thanks again.

Firas

Ok, so firstly to create a partial that will return your tree with the correct elements for a xml sitemap:

My file is /Views/Partials/XmlSitemap.cshtml

@inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoViewPage<IPublishedContent>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9">
@{                   
    var homePage = Model.AncestorOrSelf(1);

    if (homePage != null && (homePage.Children.Any()))
    {        
        <url>
            <loc>@homePage.UrlWithDomain()</loc>                          
        </url>         
        @Traverse(homePage, false)    
    } 
}</urlset>

@helper Traverse(IPublishedContent parent, bool newList)
{    
    var subPages = parent.Children.Where(x => x.IsVisible() && !x.HasProperty(DataNodePropertyAlias)).OrderBy(x => x.SortOrder);
    foreach (var page in subPages)
    {     
        <url>             
            <loc>@page.UrlWithDomain()</loc>
        </url>  
        @Traverse(page, true);
    } 
}

@functions{
    private const string DataNodePropertyAlias = "isDataNode";
}

 Now it would be easy to include this in a view and it would render the required markup however there is a further complication, we need the response header content type to be "text/xml", this requires a SurfaceController:

My file is in /Controllers/XmlSitemapSurfaceController.cs but if you don't have a VS.NET solution, place the file in the /App_Code/XmlSitemapSurfaceController.cs location

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Runtime.Remoting.Messaging;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Mvc;
using Umbraco.Web.Mvc;

namespace MyNameSpace.Controllers
{
    public class XmlSitemapSurfaceController : SurfaceController
    {
        public ActionResult Index()
        {
            Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
            return PartialView("XmlSitemap",CurrentPage);
        }
    }
} 

The final part is to render this from your view.

My file /Views/XmlSitemap.cshtml

 @inherits Umbraco.Web.Mvc.UmbracoTemplatePage
@{
    Layout = null;  
}@Html.Action("Index","XmlSitemapSurface")
    

 Now either attach this view to a content node or request it as a alttemplate. e.g http://www.mysite.com/XmlSitemap and you should see the xml sitemap.

I will address how to rewrite this to sitemap.xml separately! :-)

Ok, so now assuming you are requesting your xml sitemap by alttemplate (so you don't need a node) e.g. /XmlSitemap/ we can now rewrite this using a IIS7 Rewrite rule (this extension must be installed in your IIS)

Add this to your web.config within the system.webServer element:

     <rewrite>
      <rules>
        <rule name="Sitemap XML">
          <match url="sitemap.xml" />
          <action type="Rewrite" url="/XmlSitemap/" appendQueryString="false" />
        </rule>
      </rules>
    </rewrite>    

Thanks a lot,

it is just works :D

Hi Guys, 

It worked and has been submited into Google webmaster, but its still not appearing in Google search results! 

If you type in Google 

Site:promoto.ae

you will notice that's there's only two indexed pages, which on of them is promoto.ae/sm 

so i think we still didn't do it right. 

Hi Molham,

Your xml sitemap is perfect however you have <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> on most pages while this is in place Google will not index these pages. You should change it to <meta name="robots" content="index,follow">

Thanks,

Jeavon

OMG!!! THANKS A LOT MAN. :'( 

This is the most stupid mistake that shouldn't been done :( 

Unfortunity, promoto.ae only indexed my home page but not the others!

why is that happening? is it because the sitemap.xml showing the page un defined (e.g. promoto.ae/about-us) there's no html or something?

This is the message from Google webmaster: Googlebot couldn't crawl this URL because it points to a non-existent page. Generally, 404s don't harm your site's performance in search, but you can use them to help improve the user experience. More info.

Another note: Usually when you copy a text from the home page and past it into Google, the links if that text should appear. but if i copy text from inside promoto.ae home page, google won't results! so basically non of the pages are indexing!

This is a great thread and it got me a working XML sitemap. I would like to enhance it further to include the lastmod property. In XSLT I would have used the following:

<lastmod><xsl:value-of select="concat(@updateDate,'+00:00')" /></lastmod> 

What would be the Razor/MVC equivalent?

Update: I added the following to your script:

<lastmod>@page.UpdateDate</lastmod>

This outputs the date as: 7/31/2015 7:41:52 AM. But it needs to be in this format: 2014-12-01T09:31:24+00:00

Update #2: this seems to be working thou it might not be the best approach:

<lastmod>@page.UpdateDate.ToString("yyyy-mm-dd'T'hh:mm:ss'+00:00'")</lastmod>

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