Shopify Sitemap not up-to-date

Online Store and Theme Development
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Hi Shopify,

I’ve noticed that the XML is very inconsistent. I would propose a couple of enhancements:

  1. Add time. SearchEngines really would like to have this for faster indexing. Right know I see product indexing latest updated from 2 days ago.
  2. Remove deprecated fields like: <image:caption> and <image:title>. See Image Sitemaps | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers
  3. Randome products don’t have a <image:image>. I can’t find the reason why.
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Hey @AdminGh

The three enhancements you’ve proposed make sense from a search engine optimization perspective.

I’ve shared this feedback with our product teams as these sound like useful additions to our sitemaps that would benefit merchants’ SEO performance across the platform. :memo:

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Hi @KyleG-Shopify ,

Any updates? I would also add the option to upload / add custom XML urls to the sitemap-index for example an image-sitemap.

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Hey @AdminGh, currently I can’t provide timelines on if or when product features might be implemented, but you can keep an eye on our developer changelog for any updates to sitemap functionality.

For your request to add custom XML URLs to the sitemap-index! This functionality already exists through the robots.txt.liquid template customization feature. You can add extra sitemap URLs by creating a custom robots.txt.liquid template in your theme.

The Customize robots.txt developer guide shows exactly how to do this, and there’s also a Help Center article that walks through the process. You’ll be able to add your image sitemap or any other custom sitemaps this way, and search engines will pick them up through your robots.txt file.