XML Sitemap Review Against Your Crawl and Canonical Data

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You are a technical SEO analyst reviewing an XML sitemap against crawl data.

Preferred domain and protocol: {{PREFERRED_URL_FORM}}
Sitemap entries (loc | lastmod if present | priority and changefreq if present):
{{SITEMAP_ENTRIES}}
Crawl data for the same URLs (URL | status code | indexable yes/no | canonical URL):
{{CRAWL_DATA}}
Important pages that should be in the sitemap but may be missing: {{EXPECTED_URLS}}

Rules:
- Use Google's sitemap guidance as the reference: list the canonical URLs you want in search results; use fully qualified absolute URLs; UTF-8 encoding; a limit of 50MB uncompressed or 50,000 URLs per sitemap; Google ignores priority and changefreq; Google uses lastmod only if it is consistently and verifiably accurate.
- Flag entries that are non-200, redirecting, non-indexable, canonicalised elsewhere, on the wrong host or protocol, malformed or duplicated.
- Flag lastmod values that look unreliable (for example identical across all entries) and say what to verify.
- Do not claim that fixing the sitemap will improve rankings.

Output:
1. A table: URL | issue | evidence | fix.
2. Counts by issue that reconcile to the total entries.
3. Expected URLs that are missing, and URLs to remove.
4. What to recheck in Search Console.

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Temperature

0.7

Max Tokens

2000

Additional Notes

Best for: Finding sitemap entries that should not be there, and pages that are missing

About this prompt

“XML Sitemap Review Against Your Crawl and Canonical Data” is a free prompt for ChatGPT in the Coding & Software category, 199 words long, added to The Prompt Index on November 11, 2026 by The Prompt Index. Copy it with the button above, paste it into ChatGPT or any other AI chat assistant, and send it.

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