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sitemap.entry.cross-host

A sitemap should only list URLs on its own host

errorsite-widespec-required

Why it matters

www and the apex are different hosts to a consumer, and this is what catches the sitemap generated against one and served on the other. A consumer may drop every entry that does not belong to the host it fetched the file from.

What the finding looks like

The message goflag prints, with example values substituted.

error sitemap.entry.cross-host 12 entries name hosts other than this sitemap's: https://www.example.com/a, https://www.example.com/b. A consumer may drop them — the sitemap only speaks for the host that serves it.

How to fix it

The catalogue carries no snippet for a site rule: a cross-page rule builds its remedy from what the crawl found, so goflag attaches the fix to the finding itself rather than to the rule. Run it and read the finding.

Says who?

This rule is spec-required, and it cites the document below. Nothing here is goflag’s opinion of what a good page looks like — if you disagree with a finding, this is what you are disagreeing with.