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Your sitemap

Find your sitemap's address, see what's in it, refresh it and submit it to Google, and how IndexNow tells search engines about changes straight away.

Available on all plans

A sitemap is a file that lists the pages of your website, so search engines can find them without having to follow every link. Yclas builds yours automatically and keeps it up to date. All you need to do is tell Google and Bing where it is.

Find your sitemap

Your sitemap is always at:

https://yoursite.com/sitemap.xml

with your own address instead of yoursite.com. You can also see it in the admin panel: go to Tools and look at the Sitemap card, which shows the address and when the sitemap was last generated.

A sitemap file holds at most 10,000 addresses. A bigger marketplace gets several files and an index that lists them, at yoursite.com/sitemap-index.xml. You don’t need to do anything about it: sitemap.xml always works, and leads search engines to the index when there is one.

Search engines can find it without your help too: your robots.txt points to it.

What’s in it

Included Which
Your home page Always
Listings Every published listing that hasn’t expired
Categories and locations Every category and location with at least one published listing (in itself or below it)
Category and location landing pages Each category in each location with at least 3 listings, such as Cars in Madrid
Vehicle, property and equipment landing pages With the vehicles, property or equipment pack on: each make, model, property type and location page with at least 3 listings
Your pages (About, Terms…) All published pages, except ones you have hidden from search engines in the page builder
FAQ The FAQ page and every answer, if the FAQ add-on is on
Seller profiles The 100 newest members who have at least one published listing

Each address comes with the date it last really changed (a listing’s last edit, a category’s newest listing), so search engines know what to visit again first. Blog posts and forum topics aren’t listed: search engines find them by following your links.

When it’s updated

The sitemap is rebuilt automatically once a day by a scheduled job. To rebuild it right away, for example after importing listings:

  1. Go to Tools.
  2. In the Sitemap card, click Generate now.

The date under the address changes to show it was generated.

IndexNow: changes reported straight away

Search engines that take part in IndexNow, such as Bing and Yandex, don’t have to wait for their next visit. Each time your sitemap is rebuilt, Yclas sends them the addresses of listings and pages that are new or have changed, and of listings that have gone (sold, expired or deleted), so they update their results quickly. Google doesn’t use IndexNow; it reads your sitemap.

There’s nothing to set up. IndexNow starts on its own a day after your sitemap is first built. It isn’t used while your site is in maintenance mode or Hide from search engines is on.

Submit it to search engines

You only have to do this once.

After that, search engines come back to the sitemap regularly on their own.

Troubleshooting

Problem What to check
Search Console says it couldn’t fetch the sitemap Open the address in your browser. If it loads, wait a day and try again. Make sure the site isn’t in maintenance mode or private, and that its plan is active.
The sitemap address answers “not found” Your site is on a free trial or the free plan, which search engines are asked not to list (your dashboard says Not on Google yet). The sitemap appears once you choose a plan.
The sitemap address shows an old domain You connected a new domain. Submit the sitemap again under the new address, as a new property in Search Console.
New listings aren’t in it Click Generate now under Tools, or wait for the daily rebuild. Listings waiting for approval aren’t included, and neither are expired ones.
“Submitted URL marked noindex” Hide from search engines is on under Settings › General. Switch it off.

Updated 22 October 2026 · Suggest an edit