Crawl linked XML sitemaps
Table of Contents
General
- Installation
- Installation on Windows
- Installation on macOS
- Installation on Ubuntu
- Installation on Fedora
- Crawling
- Saving, opening, exporting & importing crawls
- Configuration
- Scheduling
- Exporting
- Robots.txt
- User agent
- Memory
- Checking memory allocation
- Cookies
- XML sitemap creation
- Visualisations
- Reports
- Command line interface set-up
- Command line interface
- User Interface
- Search function
- Auto Updates
Configuration Options
Spider Crawl Tab
- Images
- Media
- CSS
- JavaScript
- SWF
- Internal hyperlinks
- External links
- Canonicals
- Pagination (rel next/prev)
- Hreflang
- AMP
- Meta refresh
- iframes
- Mobile alternate
- Check links outside of start folder
- Crawl outside of start folder
- Crawl all subdomains
- Follow internal or external ‘nofollow’
- Crawl linked XML sitemaps
Spider Extraction Tab
Spider Limits Tab
Spider Rendering Tab
Spider Advanced Tab
- Cookie storage
- Ignore non-indexable URLs for Issues
- Ignore paginated URLs for duplicate filters
- Always follow redirects
- Always follow canonicals
- Respect noindex
- Respect canonical
- Respect next/prev
- Respect HSTS policy
- Respect self referencing meta refresh
- Extract images from img srcset attribute
- Crawl fragment identifiers
- Perform HTML validation
- Green hosting carbon calculation
- Assume pages are HTML
- Response timeout
- 5XX response retries
Spider Preferences Tab
Other Configuration Options
- Content area
- Duplicates
- Spelling & grammar
- Robots.txt
- URL rewriting
- CDNs
- Include
- Exclude
- Speed
- User agent
- HTTP header
- Custom search
- Custom extraction
- Custom link positions
- Custom JavaScript
- Google Analytics integration
- Google Search Console integration
- PageSpeed Insights integration
- Majestic
- Ahrefs
- Moz
- Authentication
- Segments
- Crawl analysis
- User Interface
- Language
- Proxy
- Storage mode
- Memory allocation
- Trusted Certificates
- Mode
Tabs
Top Tabs
- Internal
- External
- Security
- Response Codes
- URL
- Page titles
- Meta description
- Meta keywords
- h1
- h2
- Content
- Images
- Canonicals
- Pagination
- Directives
- hreflang
- JavaScript
- Links
- AMP
- Structured data
- Sitemaps
- PageSpeed
- Mobile
- Custom search
- Custom extraction
- Custom JavaScript
- Analytics
- Search Console
- Validation
- Link Metrics
- Change Detection
Lower Window Tabs
Right Side Window Tabs
Crawl linked XML sitemaps
Configuration > Spider > Crawl > Crawl Linked XML Sitemaps
The SEO Spider will not crawl XML Sitemaps by default (in regular ‘Spider’ mode). To crawl XML Sitemaps and populate the filters in the Sitemaps tab, this configuration should be enabled.
When the ‘Crawl Linked XML Sitemaps’ configuration is enabled, you can choose to either ‘Auto Discover XML Sitemaps via robots.txt’, or supply a list of XML Sitemaps by ticking ‘Crawl These Sitemaps’, and pasting them into the field that appears.
Please note – Once the crawl has finished, a ‘Crawl Analysis‘ will need to be performed to populate the Sitemap filters. Please read our guide on ‘How To Audit XML Sitemaps‘.
