What about sitemap indexes?

We report type (urlset vs index) and counts. Deep recursion across child sitemaps isn’t shown in v1.

XML sitemaps are assumed UTF-8 unless a BOM or declaration says otherwise - we don’t deeply sniff encodings.

Sitemap.xml Validator

We request your default sitemap at /sitemap.xml, validate structure, and sample the first URLs for a quick health check.

Technical SEO gets you indexed. Intent-ranked search gets you found by people actively discussing the problem your pages solve.