Unlike
SharePoint 2010, SharePoint 2013 provides native support for generating XML
Sitemaps. In order to generate an XML Sitemap for the site:
- First we have to enable the “Search Engine Sitemap” feature from Site Collection
Features. This will register the Site Collection with the “Search Engine
Sitemap job” Timer Job.
- Run “Search Engine Sitemap job” Timer Job, which anyway by default runs daily
and generates an XML Sitemap for every Site Collection that has been registered
with it.
In
addition to generate XML Sitemap, Search Engine Sitemap job also modifies the
robots.txt file. In there, it adds the link for the XML Sitemap file so that it
can be easily discovered by search engines.
We
can automate the generation of XML sitemap in deployment using PowerShell as
follows:
function GenerateXmlSitemap([string] $siteCollectionUrl)
{
try
{
$site = Get-SPSite
$siteCollectionUrl
$rootWeb = $site.RootWeb
$id = [Guid](“7310C4BB-1407-4B73-96A1-2A88D034E039”);
#1. Activate “Search
Engine Sitemap” feature from Site Collection Features
Enable-SPFeature –identity
“77fc9e13-e99a-4bd3-9438-a3f69670ed97” –URL $siteCollectionUrl
–EA SilentlyContinue
#2. Run “Search
Engine Sitemap job”
$site.AddWorkItem([System.Guid]::Empty, [System.DateTime]::Now.ToUniversalTime(), $id, $rootWeb.ID, $site.ID, 1,
$false,[System.Guid]::Empty, [System.Guid]::Empty,
$rootWeb.CurrentUser.ID, $null, [System.String]::Empty,
[System.Guid]::Empty, $false);
$webApplication =
$site.WebApplication;
$searchEngineSitemapJob
= $webApplication.JobDefinitions |where{
$_.Name –match “SPSitemapJobDefinition” };
runjob($searchEngineSitemapJob);
}
catch
{
write-host “Error: “+
$_.Exception.Message –ForegroundColor
Red
}
}
function runJob($Job)
{
write-host “Last
execution time was:” $Job.LastRunTime
[Array] $JobHistoryList=$Job.HistoryEntries
Start-SPTimerJob
$Job
Write-Host “Running Timer Job:” –NoNewline
Write-Host $Job.DisplayName
–NoNewline –ForegroundColor
Yellow
$count = $JobHistoryList.count
$countNext =
$count+1
while ( $countNext –ne $count)
{
[Array] $JobHistoryList=$Job.HistoryEntries
$count = $JobHistoryList.count
Write-Host “=” –NoNewline
sleep 2
}
Write-Host “”
if ($Job.status –ne “Succeeded”)
{
Write-Host –f yellow $JobHistoryList[0].status
Write-Host –f yellow $JobHistoryList[0].ErrorMessage
}
else
{
Write-Host –f Green $JobHistoryList[0].status
}
}
Important:
- For
the XML Sitemap to be generated, anonymous access must be enabled on the
Default Zone of the Site Collection for which it’s generating the XML Sitemap.
- Also
the XML Sitemap generation process uses Search to generate the XML Sitemap. Therefore
crawl the site and verify that the pages have been indexed is important.
Find JobDefinition Name to use in PowerShell:
Go
to the Central Administration -> Monitoring -> Review job definitions and
find required job definition. Then by hover the mouse pointer over the job name
we can get the job id.
Use
URL decoder to decode the job id and using following PowerShell script we can
get the job name.
