SnapCalc

Sitemap setup for SnapCalc

This repository uses GitHub Pages with Jekyll enabled so that the jekyll-sitemap plugin can automatically generate a sitemap for all public pages.

What Jekyll and jekyll-sitemap are doing

• GitHub Pages runs Jekyll on this repo whenever you push changes.
• Jekyll reads _config.yml, sees the jekyll-sitemap plugin, and generates a sitemap.xml file at build time.
• That sitemap.xml includes all normal public URLs under:
  • https://snapcalc.site/
  • including the homepage, category pages, calculator pages, and legal pages.

You do not need to manually edit or regenerate sitemap.xml. It stays in sync as you add or remove pages.

Files you added for this setup

• _config.yml
  • Enables Jekyll.
  • Sets:
    • url: "https://snapcalc.site"
    • baseurl: ""
  • Turns on the jekyll-sitemap plugin.
• robots.txt
  • Tells search engines they can crawl everything.
  • Points them to the sitemap at:
    https://snapcalc.site/sitemap.xml

What you need to do

1. Keep _config.yml, robots.txt, and this README-sitemap.md in the repo root.
2. Make sure there is no .nojekyll file in the root of the repo.
3. Commit and push your changes.
4. Wait for GitHub Pages to rebuild the site.

5. In Google Search Console, submit this sitemap URL once:

   https://snapcalc.site/sitemap.xml

Google will re-read the sitemap automatically over time.
You do not need to resubmit URLs when you add new calculators or categories. As long as the pages are part of the site, Jekyll + jekyll-sitemap will include them in the sitemap.