Generate a sitemap for SEO

[Zocker1999NET]

Gitea could generate a sitemap for SEO, so crawlers can search through public repositories more easily. It could be useful for some admins that their instances will be crawled and ranked by search engines. A good explanation for the format of sitemap.xml can be found on Wikipedia.

In my opinion this feature should do the following:

• The sitemap should be available at the path /sitemap.xml.
• The sitemap should at least list the main page of each public repository and group. The main page of the wiki's / all wiki's pages could be optional.
• lastmod should be the date of the last commit to the README file / the wiki page itself

[lafriks]

For big instances that would be large file

[Zocker1999NET]

@lafriks Yeah, that's right. Because of the size of the sitemap, this feature should be optional and disabled by default. Also a good caching system needs to be implemented, so that a few accesses to the sitemap does not overload the server.

[lunny]

If site didn't enable always login, then all public repositories' public routers could be generated to the sitemap file.

[turbopixel]

A sitemap with public repositories, profiles and organizations should suffice. Without any limitation, the sitemap will explode in size.

[Zocker1999NET]

Also, the sitemap could be limited by an additional setting defining that the sitemap only contains the N repositories with the newest changes.

[sijanec]

An alternative would be a sitemap per repository and per user. And of course a global sitemap, as sitemaps can be recursive and may specify additional sitemap files.

They could be generated dynamically.

[techknowlogick]

may specify additional sitemap files.

An example of a sitemap that references other sitemaps: https://www.google.com/sitemap.xml