Sitemap
#Internal Site-wide Search
The site-wide search on your website relies on our sitemap setup.
The XML version - which powers SearchIQ - can be seen here:
The user-friendly version - which you can use to manage your site-wide search data set can be seen here:
You will notice when looking at this page that it mirrors the page structure of your NationBuilder control panel.
If a page is appearing in your sitemap and is a clickable link - that means that the page is found and is part of your site-wide search data set.
If a page is visible as plain text (not a clickable link) - it means that the page is found, but intentionally excluded from your site-wide search data set.
For a page to be found by the sitewide search:
- It must be have page status of "published"
- It must be a top level page in NationBuilder - or nested beneath a "published" top level page
If a page you are looking for is not included in the sitemap page - things to check:
- Is the page you want included have status "published"?
- Is the page you want included nested under a page that is not "published" - check all page ancestors if the page in question is multiple levels deep
If the page you are looking at is visible as plain text but not a link - things to check:
- Does it have a
page_no_robotstag? If so - remove it. - If published and does not have
page_no_robotstag - please contact For Purpose for assistance.
External Search Engine Search
If external search engines like Google are finding pages that you don't want them to - for example a page that holds data for a page module - make sure that these underlying pages have the page_no_robots tag - as these will ensure the page gets the appropriate metatag to hide the page from search engines:
<meta name="robots" content="noindex" />
You can see what pages Google has indexed on your site by going to google and searching for site:YOUR_SITE_URL:
If you have made significant changes to your NationBuilder pages (ex: adding/removing many page_no_robots) tags - it is a good idea to let For Purpose know and we can get SearchIQ to re-index your sitemap and resubmit your website to Google Search Console.