How to Create Automatic Sitemap with Laravel 10

Creating a sitemap with Laravel 10 is an important step to improve your website's SEO performance and achieve better rankings in search engines. A sitemap is a file that helps communicate your website's content to search engines more effectively. Thanks to the powerful features and ease of use offered by Laravel 10, you can accurately present each page and content of your site to search engines. This allows users to navigate your site better, increasing the success of your overall SEO strategy.

In addition to being a powerful framework, Laravel offers developers extensive configuration and customization opportunities. Automatic sitemap creation is especially critical for websites that produce large-scale and dynamic content. For example, if an e-commerce site adds hundreds of new products every day, it must ensure that these products are quickly indexed by search engines. It is possible to facilitate and automate this process with Laravel 10.

How to Create Sitemap with Laravel 10
In order to create a sitemap with Laravel 10, some dependencies must be installed. Laravel-sitemap installation is performed with the following command

composer require spatie/laravel-sitemap
Configuration
The following command is used to create the configuration file, overriding the browser's default options

php artisan vendor:publish --provider="Spatie\Sitemap\SitemapServiceProvider" --tag=sitemap-config
Assuming that the pages and content records have been created on your website created with Laravel 10, we continue the explanation of the article. We will focus more on the details of the sitemap creation process for all types of websites, from both small-scale personal blogs to large-scale dynamic websites.

Creating a Sitemap
To create a sitemap, first create a new Command file named GenerateSitemap.php in the app/console/Commands/ directory using the command below. This command will allow you to dynamically crawl your site's URLs and create a sitemap file by creating a custom command in your Laravel project

php artisan make:command GenerateSitemap
Open the Command file named GenerateSitemap that you created and add the following sample code lines into the public function handle function. This code will grab all your site's URLs and print them into a sitemap.xml file. The crawler collects these URLs to include for your site and creates a file in the location you specify

SitemapGenerator::create('http://localhost:8000')
->hasCrawled(function (Url $url) {
// Some operations can be performed on URLs, for example:
// - Exclude specific URLs
// - change the priority or modification frequency of URLs
return $url;
})
->writeToFile(public_path('sitemap.xml'))
By using the resulting sitemap.xml file, you can increase your SEO performance by reporting your site's page indexes to search engines. To create the sitemap.xml file with Laravel 10, use the command of the variable named signature defined in the GenerateSitemap command file you created as follows

php artisan app:generate-sitemap
After running this command, the sitemap.xml file will be created in the public directory. You can also add this command to the Kernel.php file in the app/console directory to automatically create a sitemap at certain time intervals. To do this, add a scheduling line to the Kernel.php file as follows

$schedule->command('app:generate-sitemap')->daily();
Thus, your sitemap.xml file will be updated automatically every day. This process plays an important role in improving the SEO performance of your website. Search engines quickly learn your site's structure and content updates and update their indexing accordingly. Our guide to creating a sitemap with Laravel 10 ends here. To get more information about Sitemap and access detailed documentation, you can check out Spatie's spatie/laravel-sitemap page.

https://github.com/spatie/laravel-sitemap

If you need more information, you can visit the GitHub page of spatie/laravel-sitemap and find step-by-step guides, code examples and more detailed explanations there. Additionally, the frequently asked questions section offers solutions to common problems you may encounter, and you can get tips for problems in your own projects by accessing feedback provided by the community. On this page, you can find comprehensive documentation that will help you better understand each stage of the sitemaps creation process, as well as how to integrate best practices with Laravel.