Embedded Site Discovery Service (SDS)
Improve SEO by generating XML sitemaps that search engines can use to index your site(s) more efficiently.
Integration with Optimizely
The Embedded Site Discovery Service is an integration for Optimizely developers and digital marketers looking to maximize search engine visibility with minimal effort. Whether you're managing a single site or multiple sites, SDS ensures your content is always discoverable. The integration can also generate product feeds, making it a versatile tool for e-commerce sites.
Get started with minimal configuration to get up and running in minutes!
Key Benefits
- Boost SEO Performance: Facilitates discovery of products, pages and speeds up indexing of new or updated pages.
- Suitable for all applications: From small content sites to complex enterprise applications, SDS is designed with all use-cases in mind.
- Effortless Sitemap Automation: Automatically generate and update XML sitemaps for all your Optimizely projects. Everything is done with no manual work required except the initial setup.
- Multilingual & Multi-Site Ready: Supports multiple site instances and languages out of the box, making it ideal for global digital experiences.
- Dynamic Content Integration: Easily include dynamic or external content in your sitemaps using custom processors. Especially suited for e-commerce, news, or user-generated content.
- Highly Configurable: Tweak what gets indexed with flexible filters, block roots, and custom mapping options. Exclude specific content types with a simple interface. The integration contains default options to get started quickly, SDS is both very customizable and fast to get up and running.
- Seamless Optimizely Integration: Straightforward setup with your existing Optimizely infrastructure. Just a few lines of code and you're ready to go.
- Scheduled & Incremental Indexing: Includes scheduled jobs for full and delta indexing. This ensures that your sitemap is always up to date without overloading your system.
Key Features
- Guides search engines to prioritize high-value pages
- Pre-generates XML sitemaps automatically
- Compliant with sitemaps.organd Google sitemap specification
- Iterates all pages and blocks for configured site(s)
- Easily add external or dynamic content
- Exclude specific content types or folders
- Customizable mapping and filtering logic
- Delta processing for fresh content updates
- SDS is open source and fully transparent, the code is available on our GitHub
Solution Design
Outgrown the embedded SDS?
Does SDS reach its threshold volume and not scale to your needs anymore?
Database size and services that depend on the feeds can have an impact on performance. Making dynamic content from external sources (such as PIM, ERP, ...) discoverable requires a tailored and scalable solution. Let us know!
A dedicated hosted SDS can handle larger volumes and more complex data sources.
Development roadmap
- User interface to manage configuration
- Support for domain specific sitemaps
- OpenTelemetry Metrics
- Build nuget package from github source
- Integration tests
- Abstraction to fetch sitemap related configuration (app settings, content page, ...)
- Community requests