I’d like to include my blog authors in the sitemap, but they aren’t automatically added to the generated sitemap. I also can’t add them manually in the sitemap settings, since the author pages don’t appear in the dropdown list. Is there any way to make this possible?
HubSpot’s auto-generated sitemap only includes supported content types (e.g., website pages, landing pages, blog posts). System-generated author listing pages aren’t included and can’t be added from the sitemap UI, so they won’t appear in the dropdown.
Workarounds: 1) Create dedicated author profile pages as standard website pages (one per author). Publish them and include them in your sitemap via Settings > Website > Domains & URLs > SEO & Crawlers > Sitemaps.
2) Create a supplemental XML sitemap for author listing URLs. Host it in Files (Marketing > Files and Templates > Files), then reference it in robots.txt (Settings > Website > Domains & URLs > SEO & Crawlers > Robots.txt) by adding another “Sitemap: https://yourdomain.com/path-to-authors-sitemap.xml” line.
You can also submit that supplemental sitemap directly in Google Search Console.
Note: Many themes/templates set author/tag listing pages to noindex by design to avoid thin/duplicate content. If you choose to surface them, ensure each page has unique, valuable content (bio, links, schema) to justify indexing.
HubSpot’s auto-generated sitemap only includes supported content types (e.g., website pages, landing pages, blog posts). System-generated author listing pages aren’t included and can’t be added from the sitemap UI, so they won’t appear in the dropdown.
Workarounds: 1) Create dedicated author profile pages as standard website pages (one per author). Publish them and include them in your sitemap via Settings > Website > Domains & URLs > SEO & Crawlers > Sitemaps.
2) Create a supplemental XML sitemap for author listing URLs. Host it in Files (Marketing > Files and Templates > Files), then reference it in robots.txt (Settings > Website > Domains & URLs > SEO & Crawlers > Robots.txt) by adding another “Sitemap: https://yourdomain.com/path-to-authors-sitemap.xml” line.
You can also submit that supplemental sitemap directly in Google Search Console.
Note: Many themes/templates set author/tag listing pages to noindex by design to avoid thin/duplicate content. If you choose to surface them, ensure each page has unique, valuable content (bio, links, schema) to justify indexing.
