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fix(seo): sitemap revalidates hourly (root cause of impressions cliff) #330

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11 changes: 9 additions & 2 deletions src/app/sitemap.ts
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Expand Up @@ -6,8 +6,15 @@ import { loadAllAlternatives } from "@/lib/alternatives";
import { getProviderSlugs } from "@/lib/providers";
import { SITE } from "@/data/site";

export const dynamic = "force-static";
export const revalidate = false;
// Was previously `force-static` + `revalidate: false`, which baked the
// sitemap at build time and never refreshed it. That dropped freshly
// added benches (l1-finality, network-fees, etc.) from the sitemap for
// every subsequent crawl until someone redeployed, which produced an
// impressions cliff in Search Console because Google deprioritized
// every URL the sitemap stopped listing. Hourly ISR keeps the YAML
// list, lastmod tags and chain variants accurate without paying a Prom
// query on every Google crawler hit.
export const revalidate = 3600;

// Sitemap lastmod strategy. The previous version hardcoded one
// SITE_LAST_EDIT constant for every editorial URL, which meant Google
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