conwydrainagesolutionsltd.co.uk

Massive XML sitemap crammed into a TXT record

$ dig TXT conwydrainagesolutionsltd.co.uk

;; QUESTION SECTION:

;conwydrainagesolutionsltd.co.uk. IN TXT

;; ANSWER SECTION:

conwydrainagesolutionsltd.co.uk. 3600 IN TXT "<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> <url><loc>https://conwydrainagesolutionsltd.co.uk/</loc><lastmod>2024-03-01</lastmo…"

What Happened

Another XML sitemap — a perfectly formatted one — pasted verbatim into a DNS TXT record. The `<urlset xmlns=...` declaration, the `<url>` elements, the `<loc>` tags, all of it. DNS TXT records are text. Googlebot looks for sitemaps on web servers. These two facts appear to have been unknown to this admin.

Full TXT Record Value

<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
  <url><loc>https://conwydrainagesolutionsltd.co.uk/</loc><lastmod>2024-03-01</lastmod></url>
  ...
</urlset>