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Address in several sitemaps

sitemaps.url_in_multiple_sitemaps
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Low
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What we look for

These addresses are listed in more than one sitemap file (a file that lists a site's pages for search engines).

Why it matters

Search engines cope with repeats, but overlapping sitemaps are harder to keep accurate as pages change.

How to fix

Organise the sitemaps so each address appears in one file, for example one file per section of the site, in your CMS or SEO plugin settings.

Where you’ll see it

The id is stable, and every surface uses it, so it’s the thing to search for or hand to an agent.

Terminal
When it is one of the five findings under Fix first, raptor crawl prints the id under it.
Check: sitemaps.url_in_multiple_sitemaps
crawl.json and the CSV
The crawl JSON names the finding by this id, and so do the CSV and raptor_query.
"check_id": "sitemaps.url_in_multiple_sitemaps"
The HTML report
This link opens the finding in the report, and each finding shows its id.
crawl.html#finding=sitemaps.url_in_multiple_sitemaps
MCP
raptor_findings with this check_id returns the finding in full, with a fix brief ready to paste into a task. If it didn’t fire, it says why.
raptor_findings {
  "job_id": "...",
  "check_id": "sitemaps.url_in_multiple_sitemaps"
}