What are AI-Optimized Sitemaps?
AI-Optimized Sitemaps transforms your existing VisualSitemaps crawl into a fully analyzed, improved website structure.
Instead of manually reviewing hundreds (or thousands) of URLs across spreadsheets and screenshots, it gives you:
A clear, improved sitemap structure
A prioritized strategy report
A redirect map (CSV)
A PDF + editable Markdown report
Tagged recommendations like
New,Moved,Consolidate,Delete, etc.
👉 In simple terms:
It tells you what to keep, what to move, what to merge, what to remove — and what you’re missing entirely.
Here's a 7-minute demo:
When should I use this?
Use AI-Optimized Sitemaps when you want to:
Redesign or Replatform a website
Understand your current structure before rebuilding — and start with a better one.
Improve SEO & Topical Authority
Generate topic clusters and restructure your site to improve rankings and crawl clarity.
Improve Conversion flows
Fix broken user journeys and create clearer paths to:
- demos
- trials
- contact / quotes
Improve 🤖 AI discovery
Better structure = better understanding by LLMs and AI systems.
Maintain GROWING websites
As your site scales, structure gets messy. This helps you continuously clean and evolve it.
⚠️ What this does NOT do (important)
This feature focuses on structure, not full content auditing.
✅ It does:
IA (Information Architecture) optimization
Navigation restructuring
URL restructuring + redirects
Topic clustering
Conversion path improvements
❌ It does NOT:
Analyze full page content (yet)
Rewrite copy
Audit blog/article quality
👉 Think of it as architecture-level intelligence, not content-level editing.
How to use it - Step-by-step:
Run a crawl
Generate your sitemap as usual
Open your sitemap
Go into the map you want to optimize
Click “Optimize Map”
Wait for processing
(This can take a bit — go grab a coffee ☕)
When ready → click “View It”
Click “AI Report” - to access the full analysis
What you get back:
1. Optimized sitemap
A new optimized structure showing:
reorganized hierarchy
new pages
moved pages
deprecated pages
👉 All original pages are preserved (nothing is lost — only annotated or relocated)
2. AI Optimization Report (PDF + Markdown)
A comprehensive, executive-ready report including:
Executive Summary - High-level explanation of what changed and why
Priority Scoreboard - What matters most (ranked by impact and urgency
Current State Analysis - What’s broken and why it’s holding you back
🧠 Optimization Strategy - New structure + Topic clusters + User journey improvements
Implementation Roadmap - What to do first, second, third
KPIs & Success Metrics - How to measure impact
3. Redirect CSV
A full list of recommended redirects:
Consolidation (merge pages)
Optimization (better URLs)
Legacy cleanup
👉 This is critical for preserving SEO equity.
🏷 Understanding the tags
These appear in your optimized map:
New→ brand new pageMoved→ page relocated in structureOptimized→ improved naming or slugConsolidate→ multiple pages merged301 Redirect→ old URL → new URLDelete→ remove page completelyArchive→ keep but deprioritizeVIP→ high-priority page (nav / conversion)Refactor→ needs human decision
⚠️ Important: Refactor 🏷
This is where you need to think!
Examples:
overlapping services
unclear positioning
branding vs SEO tradeoffs
👉 The AI flags it — you decide what's best for you.
🧠 What the AI actually analyzes
The system combines:
your sitemap structure (JSON)
homepage visual hierarchy (screenshots)
business + industry context
It evaluates:
hierarchy depth & clarity
topic fragmentation
URL structure
navigation gaps
conversion flows
SEO opportunities
structural weaknesses
👉 This is not just reordering pages — it’s strategic IA optimization 🤓.
✅ Best practices
To get the best results:
Use a clean, complete crawl
Review results before implementing
Carefully validate redirects
Pay attention to
RefactortagsTreat this as a strategy layer, not auto-publish
⏱ If it times out
Very infrequently large or complex sites may timeout due to intermittent LLM capacity.
👉 Solution:
Go back to your sitemap
Click Optimize again
if that fails, try a different model via BYOK.
🆚 Why this is better than manual audits
Manual audits:
spreadsheets
screenshots
disconnected notes
slow + subjective
AI-Optimized Sitemaps:
visual + structured
faster analysis
consistent logic
prioritized recommendations
👉 You move from guessing → deciding with clarity