IndexNow and Sitemap Hygiene for a Bilingual SSG

2026-09-12

Direct answer

One sitemap index, hreflang pairs, IndexNow key file at the site root, submit after every meaningful deploy.

Checklist

• sitemap-index.xml covers both locales
• canonical + hreflang on every page
• {key}.txt publicly fetchable
• secondary domain (pouyagh.ir) stays noindex

Links

• Home: /
• About entity: /about