evrangeguide.com is a programmatic SEO site for EV charging routes — 27 countries, 370 cities, 24 vehicles, and over two thousand canonical inter-city routes. When we totaled the URL space across every page-type combination, we got 327,621 URLs . We listed every one of them in the sitemap. Google's response was decisive: it indexed almost none of them, and the crawl-budget metrics in Search Console got worse week over week. This is the story of cutting that sitemap by 99.2% — down to 2,483 URLs — and why scarcity beat coverage. The architecture ev-engine is the same family of virtual-routing plugin we use across the network . No wp_posts .…