onX is hiring a Fish community marketer for Texas, Mississippi and Georgia, and the Fish page promises more states "throughout the year". The newest state shows what will happen to them: Nebraska is one of the 13 Fish states, and its lake and town pages exist and are set to be indexed, but none of the 49,156 URLs in the 50 Fish sitemaps (regenerated October 22) is in Nebraska. The other 12 states are all there. The Nebraska state page links to only 9 lakes, and no other Fish page links to it, so search engines have almost no way to find Nebraska's lakes.
First action
Check the sitemap generator's state list against the 13 states in the app.
How to measure it
Indexed Nebraska Fish pages
- Now
- –
- Target
- 90% of published pages
- By
- 60 days
Steps
Find the cause
Why the generator skips Nebraska.
Web Engineer III 1 day
Fix the feed
Nebraska lake and town pages in the sitemaps; new states added automatically.
Web Engineer III 2 days
Link the states
State names on the Fish app page link to state pages.
Web Engineer III 1 day
Link every lake
Paginated lake lists on each state page.
Web Engineer III 3 days
Submit
Sitemaps in Search Console; watch indexing.
Senior App Store Optimization (ASO) Manager 1 week
Launch checklist
Pages, sitemap, App Store copy and community on day one for each new state.
Head of Marketing, Fish 1 week
Measure
Organic visits and trial starts from Nebraska pages.
Growth Analytics Lead monthly
Why it works
Find why the sitemap generator skips Nebraska (likely a fixed list of states or a date cut-off), add Nebraska's lake and town pages, and make new states join the sitemap automatically. Link the 13 state names on the Fish app page to their state pages, give each state page links to all its lakes, and submit the new sitemap in Search Console. Then use Nebraska as the dry run for the Southern launch: pages, sitemap, App Store text and community launch all on the same day.
Lake and town pages are how anglers searching "fishing near Lincoln" or a lake name find onX Fish. A state that is live in the app but not in the sitemap loses that traffic, and so will every new Southern state.
Ready to use
ChecklistNew Fish state launch list
[ ] State, lake and town pages published [ ] All new URLs in the Fish sitemaps [ ] State linked from the Fish app page and nearby states [ ] Every lake linked from its state page [ ] App Store and Google Play text lists the new state [ ] Community, creator and ambassador plan for launch week [ ] Search Console and trial-start tracking by state
Risks and how to handle them
Indexing takes weeks
Submit early and add internal links so crawlers find the pages without the sitemap.
Other states drift too
Add an automated check that every app state has sitemap URLs.
Evidence
- Your websiteonX Fish search pages (checked twice on October 22, 2026): the 50 Fish sitemaps, regenerated that day, list 49,156 lake pages (/fish/fishing-spots/us/<state>/...) and town pages (/fish/fishing-near/<town>-<state>) for 12 states, and not one Nebraska URL. Nebraska's pages do exist and are set to be indexed: "Fishing Spots in Nebraska", lake pages such as Ansley Reservoir and town pages such as Lincoln. The Nebraska state page links to only 9 lakes, and neither the Kansas state page nor the Fish app page links to it.Source
- Your websiteonX Fish app page: "onX Fish Midwest is currently available in the following states: Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, North Dakota, South Dakota, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Montana, Kansas, and Nebraska - and we'll be adding more states throughout the year"; $34.99 a year with a 7-day free trial. The state names are plain text, not links to the state pages.Source
- HiringSr. Community Marketing Manager - Fish - South (Austin; candidates "must be based in Texas, Mississippi, or Georgia"; posted October 20, 2026): owns the regional community strategy and partners "with Paid and Growth on shared outcomes such as vertical starts and conversions", choosing the mix of "ambassadors, partnerships, retail, grassroots initiatives, events, creators, earned media".Source
- App StoreUS App Store (October 22, 2026): onX Hunt 4.89 from 274,522 ratings; onX Offroad 4.76 from 28,777; onX Backcountry 4.76 from 6,528; onX Fish 4.65 from 1,791. The Fish listing says it "currently covers 13 states".Source
- HiringGrowth engineering: a Director, Growth Engineering (acquisition, activation and conversion "across iOS, Android, and Web", "A/B testing infrastructure", personalization), a Backend Engineer III - Growth, and a Web Engineer III for the Hunt web experience (TypeScript, Vue, Mapbox; A/B tests with Split, Eppo and Amplitude).Source