# American Arenas

> American Arenas (americanarenas.com) is a live-event ticket marketplace for concerts, sports, theater, comedy and family shows. It covers thousands of performers, venues, and cities across the United States, with pages to browse upcoming events, compare seats, and buy tickets.

## Key sections

- [Performers, artists & teams](https://americanarenas.com/sitemap/performers.xml): Ticket pages for musicians, bands, sports teams, and shows. URL pattern: /tickets/{performer-slug}/
- [Venues](https://americanarenas.com/sitemap/venues.xml): Arenas, stadiums, theaters, and clubs. URL pattern: /venue/{venue-slug}/ (each venue also has a seating guide at /venue/{venue-slug}/best-seats/)
- [Cities](https://americanarenas.com/sitemap/cities.xml): Local event listings by city. URL pattern: /city/{city-slug}/ with category filters such as /city/{city-slug}/concerts/, /city/{city-slug}/sports/, /city/{city-slug}/broadway/, /city/{city-slug}/comedy/, /city/{city-slug}/family/, /city/{city-slug}/festivals/, /city/{city-slug}/this-weekend/
- [Blog](https://americanarenas.com/blog/): Guides and articles about events, artists, and venues.

## Sitemaps

- [Sitemap index](https://americanarenas.com/sitemap/index.xml): Machine-readable index of all indexable pages (performers, venues, cities, editorial pages, blog posts), each child sitemap carrying a real lastmod date.

## Notes for crawlers

- Individual event pages (/events/{slug}/) are intentionally excluded from the sitemap and set to noindex; they canonicalize to the relevant performer page.
- Pages expose schema.org JSON-LD (Event, MusicEvent, SportsEvent, TheaterEvent, WebPage) for structured understanding.
- Canonical URLs use a trailing slash (e.g. /tickets/taylor-swift/). Requests without the trailing slash are 308-redirected to the canonical form.