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What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters t0 inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling
In its simplest form;
Sitemap
an XML file
that lists URLs for
site along with additional metadata about each URL (when
was last updated
how oiten
usually changes, and how important it is, relative t0 other
URLs in the site) 5o that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site
Web crawlers usually discover pages irom Iinks within the site and from other sites_
Sitemaps supplement this data
allow crawlers that support Sitemaps t0 pick up all URLs
in the Sitemap and Iearn about those URLs using the associated metadlara. Using the Sitemap pPrOtoco! does not guarantee that web pages are included
search engines,
but provides hints ior web crawlers t0 d0
better job
crawling your site .
Sitemap 0.90 is offered under the terms 0f the Attribution-ShareAlike_Creative_Commons License and has wide adopiion; including support from Google, Yahool , and
Microsoft:
Last Updeteo; 17 Aprii 2020
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