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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 is an XML file that lists URLs for
site along with additional metadata about each
URL (when it was last updated how often it usually changes, and how Important ILIS , relative t0 other URLs in the site) s0 that search englnes can more intelllgently crawl the site _
Web crawlers usually discover pages irom Iinks within the site and irom other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps t0 pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and Iearn about those URLs using the
associated metadata, Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines_
but provides hints for Wed crawlers t0 do
better Job of crawling your site .
Sitemap 0.90 is offered under the terms of the Attribution_ShareAlike Creative Commons License and has wide adopton, including support from Google, Yahcol, and MicrosoiL
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