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What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters t0 infcrm search engines about pages on their sites tha: are available for crawling: In its simplest form;
Sitemap
an XVL file that lists URLs for
site along with additional metadata about each URL (when
was last upclated ncw often
usually changes, and how important it is
relative
other URLs in the site} s0 that search engines can more intelligently cra"l tne site
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick Up all URLS in the Sitemap and Iearn about those URLs using the asscciated metadata. Using the Sitemap PrOtocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in
search engines; but providles hints for web crawlers tC do
better job cf crawling your site.
Sitemap 0.90
offered uncer the terms of tne Aribution-ShareAlike_Cteative_Commons
icense and has widle adopticn including support from Google, Yahcol and Microsoft:
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