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What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters
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 upclated, how ften
usually changes; and how important it is. relative
other URLs in the site) s0 that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site
Web crawlers usually discover pages irom links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps t0 pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn 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 web crawlers t0 do
better job of crawling your site.
Sitemap 0.90
offered under the terms 0f the Atributon-ShareAlike_Creative_Commons
icense and has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!. and Microsoit
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