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What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters t0 inform search engines about pages on thelr sites that are available for cralling:
In its simplest form; a Sitemap iS an XML file that lists URLs for a Site along with additional metadata about each URL
Iast updated, how olten it usually changes_
and how Important it IS, relalive t0 other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site
Web crawlers usually discover pages from Iinks within the site
trom other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawiers that support Sltemaps t0 pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and Iearn about those URLs using the associated metz
the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers t0 do
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Sitemap 0.90 is offered under the terms 0f the Attribution-ShareAlike Creative Commons License
has wide adoption, including support trom Google, Yahool ,
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