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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 is an XML file that lists URLs for & site along with additional metadata about each URL (when
was last updated,
how often it usually changes
and how Important ILIs , relative [0 other URLs in the site;
50 [hat search englnes can more intelligently crawl the site
Web crawlers usually discover pages irom Iinks within the site and irom other sites_ Sitemaps supplement this data t0 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
PIOtOcol does not guarantee that web pages are Included In search engines; but provides hints for web crailers t0 do
better job of crawling your site
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offered under the terms 0f the Attribution_ShareAlike_Creative_Commons
License and has wide adopuon; including support from Google; Yahool   and Microsoit
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