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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 updated, how often
usually changes, and hcw important itis, relative tC cther URLs in the site)
SO [hat 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 Iearn about those URLs using the
associated metadata. Using the Sitemap pIOtCcol dces not guarantee that web pages are included in search ergines_
but prcvides hints ior web crawlers t0 do
bettel
jcb of crawling your site
Sitemap 0.90
offered under the terms 0f the Atribution-ShareAike_Creative_Commons
icense and has wide adoption, including support from Google, Yahoo!. and Microsoft:
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