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What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters
infcrm search engines abcut pages cn their sites tha: are available for crawling: In its simplest form;
Sitemap
an XVL file that lists URLs for
site along with additional metadata aDout each URL (when iwas
last updlated , how cften
usually changes
anc ncw important
is, relative tC cther URLs in the site 
so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data
allow crawlers that support Sitemaps t0 pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and Iearn abcut those URLs using the asscciated metadata. Using
the Sitemap
does nct guarantee that web pages are included
search engines, but provicles hints for web crawlers 10 cc
better jo0 0f crawling ycur site .
Sitemap 0.90
offered uncer the terms 0f tne Atributon-ShareAike_Cteative_Comons
icense and has widle adopticn including support from Google, Yahcol and Microsoft:
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