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What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an easy way fcr webmasters to Inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling: In its simplest form,
Sitemap i5 an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when i was last updated , MOw aften It USUally changes, and how important it is, relative
ta other URLs In the slte) 50 that search engies can more intelllgently crawltne Sie
Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites . Sitemaps supplement this data t0 allow crawlers tat support Sitemaps t0 pick up all URLs in the Siteniap ad Iearn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using tne Sitemap PIOLOcol does not guarantee that web pages are included in
search engines; but provides hinisaffor web crawfers t0 d0
better job ofcrawling yoursite:
Sitemap 0.90 Is offered under the terms of the Attribution_ShareAike Creative Commons Lcenge and has wide adopton, including support from Google; Yanool and Microsolt
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