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What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an eaSy way for webmasters t0 inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling: In its simplest form,
Sitemap is an XML file that lists URL5 for a site along with additional metadata about each
URL (when it was last updated; how often it usually changes, and how important itis, relative t0 other 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 to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps
pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and Iearn about those URLs using the
associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included
search engines
but provides hints fOr web crawlers t0 do
better job of crawling your site
Sitemap 0.90
offered under the terms of the Attribution_ShareAlike_Creative_Commons_License and has wide adoption, including support irom Google, Yahool  and Microsoft.
Last Updated 17 Apni 2020
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