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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 URLs for
site along with additional metadata about each
URL (when it was last updated, how often
usually changes, and how important itIs , relative [0 other URLs in the site) s0 that 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
pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and Iearn about those URLs using the
associated metadata. Using the Sitemap prOtocol coes nOt guarantee that web pages are included in search engines
but provides hints fOr web crawlers t0 do
better job of crawling your site_
Sitemap 0.90 is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike_Creative_Commons License and has wide adopuon;, including support irom Google, Yahool , and Microsoft
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