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What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters [0
inform search engines about pages on their sites
that are available for crawling: In its simplest
fomi;
Sitenap Is an XML iile that Ilsts URLs ior
site along wth additional metadaia about each
URL (when il was last updated; how olten it
usually changes, and how important it is , relative
t0 other URLs In the site) s0 that search engines
can more intelllgently crawl the site
Web crawlers usually discover pages from Iinks
withln the site and from Other sites . Sitemaps
supplement this data to allow crawiers that
support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs In the
Sitemap and leam about those URLs using the
associated metadata. Using te Sitemap
protocol does not guarantee that web pages are
included In search engines
but provides hints
for weD crawlers t0 do
better job of crawling
your site: