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What are Sitemaps?
Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters
inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling: In its
simplest form,
Sitemap
an XML file that lists URLS for
site
with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last
updated, how often
usually changes_
and how important itis, relative
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 t0 allow
crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick Up all URLs in the Sitemap and
eamn about those URLS using the associated metadata
Using the Sitemap prOtocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers
to do
better job of crawling your site.
Sitemap
90 is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike_Creative_Commons_
and has wide adoption, including
support from Google, Yahool, and Microsoft:
Updated; 17 April 2020
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