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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 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
is, 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
pick up all URLs in
Sitemap and Iearn 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 0.90 is offered under the terms of the Attribution
ShareAlike_Creative_CommonsLicese and has wide
adoption; including support from Gcogle
Yahool , and
Microsoft.
Last Updated; 17 April 2020
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