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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 fomm;
Sitemap
an XML file
that lists URLs for
site along with additional metadata about each URL (when
was last updated
how oiten
usually changes, and how important it is, relative t0 other
URLs in the site) 50 that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site
Web crawlers usually discover pages from Iinks within the site and from other sites. Sitemaps supplement this data
allow crawlers that support Sitemaps t0 pick up all URLS
in the Sitemap and Iearn about those URLs using the associated metadlara. 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 is offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAlike_Creative_Commons_License and has wide adoption; including support from Google, Yahool , and
Microsoft:
Lasi Updated: 17 April 2020
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