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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 along with additional metadata about each URL (when
was
last updated, how often it usually changes
and how important it is, relative t0 other URLs in the site) so 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 t0 allow crawlers that support Sitemaps
pick up all URLs in the Sitemap ad Iearn about those URLs using the associated metadata . Using
the Sitemap
does 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
offered under the terms of the Attribution-ShareAike_Creative_Commons_License and has wide adoption, includling support from Google; Yahool , and Microsoft:
Last Updated; 17 April 2020
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