20/01/2023
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A sitemap lists a websiteโs most important pages, thus, making sure search engines can find and crawl them. Sitemaps also help in understanding your website structure, making it easier to navigate your website.
โก๏ธThe sitemap contains a list of website URLs that should index.
โก๏ธ It acts like a blueprint of the website and directs the search engine crawlers like Googlebot and Bing bots to discover and understand the web pages.
โก๏ธ Websites sometimes have sitemap.xml and sitemap.html. Crawlers read the XML sitemap, and the HTML sitemap is for humans.
โก๏ธ So, the HTML sitemap has no role in optimizing the website.
โก๏ธ Back to sitemap.xml, it helps the crawlers discover, crawl, and index (the process of search engine work) the web pages.
โก๏ธ Here are a few advantages of XML sitemap if optimized as per Google webmaster guidelines,
โก๏ธ Helps in crawling & fast indexing to the depth of websites with huge web pages (1000+).
โก๏ธ Assist crawlers in discovering new web pages that are published
โก๏ธ Identify the changes made in the content of existing pages, and index them for better performance.
โก๏ธ Even if your website has weak internal links, backlinks, or poor website architecture, an XML sitemap helps identify new web pages.
โก๏ธ You can also submit โnoindexโ web pages in an XML sitemap for rapid deindexation of the web pages compared to the Google search console removal tool.
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