Which is the most recommended format for creating sitemaps for search engines?

The file needs to be a UTF-8 (encoded) text file, meaning that URLs with some special characters should use entity escaping, so that the URLs in the Sitemap are rightly crawled by search engines. XML sitemaps can be stored in an uncompressed form, submitted as .

These files will be used to submit pages from the website. This is the preferred web page format for submissions. Not all search engines support the sitemaps below, the XML sitemap for web pages can be supported by all search engines that are from sitemaps.org.