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Title: How does a sitemap work?
Post by: swatijain22 on January 19, 2019, 06:45:58 AM
Hello friends,

How does a sitemap work?
Title: Re: How does a sitemap work?
Post by: asad1997 on September 07, 2019, 06:53:13 AM
There are actually a couple of different types of sitemaps, such as a visual one that you can create before building a website, but we’re going to focus on the one that is most important for SEO.

This is known as an XML sitemap. It’s simply a list of the pages on your website.

Think of it as a map for your website. It shows what all of the pages are on your website.
Title: Re: How does a sitemap work?
Post by: RH-Calvin on March 23, 2020, 08:51:05 AM
HTML sitemap is a plain text sitemap used by browsers to know and surf through your website pages. XML sitemap is a coded sitemap used to submit in webmaster tool to help spiders crawl them and index the webpages in search engines.
Title: Re: How does a sitemap work?
Post by: lukyjohnson on July 07, 2020, 06:14:03 AM
There are actually a couple of different types of sitemaps, such as a visual one that you can create before building a website, but we’re going to focus on the one that is most important for SEO.

This is known as an XML sitemap. It’s simply a list of the pages on your website.

Think of it as a map for your website. It shows what all of the pages are on your website.

Here’s what Google has to say about sitemaps:

A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.

This also tells us why a sitemap is important:

It tells the search engines about the content that you have on your site so that they can find it more easily and when it was last updated.
Title: Re: How does a sitemap work?
Post by: vincentastle on September 29, 2020, 05:57:59 AM
A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.
Title: Re: How does a sitemap work?
Post by: chrisjames on October 28, 2020, 03:26:22 AM
A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to more intelligently crawl your site. ... A sitemap image entry can include the image subject matter, type, and license.
Title: Re: How does a sitemap work?
Post by: nehadule on February 09, 2021, 08:33:03 AM
thnx for sharing this information
Title: Re: How does a sitemap work?
Post by: Jeffscott on April 10, 2021, 01:13:43 AM
Sitemap works as a blue print of the website and categorized in two sections:
Sitemap .HTML - this is for the better users experience within the website pages.
Sitemap .xml - this is for the search engine bots for them to understand what the website is intended to rank for in the organic results.