A sitemap is an XML file that contains all of a website's URLs to help search engine crawlers discover and index every page. While some pages may be hidden from users, including them in a sitemap ensures search engines can still crawl them. Sitemaps allow webmasters to notify search engines of updates to the site structure without the engines having to recrawl the entire site to find new or changed pages.

1. Sitemaps Tutorial and its Effects on SEO

2. What is a sitemap?

3. In simple terms, a
Sitemap is an XML
file that is full of your
individual webpage’s
URLs.
XML
It’s like an archive of every webpage in your website. This file should be
easily discoverable in your site in order for search engine crawlers to
stumble upon it.

4. What is a
Sitemap for?

5. A Sitemap is usually used
for the purpose of letting
the search engine crawlers
follow the links to all your
individual pages so that it
won’t miss out on anything.

6. Sometimes we leave out URLs or hide them
from all visible pages because we don’t
exactly want some of the users to go there.

7. Sometimes we leave out URLs or hide them
from all visible pages because we don’t
exactly want some of the users to go there.
As a result, some of these URLs are
uncrawlable to search engine spiders.

8. We can still leave those URLs hidden from some users without
having to lose out on those pages not being crawled by search
engine spiders through including them in an XML Sitemap.
XML

9. How do you create
A Sitemap?

10. We’ll tell you HOW.

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