What is xml sitemap?

[juanbeach]

site map is just like road map, if you have then you can easily go to your destination and more chance to cache all pages of the site.

[ahnaroy01]

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.Site map is a page that contains a link to all sub pages of website.
Sitemap can be XML, TXT or HTML usually XML and TXT is served for robots.
There are so may tools to create of built xml sitemap

[stuartthomas]

This is an XML file that contains all the URLs for a domain along with additional metadata about each URL. The metadata includes the date last updated, relative importance (priority), and how often the content on the page changes (frequency). ...


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[NareshReddy]

An XML sitemap consists URLs list that are available for crawling and can include additional information like your site's latest updates, frequency of changes and importance of the URLs. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.

[martinsherman]

XML sitemap allows webmasters to inform search engines about URLs in your blog/website for easy indexing.
XML sitemap is created for search engines but not for humans. Submitting a XML sitemap to search engines such as Google, Yahoo, and MSN will not only help your blog/website being indexing quickly and efficiently but also increase your blog/website’s visibilities in search engines as well.

[LillyMinx]

Sitemap is very important for a website because it gives full information about your website to search engine crawler when it come to index your website at a single place. There are two types of sitemap-first is XML sitemap and second is HTML sitemap.

[smithraj]

List of pages you want the Search Engines to find which is created in XML format and submitted to the Search Engines in order tell them these are the pages available in the website.

[cleanposts]

A "spider" (or bot) is a program run by search engines such as Yahoo, Bing and Google. They search the Internet for things to add to their database.

If the spider/bot finds an XML map of your site, it makes it fast to search and index.

An XML site map can make hits for your site better and more accurate when someone searches Yahoo, Bing and Google.

[shilpasid]

XML Sitemap is a structured format that a user doesn't need to see, but it tells the search engine about the pages in your site, their relative importance to each other, and how often they are updated.

[justinthomsony]

XML sitemap is mainly used for Google indexing. It's one of most important feature for the promising SEO. Google easily justify XML sitemap.

[piyushaegis]

Hi....
Sitemap are two types
1. for search engine (sitemap.xml)
2. for user (sitemap.html)
sitemap.xml is used for search engine and sitemap.xml contains list of links are available in website.

[lucasyesher]

A site map is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used in Web-design, or a Web page that lists the pages on a Website.

[pamelabryant]

A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a niche website. It allows site owners to include information that is additional each URL: when it was last updated, the way in which often it changes, and precisely how crucial its in terms of other URLs in the site. This enables search machines to crawl your internet site more intelligently.

[manjurai]

XML sitemap is list of webpages of a website in a organised manner so that google bot or crawler can easily crawl your all web pages.

[dhivyaa4n]

Xml sitemap is a list of URLs for website in a form of XML file. Besides that it allows you to include additional information about each URL such as the date it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is.

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