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XML sitemaps are for crawlers and HTML sitemaps are for users.

NealPatel wrote: ↑

Tue Sep 08, 2020 9:45 pm

XML sitemaps are for crawlers and HTML sitemaps are for users.

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Search Engine index webpages through XML sitemap to increase their rank. https://www.selfgrowth.com/articles/how ... es-for-seo

The XML sitemap helps Google crawl your website more effectively. It shows Google all the pages on your website, even if they are deep within the architecture and might not otherwise be crawled as quickly.

The XML sitemap helps your webpage crawl the major search engines. It is the roadmap of a website for a search engine crawl to find the webpages.

SteveGood wrote: ↑

Tue Feb 16, 2021 12:16 am

The XML sitemap helps your webpage crawl the major search engines. It is the roadmap of a website for a search engine bot or crawl to find the webpages.

Precisely. It's an easy way for search engines to quickly decipher what on your website matters and what needs to be crawled and how to read your website because a bot doesn't crawl a website in the same way a user might explore it.

XML sitemap is not a must but is recommended. Google crawlers once read your XML sitemap it get index quickly.

XML sitemaps can be good for SEO, as they allow Google to quickly find your essential website pages, even if your internal linking isn't perfect.

Sitemap works as a roadmap of your website that leads Google to all your important pages.

Hi,
XML Site map creation for search engine purpose.
Search engine identifying what are the pages available in website.

An XML sitemap is a file that lists a website's important pages, making sure Google can find and crawl them all. It also helps search engines understand your website structure. You want Google to crawl every essential page of your website. A sitemap can help speed up content discovery.

XML Site map creating for search engine purpose and identifying website service and pages.