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Sitemap

An XML sitemap is a file listing a site's URLs, with optional last-modified dates, to help search engines find and crawl pages.

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One file may hold up to 50,000 URLs or 50 MB uncompressed; larger sites use an index of several sitemaps. List the sitemap's address in robots.txt.

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See also

  • Glossary robots.txt
    robots.txt is a public text file at a site's root that tells crawlers which paths they may or may not fetch.
  • Glossary XML
    XML (Extensible Markup Language) is a text format that describes data with nested, named tags, such as <name>Ana</name>.
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