Sitemaps
Protocol and file format to list the URLs of a website / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For the graphical representation of the architecture of a web site, see site map.
Sitemaps is a protocol in XML format meant for a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs of the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more efficiently and to find URLs that may be isolated from the rest of the site's content. The Sitemaps protocol is a URL inclusion protocol and complements robots.txt
, a URL exclusion protocol.
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