What is the sitemap.xml file?

[jerrysmith]

Hello friends,


I would like to know that What is the sitemap.xml file? tell me ..

 

[tpmike]

An XML sitemap feed lists all of the pages on your website that you want the search engines to know about. Sitemaps help ensure your site is fully indexed by feeding your content to search engines.

 

[andyle]

Sitemaps are a protocol that allows the webmaster for a website to inform Google and other major search engines about URLS on a website that are available for crawling. Sitemaps allow search engines to find all of your webpages, that they might otherwise miss when indexing. The XML sitemap allows you to specify additional information about each URL such as:

When it was last updated
How often the site changes
How important the page is in relation to other pages on the site

 

[edwina]

The XML sitemap is the page that used to created spiders and users to navigate a website easier.

 

[RH-Calvin]

It is a XML sitemap used to submit in webmaster tool to increase the crawling of your webpages. This helps to get your webpages indexed faster in search engines.

 

[orientation]

two types of site maps are there XML site map and html sitemap .xml sitemap is for crawlers and html site map is for front end users.

 

[manogua]

A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content.

 

[Digvijay Singh Kashyap]

sitemap is a collection of URL's of your website that informs the google about your URL's. Indexing can be done properly with the help of sitemaps.

 

[guptaabhijit318]

A sitemap is normally known as a file of the XML type which has the function of listing the URLs for any site. The sitemap allows the webmaster to add further information about the URL such as the last updates, the changes in the URLs and how often it is made, and also the importance of the URL in relation to the others. Sitemaps can prove to be beneficial in certain situations such as the inability of the user to access every area of a particular website through the interface of a browser.

 

[zozoreview]

A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. 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 in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.