What is Sitemap.xml?
 

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What is Sitemap.xml? and any differecne between Sitemap.XML and Sitemap.HTML

XML sitemap is a document type that helps Google and other major search engines better understand your website while crawling it.

Difference Between XML and HTML sitemap

HTML sitemaps are designed for humans to navigate the website.

XML Sitemaps on the other hand are designed for search engines to know the site structure.

An XML sitemap creates a hierarchy of your site for bots and search engines to follow. It ensures that the spiders can easily reach all parts of your website and indexes your pages quickly.

XML sitemap is a document type that helps Google and other major search engines better understand your website while crawling it.

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.

Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URL for the site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL. This allows search engine to crawl the sites more intelligently

A sitemap is a visual or textually organized model of a Web site's content that allows the users to navigate through the site to find the information they are looking for, just as a traditional geographical map helps people find places they are looking for in the real world. A site map is a kind of interactive table of contents, in which each listed item links directly to its counterpart sections of the Web site.

Types of Sitemap
XML Sitemap
1. Index Sitemap
2. URL Sitemap
* Sitemaps for Webpages
* Sitemaps for Images
* Sitemaps for videos
HTML Sitemaps

An XML sitemap is a document that helps Google and other major search engines better understand your website while crawling it. A sitemap is a list of pages on a website that is accessible to all users.

An HTML sitemap allows site visitors to easily navigate a website. It is a bulleted outline text version of the site navigation. The anchor text displayed in the outline is linked to the page it references.

It equally important is the content/URLs that we feed search engines.This allowed search engines the ability to have a buffet of site URLs from any one page on your site. Then along came XML sitemaps. Extensible Markup Language is the preferred means of data digestion by search engines.

XML sitemap is a document type that helps Google and other major search engines better understand your website while crawling it.

Sitemaps. ... 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

An XML sitemap is a way for website owners to tell search engines about all the pages that exist on their website.

Very useful Information.

- HTML sitemap are created for basic structure for displaying all the pages of the website.
- XML sitemap created for search engines and a search engine bot easily cache, index a new webpage.

Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URL for the site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL. This allows search engine to crawl the sites more intelligently

XML sitemap is a document type that helps Google and other major search engines better understand your website while crawling it.