What is Sitemap.xml ?
 

Sitemaps are an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling. In its simplest form, a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is, relative to other URLs in the site) so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.

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Sample XML Sitemap







example.com

2005-01-01

monthly

0.8

a Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL (when it was last updated, how often it usually changes, and how important it is

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Sitemap.xml.....is a xml file of your website that hold lot of information about our website....like meta data, key word of every url of your site.
You can get sitemap for your website through some Important tool..
www.sitemapbuilder.com
etc...

If you're using Wordpress to run your site...I've found using the plugin Google XML Sitemaps pretty useful and easy to setup.

It's is xml file of website containing useful information about website like meta data..etc
it formate like this...

An XML sitemap is a fairly simple XML file that contains information about one or more URLs on your Web site. The information that is stored there helps search engines better spider your site.

submitting sitemap through Google Webmaster you can easily look from where traffic is coming, check about information crawling and indexing.its an easy way for webmasters to inform search engines about pages on their sites that are available for crawling.

Sitemap xml is the file which is generated and placed on root folder of the site to get pages crawled by search engines. It is also added in google webmaster tools which tells you about your web pages statistics which are working or not working.

This is very important for website to getting know what is happening in overall site.

Sitemap.xml file is the xml file which is help to crawl the web pages.

XML Sitemap is a list of pages that you want the Search Engines to find which is created in XML format and submitted to the Search Engines.

You can generate XML sitemap using various XML Sitemap generation tools. The best tool to generate the xml sitemaps is XML-Sitemaps.

Every time I create new website , I do the following things -
1.Create sitemap
2.Write robots.txt
3.Add website to search engines
...
Creating sitemap is very important for SEO optimization .

yes only by the sitemap.xml you will know how much of links have been crawled and which date it crawled your site by search engine.