sitemap.xml and robots.txt? - Site Owners Forums

seoowner · 01-31-2012, 06:58 AM

Sitemap.xml is useful for search engine crawler. Google sitemaps is a tool made available from Google in 2005. It enables a webmaster to submit an index of web pages to Google using an XML data exchange standard through posting the sitemap on its server. Benefits include the ability to identify which pages have not been indexed and why. The tool also indicates pages that change regularly and reports on popularity of searches.

Robots.txt file is used for telling search engines not to crawl particular pages of the website.

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01-31-2012, 06:58 AM	#3
seoowner Registered User Join Date: Apr 2011 Posts: 199	Sitemap.xml is useful for search engine crawler. Google sitemaps is a tool made available from Google in 2005. It enables a webmaster to submit an index of web pages to Google using an XML data exchange standard through posting the sitemap on its server. Benefits include the ability to identify which pages have not been indexed and why. The tool also indicates pages that change regularly and reports on popularity of searches. Robots.txt file is used for telling search engines not to crawl particular pages of the website.

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