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What’s special in XML Sitemap and where do you submit that?
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hi
What’s special in XML Sitemap and where do you submit that?
Hi Friends,
XML Sitemap helps to:
- Сlearly show website structure to search robots and ease crawling
- Accelerate detection of new pages by crawlers
- Point on pages that are difficult to reach through the main navigation
- Show crawlers which pages have been updated or changed since their last visit (Last-Modified HTTP header is used in this case)
- Specify an importance of each page in the whole site structure.
How to submit your sitemap to Google Search Console
- Sign in to Google Search Console.
- In the sidebar, select your website.
- Click on 'Sitemaps'.
- Remove outdated or invalid sitemaps (if any) like sitemap.xml
- Enter 'sitemap_index.xml' in the 'Add a new sitemap' field to complete the sitemap URL.
- Click Submit.
create an XML sitemap that can be submitted to Google, Bing and other search engines to help them crawl your website better.
Create a Text sitemap to have a plain list of all your pages.
Generate an HTML site map to allow website visitors to easily navigate on your site.