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What is a sitemap?

Posted: Wed Jan 29, 2025 5:36 am
by sabarina38
A sitemap, as the name suggests, is a real map of a website, a file that catalogues all the contents within the portal and presents them according to a hierarchical order established by the site manager.

It is normally generated during the creation phase of websites : it serves to communicate to users and search engines the organization of the site's contents, and to facilitate scanning operations by crawlers from Google, Bing and other search engines.

Inside the sitemap there is the URL address of each element hong kong whatsapp number database that you intend to report to search engines, or better yet to their crawlers, the automatic programs responsible for scanning the web to identify new elements to include in their archives.

The sitemap of the website in fact includes all the contents that it deems interesting for scanning first and foremost:

pages and articles
Images
video
news
and provides various information on their characteristics such as:

creation date and last update date
change frequency
possible multilingual versions of the same content