sitemap

A Sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content.

Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.

A sitemap is a helpful tool that can improve the crawling of your site.

Web crawlers usually discover pages from links within the site and from other sites.

Also, your sitemap can provide valuable metadata associated with the pages you list in that sitemap.

Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

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.

You can use a sitemap to provide Google with metadata about specific types of content on your pages, including video, image, and mobile content.