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XML Sitemap

A file that lists all the URLs on a website to help search engines discover and index pages more efficiently.

XML sitemaps supplement link discovery by providing a direct list of URLs to search engines. A sitemap can include metadata like lastmod, changefreq, and priority for each URL. Modern sitemaps for large sites use sitemap index files to organise multiple sitemap files. Google recommends all important, indexable pages be included in the sitemap.

Related terms

Crawl Budget

The number of pages Googlebot will crawl on a website within a given timeframe, determined by crawl rate limit and crawl demand.

Robots.txt

A text file at a website's root that instructs search engine crawlers which pages or sections of a site should not be crawled.

Canonical URL

An HTML element that tells search engines which URL is the preferred version of a page when multiple URLs serve the same or similar content.

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