What is the sitemap.xml file?

[addisoncave]

Sitemap.xml is the proper Index of your website where you mention the necessary link that you want Google to crawl and there priority links. sitemap.xml is either can submitted to webmaster manually or you can enlist to the public html file and mention the sitemap.xml to robots.txt

[pablohunt2812]

What is a sitemap and why is it important?

Sitemaps are a protocol that allows the webmaster for a website to inform Google and other major search engines about URLS on a website that are available for crawling. Sitemaps allow search engines to find all of your webpages, that they might otherwise miss when indexing. The XML sitemap allows you to specify additional information about each URL such as:

When it was last updated
How often the site changes
How important the page is in relation to other pages on the site
Having this information within one document helps search engines understand your website and crawl it more intelligently. Sitemaps are an inclusion protocol, where Robots.txt files are exclusionary. For more information on robots.txt files please read our article.

[adamdalena]

Hello Friends,

If you site pages do not naturally reference each other, you can list them in a sitemap to ensure that Google does not overlook some of your pages.

[JohnBaxter]

A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site. This allows search engines to crawl the site more intelligently.

[stuartspindlow9]

Sitemap.xml is a index of all pages of website it helps search engine spiders to crawl and find the site easily

[johndisoza]

XML code, a formal recommendation from the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), is similar to Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

[yentrangkorea]

The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs in the site.
Source: Wiki

[manchun]

sitemap.xml is best file which is help to index website in google search engine

[60degree]

Hi

XML sitemap is a document type that helps search engines to better understand your website while crawling it.

According to Google guide line: 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.

[redspiderae]

Sitemap is a list of pages on a website that is accessible to all users. An XML sitemap is a way for website owners to tell search engines about all the pages that exist on their website.