Monday, April 28, 2008

XML Sitemap

XML Sitemap is contains the list of all URLs to be crawled by Search Engine Spider ( Crawler ). By submitting Sitemaps to a search engine we only help that engine's crawlers to do a better job of crawling their site(s).

Benefits of XML Sitemap:

  • Upto 500 URLs can be submitted to search engines with one sitemap.
  • Help in crawling Flash files.
  • Complement the Robots.txt file.
  • Additional information about website can be submitted to search engines such as date of last modification, priority etc.
  • You can monitor the website performance in a particular search engine by submitting a XML sitemap and verifying it in webmaster area of that search engine.

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