Category: Technical SEO

Sitemap index

A file grouping multiple sitemaps.

Sitemap index is a parent file that points to several individual sitemap.xml files. You use it when a site has more than 50,000 URLs or when you split sitemaps by topic (e.g. products, posts and categories separately).

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🔗 Related terms

S

sitemap.xml

A sitemap listing URLs for the search engine.

I

Indexing

Adding a page to the search engine's database.

C

Crawl budget

How many pages a bot crawls in a given time.

R

robots.txt

A file controlling bot access to the site.

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