Category: Technical SEO

sitemap.xml

A sitemap listing URLs for the search engine.

sitemap.xml is a site map — an XML file listing the URLs you want indexed, along with update dates. It helps bots find all pages, especially on large and poorly linked sites. Submit it in Google Search Console.

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🔗 Related terms

Sitemap index

A file grouping multiple sitemaps.

robots.txt

A file controlling bot access to the site.

Indexing

Adding a page to the search engine's database.

Orphan page

A page with no internal links at all.

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