SITEMAP

Sitemap is the copy or you can say a blueprint of the site. Basically it contains all the information of the pages present in the website and their latest update. It allow the web masters to inform search engines about the URL of the page on a website that are available for crawling. It is generally a XML file that lists the ULRs for a site, Search engines like Google read the file to crawl your site. 

We can use sitemap o provide information about specific types of content on a particular page, including video and image content. The sitemap file are named as "sitemap.xml" where XML short for "Extensible markup language" which is a way to display information on a site.

Importance of Sitemap

Search Engines are facing problem to displaying the most relevant results to people for any given search query. In order to solve this problem they use site crawlers to read, organize, and index information on the internet.

XML sitemap makes it easier for search engine crawlers to read the content on your site and index the pages accordingly.

Important steps to create a sitemap for a website

• Review the structure of your pages
• Code your URLs like - 

                                        Location - http://www.examplesite.com/pages

                                        Last changed - 2019-1-10

                                        Changed frequency - weekly

                                         Priority of page - 2

• Validate the code through XML sitemap validator
• Add your sitemap to the root and roots.txt   
• Submit your sitemap