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What are sitemaps?

Sitemaps are files containing a list of URLs on a website that hold information on pages that contain a history of changes. There are two types of sitemap formats, both HTML and XML, which serve different purposes.

For faster access by crawlers, the HTML sitemap carries href tags for user searches and which connect all pages on your website. On the other hand, the XML sitemap is a structured format containing all the metadata on a website that gives search engines much more detail than HTML and can work with Google Webmaster tools.

The support of an SEO company that created it to build a sitemap for you will be needed for custom websites. It is easier to manage websites on CMS platforms like WordPress because they come with their own plugins that you can use to build outstanding and dynamic XML sitemaps.

What makes sitemaps important in 2021?

Any digital marketing firm will warn you that because of an exhausted crawl budget, large online stores will stagnate every few hours. Crawl budgets restrict the amount of pages that can be crawled by Google bots within 24 hours, and there is no doubt that online retailers have pages in amounts outside this limit, but that are essential to company.

Bad internal linking protocols can lead to poor search engine indexing of the pages of a site. Although the solution is to repair the bad connections, it could take time before the lapse in the internal structure is found.

Select your website on the search console homepage.

Click on crawl.
Click on sitemaps.
Click on add/test site map.
Type in site map.XML.
Lastly, click on submit site map.

Conclusion

Although SEO is important for a vibrant online presence, it also requires the enhanced support given by sitemaps. For some cause as such, SEO ranking based on just a fraction of your content pages does not expand your business at all. To learn more about position maps and improve your local business rankings on Google, call us at (+91) 8248382089