(Google/Bing) XML Sitemaps
An xml sitemap looks like this:<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>Only <loc> is required. Google ignores <priority> and <changefreq>, and uses <lastmod> only when the dates are accurate: see which sitemap tags matter. Check a sitemap you already have with the sitemap validator.
<urlset xmlns="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9
http://www.sitemaps.org/schemas/sitemap/0.9/sitemap.xsd">
<url>
<loc>https://freesitemapgenerator.com/</loc>
<lastmod>2015-08-27T18:52:28+00:00</lastmod>
<priority>1.00</priority>
<changefreq>daily</changefreq>
</url>
<url>
<loc>https://freesitemapgenerator.com/sitemap-links.html</loc>
<lastmod>2015-08-20T12:00:00+00:00</lastmod>
<priority>0.50</priority>
<changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
</url>
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</urlset>
You can create one for your site manually, or let our software do the hard work: create xml sitemap now. Once you have an xml sitemap for your site, submit it in Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools and add it to your robots.txt; the spiders will download the sitemap file and use it in its spider software. Read more on why you should have an xml sitemap for your site.
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