Site map
Sitemap is a term used on the internet and intranet and has two meanings: as a representation of a website's structure metadata information
Sitemap as a representation of a website's structure.
A sitemap is a hierarchical representation website 's structure , composed of web pages .
Sitemap as metadata information for a website for search engines.
A sitemap is also an XML file containing metadata (last update, frequency of changes, relevance to other URLs , etc.) about a website that is relevant to search engines , optimizing search results .
How the Site Map was created
On November 16, 2006 , Google , Yahoo!, and Microsoft formed an alliance to establish a common sitemap standard that facilitates the indexing of websites regardless of the search engine involved. [1] The goal is to allow webmasters to indicate to search engines which of their pages query can be made web crawling process .
Sitemap formats
Google supports several sitemap formats :
Google expects the standard sitemap protocol in all formats. Currently, Google does not use the attribute.
In all formats, the size limit for each sitemap is 50 MB (uncompressed) and 50,000 URLs . If the file is larger or you have more URLs, you will need to split the list into multiple sitemaps. Alternatively, create a sitemap index (a file that points to a list of sitemaps) and submit this single file to Google. You can submit multiple sitemaps and/or sitemap index files to Google.
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