How to create an xml sitemap to boost seo rank and index webpages
A sitemap or site map is a list of pages of a website. I explain this, you have a website and there, you created 231 pages. This looks like a building where are 200 rooms. Here, if you have a map of this building you can easily know about this building and its rooms. Thus, google use sitemap to understand your website. XML sitemap contains total web pages of a website in form of list. I am sure, you have understood, what is sitemap.
What about xml?
XML stands for “Extensible Markup Language”, this is a way of displaying information on websites.
That’s what an XML sitemap is, but what is the benefit to have sitemap? What will happen if you have an xml sitemap?
So, what will happen if you use an xml sitemap?
Search engines use crawlers to index information on web. These crawlers can read all information of websites. XML sitemap helps crawlers to understand the website and its web pages, so that crawlers can index all pages to search engines.
After successfully indexing your web pages, website rank in search result will be improved.
Here, you have to submit xml sitemaps to search webmaster tools to boost seo score. What are search webmasters and how to submit xml sitemaps to search webmasters? We will discuss later.
Overall, you have understood that website is like a building and its rooms are web pages. Its blueprint is sitemap which helps inspector which is here crawler to inspect building or website.
Sitemap tells search engines when a page was updated. It tells the importance of a webpage to search engine in the website.
The information looks like in the sitemap-
- The location of webpage (url):
<loc> https://examrighthand.com/Maths/numbers-page1.html </loc> - Date and time of page modification : <lastmod>2018–05–17T12:32:39+00:00</lastmod>
- How often the page is changed: <changefreq>monthly</changefreq>
- What priority the page has in relationship to other pages on the site: <priority>0.80</priority>
If you have sitemap of you website then you have increased chances to get your website indexed in search engines.
Does it seem difficult to create sitemap if your website has large numbers of web pages?
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