A good XML sitemap's role on your site is a roadmap that leads search engines like Google to all your important pages. XML sitemaps can be good for Search Engine Optimization (SEO), allowing Google to find your essential pages quickly, even if your internal linking is not perfect.

What are XML sitemaps?

An XML sitemap is a file that lists a website’s essential pages, making sure Google can find and crawl them all. It also helps search engines understand your website structure. You want Google to crawl every important page of your website. But sometimes, pages end up without internal links, making them hard to find. A sitemap can help speed up content discovery.

How to make Google find your sitemap

Either you are using Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools, you need to submit your sitemap so that your page gets indexed and crawled by search engines.

This is a sample sitemap from this site:

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