subject: Let Crawlers Know About Your Webpages Through Xml Sitemap [print this page] XML Sitemap is a way for a webmaster to inform the search engine (SE) crawlers about the pages existing on the website, which it should crawl through. Or, we can say that it is an XML file that lists the URLs of the website along with supplementary metadata about them, which allows search engine crawlers to know about the pages of the website with related information.
A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for web design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.
Usually SE crawlers find the webpages from internal and external links of the website. XML Sitemap acts as an added source of information for the crawlers giving them a hint regarding all the pages of the websites. Even though an XML Sitemap does not guarantee indexing of the listed webpages on search engines, it does make the job easier for the crawlers.
The XML Validator at SiteOpSys, checks the XML Sitemaps of all the entered URLs for the SE crawlers, particularly Google, to make sure there are no problems and the crawlers can easily comprehend them. Ensuring error-free sitemaps is a good SEO practice and the chances of indexing of the pages on the search engines increase.
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Check out this tool for validating several XML Sitemaps and ensure that the websites are equipped to direct the search engine crawlers accurately.
