Why Use a Sitemap?
- Helps search engines discover all your important pages
- Improves indexing of new or updated content
- Provides metadata about your pages to search engines
- Essential for large websites with complex structures
- Can help with SEO rankings when properly implemented
Sitemap SEO Best Practices
For best SEO results with your sitemap:
- Submit your sitemap to Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools
- Include only canonical versions of your pages
- Keep your sitemap updated with new content
- Limit your sitemap to 50,000 URLs or 50MB (create multiple sitemaps if needed)
- Place your sitemap in the root directory of your website