What is a sitemap :
The sitemap is a platform with the help of which website designers make a list of all the URLs of the website, that is to say, the list of all the URLs (images, videos, pages, audio files etc.) of a website is called sitemap. A sitemap lists all the URLs and gives them to the Google search engine, with the help of which the bots of the search engine can crawl the URLs of our website. A sitemap is a file that provides information about important pages, videos, and images of our website to the Google search engine, such as when our page was last updated, how many times it was updated (changed) and our page and what. is in the language.
What is sitemap in SEO :
Sitemap contributes a lot to the SEO of the website, without the help of sitemap, we cannot get our website ranked in Google search engine because sitemap is the only platform with the help of which we can access our website and website URLs ( images, videos and pages) can be crawled by Google bots. If Google bots will not crawl the URLs of our website, then our website will not be visible on Google. We cannot run our website perfectly without using a sitemap, so you must add a sitemap to your website.
How many types of sitemaps :
There are two types of sitemaps.
1. HTML sitemap : HTML sitemaps are meant for users to navigate and understand the structure of the website.
2. XML sitemap : XML sitemap is meant to be crawled by google bots.
What is HTML sitemap :
By using HTML sitemap, the user can easily find the pages of our website, that is to say, we create a page on our website on which all our pages, posts and sections are linked and with the help of that the user can find our posts and pages. Finds articles easily.
If there is a good HTML sitemap, then the crawlers of the Google search engine can also crawl our orphen pages.
What is XML sitemap :
XML sitemap is useful for crawling all the pages of our website, as we sometimes forget to do internal linking in our article or post, then our user and the crawler of Google search engine have trouble crawling our website. And to solve this problem, we use XML sitemap in our website, which makes it easy for our users and search engine crawlers to access all our important pages and posts. XML sitemap links all our pages and articles together.
How many types of XML sitemap :
There are 6 types of XML sitemaps.
1. Post sitemap
2. Image sitemap
3. Video sitemap
4. News sitemap
5. Page sitemap
6. Category sitemap
How to create XML sitemap :
You can create XML sitemap with the help of XML sitemap generator tool. Follow the steps given below.
Step 1. Go to google search box and search sitemap generator and click on first link.
Step 2. Copy your website URL.
Step 3. Paste your website URL on sitemap generator website.
Step 4. Generator tool gives a code.
Step 5. Copy the code.
Step 6. Go to your website and paste the code.
How to upload on Google search Console :
First of all, you have to follow the above steps, only then you will be able to upload the XML sitemap in google search console, then first you follow the above steps and then follow the steps given below.
Step 1. Login your Google search Console
Step 2. Go to sitemap
Step 3. Write sitemap.xml
Step 4. Click on save
Now your XML sitemap has been uploaded to google search console and if you have any problem then you can contact me. You can also contact me by email or through the contact section of the website.
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