what is sitemap?

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A site map is a kind of interactive table of contents, in which each listed item links directly to its counterpart sections of the Web site.

A site map is a list of pages of a web site. There are three primary kinds of site map: Site maps used during the planning of a Web site by its designers. Human-visible listings, typically hierarchical, of the pages on a site. Structured listings intended for web crawlers such as search engines.

A sitemap is an efficient way to locate search engines about web pages which are available on their websites for indexing. The sitemap is an imitation of a website's content designed to help both visitors and search engines navigate the site.

In simple words we can say Sitemaps is file allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling.