a website is useless without sitemap , as google will crawl a website pages without sitemap.as sitemap index the different pages of website to crawl by google.
This is a discussion on Impact of sitemaps within the Web Directories forums, part of the Search Engine and Directory category; if the url is changed you can make 301 redirect in htaccess so that the old url is directed to ...
if the url is changed you can make 301 redirect in htaccess so that the old url is directed to the new one. url in sitemap is kept unchanged.
a website is useless without sitemap , as google will crawl a website pages without sitemap.as sitemap index the different pages of website to crawl by google.
An XML sitemap:
- Ensures better visibility by search engines
- Enables you to rely less on external links that will bring search engines to your site.
- Helps with broken internal links or orphaned pages that cannot be reached in other way
- Alerts search engines to any changes/additions to your site
- Helps you choose pages that you don’t want to index
An HTML sitemap:
- Ensures improved search and navigation by human visitors
- Improves user experience thereby reducing bounce rate
- Helps you distribute links to various pages of the
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