XML Sitemap (also known as Google Sitemap) is a list of URLs for your website in a form of XML file (sitemap.xml file). This file allows you to include additional information about each URL such as the date it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is.
XML format ensures that this information can be easily processed on different kinds of computers, applications and systems, so search engines won't have any problems to understand your sitemap files.
This way XML sitemaps are fully compatible with Google, Yahoo, Microsoft's Bing (MSN), Ask, and other search engines.
Usually it's noted as www.yourwebsite.com/sitemap.xml, the XML Sitemap is basically a directory that allows search spiders to find and index every single page of your website. It’s kind of like a one-stop-shop for search engines. It helps them find the pages they might have otherwise missed.
If you’ve taken the time to optimize each page, you don’t want all your hard work to be negated because the search spider overlooked it! To human eyes, it just looks like jibberish (also known as code), but search spiders can see the keywords and understand the complete layout of your site.
You should create an XML Sitemap at the very end of your website optimization because it is going to be created off of your internal linking structure. If you try to create it while you are still developing pages and content, the Sitemap may not include them. There are plenty of online Sitemap generators available if you don’t have a web designer to do the work for you.
You can see HERE... how to Create XML Sitemap for your Joomla Site.
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