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Sitemaps

Sitemaps is a protocol in XML format meant for a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs of the site. This allows search engines to…

History, Purpose & Search engine submission

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History

GoogleIBM
2 related topics

Purpose

AjaxSilverlightFlashSearch enginesWeb crawlers
6 related topics

Search engine submission

PingedRobots.txtURL-encoded
3 related topics

Limits and indexes

MiBGzipGoogle Search Console
3 related topics

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Overview

History

Purpose

File format

Other formats

Search engine submission

Limits and indexes

Additional sitemap types

Multilingual and multinational sitemaps

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Map overview Semantic statistics

Sitemaps

Nodes36
Edges35
Triples77
Avg. degree1.94
Density0.055556
Components1

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Sitemaps

Top relations

related to history · 17
Sitemaps → Also, Arizona, Ask, California, Google, IBM, In April, In May, June, Microsoft, MSN, November, Sitemap, The, Utah, Virginia, Yahoo
related to Limitations for search engine indexing · 13
Sitemaps → After, Bing, Bing Webmaster Tools, Google, However, Inc, Microsoft, Site Explorer, Specific, URLs, Using, Webmaster Support, Yahoo
related to File format · 8
Sitemaps → Sitemap, The, The Sitemap Protocol, They, URL, URLs, UTF-8, XML
related to Limits and indexes · 8
Sitemaps → An, MiB, Multiple, Sitemap, The, The Sitemap XML, URLs, You
related to Purpose · 6
Sitemaps → Ajax, Flash, Google News, Silverlight, Some, The
related to Text file · 6
Sitemaps → Sitemap, The, The Sitemaps, URLs, UTF-8, XML Sitemaps
related to Multilingual and multinational sitemaps · 5
Sitemaps → Google, HTML, In December, Instead, One
related to Additional sitemap types · 3
Sitemaps → Google, Video, XML
related to External links · 3
Sitemaps → Official, Sitemap Archived, Wayback Machine
related to Search engine submission · 3
Sitemaps → If Sitemaps, The, URL

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Important terminology

sitemap google search urls protocol file index site engines also website one web url xml announced content video format webmaster

Entity relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Sitemapsis aprotocol in XML format meant for a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for web crawling0.90text
Sitemapsrelated to Additional sitemap typesXML0.60section
Sitemapsrelated to Additional sitemap typesGoogle0.60section
Sitemapsrelated to Additional sitemap typesVideo0.60section
Sitemapsrelated to External linksOfficial0.60section
Sitemapsrelated to External linksSitemap Archived0.60section
Sitemapsrelated to External linksWayback Machine0.60section
Sitemapsrelated to File formatThe Sitemap Protocol0.60section
Sitemapsrelated to File formatXML0.60section
Sitemapsrelated to File formatThe0.60section
Sitemapsrelated to File formatUTF-80.60section
Sitemapsrelated to File formatURLs0.60section

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