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A sitemap is an important way for Google to discover URLs on your site. A sitemap can also include additional metadata about alternate language versions and video-, image-, or news-specific pages.
Learn how to create a sitemap. Here are the different ways that you can alert Google about your sitemap: Use the ping tool. Send a GET request in your browser or the command line to this address, specifying the full URL of the sitemap. Be sure that the sitemap file is accessible: http://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=
Example: https://www.google.com/ping?sitemap=https://www.aol.com/sitemap.xml
A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. Search engines like Google read this file to more intelligently crawl your
site. A sitemap tells Google which pages and files you think are important in your site, and also provides valuable information about these files: for example, for pages, when the page was last updated, how often the page is changed,
and any alternate language versions of a page.
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