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6. Sitemaps

Aravind Shenoy and Anirudh Prabhu2

(1)Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

(2)A-403, Govardhan Nagar, Mumbai, India

A sitemap contains a list of pages within a website. A sitemap can exist in a form accessible to crawlers, humans, or both. Typically, a sitemap is hierarchical in nature.

The purpose of a sitemap is to display, how the website is organized apart from navigation and labeling. It provides clarity about the relationship between various website pages and components. Certain types of sitemaps, such as XML sitemaps, provide additional information about the pages in a website, such as the last update and frequency of updating. ...

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