Sitemap, or Site haritası in Turkish, notifies search engine bots of the URLs we want to be indexed on our site. Google, Yandex, and Bing bots invariably want to see sitemaps on every website. Thanks to this file, search engines have greater control over the pages to be crawled. Information such as how frequently a page changes, when it was last updated, and which page on the site is more important or prioritized compared to others can be submitted via this file. In this way, search engines can crawl websites more efficiently.
There is a screen in Search Console, Google Webmaster, and the Yandex Webmaster panel where you can directly upload a sitemap. A sitemap is generated as a list with an XML extension. This file primarily includes url, lastmod (Last Modification Date), changefreq (Change Frequency), and priority (Priority).
What Should Be Considered When Creating a Sitemap?
- Your URL list must contain the full access path from your site.
- A single sitemap can contain a maximum of 50,000 URLs; if you have more content, you must use pagination.
- The Sitemap file should be located in the root directory.
Example Sitemap
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https://seoreq.com/sitemap-nedir/