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XML Sitemap

A file listing all important pages on a website to help search engines and AI crawlers discover content.

Understanding XML Sitemap

XML sitemaps provide a roadmap of your site's structure, including page URLs, last modification dates, and priority levels. For AI visibility, sitemaps ensure AI crawlers discover all relevant content, especially deep pages. Regular sitemap updates signal content freshness to both traditional search engines and AI systems.

See Also

AI Crawlers

Automated bots used by AI companies to index web content for training and retrieval in AI systems.

Robots.txt

A file that tells web crawlers and AI bots which pages they can and cannot access on your website.

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