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Everything about Sitemaps

Protocol and file format to list the URLs of a website

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 crawl the site more efficiently and to find URLs that may be isolated from the rest of the site's content. The Sitemaps protocol is a URL inclusion protocol and complements robots.txt, a URL exclusion protocol. Wikipedia →

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

  1. Read the overview: SitemapsA 5-minute orientation
  2. Pick up a classic book: Teach yourself visually web designThe most-reprinted book on the subject
  3. Read the landmark paper: Cultural heritage metadata aggregation using web technologies: IIIF, Sitemaps and Schema.orgCited 25 times
  4. Go sideways: Site mapA closely related topic
  5. Go sideways: HreflangA closely related topic

đź“– Definitions

Noun plural of sitemap

🗂️ The subject at a glance

  1. History
  2. Purpose
  3. File format
  4. Other formats
  5. Search engine submission
  6. Limits and indexes
  7. Additional sitemap types
  8. Multilingual and multinational sitemaps

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

đź“š Books worth reading

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

đź”— Related topics