XML sitemaps just turned 18 in June, and in honor of its full-fledged introduction into adulthood, I’m breaking down how XML sitemaps work, how to build one, and why XML sitemaps offer a boatload of ...

XML sitemaps serve a very niche purpose in search engine optimization: facilitating indexation. Posting an XML sitemap is kind of like rolling out the red carpet for search engines and giving them a ...

Sitemaps inform search engines which pages on a website should be crawled, and may help search engines discover and index those pages. While sitemaps can be a simple text file listing the URLs of all ...

For publishers, this matters a lot. You may publish evergreen guides, update old articles, build topic clusters, add new categories, or remove outdated pages. Search engines can often find many of ...

Sitemaps serve as the architectural blueprint of your website, providing search engines and users with clear pathways to discover and understand your content. In 2026, with the evolution of AI-powered ...

The app parses a news sitemap in XML format by copying the sitemap URL, and surfaces the following insights at a glance: ...

That’s now changed. You can now create a single XML Sitemap that contains any combination of these content types. The Google Webmaster Central blog post doesn’t mention News Sitemaps, so presumably ...