GLOSSARY
Sitemap
IN ONE SENTENCE
A sitemap is an XML file listing indexable URLs so search engines and crawlers can discover content.
A sitemap is an XML file listing indexable URLs so search engines and crawlers can discover content.
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In detail
Three things go wrong here: it must share a data source with the pages — generating the map from one source while rendering pages from another produces URLs that do not exist or that redirect; do not declare addresses that 301; and on multilingual multi-domain sites, each domain declares its own.
Updated 2026-08-06