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Sitemap

Meaning in digital marketing & SEO, with examples

/ˈsaɪtmæp/nounCommon term

In digital marketing & SEO, sitemap means: A file, usually in XML format, that lists the important pages of a website so that search engines can find and crawl them more easily.

In Turkish: site haritası

How it is used

SEO specialists create, update and submit sitemaps, for example in Google Search Console. A sitemap helps search engines discover pages but does not guarantee indexing. An HTML sitemap is a page for human visitors.

Example sentences

  1. The sitemap still lists 300 old URLs that now redirect.

  2. Submit the new sitemap in Search Console after the migration.

Common collocations

  • XML sitemap
  • submit a sitemap
  • update the sitemap
  • sitemap index
  • crawlTo visit web pages automatically and follow their links, which is how search engine bots discover and read content.
  • indexTo add a web page to a search engine's database so that it can appear in search results. As a noun, 'index' is that database itself.
  • technical SEOSEO work on how a site is built, so that search engines can crawl, render and index it; it covers things like speed, redirects and sitemaps.
  • 301 redirectA redirect that permanently sends users and search engines from an old URL to a new one, so the new page can take over the old page's rankings.

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