What is Sitemap.xml & How to create it

#seo #sitemap

In this video you will learn
- How to create it
- How to submit it to search engines

- xml, urlset, url, location, lastmod, changfreq, priority.

There is no restriction on saving location. You can save it either in the root directory of the site or inside any sub-directory. Or you can have multiple sitemaps for one site stored in different locations.

You can not have more than 50,000 URLs or your sitemap size cannot be more than 50 MiB. If it exceeds you can create multiple sitemaps & list it under sitemap index file. Sitemap index file will contain below tags:
- xml, sitemapindex, sitemap, loc, lastmod.

Sitemap index has also the limit of upto 50,000 entries & it can not be more than 50 MiB. However, you can have multiple sitemap index files for your site.

[sheetalacharekarpatil]

Very useful video.. all the explanations are very well