Robots.txt and Sitemap.xml | Lesson 7/31 | SEMrush Academy

0:05 Sitemaps

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In section two, we talked about how the search engines send spiders to crawl and index the content on your site. The spiders follow the internal links on your pages to move from page to page and discover your content – but there's another way that the spiders discover content.

Your XML sitemap is like a behind-the-scenes list of all the URLs on your page. The search engine spiders access the file and follow the links to index the content on your site. Think of your XML sitemap like a backup for your page architecture. The primary route for content discovery is your internal linking structure, so make sure your site is organized well and is easy to navigate.

Whenever you start SEO work on a new site, you should log into Search Console and check that the sitemap has been submitted and indexed. If you see that the sitemap has been indexed and crawled, but the indexed page count is less than it should be, that shows that something's not right.

If you want to remove a page from Google's index, you'll want to use the meta robots tag. You could use a noindex, follow command to keep a page from being in the index, but still have the spiders crawl and follow the links on the page. If you use a noindex, nofollow command, the page won't be indexed and the spiders won't follow any of the links on that page.

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[KushPatel]

some time robots file is blocked from the server which is not easily appeared to SEOs

[afshanafathima]

Would have been good if there were pictoral representation of the things he explains. Quite difficult to understand with just words