Not to be confused with HTML sitemaps, which are designed to be viewed by humans, XML sitemaps are solely for search engines. Given that XML sitemaps are intended to assist Google, site owners may ...

Google's John Mueller was asked if it is helps after doing a big URL migration to keep the old XML Sitemap file up for a bit. John said "the effect would be minimal" by using this strategy. The theory ...

Google's John Mueller said on Twitter that having an XML Sitemap file is "a minimal baseline for any serious website." Basically, all serious websites should have an XML sitemap file part of it or it ...

Confused about whether you need XML or image sitemaps and how important they are to Google? Gain a better understanding in this Ask An SEO column. As Google’s search results have increasingly become ...