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    Hi Friend,
    They are! But not in the way most people expect them to be. It’s not a magic pill that will make your website indexed as soon as you submit it to search engines.

    You’ll probably need a sitemap when your website has lots of pages and complicated structure, especially, when there are orphan pages that don’t have incoming links (which is not recommended).

    XML Sitemap helps to:
    • Сlearly show website structure to search robots and ease crawling
    • Accelerate detection of new pages by crawlers
    • Point on pages that are difficult to reach through the main navigation
    • Show crawlers which pages have been updated or changed since their last visit (Last-Modified HTTP header is used in this case)
    • Specify an importance of each page in the whole site structure

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    Yes, it is useful for crawlers to take canonical version of pages to crawl. But its not ranking factor that you will add it on website and your rank will be up. Its just and sitemap that help google bots to understand your website pages when last update, priority, frequency, etc.

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    A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. It allows webmasters to include additional information about each URL: when it was last updated, how often it changes, and how important it is in relation to other URLs of the site.

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    If your site has a lot of pages, it means it will burn quickly your crawl budget. A sitemap won't help with the crawl budget, but it can help get some deeper pages indexed faster. ... Having your XML sitemap set up properly can ensure the most important pages on your site are crawled and indexed.

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    Having your XML sitemap set up properly can ensure the most important pages on your site are crawled and indexed. ... Even if Google does discover a page through your sitemap, without any links to it no Page Rank will flow to it so it will be considered unimportant.

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    XML Sitemaps are important for SEO because they make it easier for Google to find your site's pages—this is important because Google ranks web PAGES not just websites. There is no downside of having an XML Sitemap and having one can improve your SEO, so we highly recommend them.

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    XML Sitemaps are important for SEO because they make it easier for Google to find your site's pages—this is important because Google ranks web PAGES not just websites. There is no downside of having an XML Sitemap and having one can improve your SEO, so we highly recommend them.

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    SEO benefits for each. by Billy Watts Feb 26, 2020 ... It becomes more important for larger sites that publish fresh content often. A sitemap is a good way ... An XML sitemap is a list of links in a standard markup language that Google prefers.

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    If your site has a lot of pages, it means it will burn quickly your crawl budget. A sitemap won't help with the crawl budget, but it can help get some deeper pages indexed faster. ... Having your XML sitemap set up properly can ensure the most important pages on your site are crawled and indexed.

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