Sitemap
A structured list of important website URLs that helps people or automated systems understand and discover site content.
Plain English
A map of the pages a website wants visitors or crawlers to find.
In context
Sitemaps may be machine-readable files such as XML sitemaps for search crawlers or navigational pages for people and should stay aligned with canonical indexable routes.
Example
“Regenerate the sitemap after publishing the new documentation routes.”
When you'll hear this
- website launch
- SEO maintenance
- route changes
Common misunderstanding
A sitemap helps discovery but does not guarantee indexing ranking or access to every listed page.
Also known as
site mapXML sitemapsitemap.xml
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Updated: 2026-08-31
