Sites with a large number of orphan pages
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 9:10 am
Every website should have an XML sitemap. They are especially important for:
Large Websites
New Site
Sites that use a lot of images and videos
While robotsxt helps you exclude parts of your site from ranking in search engines, XML sitemaps do the opposite. They help search engines discover new pages—even if they're not linked from your main site.
Sitemaps are in XML format, which Google can quickly parse nepal mobile database to find new URLs.
The easiest way to check if your site has a sitemap is to look in Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools under "Sitemaps." Most search engines, like Google or Bing, will look for a "<sitemap_location> in sitemap" entry or entries in your site's robotsxt file. Alternatively, you can ping your sitemap directly to Google , Baidu , Bing , and Yandex .
<img alt="XML sitemap in Bing Webmaster Tools" class="zooming lazyloaded" data-src="s:static.semrushomcdn-cgiimagewidth=1010bloguploadsmedia0fcc0fccf5c82b2a2bb50641f7d494c0e043image2.png" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-9025619_57="1" src="s:static.semrushomcdn-cgiimagewidth=1010bloguploadsmedia0fcc0fccf5c…image2.png">
XML sitemap in Bing Webmaster Tools. 1: Sitemap report. 2: Add new sitemap path. 3: Bing discovers existing sitemap.
<img alt="XML sitemap in Google Search Console" class="zooming lazyloaded" data-src="s:static.semrushomcdn-cgiimagewidth=1010bloguploadsmedia87a087a075a259b2867655330ebd70ab293aimage3.png" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-9025619_57="1" src="s:static.semrushomcdn-cgiimagewidth=1010bloguploadsmedia87a087a075a…image3.png">
XML sitemap in Google Search Console. 1: Sitemap report. 2: Adding a new sitemap path. 3: Existing sitemap found by Google.
Large Websites
New Site
Sites that use a lot of images and videos
While robotsxt helps you exclude parts of your site from ranking in search engines, XML sitemaps do the opposite. They help search engines discover new pages—even if they're not linked from your main site.
Sitemaps are in XML format, which Google can quickly parse nepal mobile database to find new URLs.
The easiest way to check if your site has a sitemap is to look in Google Search Console or Bing Webmaster Tools under "Sitemaps." Most search engines, like Google or Bing, will look for a "<sitemap_location> in sitemap" entry or entries in your site's robotsxt file. Alternatively, you can ping your sitemap directly to Google , Baidu , Bing , and Yandex .
<img alt="XML sitemap in Bing Webmaster Tools" class="zooming lazyloaded" data-src="s:static.semrushomcdn-cgiimagewidth=1010bloguploadsmedia0fcc0fccf5c82b2a2bb50641f7d494c0e043image2.png" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-9025619_57="1" src="s:static.semrushomcdn-cgiimagewidth=1010bloguploadsmedia0fcc0fccf5c…image2.png">
XML sitemap in Bing Webmaster Tools. 1: Sitemap report. 2: Add new sitemap path. 3: Bing discovers existing sitemap.
<img alt="XML sitemap in Google Search Console" class="zooming lazyloaded" data-src="s:static.semrushomcdn-cgiimagewidth=1010bloguploadsmedia87a087a075a259b2867655330ebd70ab293aimage3.png" data-gtm-vis-has-fired-9025619_57="1" src="s:static.semrushomcdn-cgiimagewidth=1010bloguploadsmedia87a087a075a…image3.png">
XML sitemap in Google Search Console. 1: Sitemap report. 2: Adding a new sitemap path. 3: Existing sitemap found by Google.