Isolated Pages
The pages on your website could be isolated or not well linked together. This could be because the pages that are not correctly linked might not be relevant to the particular content within the website or don’t have proper navigation to the site. You can then use a sitemap to point it out to the Google bot signaling the importance of the particular page.
Large Website
In the case of large websites like an e-commerce store have thousands of pages and it could be possible that the web crawlers ignore some pages during the process. For this, the webmaster can prioritize pages that are important by using the XML sitemap.
Frequent Changes
News websites, for example, are regularly updated due to the nature of the content. Thereby it becomes necessary that the updated content is made available to the prospective users on time. For this, the webmaster can have the XML sitemap to pick on the important pages.
The maximum number of URLs that you can submit in a single XML sitemap file is 50,000 and the maximum size limit is 50MB. For larger sites having more than 50,000 sites, they can create multiple sitemaps separately for categories, tags, products, etc. You can submit Google with two types of information using XML sitemaps:
Image URL Extension
This extension comes in handy if you have a website that’s specifically focused on images specifying the image type, author, license, etc. Take, for example, Photography, where images are your focus area on the website where you want the audience to engage.
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