Another Search 101 blog for you here and this one is about XML Sitemaps – pretty obvious from the title! XML Sitemaps are very important to the ranking of your website. The essential role of an XML Sitemap is to tell Google about pages on your site which may not otherwise be found by the [...]
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XML Sitemaps
09 Dec 2011 at 09:52
Pip Norman
Google, Indexing, SEO 101, Site Architecture, Webmaster Tools
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