SEOTesting
6 minutes
XML Sitemap Creation, Submission and Hygiene in Technical SEO
An XML sitemap is a file listing the URLs you want search engines to crawl and index. Good hygiene means it contains only live, canonical, indexable pages (no redirects, error pages, duplicates or noindexed URLs) and updates automatically. Crawl budget, the number of pages Google will crawl in a period, is almost never the limit for a site with a few thousand pages or fewer; indexing quality is.