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An XML sitemap is a structured file that lists all the important pages on your website, acting as a roadmap for search engines like Google, Bing, and Yahoo to discover and crawl your content more efficiently. Think of it as a directory that tells search engines “here are all my pages, when they were last updated, how often they change, and how important they are relative to each other.” While search engines can find pages by following links, a sitemap ensures that even deep or newly added pages get discovered quickly, particularly valuable for large sites, new websites without many backlinks, sites with complex structures, or pages with limited internal linking. There are several types of sitemaps depending on your content: standard XML sitemaps for web pages, image sitemaps to help your images appear in image search results, video sitemaps for video content indexing, and news sitemaps for publishers who want their articles in Google News. Once generated, your sitemap should be uploaded to your website’s root directory (like yoursite.com/sitemap.xml) and submitted through Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to maximize your site’s visibility and ensure search engines are aware of all your valuable content.