What is Sitemap.xml?

[infosteve]

Sitemaps offer the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site.

[clarac12]

XML sitemaps do pretty much the same thing as a HTML but they are in a different type of web code and document. They are also a visible list but provide URLs to the web crawlers that give additional data about the pages meta tags. They show data on whether there have been changes to the page and how often it changes compared to other URLs on that site.

[chawong]

In SEO, sitemap.xml is an On-Page SEO element which is a file containing the urls of all the webpages including website. It is essential to submit to search engine for indexing and visibility purpose.

[WebGuide]

sitemap.xml is one kind of file that contains structural links with dates about website or blog that helps search engine consoles to fetch links to get indexed on SERPs.

[gomzi2909]

Sitemap.xml is the xml file that list all your URLs. Sitemap file is the file that is submitted to the google so that google can easily crawl all your URLs

[Barbie1]

In simple terms, an XML sitemap is a list of your website's URLs. It acts as a roadmap to tell search engines what content is available and how to reach it. In the example above, a search engine will find all nine pages in a sitemap with one visit to the XML sitemap file.

[Ravina123]

XML sitemaps provide search engines with an efficient list of the URLs on a site. XML sitemaps are just text files marked up with tags that identify types of data. The URL for an XML sitemap is typically at the root of a domain — for example, www.example.com/sitemap.xml