What it can do
It helps discovery, particularly on large or poorly linked sites, but guarantees neither crawling nor indexing or ranking.
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Sitemaps help discovery
A sitemap tells search engines about important URLs and related metadata.
Check entries
FinFly recommends verifying existence, intended destination and crawler access. Do not list test URLs.
Navigation still matters
Make content reachable through useful links. Fix site structure, not just XML.
Method
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