XML Sitemaps for Search Engines

To help search engines better understand your site's hierarchy and index your site, it is recommended that your website include an xml formatted sitemap, typically found at: http://yourdomain.com/sitemap.xml

NOTE: excluding urls for site content from XML sitemap does not flag the content for exclusion from Google & Bing's search indexes.  See instructions for setting a NoIndex metatag here.

 

Most WordPress websites built and deployed by Eastern Standard include this feature (through the XML Sitemaps Plugin [https://wordpress.org/plugins/xml-sitemaps/]).  For these instances, the XML Sitemap is setup to reflect all the main menu items/links.

 

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