What Is Sitemap format?

XML sitemaps can be stored in an uncompressed form, submitted as .XML files or compressed in gzip format and then submitted as .GZ files. The XML Sitemap protocol comes with a set of structured XML tags, with some of the tags being mandatory while others are optional.
 
Sitemap format:

There are 9 sitemap formats that are supported by Google's Webmaster Tools. Sitemaps allow for a webmaster to inform various search engines about website links on a website that are available to be crawled. The sitemaps also provide information to webmasters about each URL in an XML file.
 
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