website map, English name sitemap, including all the links of the website. It provides a basis for search engines to grab pages. Once the search engine program gets the site map page, it can access all the pages and columns provided on the site map. Therefore, the website map mainly includes the content links or column links of the main pages of the website. Depending on the size of the website and the number of pages, it can link some major or all your column pages. It is a factor in the increase in the number of web pages.

a website map is a navigation file generated according to the framework, structure and content of the website. Maps have two main functions:

1. It is convenient for search engine spiders to crawl web pages, and search spiders will crawl through the deep links in the website map to grab new content, which is important for network optimization.

2. Help visiting users clearly find the corresponding columns, categories, contents, etc.

google is an xml file, while Baidu is an html file.