AI search is redefining how content is discovered and ranked, but sitemaps still matter. When paired with IndexNow, they provide the structure and speed search engines need to keep your content visible. Learn why Bing recommends using both.
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Bing Webmaster Blog - Posts tagged with 'Sitemaps'
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If you're running a website, it's essential to have a XML sitemap that helps search engines understand the pages it contains and when they are updated. For XML sitemaps, one of the most critical tags that you can include in your sitemap is the "lastmod" tag.
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Well managed sitemaps greatly increase Bing’s ability to locate, access and index all of the relevant URLs on your website. Today Fabrice Canel from the Bing Team will be talking about the best practices for managing your sitemaps. Cheers! - Avishek Mazumder, Program Manager II, Bing Webmaster Tools
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We have another quick but important announcement today. Bing, along with the other search engines that are a part of Sitemaps.org, has announced support for the following Sitemap enhancements: 1. You can now include up to 50,000 references (either URLs or links to child Sitemaps) in your sitemap.xml index file. Until recently, Sitemap files only supported about 1,000 child references. This enhancement will be very useful to extremely large sites...
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