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May 2022
28m 21s

Let’s talk sitemaps

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A sitemap is a file where you provide information about the pages, videos, and other files on your site, and the relationships between them. In this episode of Search Off the Record, we sit down with Gary Illyes, John Mueller, and Lizzi Sassman to discuss all things sitemaps. How do they help with website SEO? What is the future of sitemaps? Listen to this episode to find out!

Episode transcript →  https://goo.gle/sotr037-Transcript  

Search Off the Record is a podcast series that takes you behind the scenes of Google Search with the Search Relations team.

 

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