Sitemap

A machine-readable list of canonical URLs and optional metadata offered for discovery. Submission helps crawlers learn URLs but does not guarantee crawling, indexing, or ranking.

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canonical · Offer

Crawling and indexing

How a crawler discovers, schedules, fetches and selects pages, and why a fetched page is not an indexed one.

Crawler identity · Product token · Identification string · Crawl frontier · Crawl queue · Crawl scheduler · Seed URL · URL discovery · Link extraction · Recrawl interval · Crawl frequency · Host politeness · Crawl rate · Crawl-delay · Robots group merging · Longest-match rule · Wildcard rule · End-anchor rule · Robots cache · Robots parse error · Robots redirect · Robots unavailable · Sitemap URL set · Sitemap lastmod · Sitemap hreflang · Image sitemap · Video sitemap · News sitemap · Canonical cluster · Duplicate cluster · Index selection · Crawl demand · Rendering queue · Rendered HTML · Indexing pipeline · Index freshness · Index lag · Deindexing · Removal request · URL inspection · Crawl anomaly · Bot spoofing · Shared IP range · Web Bot Auth

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