{"id":419,"date":"2017-06-15T21:32:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T21:32:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/insurancewebsitebible.com\/articles\/?p=419"},"modified":"2017-07-04T02:22:33","modified_gmt":"2017-07-04T02:22:33","slug":"xml-sitemap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/insurancewebsitebible.com\/articles\/xml-sitemap\/","title":{"rendered":"Publish An XML Sitemap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-603\" src=\"http:\/\/insurancewebsitebible.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sitemaps.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"http:\/\/insurancewebsitebible.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sitemaps.png 200w, http:\/\/insurancewebsitebible.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/sitemaps-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/>An XML Sitemap is a simple file that lists the web address of every page on your website. It\u2019s intended for search engine robots to read so they know all the pages to visit on your website. Google robots don&#8217;t need you to have a robots.txt file but it helps them find new pages sooner and can get more pages of your site into Google\u2019s database. Bing puts even more emphasis on sitemaps than Google.<\/p>\n<h2>Helpful Resources:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xml-sitemaps.com\/\">Free XML Sitemap Generator Tool<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insurancesplash.com\/websites\">Insurance Websites With Automatically Updating XML Sitemaps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.insurancesplash.com\/insurance-seo\">Search Engine Optimization for Insurance Websites<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An XML Sitemap is a simple file that lists the web address of every page on your website. It\u2019s intended for search engine robots to read so they know all the pages to visit on your website. 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