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4. Create a Sitemap

Google uses sitemaps to figure out which pages should be crawled. The
search engines also use your sitemap to see the canonical version of every
page. Basically, the sitemap lists the URLs on your site so that everything is
indexed by the search engines.

To submit a sitemap to Google, you should generally use XML. If you

already have a sitemap, it will be at https://www.domain.com/sitemap.xml.
You can always create a new sitemap by using a sitemap generator tool.

Once you have made a sitemap, you need to submit it to Google Search
Console and Bing Webmaster Tools. You should also reference it in your
robots.txt file. If you do not have a robots.txt file, move on to the next step.

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