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Do sitemaps still matter?
About this video
Do XML sitemaps still matter? Martin Splitt and John Mueller look back at their history, ask whether crawlers can work out site structure alone, and discuss why fetch warnings in Search Console worry owners.
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Why watch it
Martin Splitt and John Mueller of Google ask if XML sitemaps are still needed, and why Search Console fetch warnings worry site owners. RSS feeds and LLMs.txt come up too.
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