Why submite XML Sitemap search console
to a search engine should not be thought of as a part of a search engine optimization process. Having a sitemap on your site in no way guarantees a better ranking for your site. Its existence only nudges search engines in the right direction. Even before a page can be ranked higher, it needs to be indexed by the search engine. Sitemaps help search engines locate the pages you want the latter to see on your site.
What is a Sitemap?
A sitemap describes the organization tree of your site’s content. It displays the nesting of your content in relation to each other. In some sense, you can think of a sitemap as the way in which a regular user might navigate through your content to find what they are looking for.
What is an XML Sitemap?
XML sitemaps enable search engines to discover all pages on a site and to download them quickly when they change.
Consisted of tags to define pages that should be indexed by search engines.
Having said that, XML sitemaps are designed for search engine spiders/crawlers and not your visitors. They determine the importance of the individual pages on your site. However, they should follow the logical pattern of a navigation route you would create for your users.
While sitemaps can be in one of many formats – XML, HTML, RSS, Atom. The XML format contains the structure of the whole site that search engines use. An HTML sitemap would be for your users and RSS/Atom sitemaps would have only the most recent significant changes to your site.
In effect, this means that XML sitemaps are large and are downloaded less frequently by the search engine crawler in comparison to RSS/Atom feeds.
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