SEO for Developers: XML Sitemaps

An XML Sitemap is a standardized file that you can use to notify search engines about the pages on your site. These files are typically generated automatically through our webmaster tools and served via robots.txt or manually.
XML sitemaps are a great way to help Google crawl your site, discover new content, and correctly resolve admin URLs. If you’re a developer, take a look at our XML Sitemaps guide for more information about how to submit your sitemap to Google.
Few XML sitemaps tips for developers to achieve better SEO results:

• You must create, update, and publish XML sitemaps for all of your websites.
• XML sitemaps allow you to keep your site up-to-date with all the indexable and search crawlable status codes 200 pages on the relevant domains.
• Ensure that new pages are added to the XML sitemap to publish in Google Search Console.
• If a URL is non-indexable or serves a non-200 status code, it should not be featured in the sitemap.
• Equally, ​​do not include pages with a canonical tag pointing to another page in the sitemap.