What are the advantages sitemap XML?
1. RTFM - https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/156184
2. Be loyal to the search engines - they appreciate it.
3. Sitemap helps to index new products.
4. Sitemap contains an actual list of all pages that should be indexed. In Google Search Console You can see how many of them are indexed, what errors occurred while indexing. It is very convenient.
Notice.
If in the store 10 products, there is no need to Sitemap.
Sitemap - not a magic pill. This is just one of the tools that must be used in conjunction with the other.
This means that the date of the site map is new, and there has changed content or not is unknown.
Yes. But I never use it. I generate Sitemap by the cron, once a day. It allows to save resources of the server. Trifle of course, but nice. :) Well, the static file is given much faster. Of course I'm talking about stores where thousands of products and not just 10.
Sitemap Less - anyone can easily get information about the products, categories, brands, and other selling pages. This facilitates content theft (grabbing). That too is solved - it is necessary to use protection against third-party mods. On checking the reverse DNS. Give saytmap only the robots, which have specified User-Agent and come up with search engine servers.
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