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[[image:Googleplex with Pride colors 2015.gk.jpg|thumb|[Image.]  A sitemap will help your webpages to get indexed by search engines quickly and efficiently.  For 2023, [https://www.google.com/ Google] is the most popular search engine in the world, followed in second place by [https://www.bing.com/ Microsoft Bing]. <ref><code>https://www.similarweb.com/engines/</code></ref> <ref><code>https://www.google.com/</code></ref> <ref><code>https://www.bing.com/</code></ref>  Photograph depicts the corporate headquarters for Google Search in California (<abbr title="United States of America">USA</abbr>) with the Google logo decorated in the rainbow colors of the [[wikipedia:LGBT flag|LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, et al) flag]] for the celebration of [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/31/presidential-proclamation-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-pride-mon/ <abbr title="United States American">USA</abbr> LGBT Pride Month]. <ref><code>[[commons:category:Google]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[commons:category:Google logos]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[wikipedia:Googleplex]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[wikipedia:LGBT flag]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[wikipedia:USA LGBT Pride Month#Recognition]]</code></ref> <ref><code>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/31/presidential-proclamation-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-pride-mon/</code></ref>]] | [[image:Googleplex with Pride colors 2015.gk.jpg|thumb|[Image.]  A sitemap will help your webpages to get indexed by search engines quickly and efficiently.  For 2023, [https://www.google.com/ Google] is the most popular search engine in the world, followed in second place by [https://www.bing.com/ Microsoft Bing]. <ref><code>https://www.similarweb.com/engines/</code></ref> <ref><code>https://www.google.com/</code></ref> <ref><code>https://www.bing.com/</code></ref>  Photograph depicts the corporate headquarters for Google Search in California (<abbr title="United States of America">USA</abbr>) with the Google logo decorated in the rainbow colors of the [[wikipedia:LGBT flag|LGBT (lesbian, gay, bi, trans, et al) flag]] for the celebration of [https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/31/presidential-proclamation-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-pride-mon/ <abbr title="United States American">USA</abbr> LGBT Pride Month]. <ref><code>[[commons:category:Google]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[commons:category:Google logos]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[wikipedia:Googleplex]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[wikipedia:LGBT flag]]</code></ref> <ref><code>[[wikipedia:USA LGBT Pride Month#Recognition]]</code></ref> <ref><code>https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2011/05/31/presidential-proclamation-lesbian-gay-bisexual-and-transgender-pride-mon/</code></ref>]] | ||
Adding a [https://www.sitemaps.org/ sitemap] to your website allows searchbots to find pages much faster and more efficiently, allowing them to be quickly indexed for search engines.  Sitemaps can be saved as either "<code>/sitemap.txt</code>" or "<code>/sitemap.xml</code>" and should be placed in the root webdirectory ("<code>/</code>"). <ref><code>https://www.sitemaps.org/</code></ref> <ref><code>https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html</code></ref>  Using plaintext (TXT) is much faster and easier than writing extensible markup language (XML).  I recommend keeping the sitemap as plaintext, allowing the SITEMAP protocol to join the ranks of the other plaintext website protocols for <u>[[ROBOTS]]</u>, [https://www.securitytxt.org/ SECURITY], and [https://humanstxt.org/ HUMANS]. | Adding a [https://www.sitemaps.org/ sitemap] to your website allows searchbots to find pages much faster and more efficiently, allowing them to be quickly indexed for search engines.  [https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/ Sitemaps] can be saved as either "<code>/sitemap.txt</code>" or "<code>/sitemap.xml</code>" and should be placed in the root webdirectory ("<code>/</code>"). <ref><code>https://www.sitemaps.org/</code></ref> <ref><code>https://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.html</code></ref> <ref><code>https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/</code></ref> <ref><code>https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/build-sitemap/</code></ref>  Using plaintext (TXT) is much faster and easier than writing extensible markup language (XML).  I recommend keeping the sitemap as plaintext, allowing the SITEMAP protocol to join the ranks of the other plaintext website protocols for <u>[[ROBOTS]]</u>, [https://www.securitytxt.org/ SECURITY], and [https://humanstxt.org/ HUMANS]. | ||
As with all webtext files, you should use an advanced text editor such as [https://www.notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad-Plus-Plus] (not Microsoft Windows Notepad). <ref><code>https://www.notepad-plus-plus.org/</code></ref>  Files should be saved with [https://www.npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#new-document Unix line endings and UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format Eight-Bit) character encoding]. | As with all webtext files, you should use an advanced text editor such as [https://www.notepad-plus-plus.org/ Notepad-Plus-Plus] (not Microsoft Windows Notepad). <ref><code>https://www.notepad-plus-plus.org/</code></ref>  Files should be saved with [https://www.npp-user-manual.org/docs/preferences/#new-document Unix line endings and UTF-8 (Unicode Transformation Format Eight-Bit) character encoding]. | ||
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* <u><code>https://www.nicolesharp.net/sitemap.txt</code></u> | * <u><code>https://www.nicolesharp.net/sitemap.txt</code></u> | ||
* <code>https://www.sitemaps.org/</code> | * <code>https://www.sitemaps.org/</code> | ||
* <code>https://developers.google.com/search/docs/crawling-indexing/sitemaps/</code> | |||
* <u><code>[[ROBOTS]]</code></u> | * <u><code>[[ROBOTS]]</code></u> | ||
* <code>https://www.securitytxt.org/</code> | * <code>https://www.securitytxt.org/</code> | ||