Sitemap
A sitemap is a machine-readable list of every page you want indexed, served at /sitemap.xml. MobiTaste auto-generates one for the marketing site, including every locale and every glossary, FAQ, guide, and feature URL.
What it means in operation
The sitemap is XML. Each entry has the URL, a last-modified date, and optional priority and frequency hints. The MobiTaste sitemap is generated at build time from the URL registry that drives the site, so a new page added to the registry shows up in the sitemap on the next deploy. Search engines fetch the sitemap periodically and use it to find pages they have not crawled. The file also carries hreflang information per URL, declaring the EN and TR versions of each page side by side. Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools both consume the file.
Why it matters
Without a sitemap, search engines find pages by following links from pages they already know. A newly published glossary entry deep in a resources hub can take weeks to be discovered. With a sitemap, the URL is in front of the crawler within hours. For AI search, the sitemap is often a primary input alongside llms.txt. The buyer’s question is not whether the sitemap exists (it must) but whether it is current. A stale sitemap is worse than none, because crawlers waste time on dead URLs.
Related terms
- robots.txt: the file that tells crawlers where to find the sitemap.
- Schema markup: the per-page metadata that complements the sitemap.
- hreflang: the tag the sitemap also encodes.