Question: Select all that apply. What can you use sitemaps for?
- To stop content from being crawled and indexed
- To tell search engines about what pages and files you think are important on your site
- To help search engines find and understand media content and news articles
- To control what pages appear in search results and the order in which they appear
Explanation
A sitemap is used to manage the content shown to search engines, and HubSpot says it helps web crawlers understand site structure so they can crawl more intelligently. HubSpot Knowledge Base+1 HubSpot also states that live website pages and blog posts are added to the sitemap, which shows that a sitemap communicates which pages and files matter on the site. HubSpot Knowledge Base+1 HubSpot further documents that images can be included in sitemap XML for certain dynamic pages, and video details such as title and SEO description can be used in sitemap XML, which supports media discovery and understanding. HubSpot Knowledge Base+2HubSpot Knowledge Base+2 That is why the valid uses are communicating important site content and helping search engines work with media and article-related content more effectively. HubSpot Knowledge Base+2HubSpot Knowledge Base+2
Why the other options are incorrect
A) This is incorrect because HubSpot states that removing a page from a sitemap does not explicitly tell search engines that the page should not be indexed. HubSpot Knowledge Base
D) This is incorrect because HubSpot presents a sitemap as a crawl and discovery aid, not as a tool for exact control over what appears in search results or the order of those results. HubSpot Knowledge Base
Source for verification
HubSpot Knowledge Base: View and edit a HubSpot-hosted domain sitemap. HubSpot Knowledge Base
HubSpot Knowledge Base: Add videos to HubSpot content. HubSpot Knowledge Base
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