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Before starting to create my sitemap file I wanted to take a look at the sitemaps of a few webpages that I know (online shops, blogs, ....). For my surprise, 100% of them do not have a sitemap.xml (I just checked the root path: domain/sitemap.xml). After that, several doubts surged to me.

What could be the reason for that?

Do they have their sitemap.xml in another path/name? I understand that could be possible, but I suspect that is not advised.

Don't they have a sitemap at all? In that case, sitemaps would not be as important as I initially thought because these webpages have an important amount of traffic.

Alfonso_MA
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A sitemap can be anywhere on the site and can be any name. It is specified in robots.txt.

For instance, look at GMail

User-agent: *

Allow: /

Disallow: /a/*

Disallow: /mail?hl=*

Disallow: /tasks/*

Sitemap: https://www.google.com/gmail/sitemap.xml

Rohit Gupta
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