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Search engine crawlers will always look for a robots.txt file in the root folder of a website. Therefore, adding a link to your XML sitemap within the robots.txt points all major search engines to its location. Check 2 – Has the XML Sitemap been added to Google Search Console? Submitting XML sitemaps to Google Search Console ensures Google can find and crawl them. Once submitted, you can see if Google is successfully able to discover your page URLs: Has the XML Sitemap been added to Google Search Console? Check 3 – Are there any errors in the XML sitemap? URLs in sitemaps should not redirect or return errors – every page should return a 200 OK status code. Search engines may ignore sitemaps completely if they contain too many errors.
