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For many WordPress website owners, fully optimizing their sites with a WordPress sitemap can be often overlooked. However, when you use a sitemap for your WordPress site, your users (and the search engine bots!) are able to see the full structure of your website in a more efficient way.
A WordPress sitemap helps to create a far better user experience (UX) for your site visitors while providing complete and accurate site information for the key search engines to crawl.
In this full guide on WordPress sitemaps, you’ll learn all the details about the benefits of creating sitemaps for all of your WordPress sites. Beyond that, you’ll also learn the key differences between HTML and XML sitemaps and how you’ll be able to use both to fully optimize your site.