Web & Chatbot EngineeringTechnical Definition

Sitemap XML Ingestion

Sitemap XML ingestion allows an AI crawler to discover and index all authoritative URLs published in a website’s `sitemap.xml` file.

Core Technical Definition

Sitemap XML ingestion is the automated parsing of a website’s standard XML sitemap file to discover all canonical URLs, priority tiers, and last-modified dates for indexing.

How Sitemap XML works in practice

Instead of blindly following internal links from the homepage, sitemap ingestion immediately identifies the complete URL structure, including deep blog posts and documentation pages.

It also checks `<lastmod>` timestamps to recrawl only pages that have been updated since the last crawl.

How SiteMind implements Sitemap XML

Paste your `sitemap.xml` URL into SiteMind, and our crawler will automatically ingest and index all listed pages in parallel.

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