Since the advent of search engines, SEO has played a crucial role in the Internet economy. Businesses want to attract more visitors to their sites, thus creating more awareness and opportunities to sell their products/services. One of the most basic concepts that have served as standard for search engines when they index a site for information is the sitemap. A sitemap is nothing but a directory of all the potential links on the site. It also assigns weights to how often a particular page changes, ensuring that a search engine can come back and look at the page at regular intervals.
We will look at how to take your sitemaps and serve them correctly using Nginx. You can then use these sitemaps on the various webmaster tools provided by Google, Bing, and other search engines.