Site Map

historically refers to a page on a WebSite that lists all the various sections and support pages on the site.

More recently an XML file for communicating last-mod-dates for all the pages on a site. Like a Site List Txt.

• Nov'2006: becoming a standard

http://sitemaps.org/

Autodiscovery protocol - put url in Robots Txt file http://blog.ask.com/2007/04/sitemaps_autodi.html