{"id":75,"date":"2008-09-19T18:59:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T18:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/watt-media.com\/b\/?p=75"},"modified":"2016-09-13T11:15:13","modified_gmt":"2016-09-13T15:15:13","slug":"the-importance-of-a-google-xml-sitemap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wattmedia.com\/blog\/the-importance-of-a-google-xml-sitemap\/","title":{"rendered":"The Importance of a Google XML Sitemap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For SEO purposes, having an XML sitemap is extremely important. An XML sitemap is a page of code which is downloaded onto your web server where your website files reside, and its purpose is to alert Google&#8217;s spiders of all of the pages of your site which exist. 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