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 ==== Best Practices ====
+=== Exposing Static / Multi-lingual Content ===
 If you have important static content pages (landing pages, texts about services/institutions, etc.), you may wish to include these in a base sitemap as a complement to the record list build by VuFind's sitemap generator. If your VuFind instance serves content in multiple languages, you may also wish to take advantage of the ?lng= GET parameter to provide multiple language-specific versions of the link in the sitemap. See [[https://relbib.de/sitemaps/relbib/baseSitemap.xml|RelBib's baseSitemap.xml]] for an example.
+=== Understand Crawling Budgets ===
+A VuFind site can easily have hundreds of thousands, or even millions, of pages in its sitemaps -- it's all dependent on the number of records in your index. Search engines will take a significant amount of time to crawl all of these pages, and even more time to detect changes. Be aware that publishing a sitemap will not instantly lead to full visibility of all of your content.
+=== Using Search Engine Tools ===
+Creating a sitemap is only half the battle; the rest is informing search engines about it. Tools like [[https://search.google.com/search-console/about|Google's Search Console]] are important for publishing your sitemaps and managing how your site is crawled.
 ==== Technical Details ====