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John Mueller confirmed that AI training crawlers are actively hitting sitemaps…

Nick Carroll

John Mueller confirmed that AI training crawlers are actively hitting sitemaps and RSS feeds. If you publish anything online under your name, your sitemap and RSS feed are part of how AI systems find and index your work. Having those set up and pointing at everything you've written isn't optional anymore if you want to show up in AI-generated answers.

Google's Mueller Says AI Crawlers Access Sitemaps & RSS In His Logs
Google's John Mueller says AI training crawlers usually don't offer sitemap submission and suggests default sitemap names or RSS feeds to help them find sites.
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