How to find sitemap xml path on websites

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How can I find sitemap xml file of websites   e g  Going to stackoverflow sitemap xml gets me a 404    In stackoverflow robots txt is written the following       this technically isn t valid  since for some godforsaken reason    sitemap paths must be ABSOLUTE and not relative     Sitemap   sitemap xml

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The location of the sitemap affects which URLs that it can include  but otherwise there is no standard  Here is a good link with more explaination  http   www sitemaps org protocol html location

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I don t think there s a standard as to the location of the sitemap  That s the reason why you should specify an arbitrary URL to your sitemap when you re adding one using Google s Webmaster Tools

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Use Google Search Operators to find it for you  search google with the below code       inurl domain com filetype xml   click on this to view sitemap search example   change domain com to the domain you want to find the sitemap   this should list all the xml files listed for the given domain   including all sitemaps

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There is no standard  so there is no guarantee   With that said  its common for the sitemap to  be self labeled and on the root  like this   example com sitemap xml  Case is sensitive on some servers  so keep that in mind   If its not there  look in the robots file on the root   example com robots txt  If you don t see it listed in the robots file head to Google and search this   site example com filetype xml  This will limit the results to XML files on your target domain   At this point its trial-and-error and based on the specifics of the website you are working with   If you get several pages of results from the Google search phrase above then try to limit the results further   filetype xml site example com inurl sitemap  or  filetype xml site example com inurl products  If you still can t find it you can right-click  gt   View Source  and do a search  aka   control find  or Ctrl   F  for  xml to see if there is a reference to it in the code

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According to protocol documentation there are at least three options website designers can use to inform sitemap xml location to search engines    Informing each search engine of the location through their provided interface Adding url to the robots txt file Submiting url to search engines through http   So  unless they have chosen to publish the sitemap location on their robots txt file  you cannot really know where they have put their sitemap xml files

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