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Microsoft Bing: lastmod Tag In XML Sitemap File Is Critical

February 3, 2023 |

Microsoft Bing posted a new blog post saying “for XML sitemaps, one of the most critical tags you can include in your sitemap is the “lastmod” tag.” And it will become even more critical as Bing is reworking its crawl scheduling stack to rely more on this lastmod field.

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