: Understanding product search links in sitemaps I am looking at sitemaps of a few large websites like ebay.com and I noticed that the URLs in the sitemap point to search results rather than

@Nimeshi995

Links to product searches are often added to sitemaps because they're typically dynamically generated during a search (like on eBay) and usually contain a session ID too.

By providing a crawl-able link to products with keyword included, the search engine bot can index them because they can't perform searches themselves. The only other means to discover dynamic content is to create Snapshots of them.

Sites that rely upon AJAX and database driven content typically do the same.

Sitemap size is not an issue, providing that each one is under 50,000 links and less than 10MB in (compressed gzip) size. It will just take longer to crawl and index the site, and take up more resources in the process. This is done just to help the search bot index product searchrd based on keywords, and not to reduce the size of the sitemaps.

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