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The hosts emphasize the crucial role of a flawless sitemap in optimizing SEO scores and ensuring accurate listings on search engines. They also share their experiences from recent trips and events, discuss tracking errors with Sentry.io, and explore the process of enhancing SEO and sitemaps when building a new website for a presentation.

Scott and Wes break down the importance of sitemaps for SEO. They dive into the different file formats, essential fields, and common pitfalls to avoid when creating and submitting your sitemap to search engines.

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00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
- New Swag Coming Soon.
- Tolin.ski.
02:09 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
02:39 Sitemaps.
04:36 Why do you need a sitemap?
06:34 Sitemap file formats.
- 08:31 Choosing a file format.
- 09:17 Site map file size limits.
- 10:32 Fully-qualified URLs.
10:50 Fields and metadata.
- 10:58 What fields matter for SEO?
14:20 What to avoid in your sitemap?
- 14:23 Dynamic user pages and account pages.
- 14:43 Parameter-based URLs.
- 16:01 Redirects, duplicates or disallowed pages.
- 16:11 Unlisted pages.
17:07 How do you make a sitemap?
20:06 What to do once you have a sitemap.
- 20:08 Validation.
- 20:20 Submit to search engine.
  - Bing Webmaster Tools.
  - Google Search Console.
- 22:11 Cache them!