A lot of websites hide their sitemap.xml file.What I mean by this is that they make the URL something that a person cannot guess and then do not mention them in the robots.txt file.So my question is why would a website do this?And does this affect SEO?
Why do some websites hide their sitemaps and exclude mentioning it from the robots.txt file? Does this affect SEO at all?
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