The Importance of Sitemaps

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Our site is simple, designed from the outset to be easy for search engines to crawl. What gives? What I didn't understand was the importance of a little file called sitemap.xml. On a Q&A site like Stack Overflow, only the most recent questions are visible on the homepage.

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Sitemap.xml from perspective of creator of big dynamic site (stackoverflow.com)