Google crawls a site, link by link, to discover new links.

A SiteMap feeds them those links directly.

The benefit: You don't have to wait for their bot to discover new threads, you're cutting out 90% of the wait to discover new threads; the mod listing at ubbdev has google's "why should i use a sitemap" article from their help site quoted on it for more information.

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