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+<!-- @license http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU GPL version 3 or later -->
+<!-- @copyright For copyright information on Mahara, please see the README file distributed with this software. -->
+<h3>Generate sitemap</h3>
+<p>Tick this box to generate a machine-readable sitemap of all the publicly accessible pages in your Mahara site, suitable for submitting to search engines.</p>
+<p>The sitemap is a series of XML files in the <a href="http://www.sitemaps.org/">sitemaps.org</a> format. The sitemap "index" is at the URL <tt>[yoursite]/download.php?type=sitemap</tt>. It lists a series of daily sitemap snapshots, which contain only those pages that have changed in the past day.</p>