A sitemap is one of the most popular ways to improve your Web site’s position in the search engine listings. With a large number of free tools and codes available on internet, it is very easy to implement and use sitemaps for any website or blog. Today I will tell you why you need a sitemap, and how to create one and submit it to the search engines. If your site is large or complex, you must provide sitemaps for your visitors.
Normally we made site maps for the search engines, like Google, to use in indexing your site. Google and the other search engines will index your site even if you don’t have a sitemap. However, there are many advantages of sitemaps.
1. Most of the websites use non-HTML links, such as Macromedia Flash menus or JavaScript menus. For such features, most of the search engines will not be able to follow these links, and so they will not find all of your pages. A code-driven site must use a sitemap so that all the content are index and cached by search engine and give high SERPS for your niche.
2. A sitemap tells the search engines which pages on your site are more important, and which are less important. This prevents the less important pages from competing with your own pages in the listings and creating a hierarchical level among the pages.
3. A sitemap tells the search engines which pages on your site are updated more frequently than others. This enables the search engines to give lesser importance your static pages, increasing the likelihood that they will have the most current data on your most dynamic pages are indexed within hours of creation.
4. A sitemap enables you to tell the search engines when you have added or updated your site’s content. To some extent, this puts you in control of making the search engines aware of your latest content. It acts as a ping to search engine for informing about latest updated content.
The most important type of sitemap are the XML sitemap format created by sitemaps.org. This protocol, currently known as “Sitemap 0.90,” is maintained and endorsed jointly by Google, MSN, Yahoo, and Ask.
References and further reading ::
Improve your Search Engine Position with Sitemaps
site map on wikipedia
download sitemap creating software now
