what is main benefit of sitemap

In simple form Sitemap is a list of all visible pages that readers and search engines can easily access while viewing or indexing a website. Essentially it makes a website search engine friendly, plus easy to navigate for site visitors.
 
Sitemap can building a website is a lot like putting together a puzzle. When starting, you find the corner pieces to establish your boundaries, and you work from the outside in. For a website, those corner pieces are the main landing pages you see on almost every website—About, Contact, Services, and, of course, Home. These pages will then lead to the creation of sub-menus, sub-sections, and sub-pages.
 
Sitemaps are not a novelty. They have always been part of best Web design practices but with the adoption of sitemaps by search engines, now they become even more important. However, it is necessary to make a clarification that if you are interested in sitemaps mainly from a SEO point of view, you can't go on with the conventional sitemap only (though currently Yahoo! and MSN still keep to the standard html format). For instance, Google Sitemaps uses a special (XML) format that is different from the ordinary html sitemap for human visitors.
 
Sitemap is a single file that contains the all the web pages of your site to inform search engines what pages on your site are available for crawling. Sitemap is the best communication way between website and search engines.

Sitemap helps search engines navigate your website more easily, so, a sitemap can improve the crawling of your site.
 
Using sitemaps has many benefits, not only easier navigation and better visibility by search engines. Sitemaps offer the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site. Of course, you cannot expect that search engines will rush right away to index your changed pages but certainly the changes will be indexed faster, compared to when you don't have a sitemap.
 
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