What is Sitemap and Their benefits..?

A sitemap is a file where all the list of web pages of your entire websites are listed to tell crawler about your website content.

It has several benefits such as :
1. It becames easy for search engine to find your website's pages.
2. It helps when your site is really very large and because of sitemap crawler can easily access the webpages.
 
A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for Web design or a Web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion.
With the help of sitemap, a site administrator has the ability to tell/feed search engines data on the pages of a site they want to be crawled as well as the priority or hierarchy of site content alongside information on when the page was last updated.
 
A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. Sitemaps are primarily intended to provide visitors with all kinds of navigational help they will require. Sitemaps are an extended form of navigational aid wherein you display the web site structure with links to major sections.
 
A Sitemap is simply a list of the pages on your website. Here’s what Google has to say about sitemaps: Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover. In its simplest terms, a XML Sitemap—usually called Sitemap, with a capital S—is a list of the pages on your website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on your site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google’s normal crawling process.
In short, a Sitemap is important because it tells the search engines about the content that you have on your site and how often it’s updated. This helps with search engine optimization because it makes it easier for Google to find out about the content on your site so that they can serve it up in the search results.
 
Sitemaps have 3 purposes.
- Visual Sitemaps for Project Planning / Communication
- HTML for website visitors
- XML sitemaps for search engines
If you use a sitemap generator like DYNO Mapper (http://www.dynomapper.com), it will create a sitemap for your website for all of the above situations and will publish using the best practices outlined in sitemaps.org - Home. You can create a sitemap using the sitemap editor or you can create a sitemap by just entering a URL. The sitemap generator will get all the information and format it so it can be submitted to your search engines, placed on your website for users, or use the shareable sitemap for collaboration.

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A sitemap is a file where all the list of web pages of your entire websites are listed to tell crawler about your website content.

It has several benefits such as :
1. It becames easy for search engine to find your website's pages.
2. It helps when your site is really very large and because of sitemap crawler can easily access the webpages.
 
sitemap is important because search engine bot can easily find all links in a single page and it's helps to crawle your websites easily.
XML Sitemap is an easy way for you to submit all your URLs to the Google index and get detailed reports about the visibility of your pages on Google. This helps search engines to more intelligently crawl a website and keep their results up to date.
 
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.

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.
 
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