What is sitemap ? is it useful to seo ?

A sitemap is a file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.
 
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Most of the crawlers of the search engines or bots use xml sitemap of your pages to fetch the pages and if you are talking about html sitemap, then it is used in websites for the better navigation.
 
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A site map 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.
Making sure the search engine spiders get to crawl all the stuff they need to crawl from your website is the exact purpose of a Sitemap. It’s not for navigation, it’s not for internal linking. It’s for the search engine spiders.
It won’t greatly boost your on-site SEO, but it would definitely help.
 
A site map is a visual or textually organized model of a Web site's content that allows the users to navigate through the site to find the information they are looking for, just as a traditional geographical map helps people find places they are looking for in the real world

Search engines should see all the pages that you want them to see. The more pages that they index from you, the more trust your site gains. It only means that your website has more information to offer.

Making sure the search engine spiders get to crawl all the stuff they need to crawl from your website is the exact purpose of a Sitemap. It’s not for navigation, it’s not for internal linking. It’s for the search engine spiders.

It won’t greatly boost your on-site SEO, but it would definitely help.
 
How to Use Sitemap in SEO ?

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Sitemap have two type:
Sitemap HTML - This one is for User
Sitemap XML - This one is for google

Sitemap is the set of Web URL's that denoted web site readable to crawlers or users.
 
A sitemap informs search engines that individual pages on your site are new or updated and are available for crawling.
 
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