what is the use of sitemap ?

XML Sitemaps are important for SEO because they make it easier for Google to find your site's pages—this is important because Google ranks web PAGES not just websites. There is no downside of having an XML Sitemap and having one can improve your SEO
 
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.
 
XML site map is more friendly to crawler where all web pages links are avilabe and crawler read all pages easily and do index these pages on search engine.
 
A Sitemap is a XML document that rundowns the URLs for a site. It permits website admins to incorporate extra data about every URL: when it was last upgraded, how regularly it changes, and how essential it is in connection to different URLs in the webpage. This permits web search tools to slither the webpage all the more cleverly.
 
Basically Sitemap help you provide more information to the search engine about its webpages.
There are the two types of sitemaps-

XML Sitemap like a blueprint for your house and each web page were a room.
XML Sitemaps are important for SEO because they make it easier for Google to find your site’s pages—this is important because Google ranks web PAGES not just websites.

HTML sitemaps help a visitor to easily find the web pages in your website. It includes each and every page of your website. You can create it in HTML language or made it done with your developer. And remember to make sure that it contains all your main web pages/categories with about us contact us pages as well for an example.
 
.Xml site map is for search engine, so search engine crawler know that how many URLs are there in your website and .Html sitemap is for users.
 
A sitemap is normally known as a file of the XML type which has the function of listing the URLs for any site. The sitemap allows the webmaster to add further information about the URL such as the last updates, the changes in the URLs and how often it is made, and also the importance of the URL in relation to the others. Sitemaps can prove to be beneficial in certain situations such as the inability of the user to access every area of a particular website through the interface of a browser.
 
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. Sitemaps can even help with messy internal links - for instance if you by accident have broken internal links or orphaned pages that cannot be reached in another way (though there is no doubt that it is much better to fix your errors than rely on a sitemap).
 
Sitemap is a very useful page to have in a website, it is meant to list out all the pages/URL's that is on a website. It is highly recommended in SEO because it makes the user experience much better and it makes it much easier for search engine bots to crawl all parts of the website, and even rank your web pages.
 
Sitemaps are an important way to directly communicate with the search engines. A sitemap helps search engines to easily identify all the pages present in the website. Sitemaps help not only in the indexation of the website but also provide useful information to search engines.
 
1) User Navigation. HTML sitemaps are created for the website visitor to give them a table of contents of your website.

2) Search Engines. XML sitemaps will communicate your website contents to search engines so they have an easier time indexing the contents of a website. If a website does not have good global navigation or linkage, the search engines might miss what you consider to be very important information on your website. If a website has a lot of media (images, videos), it is also a good idea to create an image and video sitemap. It makes a huge difference.
 
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