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Why You Need A Sitemap by lakesida: 7:12am On Apr 28, 2015 |
A sitemap is usually exceeding what is required in the process of building a website. A sitemap lists the pages of a website accessible to users and web crawlers. At a glance, it shows the entirety of a website which is more like a architectural view of the whole setup. A sitemap can either be a document in any form used as a planning tool for Web design or a single page that lists all the individual pages on a website, organized hierarchically. There are two popular versions of a sitemap: XML: This gives the search engines a view of all pages in a website, how they are related, their importance and how often they are updated. It does not need to be seen by users. HTML: This is designed to help users find contents on the site at the same time search engine bots easily find pages and index them. By highlighting the importance of having a well structured sitemap, webmasters will be able to create their own sitemap to suit their needs. - Navigation A sitemap literally acts as an architectural view of a website. It helps visitors find their way back when lost in between thousands of pages on the site. They can always refer to the sitemap to see where they are and navigate through with ease. - Site's theme at a glance. A user gets the idea of what the whole website is about in a matter of seconds. Reading through the whole pages of the website would not be necessary as there is no need to get the "big picture". This save the user a lot of time. - Search Engine Optimization When a sitemap is created using any of the two popular versions listed, search engine bots easily have a glance of all links/pages a site consists of. It makes it very easy for the bots to index a website and list them on search engines. It is also for this purpose that a link to the sitemap has to be placed prominently on the front page of your website. - Organization and relevance A sitemap enables you to have a complete acute view of your site's structure, and whenever there is need to add new pages or new sections, the existing hierarchy can easily be reverted back to. As a result, a perfectly organized site sorted according to relevance. - Website's quality A quality website drives quality traffic. A sitemap improves the quality of a website as users will be happy to come back. As the number of websites on the internet increases everyday, it is important to get "loyal" visitors. * It is very important to know that Google , Bing, Yahoo and Ask use the same protocol, so having a sitemap lets the four biggest search engines have the updated page information of a website. From the reasons listed above, it is important to implement a sitemap. This way, a website will be easily accessible and organized for users and web crawlers. http://www.peeptrendz.com/2015/04/why-you-need-sitemap.html
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