Basic About Sitemap

Sitemap is very important for the success of each and every websites. All website owners, web designers and search marketers agree upon that. Mostly website must have important pages like a Homepage, an About us page, A contact us page and a sitemap. First three pages have demonstrated to be a unique part of each web site.  But the sitemap page is help to gain more and more popularity of your website.

What is Sitemap?

Sitemap is a way to tell Google or search engine bots about pages on your website. Sitemap is very important and compulsory component in your website. In shorts, the sitemap is an index of your website which offers links to all pages of your website.

Sitemap helps the search engines to index your website.

What is Sitemap For?

Sitemap is usually used for the purpose of notify the search engine crawlers to follow the links to all web pages of your website without missing single one from them.

If you are not using sitemap, with the billions of pages to index Googlebot can take time and it is possible that Google may miss or not index pages in a timely manner. So by using sitemap technology Google hopes to deliver better searches to its users. It is important to push new links to users quickly.

Sitemap is become a standard which provide you information about your site indexed and new content or url indexed. If you want to be found on search engines, you should create a sitemap for your website.

Another use of sitemap is: It helps to find out the links of your website which are broken and can’t be reached to your website and fix those links also.

Types of Sitemap:

There are mainly  two types of sitemap
1)    HTML Sitemaps
2)    XML Sitemaps

HTML Sitemaps: These sitemaps are specially made for visitors or internet users. When they are visit your website they can easily move around without any problems.

XML Sitemaps: These sitemaps are specially made for search engines. They are submitted to search engines like Google, Yahoo, Bing etc. They help search engine bots to find out all pages of your website, get them indexed and also index new content and url faster. It helps content of your website to be found in search results easily and increase your site advertising.

Read :- How to Create Sitemap and Submit It to Google Webmaster Tools?

If you have any doubts about sitemap, you can simply ask on given comment box.