Thread: What Is a Sitemap?

What is a Sitemap file? Basically, a Sitemap provides a listing of pages on a website. By creating a Sitemap and submitting it to Google, the webmaster ensures that the search engine will have all the needed details about a site. That way, Google will be able to find URLs that cannot be found when Googlebot crawls the web.

Sitemaps are just like road map, if you have then you can easily go to your destination and more chance to cache all pages of the site.An XML site map can make hits for your site better and more accurate when someone searches Yahoo, Bing and Google.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.

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HTML sitemap is required. It is for human visitors. HTML sitemap provides a page that accumulates all your site links. So with the help of this sitemap you can visit all pages of your site. Ideally put up to 100 links on a single page of sitemap.

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Its like a road map for Google crawler. It help to find the pages and for better indexing of site.

site map create in any website Google crawler and the website visitor can easily visit on the site. we can find there every page of site one by one as a internal link.

Site map can help you to make your site appears on Google, Yahoo or Bing.

Sitemap helps to get indexed a site faste. it also help to the vistior to reach the right page.

Sitemap is like a roadmap for spider which helps to navigate eacg page of website easily.XML sitemap is very helpful to index a website very fast.HTMl sitemap is helpful for visitors to find all links of pages and they can visit whole website easily.

A sitemap is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users.

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 ...

In short & simple site map makes in any web page Search engines spider and the targeted guest can easily visit on the web page. we can find there every page of web page one by one as a inner link.

There are two types of sitemap one is xml sitemap and other is html sitemap.
XML Sitemap contains all the urls of the site, which help to search engine to crawl and index.
html sitemap is useful for the user to visit different pages of the site from this sitemap page.

Sitemaps are just like street map, if you have then you can quickly go to your location and more opportunity to storage cache all webpages of the website.An XML website map can create visits for your website better and more precise when someone looks Google, Ask and Search engines.Creating and posting a Sitemap would create sure that Search engines knows about all the webpages on your website, such as URLs that may not be discoverable by Google regular moving procedure.

It doesn't necessarily have to be called this way on a website. Sometimes what you see under Archives or the like is a sitemap - basically this is a plan of your website, like if you have a blog, for example, a sitemap would be showing all the post that you've created since you started. You can choose what pages of your website you don't want to appear on the site map as well.

Use Sitemap (.xml format file) for your Website in case that your Website is submitted by sitemap file at some Search Engines like Google, Bing, etc., Search Engines are using sitemap file for indexing (ex. google spiders/robots). While than, you can use robots (.txt) file.