Sitemaps and SEO

[nicholasedwards83]

There are many people who talk about the importance of sitemaps.How useful is it to have a sitemap? I would like to know how it would supply gains for a website. I would be very glad if there is anybody who could tell me something about it.A friend of mine told me that it is very helpful for the visitors of the site as it helps them in simple navigation. It allows the search engines to seek the website easily. If such is the case,I will then opt to have sitemaps for my website.Kindly enlighten me about this matter.

[dinjhones]

sitemap.xml is more important compare to other things in seo.

[kiranraj]

There are 2 types of sitemaps:

1. HTML sitemap: It helps visitors to know more about the website

2. XML sitemap: It helps crawler to crawl the website

[amitkhare]

Having XML sitemaps allows search engines to crawl and index a website sufficiently, and allowing all search engines to be notified of the site map by inserting it into the robots.txt file. In a nutshell,sitemaps enhance the ranking of a website in search engine results, thus boosting the SEO efforts.

[Wellbet]

Sitemaps allows crawlers(search engine bots) to discover and index pages of your site. So it's imperative that you include sitemap(s) on your site.

[roshan kulkarni]

Having XML sitemaps allows search engines to crawl and index a website sufficiently, and allowing all search engines to be notified of the site map by inserting it into the robots. txt file. In a nutshell, sitemaps enhance the ranking of a website in search engine results, thus boosting the SEO efforts.

[subhjn]

All bots like Googlebot, Bingbot prefer sitemap because in sitemap he can see complete website pages URL ..... If you are not using sitemap then indexing will take time because bots will visit your home page and then index those pages who linked from home page ..... If any pages are not linked on home page and linked at any inner page then those pages will index only when bots will visit to those inner page. But with sitemap all links are at single page and so bots can read all pages by follow sitemap links so its very important to let search engines know about your update ..... update frequency and many more things.