What is Sitemap in SEO?

[Samantha Geitz]

Hello Friends,

Please tell me what is sitemap in SEO.

[RH-Calvin]

Sitemap is a list of webpages put together in a single URL to define your website pages. There are two types of sitemaps - HTML and XML. HTML sitemap is a plain text sitemap used by browsers to know and surf through your website pages. XML sitemap is a coded sitemap used to submit in webmaster tool to help spiders crawl them and index the webpages in search engines.

[SEOLosAngeles]

Sitemap a collection of full webpage url in XML format. Google prefer the xml format of sitemap for caching whole site at one time.

[cramenmasters]

Sitemap is used to increase the frequency of crawling and indexing.

[davidjame]

Seach google

[sin123GN]

A Sitemap is solely an inventory of the pages on your website.
While browsing you need to have found the term Sitemap. Well, web {site} map is that the list of websites of an internet site that are accessible to its users and audiences. It may be either is within the style of a text document file which may be used as a designing tool for net style or an internet page that lists the pages on an internet website, organized during a specific manner. Sitemap facilitate the users and search engines to find the pages simply and work may be done sooner.

[vexpertise]

In simple terms, a Sitemap is an XML file that is full of your individual webpage's URLs. It's like an archive of every webpage in your website. This file should be easily discoverable in your site in order for search engine crawlers to stumble upon it.

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.
Also, when you have a sitemap and submit it to the search engines, you rely less on external links that will bring search engines to 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 other way (though there is no doubt that it is much better to fix your errors than rely on a sitemap).
If your site is new, or if you have a significant number of new (or recently updated pages), then using a sitemap can be ***** to your success. Although you can still go without a sitemap, it is likely that soon sitemaps will become the standard way of submitting a site to search engines. Though it is certain that spiders will continue to index the Web and sitemaps will not make the standard crawling procedures obsolete, it is logical to say that the importance of sitemaps will continue to increase.
Sitemaps also help in classifying your site content, though search engines are by no means obliged to classify a page as belonging to a particular category or as matching a particular keyword only because you have told them so.

[sinGN]

The sitemap.xml file in an XML file that is saved to a website’s server. It contains a list of all the subpages belonging to the website

[datluong]

Sitemaps are a protocol that allows the webmaster for a website to inform Google and other major search engines about URLS on a website that are available for crawling. Sitemaps allow search engines to find all of your webpages, that they might otherwise miss when indexing. The XML sitemap allows you to specify additional information about each URL such as:

• When it was last updated
• How often the site changes
• How important the page is in relation to other pages on the site

Having this information within one document helps search engines understand your website and crawl it more intelligently. Sitemaps are an inclusion protocol, where Robots.txt files are exclusionary. For more information on robot txt please read our article.

[maheshseo]

site map is file it consists all urls listed in a website

[Sreesri]

A Sitemap is pretty easy to create. For WordPress users, you can download the Google XML Sitemaps plugin to make it easier for you. This plugin helps you generate an XML.

[hina adeel]

A Sitemap is usually used for the purpose of letting the search engine crawlers follow the links to all your individual web pages so that it won’t miss out on anything.

[sampendleton]

From the word itself, sitemap is a map use by search engines or by user to see each and every pages on the site, all in one place. It also believed that having an xml sitemap on your site makes it easier for search engines to index website pages.

[hutbephotmb24h]

sitemap is a very important file in seo. It helps google to easily index the links of the website.

[Nickhunter]

Sitemap is an XML file that is full of your individual webpage's URLs. It's like an archive of every webpage in your website. This file should be easily discoverable in your site in order for search engine crawlers to stumble upon it.

Nick Hunter