What is the Important of sitemap.xml for a sites ?

[Mikeleonard]

What is the Important of sitemap.xml for a sites in seo ?

[sbonline]

I use XML sitemaps with webmaster tools for SE's such as Google and Bing.

Basically upon submitting a sitemap your site will be crawled by the search engine and checked for errors. I find them very useful and update them as and when needed as I believe it encourages the search engines to crawl your site.

Hope this helps.

[saina]

XML sitemaps helps search engine to find your site information which helps in its indexing.

[bermuda]

The main reason behind creating and using XML sitemaps is to help more pages getting accessed and indexed by search engines robots but if your site has great structure and your content pages are connected to each other very well through text links, you do not even need to create an extra way of helping your pages to be found on the internet.

Fort example, you can find thousands of blogs, forums and directories which do not use XML technology to create sitemaps and their contents are attached to each other in a strong way, leading to most pages of them getting found and scanned by search engines. XML sitemaps can be considered as alternatives in web maintenance actually.

[vikramrandhawa]

One advantage of having a sitemap that you submit to the search engines is that you won’t have to rely so much on external links directing the search engines to your website. Sitemaps can also help in the event that you have broken internal links or “orphan” pages that can’t be reached another way. Of course you should fix these problems, but your sitemap can help out temporarily.

[jiyaalbert]

Xml site map makes the site search engine friendly which helps it in easy crawling.

[talks44]

Also that sitemap is SEO friendly and one of the options which should be applied for better SEO.

[Yvon]

So what is the different between xml sitemap and html sitemap? which one is the best for search enginee?

[jobtardis92]

XML sitemap is the search engine friendly sitemap. It is easy to crawl the pages inside the website.
HTML sitemap is the user friendly sitemap. It displays the structure of the website.

[bhupirana79]

Think of your website as a house and each page of your site as a room. You can think of an XML Sitemap like a blueprint for your house and each web page were a room, your XML Sitemap would be a blueprint—making it easy for Google, the proverbial home inspector of the web—to quickly and easily find all the rooms within your house. XML Sitemaps are important for SEO because they make it easier for Google to find your site's pages—this is important because Google ranks web PAGES not just websites. There is no downside of having an XML Sitemap and having one can improve your SEO, so we highly recommend them.

XML Sitemaps are especially important if:

• You have pages on your site created dynamically (e.g. some e-commerce sites)
• Your site is not well-structured or well-linked (internal links)
• Your site has few external links or is new (a newly developed site just set "live")
• Your site is large and/or has lots of archived content that may not be well-linked

[asdisdsk]

xml site maps help to index your site on google and google can show your website information on search

[GrrasOnline]

XML sitemap helps Google to read pages directly from XML sitemap, otherwise Google have to find out all the pages than crawl.

[ketul]

I use XML sitemaps with webmaster tools for SE's such as Google and Bing.

Basically upon submitting a sitemap your site will be crawled by the search engine and checked for errors. I find them very useful and update them as and when needed as I believe it encourages the search engines to crawl your site.

Hope this helps.

XML sitemap never check any Kind off error. It is use for easy to crawl and index your inner pages for SE robots that unable to sometime cashed your page. XML sitemap provide SE robots your site path for index and crawl entire pages.

[suresh85]

It is easy to crawl the pages inside the website.

[NicholasM]

Sitemap actually tells the search engine about new content on your website... It is very helpful for indexing webpages instantaneously....