what is the use of site map ?

[carlonashley]

i want to know that what is the use of site map ....

[hiroprotagonist]

Site maps supplement the data that web crawlers find from links within the site and from other sites.

These will help you if your site has pages that the Googlebot has a hard time crawling. If your site is new and has just a few links, site maps can help you be discovered by the crawler bot. If your site has an archive of content pages not linked to each other, this is where the map comes in.

[Kingbob]

A site map 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 design, or a web page that lists the pages on a web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.

[dagnyjbarber]

Sitemaps are a way to tell Google about pages on your site we might not otherwise discover.


Sitemaps are particularly helpful if:

• Your site has dynamic content.
• Your site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Googlebot during the crawl process—for example, pages featuring rich AJAX or images.
• Your site is new and has few links to it. (Googlebot crawls the web by following links from one page to another, so if your site isn't well linked, it may be hard for us to discover it.)
• Your site has a large archive of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.

[RickyChhajed]

There are two types of sitemap. XML Sitemap and HTML Sitemap.

XML Sitemap - It is an easy way for you to submit all your URLs to the Google index and get detailed reports about the visibility of your pages on Google. With Google Sitemaps you can automatically keep us informed of all your web pages, and when you make changes to these pages to help improve your coverage in the Google crawl.

HTML Sitemap - HTML sitemap is one of the most important tactics you can use to distribute your link juice efficiently within your site. It is a bulleted outline text version of the site navigation. The anchor text displayed in the outline is linked to the page it references. Site visitors can go to the Sitemap to locate a topic they are unable to find by searching the site or navigating through the site menus.

[john515]

Sitemap can be used by search engine crawlers to discover the pages from your site. Sitemaps are a great way help the search engines crawl your site more efficiently.

[carlonashley]

Thanks for shearing this information.....

[jonahsonns]

Site map is XML file. All inner site pages submit in this file. It use for easy to crawl your all site and inner pages.

[JohnK]

Sitemap is used to navigate the web pages. Its actually used for website navigations. Its easier to see every web pages.

[Benjaminbateman]

sitemap is like site navigator which navigate Google spider and also useful for user because user can view all site's pages from one place.

[faria18000]

Site Map is the easiest way to ping google that you have updated your site and let google forced to index quickly all the links of your site, you can use google webmaster tools to use sitemap.

Sitemap can be both in html and xml. But google loves xml than html. So you can use xml for site map.

[carlonashley]

thank you all to shearing this information..........

[saina]

Sitemap show the map of your website.It is basically used to make the site user friendly and search engine friendly,With the help of sitemap users Know about your site, So its important.

[seosolutions84]

A sitemap is used for crawling the website by the search engine crawlers.

[jiyaalbert]

Site map is very important for the search engine spiders that crawl your site. The site map gives the spider links to all the major pages of your site, allowing every page included on your site map to be indexed by the spider. Having all of your major pages included in the search engine database makes your site more likely to come up in the search engine results when a user performs a query. Your site map pushes the search engine toward the individual pages of your site instead of making them hunt around for links.