The Importance of Sitemap

priamvathaa · Post by **priamvathaa** » Wed Jun 11, 2008 5:57 am

Make it easy for your visitors. Provide them with all kinds of navigational help. If visitors are able to find information on your site quickly, they will surely come back. Sitemaps are a extended form of navigational aid wherein you display the web site structure with links to major sections and sub-sections.

Sitemaps need not be just a series of links in a tabular form. You can also provide details for each section and sub-section through descriptive text.

I've come across various kinds of sitemaps. Some developers display a sitemap in the form of a large image-map while some offer a plain HTML version, but the worse kind are those that do not have links. As you would guess, it's no use making a sitemap without links. So remember, to provide correct links and keep the sitemap well updated.

stevewaganer · Post by **stevewaganer** » Mon Jun 16, 2008 2:56 am

You are right site map helps in indexing. create an xml site map and submitt it to google

check this link . this will help you to create ROR site map
http://www.rorweb.com/rormap.htm

Haz9119 · Post by **Haz9119** » Mon Jun 23, 2008 8:34 pm

Hey stevewaganer,
I visited the ror sitemap you suggested but when I clicked "create sitemap" nothing happened... it doesn't seem to work.

Thanks!

ericajoieake · Post by **ericajoieake** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 4:18 pm

well sitemap is not just only for human visitors but also for robots, when the time robots are going to crawl your site it is very advantage to have a that because once the robots enter your site it is immediately looking for your sitemap to record your all the pages of your site and you have to make sure that it is consist all of your pages and must be updated.

liquidnutrition · Post by **liquidnutrition** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:32 pm

What I understood thru the research that both the sitemaps (HTML and XML) are very useful for any website to get indexed properly...

aerosub · Post by **aerosub** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 12:08 am

if you create a new web page, would you resubmit your sitemap for faster indexing or not?

delhiseo · Post by **delhiseo** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:19 am

If a website is very small then no need to submit sitemap because search engines visit all the pages easily if it is not added into the deep. It is for big websites so that search engines will crawl all the pages easily.

zeruel · Post by **zeruel** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 1:04 am

delhiseo wrote:If a website is very small then no need to submit sitemap because search engines visit all the pages easily if it is not added into the deep. It is for big websites so that search engines will crawl all the pages easily.

I handled a website wherein we can't even create a sitemap because the site is too big to create one... Good thing is that, our pages gets indexed and increases everyday even without a sitemap.

mr350z2006 · Post by **mr350z2006** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:25 pm

My site is pretty big and I do not have a site map but from SEO people I have spoken to they have all recommended I do get a site map to help get all my pages indexed.

chizarium · Post by **chizarium** » Fri Jul 11, 2008 7:34 am

sitemaps are very important, and whats even more important is keeping them updated.

content management systems that continually update your xml sitemap automatically are the best (like Wordpress)

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