Before discussing the Importance of having a Sitemap, lets discuss what is meant by Sitemap for those who doesn’t knows about it. A Sitemap is nothing but an additional page in your blog, with a list of links to every single post in your blog or site. Creating a Sitemap for your blog or site will be very easy and anyone can have a Sitemap if their blog or site has 16 or more pages. I hope, now you have the basic idea behind the word “Sitemap” in Blogging.
The Importance of having a Sitemap:
Most webmasters and bloggers think that sitemap is just a waste of time while buiding a site or blog. They often underestimate the importance of it. If you have ever considered why you should have a Sitemap, read on for the importance of having a sitemap.
1. Having a Sitemap will make Search engine spiders or bots to navigate and crawl your site or blog easily. This will not guarantee that search engines will rush right away to index your blog pages but this certainly make your pages indexed faster, compared to when you don’t have a Sitemap at all.
2. If you are having a very large number of articles in your website, Sitemap obviously help your users with easy navigation, since it contains all the links of your site in a single page. Thus Sitemap serves as a one stop place since it have all the links to your pages.
3. If your site is new, having a Sitemap will be vital to your success, because when you have a Sitemap in place you can rely less on external links that will bring search engines to your site. But you must also ensure that the hyperlinks in your Sitemap work.
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Having a Sitemap will ultimately increase your page rank and also gets the traffic you need. Also if your site has the correct Sitemap navigation’s, you can achieve SEO pretty easily. Thus implementing a site map is essential to improve your user’s experience (usability) and the effectiveness of search engine optimisation (SEO).
Do let us know your views on the Importance of Having a Sitemap.
Sathishkumar Varatharajan is an Online Marketer and a Full time blogger from Salem, India and he is one who launched this blog on June 10, 2010. After working alone on this blog for almost 7 months, he finally found a partner by the name John Rampton, an experienced Affiliate Marketer who helps him to uncover the true potential of TechieMania.
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I also think that Sitemap is important thing in SEO. With help of sitemap we can show all pages of our website to any major search engine.
Nice written sathish, its very easy to understand to me, and i hope all SEO Beginner will understand it easily, its really helpful post for me.
good job keep it up
Thanks
Thank you Jain.
Info that i need, i am newbie in SEO with reading your post i undertand that Sitemap is important thing in SEO
Thanks
My Own Way’s
A very thanks for this information and sitemap is very important for us
Hi Rajeev, you have got the point. Talk soon.
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