Loading ...Among all the tips and tricks spoken of in SEO perhaps one of the most important are sitemaps. A Sitemap is basically a map of your site where one single page has the power to show the entire structure of your site, the sections of your site and all the links between them. Without a sitemap your site would be much harder to navigate, so they are important not only to your visitors by also very important to search engines and are in fact a good way of communicating with them. By means of our sitemap you can tell a search engine what parts of your site to leave out from the indexing as well as where you would like them to go.
Using sitemaps
Sitemaps have always been part of good web design practice, but with search engines now adopting them, they have never been so crucial for successful SEO. From the point of view of SEO though, it is necessary to have two sitemaps, one that your visitors can use and one that search engines spiders can read. This not regarded as duplicate content and Google especially has explicitly stated that using a sitemap will never result in penalties for your site. Sitemaps for search engines take the form of XML while sitemaps for humans take the form of HTML.
Benefits
Easier navigation and better visibility by search engines are just two benefits that come from using sitemaps. Another benefit is that they offer a way to keep search engines informed of your changes to your website, immediately after they have been done, just don’t expect the search engine spiders to rush to index your changes though, although indexing will be faster than if you didn’t have a sitemap.
Site mapping your site means you can rely less on external links and they can even help with internal links with regard to broken links and orphaned links. Yet it is still good practice to maintain and fix links on a regular basis.
Site maps are a great help for new website owners and may soon become mandatory if you want to submit our web to search engines. Although it is perfectly fine to create a site without a sitemap, it is logical to say that with one your site will get indexed quicker.
Generating the sitemap
It is simple to create a sitemap. You first need to generate it, load it onto your site, and then notify the search engine.
You can generate a sitemap by either downloading or installing a sitemap generator or by using an online sitemap generation tool. The first option is more difficult but you control what the outcome is.
Once you have created your sitemap and loaded it, notifying your search engine comes next. In the case of Google this entails adding it to their sitemaps account, if you don’t have one you will have to open one. You will also need to verify that you are the legitimate owner of the site.
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