Showing posts with label sitemap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label sitemap. Show all posts

Friday, June 26, 2009

Importance of Sitemaps

There are two types of sitemaps in general. The first is a HTML page listing the pages of your site—often by section—and it help users find the information they need.

Other is XML Sitemaps, usually called Sitemaps, with S in capital are a way to give Google information about the site.

A Sitemap is basically a list of the pages on the website. Creating and submitting a Sitemap helps make sure that Google knows about all the pages on the site, including URLs that may not be discoverable by Google's normal crawling.

They are helpful if:

* The site has dynamic content.
* The site has pages that aren't easily discovered by Google crawler during the crawl process - for example, pages featuring AJAX or Flash.
* The site is new and has few links to it.
* The site has number of content pages that are not well linked to each other, or are not linked at all.