Thursday, November 6, 2008

Site Map in SEO

Site Map are Easy way for webmasters to inform the search engines like Google,Yahoo,MSN etc about Webpages on their websites that are available for crawling.

A Sitemap is an XML file that lists URLs for a site along with additional metadata about each URL so that search engines can more intelligently crawl the site.The Search engine crawlers usually discover web pages from links within the site and also other sites.the site map create the branches of all the linkpage on website.it help the search engine to crawling the webpage.use of site map crawler easily reach the every page of the website.

Sitemaps supplement this data to allow crawlers that support Sitemaps to pick up all URLs in the Sitemap and learn about those URLs using the associated metadata. Using the Sitemap protocol does not guarantee that web pages are included in search engines, but provides hints for web crawlers to do a better job of crawling your site.

Site maps and site indexes fall into the same issues.Building and maintaining a site map or site index is, just like on-site Search.Site maps help users navigate through a Web site that has more than one page by showing the user a diagram of the entire site's contents. Similar to a book's table of contents, the site map makes it easier for a user to find information on a site without having to navigate through the site's many pages.

I still recommend site maps because they're the only feature that gives users a true overview of everything on a site. One could argue that a site's navigation serves the same purpose. For example, some navigation offers drop-down menus that let users see the options available in each site section. But even with these menus, users can see only one section of content at a time.

For creation of site map  online use the xml sitemap and sitemappro

3 comments:

Outdoor Lighting said...

Sitemaps are necessary so that search engines are able to crawl all the url's of a website.

Tips and Tricks said...

I love that idea. Great post!

Health Yatra said...

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