 Do I Need A Site Map
The Importance of a Site
map
A site map is often considered redundant in the process of
building a website, but NOTHING could be further from
the truth. Site maps give structure to a web site and
allow search engines to crawl a site and index it quickly
and easily.
They are an essential part of a
well positioned, cash producing professional web
site.
1) Navigation
purposes
A site map literally acts as a
map of your site. If your visitors browses your site and
gets lost between the thousands of pages on your site, they
can always refer to your site map to see where they are,
and navigate through your pages with the utmost
ease.
2) Conveying your
site's theme
When your visitors load up your
site map, they will get the gist of your site within a very
short amount of time. There is no need to get the "big
picture" of your site by reading through each page, and by
doing that you will be saving your visitors' time.
3) Site optimization
purposes
When you create a site map, you
are actually creating a single page which contains links to
every single page on your site. Imagine what happens when
search engine robots hit this page -- they will follow the
links on the site map and naturally every single page of
your site gets indexed by search engines! It is also for
this purpose that a link to the site map has to be placed
prominently on the front page of your website.
4) Organization and
relevance
A site map enables you to have
a complete bird's eye view of your site structure, and
whenever you need to add new content or new sections, you
will be able to take the existing hierarchy into
consideration just by glancing at the site map. As a
result, you will have a perfectly organized site with
everything sorted according to their relevance.
As you can see, it is most
important to implement a site map for website projects of
more than a couple of pages. Through this intelligent
addition, you will be able to keep your website easily
accessible and neatly organized for everyone, but perhaps
most importantly, search engines love site maps, and this
will reflect in your sites search position.
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