subject: Are Sitemaps Important? [print this page] Author: business 1st Author: business 1st
Making the visitors' stay at your place, be it home or your website, easy and comfortable is something that you do without any second thoughts. Sitemap is one such way to make your website visitor feel at home and make him return to your site. You don't need an introduction to sitemaps, of course. They have been there for a long time. But since SEO experts discovered the importance of sitemaps from the perspective of search engine optimisation, they are given a prominent place in a website. A wise use of your sitemap can increase the number of visits by search engines and users. So let's see how a sitemap can help your website in different ways. Help in the navigation Sitemap's main function is to provide the navigation for both the search engines and the users. And that, of course, is the biggest help that it provides. Moreover, you get the choice of making the search engines and users visit only the pages you want them to visit. And if you want two different sitemaps for both, you can do that too. Spread the news of modification Sitemaps are the best way to let the search engines know that you have made changes in your website, either by adding new pages or deleting old ones. They can recognise new content and lead the crawlers to those pages. Classify the website content Sitemaps give you a good idea of your website's layout not only to the visitors and search engines but also yourself. Going through the sitemap you get to know whether any more changes are to be made in the site or its content. Also, if you require any new category of information or remove an outdated one, you can add the necessary links in the sitemap. Thus, through sitemaps you get to classify and neatly arrange the content of your site. Ultimately, you get a perfectly organised website where everything is sorted out and are made easily accessible to both search engines and users.About the Author:
The Web Clinic SEO service provides your website with a comprehensive health check which highlights areas that require attention. Search engine optimisation (SEO) is the strategy to increase the visitors' traffic from a search engine to a website through improvisation and updation of the on-page and off-page factors of the website, which influence its ranking in the search engines.
