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Importance of Sitemaps
Making it easy for your visitors. Provide them with all kinds of navigational help.
If visitors are able to find information on your site quickly, they will surely
come back. Importance of Sitemaps is in the fact that sitemap are
a extended form of navigational aid wherein you display the web site structure with
links to major sections and sub-sections.
Sitemaps need not be just a series of links in a tabular form. You can also provide
details for each section and sub-section through descriptive text.
Some developers display a sitemap in the form of a large image-map while some offer
a plain HTML version, but the worse kind are those that do not have links. As you
would guess, it's no use making a sitemap without links. So remember, to provide
correct links and keep the sitemap well updated.
There are many SEO tips and tricks that help in optimizing a site but one of those,
the importance of which is sometimes underestimated is sitemaps. Sitemaps, as the
name implies, are just a map of your site - i.e. on one single page you show the
structure of your site, its sections, the links between them, etc. Sitemaps make
navigating your site easier and having an updated sitemap on your site is good both
for your users and for search engines. Sitemaps are an important way of communication
with search engines.
Sitemaps are not a novelty. They have always been part of best Web design practices
but with the adoption of sitemaps by search engines, now they become even more important.
However, it is necessary to make a clarification that if you are interested in sitemaps
mainly from a SEO point of view, you can't go on with the conventional sitemap only
(though currently Yahoo! and MSN still keep to the standard html format). For instance,
Google Sitemaps uses a special (XML) format that is different from the ordinary
html sitemap for human visitors.
One might ask why two sitemaps are necessary. The answer is obvious - one is for
humans, the other is for spiders (for now mainly Googlebot but it is reasonable
to expect that other crawlers will join the club shortly). In that relation it is
necessary to clarify that having two sitemaps is not regarded as duplicate content.
Google explicitly states that using a sitemap will never lead to penalty for your
site.
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