Role
of Sitemap
Sitemap is a
simple directory of all pages of your website, blog or business website. A
sitemap is basically a file which helps search engines to identify your website
structure. Search engines will do their job in crawling a sitemap
to find and identify all information that is applicable to a specific search
query that has been performed. The pages are listed in a logical hierarchical
order in directory. In logical hierarchical order, the most relevant pages will
be listed at the top and the least relevant pages will be placed at the bottom.
How does Sitemap affect SEO?
The role of
Sitemap in SEO are the following:
- The search engine spiders get to crawl all the stuff they need to crawl from website is the exact purpose of a Sitemap.
- Sitemap is not for internal linking of webpages or not for navigation. It’s for the search engine spiders.
- It will definitely boost on-site SEO.
- Sitemap.xml file allows search engines to crawl and index a website.
- Sitemaps helps to enhance the ranking of a website in search engine results. When a website is ranked high on a search engine results page then the website will become visible for a large number of internet users and increasing the traffic to the website.
How do you create Sitemap :
A Sitemap is easy
to create.
If user using
a popular CMS like WordPress, Drupal or Joomla then there are specific plugins
that will generate the sitemap. By download the Google XML Sitemaps plugin.
This plugin helps to generate an XML sitemap without having to do anything but
activating it. After the plugin has generated Sitemap, users can find the Sitemap
at an address like this: http://YourURL/sitemap.xml
For those who
are not using WordPress, can use online XML-Sitemaps generator tool. It’s very easy
and they provide a step-by-step approach to implement Sitemap in website.
How
to register Sitemap on Google webmaster tools:
There are the following steps
for register Sitemap on Google webmaster tool
1. Login to Google webmaster
tools.
2. Click Sitemaps on Dashboard
3. And then press the ADD/TEST SITEMAP button,
4. Submit the sitemap.xml
file.
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