What Is Sitemap?

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Many questions are put up regarding the need and use of sitemaps for your sites.
Is it necessary?

Does it helps in your page raking?
Should I use html or Xml?
What the h*** is sitemaps after all?


Site maps
are good for static sites that need to get fully indexed.
They don’t help much, but they do help search engines navigate through the entire site easily and quickly to index every page.
It’s certainly worth to have a sitemap, not just for the search engines, but also for the visitors navigating your sites.

When installing one for your site, do not just get any kind of site map, but one that is well made with good content
and reflects professionalism that you would put into your pages.

Site map of a website is analogous to an index of a book.Site map enables you to keep a review of your website on major search engines.
It also helps visitors to get a good insight to your website prior to exploring them.
The contents of your page are shown in a better description.

Liste below are some easy to use tools to generate siteaps for you:

This one is really easy to use.
Just enter your url and upload the generated map to your site and enter it in Google Webmaste Tools Sitemap Admin:

http://www.xml-sitemaps.com/

This is another free software….

http://www.sitemapbuilder.net/download.aspx

Here’s another freebie:

http://pingoat.com/goat/google_sitemap

Best Way to Create A Wordpress Sitemap

There is a plugin that will do the trick!

http://www.arnebrachhold.de/2005/06…tor-v2-final

And http://www.freesitemapgenerator.com is another that creates free sitemaps for you just by you submitting your index page to them.

It then crawls your site by following all the links to create your custom sitemap for you.

It’s a lot easier than other methods out there for people who don’t know how to do this on their own,
or who find other tools that do the same thing too hard to use.

Using sitemaps is a great way to gain more attention for your websites and their pages.

Although some people debate this.

Anyway, all tools mentioned above are easy to use and free, so I hope that it helps!