Importance of Site Map In your website

What do you think about the site map of a website, Is really Site map important? Does a website really need sitmap? Which type of site map is beneficial? Is XML site is better then HTML? And what is the main use of a site map. These were several questions come in the mind when you are listen about the Sitemap. but here i need to explain my views in the Search Engine Optimization's points of view means how a site map can help us in the fast indexing by the search engine.
Benefits In the Visitors Points of view::If a visitor come at your site and he is little bit confuse about the navigation then from the site map he can reach at proper place where he want to go, means it a good guide place for the new visitor.
Benefits in the search engine point of view:: A well formated site map is a very good source, because by this a search engine can better understand your website and can be index all the pages easily and fast. The more pages that are indexed by the search engines, its better chances that more visitors will find your website on the search engine result page
Necessity of Sitemap:: Yes! If your website has more then 100 pages then its a very necessary for you that you make a well formated site map that define your all the pages section wise. Means if you are providing services then I hope there will be some services those should be come in a common category so you needs to put them in one folder and distribute them category wise, this will help you to Updating your site maps:: Yes! This is one more fundamental idea that can help you in the indexing and high visibility in the search engine result page and provide you more visitors, and may be some of them are your returnable visitors due to the good structure and updated information of your website .
Types of the site map:: There are several type for the site map, one type is that in which your website is made it may be HTML, PHP, ASP, ASPX, JSP etc, and some are very common for the all, like XML, txt, and ROR site maps and they are useful for the different purposes, let me explain that which type for site map is useful for which purpose.
Sitemape for Human Eyes and Search Engines :: Yes dear readers this is a very important step of this article that which type of site map is very good for the different type of the search engine and visitors. Let me explain completely.
Google: Google like XML site map and if you can make it “zip” then it feel much happy and the next step for the google is that you need to submit your site map in the google and the google will index your site very quickly.
Yahoo: Yahoo like txt site map, you need to make this and upload on your site and submit this in the yahoo then yahoo will check your site map periodically check your site map for updates.
Other Search Engines:: This may be a new site map name for all of you, yes this is ROR site map.
Visitor:: You know very well that visitors like only HTML site map, because only html site map is readable by the the visitors.
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