Benefits of sitemap

[bhatnagar.ashish001]

Kindly tell me that Is it necessary to include a sitemap in dynamic website. What are the major benefits of sitemap. Kindly share your views with me.

[warnner]

Creating sitemaps may take time and effort, so why have one? The following lists some of the benefits for creating a SiteMap for your website.
1. You can use a SiteMap as a planing tool for web design.
2. No page will be left unvisited.
3. Visitors will have an easier time to navigate your site.

[alex]

Good to know about these benefits warnner.

All: Does it also help Google or other search engines to crawl your site easily? Does the sitemap help from SEO point of view?

[fizzer]

Sitemap is link storage file which stores all link of website and save in XML or HTML formats. It is beneficial for website development, users can easily navigates the site in few minutes and search engine can easily crawl all link of site.

[frequentsounds243]

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[Kim_smith]

Sitemap is easier for any visitors to see your webpages and navigate your website.

[Zainiti]

Sitemap is a way path for the visitors to get facilitated by the one who makes the sitemap and it has lot of benefits and is good for visitors who search for the site. Moreover, it is a good navigation for the website.

[Gentalman]

There are many reasons to have a site map page and include a link to it on every page of your Web site.

• Visitors who become confused about where they are in your site, or aren’t sure where they want to go, can review your site map just the way they might review a table of contents in a publication.
  
  “I know what I want and I don’t want to waste time finding it.”
  
  “I saw something I want. How do I get back to it quickly.”
  
  “I want to see all this site has to offer.”

• Large sites and sometimes even smaller sites are not always indexed completely by Google and other search engines. Their robots may follow a link away from your site and leave many pages not fully indexed. If a page is not indexed by search engines, they will not display in search results. So you want to help the robots all you can to be sure they get as complete a picture of your site as possible.

• A link on every page to a site map that then lists links to every page can feed the search engines a lot of information. Although this does not guarantee a 100% complete index of your site, it goes a long way toward it.