Advantages of including Sitemap in Website

[jamesprx]

A sitemap isn’t going to magically propel a website to the top of Google’s rankings for every dream key phrase, but it can provide a nice boost to a poorly indexed website’s organic traffic. And where a professional SEO team can cost a small fortune, creating a sitemap will likely only cost a few development hours.

Besides being economical, a sitemap serves two highly functional SEO objectives. A well-designed sitemap allows for search engines to easily locate and index all relevant pages of a website and allows for keyword reinforcement of pages through the use of descriptive linking text.

A good sitemap will include many of the same features one might see on any keenly optimized Web page. For example, clean, uncomplicated coding is ideal. Keep any Java or CSS in external files and keep tables simple, if existent at all — CSS can and should replace tables when possible. Also, using Meta, Title, and Robot Tags will provide direction and clues to help search engines index and rank a page. Most important, however, is the use of text links.

[Hafsoh]

Sitemap helps ensure that all of your content-rich pages are exposed to the search engine spider. With lots of pages and a deep link structure, the crawlers would need to work hard to find all of your pages. A website that is completely indexed has better chances of getting to the top of search engines. Although using a sitemap is not a guarantee of increased site rankings, it does however provide a website a better opportunity of getting listed on a search engine.

[deluxdon]

Agree with Hafsoh that it helps to getting listed on a search engine not getting to the top of search engines.

DON.

[janicejan]

google love sitemaps, putting it on our website makes it faster to get indexed.. in short it is highly recommended.