Sitemaps are list of pages accessible to users and search engines. There are two types of sitemaps – XML and HTML sitemaps.
XML sitemaps are for search engines. It is in a structured format which tells search engines about the pages in site. HTML sitemaps are designed for users, it helps to find content of pages.
Sitemap can be XML, TXT or HTML usually XML and TXT is served for robots. Sitemaps are an index page, which summarizes the content of the pages within a single site.
Two sitemaps are necessary. One is for users and the other is for search engines spiders.
Importance of
Sitemaps
Sitemap is very important for any website. Sitemap should be
there on your websites homepage. The homepage often has the highest PageRank,
so that by putting sitemap on homepage, you will ensure that your pages get
indexed as quickly as possible.
The Google Sitemap service first started in June 2005 In
order to use the Google Sitemap Service the web owner only needs to download
free software called Sitemap Generator. This tool automatically creates a
Sitemap using the Sitemap protocol.
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