Benefits of Site Map for SEO

A site map is a map of a site that is of HTML or XML page that includes links to every page on a site. It is important in many reasons. It can help the search engine to find some deeply nested pages. It is also very helpful for the visitors by providing them a quick overview of a website. The site map should be positioned on the front page of the site and can be organized into a logical section.

The sitemap can easily list all URLs from your site. This could include all those pages that aren’t discoverable by the search engine.

Good site map have the following aspects.

• Provides a pathway for the search engine crawlers to follow.
• Show a quick and easy to follow overview of your site.
• Easily show visitors how to get where they need to go.
• Provides text link to every page of your site.

Site map is very important for some reasons. It offers provision for the search engine spiders that crawl the site. Site map provides spiders all the links of the major pages of a site and allow every page included the site map to be indexed by the spider. With the help of it the site comes up in the search engine results when a user performs a query. A well planned site map can ensure the website is fully indexed by the search engine.

Generating and submitting site maps:

While generating a site map for your site you have to follow some main steps. First you need to generate it, and then upload it in your site and finally Google noted about it.

There are main two ways of generating a sitemap one to download and install a sitemap generator and second to use an online sitemap generator tool.

In these days we use both HTML and XML site maps for our sites, both have their own importance but XML site maps are heavily used because it is utilized by both users as well as search engine spiders. XML site map effectively provides an easy to read link for spiders

 How many URLs in Sitemap?
If you have a site more than 1000 pages, how many URLs can we stuff inside one sitemap? The Sitemap has
 become substantially big. Will Google index all the pages?

There are some points that what Google has to say.

•     We can use maximum of 50,000 URLs in one Sitemap.

•    The Sitemap file should not be over than 10MB in size.

•     If you use more than 50,000 URLs then in this condition create multiple sitemaps and list them in a

            Sitemap Index file.

•     Your Sitemap index file should not be over than 1,000 Sitemaps.