Hi, I am very much new in SEO and sitemap. Is sitemap created with xml helps search engines to search my site? If so, theny why? Angshujit
They are created to help search engines index your website. However, sitemaps can probably not help you in rankings. You can perhaps influence which page from your domain is hown in SERPs by modifying xml sitemap priority values
I heard that creating a sitemap will cause google to just read the sitemap and not crawl your site, but in my own experience this is not true. if you are looking for a free tool to help create a sitemap check out gsitecrawler.
"I heard that creating a sitemap will cause google to just read the sitemap and not crawl your site" it's absolutely wrong. if that true,no one will use sitemap anymore.
Site mapping is not thats much important in SEO,it is a user oriented set up in a web site .But RSS feed will be good for optimization process
Sitemaps simply help in discovery of inner pages, and if you play a bit with the priority adjustment you'll be amazed how powerful that is.
If your site is new, or if you have a significant number of new (or recently updated pages), then using a sitemap can be vital to your success. Although you can still go without a sitemap, it is likely that sitemaps will become the most standard way of submitting a site to search engines. Though it is certain that spiders will continue to index the Web and sitemaps will not make the standard crawling procedures obsolete, it is logical to say that the importance of sitemaps will continue to increase.
The one advantage I see when I tried adding my sitemap on the google webmaster console is that, I get to see and monitor the backlinks each of my web pages has. So, it is basically helping webmasters deliver to search engines all the pages we want included in their index and monitored. The days I haven't added sitemap yet puts me on the blind side of everything that is happening in the background.