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Do I really need a Site Map?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by cali boy, Mar 22, 2011.

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    All of my pages for my site http://www.surfimages.com have and are getting indexed in google so by building a site map would be pointless then, right?
     
    cali boy, Mar 22, 2011 IP
  2. m1ndless

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    YES. You need to make one and submit it to Google Webmaster tools, it takes 5 seconds.
     
    m1ndless, Mar 22, 2011 IP
  3. cali boy

    cali boy Member

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    of course you have to, and submit it to Google webmaster tools it allows Google to better navigate through the pages of your site better index your pages on the search engine.
     
    mariefurni, Mar 23, 2011 IP
  5. varul

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    There are several robots which are used to crawl your website in a particular time period
    Simply building a sitemap never stop any robots from your website. Sitemap is the one guide the robots in better way. The website will be get indexed even though you have not provided the site map. If you want to prevent the robots from your website or webpage, create and configure the robot.txt file in your websiteThere is no guarantee the spam robots would follow the instruction in the robots.txt file. But I am sure the genuine robots would follow the instruction in the robot.txt file
    To controlling the Crawlers or Robots in a better way, follow the below instrction
    How to Allow or Disallow Crawlers or Robots
     
    varul, Mar 23, 2011 IP
  6. sandylabs

    sandylabs Active Member

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    Sitemap gives faster indexing (for updates/new pages) and more strong inlinks structure. So it's better to do it
     
    sandylabs, Mar 23, 2011 IP
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    shahilroyhere Well-Known Member

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    There are several reasons that you make a sitemap, Search Engines are one of them. If you are confident about all your pages being indexed by all Search engines and for future when you will be changing the pages, then its OK from one point.
    But if you have a sitemap then it helps general visitors also to find some page.
    You can also show your sitemap when a user gets a 404 Page not found error.
    You can help users know what all are there in your sitemap of which most of the users may not be aware of.
    You can have sitemap so that users can sometimes use it as a breadcrumb to understand where they are now and what pages they have visited till then.

    If these are not so important to you, where you have very less & easily findable pages, then you can go ahead without a sitemap.
     
    shahilroyhere, Mar 23, 2011 IP
  8. techntuts

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    Sitemaps are must as when any changes done to the old post then it will be crawled by google bots. It helps google bots to easily crawl through your site and get it indexed faster...
     
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  9. tomguy2020

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    Yes You need it on website for the visitors to get overview of all pages of your website and a .xml site map for Google so it can crawl all the pages of your website.
     
    tomguy2020, Mar 23, 2011 IP
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    NO, you don't need one. However, I like them because they allow tracking indexed page in webmaster tools. If you have an RSS feed you could submit that as well/instead.
     
    ACME Squares, Mar 23, 2011 IP
  11. lokers

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    xml sitemaps are good for google etc and for you as a webmaster of your site
    users sitemaps are useful for users, sometimes people can get lost and this thing is very helpfull
    overall - YES, I recommend you get both :)
     
    lokers, Mar 23, 2011 IP
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    It's not mandatory but preferable. It would be better if you have 2 site maps. One in xml for crawlers and the other for users so they can easily navigate to your pages.
     
    ameerulislam10, Mar 26, 2011 IP
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    It definitely is a must to have a google sitemap. I submitted my sitemap to google and it helped with indexing my pages with google. I used xml sitemap for google, which has made it easier for google to crawl my webpages.
     
    nduen18, Mar 26, 2011 IP
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    Since i submitted my sitemap to google webmaster ,my site now rank higher than before
     
    wallie1233, Mar 26, 2011 IP
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    But google says that tis site has only links,
    About 342 results (0.36 seconds)
    is it true?
     
    lkboy4u, Mar 27, 2011 IP
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    YES. You need to make one
     
    tianli, Mar 27, 2011 IP
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    Site map will help your links to be indexed more faster, so you better have one
     
    rain21, Mar 27, 2011 IP
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    yes you need site map, present new trend
     
    webdesignchicago, Mar 28, 2011 IP
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    Yup, sounds like you don't really need a site-map!

    Sitemap's are important when Google is not indexing all of your pages or just few of your pages are getting crawled

    Its just kinda providing a direction to the crawler for better indexing of your pages... however, it won't hurt to add a sitemap
     
    SSC, Mar 28, 2011 IP
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    It's not going to negatively (or positively) impact the visibility of your pages in search engines (given that they are already indexed).
     
    diggathedog, Mar 30, 2011 IP
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