A site map is a text file of the layout of your website. Both Google and Bing in their webmaster guidelines recommend that you submit a sitemap to them, so its definately worth doing! If you do a search for XML sitemap generator you will find a ton of free sites that will generate a sitemap for you.
As sitemap is really very important for any site. It helps very much for the search engine to get crawled. Both HTML and XML site maps should be used.
There are two types of sitemap like HTML and XML, HTML for users and XML for search engines. XML sitemap helps to index site in search engines.
Sitemaps improves your site's position in the search engine listings.So, we use sitemap to index the the site.
sitemaps gives search engine the best opportunity to crawl and index these pages for natural searches
Sitemaps are of two types. HTML and XML sitemap. HTML sitemap is created for users. Whereas xml sitemap helps in easy crawling of web pages by Google. When you have a large website or a dynamic website, xml sitemap is must.
1) Navigation purposes 2) Conveying your site’s theme 3) Site optimization purposes 4) Organization and relevance
Using sitemaps has many benefits, not only easier navigation and better visibility by search engines. Sitemaps offer the opportunity to inform search engines immediately about any changes on your site. Also, when you have a sitemap and submit it to the search engines, you rely less on external links that will bring search engines to your site. Sitemaps can even help with messy internal links. Sitemaps also help in classifying your site content, though search engines are by no means obliged to classify a page as belonging to a particular category or as matching a particular keyword only because you have told them so.
Sitemap helps to know more about the website & its navigation. There are 2 types of the sitemaps: 1. HTML sitemap: It helps to user to understand the navigation of the website 2. XML sitemap: It helps crawler to know more about the pages of the website & updated pages of the website
Sitemap is very important for seo.. it is a file that help crawlers to crawl your site..google crawler appreciate that site that have sitemap file it should be in Html or Xml
Both User and Xml sitemaps have it's own unique uses, * XML sitemap instruct the search engine bots about the pages of the website that are ready to index. * User sitemaps will helpful in guiding the users regarding navigational path of that website. It would be very handy in complex websites.
A sitemap is simply a list of your pages in a single page layout. When a visitor goes to your site they can access the sitemap to find any pages that they are interested in viewing. Usually the sitemap is to benefit the people who visit your site and give them a quick and easy way to navigate your site. A sitemap has a benefit for the search engines as well. This sitemap will let the Google robot see how pages, such as those in the fourth and fifth level, fit into your site. If you link to your sitemap page from your homepage, all of the pages listed in your sitemap will be no farther from your home page than the third level. This will encourage Google to index your entire site.
Site map is the path way to Google spider site map only tell how to crawl the site... so its most important to our site....
Sitemap is very important for any site.It is easy for spider to crawl site. The inner pages of sites also crawled with it by easily.
Sitemap is important if you have fresh content. It will make google to index your site when it appears if you use the api to notify it when new content is published. If you don't have new content then it's not so important.
There are 2 types of sitemap.. The first type of sitemap is a HTML page listing the pages of your site - often by section - and is meant to help users find the information they need. XML Sitemaps - usually called Sitemaps, with a capital S - are a way for you to give Google information about your site.
Your question is very broad. There are man types of sitemap file kinds each serving their own purpose. You can view examples and explanations of them all in this sitemap types comparison article.