Google sitemaps = XML sitemaps = sitemaps you submit to search engines to help them index your site faster
Site map is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users. It can be either a document in any form used as a planning tool for Web design, or a Web page that lists the pages on a Web site, typically organized in hierarchical fashion. Site map is mainly use for the index of your site as well as the for the ranking of the site.
Does anyone know how to install a sitemap to a wordpress site do i have to use ftp client to put it into the root folder ??
i recommend using the Wordpress SEO by Yoast Plugin. It generates the xml sitemaps for you automatically, pings google, yahoo, bing, and ask.com any time a page/post gets updated, and it also helps you manage your on page seo and even does keyword analysis for you.
There is no special google site map tool.You can submit site map either XML format or Atom on google webmaster tools.You can generate and get it from site generators.
Google site map create from XML file. There is no specific tool for generating it. Google webmaster tool is another tool which can be used. It helps to index your site.
Create a xml site map for your site using free online xml-sitemap generator tools, and upload the same in the Google webmaster tool.