I'm looking to create google site map for my website (see signature) in order to make it search engine friendly specially google. I have been optimising it for 3 months. I'm experienced SEO, but never used this google site map before. Is it helpful for my kind of website?. how does it works? Please help.
For any kind of web site, sitemap is useful I think. Definitely it will have impact on your SEO. I think its a part of SEO. When you submit your website's sitemap to google means that google knows the structure of your site well and it will help them to crawl your site well.
The sitemap isn't just for google. Other search engines use them like ask, msn, and yahoo. Follow the standards that are published at sitemap.org. Be sure to then include it in the robots.txt and submit sitemaps to the top search engines.
Wait, you're "experienced with SEO" but you don't have a Sitemap? Doesn't sound like you're very "experienced" then ...
lol. that's what I though. Sounds like he's just getting his feet wet. Experienced means that you know wtf you are doing when it comes to basic stuff at the very least. Not trying to be a jerk or anything, but you just left yourself wide open for that one.
Sitemap is the important part. If your website is very small then there is no need to submit sitemap or you can ignore it. If it is big you must submit it.