Should I add a Site Map to my website?

I was told that a site map can help me get better rankings in Google. Is it true?

 

Sitemap never gives high ranking but Sitemap is on of the important factor of the good seo friendly website.
So If your site contains more than 4,5 pages then you must add sitemap link on every page.

Sitemap makes website more user friendly as well as because of sitemap search engine robot easily identify your website structure.

 

Site map will only show google how many pages you have in the sites.

 

Yes... you should add a sitemap to show ggl that you are legit

 

Well sitemaps are the most important factor in any site's SEO. However make sure you have enough pages with unique and real content in it.

 

site map is imp, because robots found all site url in same place

 

Site map is very important for seo point of view. This map shows the structure of your site. Google Sitemaps uses XML format site map that is different from the ordinary html sitemap for human visitors

 

Site map is very important for seo point of view. site map is basically used to index the all web page.

 

Site map is important for google to faster crawler your site. Googlebot usually visits your xml sitemap and check what pages are mentioned there.

 

You should add a sitemap if your website is of many pages if it is a one page website i don't think you need a sitemap.

 

Thanks for all

 

Site map is very important part to any website because totally internal page are indexed in site map.

 

thanks for all....

 

adding a sitemap will ensure that all of your pages are getting crawled and indexed in Google which will help you to get free traffic
ranking is a different factor and sitemap plays less or no role when it comes to ranking good in search engines.

 

just do one thing. read thoroughly about sitemap and its importance. visit this url http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/topic.py?topic=8476 you will get more idea.

 

Site maps are good from a crawl point of view. Even if they had little difference to the ranking of your site would it hurt to add one any way?

 

Well said.

In fact search engine friendly too.

 

Yes sitemap plays a better role indexing your website pages and bringing your site quickly on rank 1 position in Google...

 

its true & its very important you build an xml sitemap for your site. Also do update that everytime when you updated your site. You can build your xml sitemap for free on below sites.
xml-sitemaps.com
auditmypc.com/free-sitemap-generator.asp

 

sitemap are important for all webpages because all search engine scrawl your webpages easily. visit this link and create sitemap xml-sitemaps.com