i strongly believe that sitemaps is strongly needed to improve the crawling of my site and hence achieve better search engine optimization. can anyone share my idea?
Sitemap is a place or page where all link available, xml site map most important to google point of view.
google sitemaps will help in the long term for your website, will allow the re-indexing form google a bit quicker
I have a sitemap generated by a wordpress plugin for my site and have submitted this in to google webmaster tools. Is there anything else i need to do or is that it now? Just wondering if sitemaps can be optimized for best results?
I believe that nowadays it's not important to build sitemap if your site is properly built and code optimized
Sitemaps can only help you to get your pages indexed. That's all. Sometimes you can get a new page indexed even if it doesn't have many baclinks.It's not a ranking factor.
Awesome for users and search engines, I use both HTML static site maps for my readers and XML for the bots.
I think it's best to say that it increases the speed of which you get pages indexed. (And may help get deeper pages indexed as well)
It is helpful for Page Indexing. You can give direction to search engine about your updated pages and links through sitemap.
Site map is also great for indexing more pages, especially those that are not linked elsewhere or you do not spend as much time publicizing. Even better when there are links on those pages themselves.
Yes agreed. Submitting a XML sitemap to Google Webmaster Tools allows you to suggest to Google how often a website is likely to be updated, url priority in relation to other urls and the Last modified time stamp. This helps Google and other search engines to optimise the way they crawl your website. This is especially handy when you have a website that has many sub directories and url strings, ensuring very deep pages are still getting crawled effectively.