what is sitemap?

i've heard people keep on saying about sitemap.but what is sitemap,actually?what is the function of it ??is it important?

 

there are mainly two type of sitemap.
1- html sitemap for user
2- xml sitemap for search engine to increase the crawling and indexing..

 

how can i do sitemap thing?
so technically,it will helps me generate traffic?

 

the easiest way to create sitemaps is by setting up your site(s) as wordpress blogs.
Then you can use plugins to create the sitemaps for you
the google sitemap plugin from arnebrachhold.de/projects/wordpress-plugins/google-xml-sitemaps-generator will help you to get pages indexed by google
the dragon design plugin from dagondesign.com/articles/sitemap-generator-plugin-for-wordpress will create a page that produces links to all your other pages helping your site to rank

 

but im using blogspot.so how then?

 

A site map (or sitemap) is a list of pages of a web site accessible to crawlers or users

 

and how can i do it ro my blogspot?how to install it?

 

You can use tools like xml-sitemaps.com to generate free sitemaps but there is a 500 page limit. No technical skills required though

 

im facing a problem where i have no idea how to upload the xml-sitemap as i have done everything it takes except for inserting it into my blog.how can i upload it to my blog?where is public html located in blogger?please do assist me.
thank you

 

Site map is a whole map of the Site.Whole pages of the website is linked in Site map.so once google fetch the site map.It tries to fetch all the pages of Website.SO sitemap is very important in SEO

 

and i want to do this sitemap thing for my blog.but i don't know where should i paste the code
im using blogspot.

 

Sorry... no experience of Blogspot.

I would have said ftp to upload the file to the root folder but I believe they removed ftp access around March time.

 

so is there any other way to install this sitemap into my blog?

 

If you are running a wordpress blog, simply install the following plugin
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/google-sitemap-generator/

 

sitemap is a xml format file which contains a map for a particular website . there r two types of sitemap . one is for user who is visiting our website.another is for search engines . sitemap should be placed in root directory.

 

sitemap is a map of website.user & crawler are easily accessible to your website & its inner pages.user can easily search your products or items in your website.sitemap is also important for spider.spider or crawler comes to your website fetch the sitemap.xml in your database. there are three types of sitemap as belows.
1 sitemap.xml
2 sitemap.html
3 sitemap.txt

 

ohh thaks for the information
but now, i need to know the methods to insert the sitemap to my blog(blogspot)
please assist me on that

 

you can use this for creation xml sitemap for google xml-sitemaps.com

 

With all due respect to Blogspot, I think it's a free site to build an online blog ...
There can not make the sitemap (unless in the meantime has not added a new function - in what I doubt) ...

 

If we say that sitemap is a simple way to find the target. It is not bad. Sitemat tell to google, where its target.