listing or diagram on a World Wide Web site that shows the site's structure (Computers); map of a location, diagram of a place of the webpage. This is use to manipulate and locate a certain page of a website easily.
have you manually created the sitemap? Or are you using some sort of a CMS programs such as WordPress . The Main reason I am asking this is because if you use a plug-in of WordPress, that his priority assigned to different types of pages . So in other words, a page that might have a 20% priority level would not be indexed as fast as compared to any other page that has an 80 percentage priority .
Two pages that will completely answer your question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_map http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=156184 There are also, several free tools that allow you to build such sitemaps for your website. If you are using wordpress as a platform there are many related plugins as well.
check this page for so many definitions for various sitemap Yes, they are important. They help SEO companies
Pointless thread. The same question has been asked already. Besides, use Google first to find what you're looking for. And if you don't, post a thread about it.
The Sitemaps protocol allows a webmaster to inform search engines about URLs on a website that are available for crawling. A Sitemap is an XML file that lists the URLs for a site. .
A 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, normally organized in hierarchical fashion. This helps visitors and search engine bots find pages on the site.
site map is simple list of all your page exist on your web site it can be html or xml but as i know html os mpre better then xml Google spider like html