Sitemaps is enabling webmasters to inform and direct the google spiders through their website. Sitemaps provide crawlers with information about the website’s structure as well as data about its pages, which leads to, according to Google, an improved indexing process. Another benefit of sitemaps is that webmasters can quicken get the indexing of some pages by publishing them in the sitemap, without waiting for the usual visit of the crawlers. Sitemaps are text files in the form of XML that contain information about the website, a list of webpages and some corresponding parameters. -Sandhya-
hello yes, sitemap is really very beneficial for a site you should all the pages in the sitemap so that the crawler can crawl it very easily and your pages will get indexed very fast
Site map is important for any site. It shows how your site pages are interrelated which vital for search engine. If you increase pages in site then old pages may not be accessible to visitor or may difficult to find them. As Google: 1 Each page must be accessible by single static text link. 2 By site user can find important parts of site
It is important from visitors as well as search engine point of view, visitors can easily navigate your site & each time you add some pages, update your sitemap for faster crawling..........
Sitemaps will not help your ranking. They are not needed for indexing either -- you can get indexed quickly just by building your internal navigation correctly and building some links.