Sitemaps (site maps) have dedicated pages on a website that links to all the other pages for search engine spiders and website visitors. Normally these links sorted by importance. A very useful tool for visitors and search engines so pages and wanted above all to find content on your site. OMA gets regular questions. Time for a brief explanation.
What makes a good map look like?
What makes a good map look like?
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A sitemap is like a blueprint of the website. A simple and well structured sitemap gives search engine spiders and visitors a brief overview layout containing all landing pages within the site. Visitors enjoy this course but also the search engines.
What exactly does a search engine like Google with the Site?
The Internet consists of millions and millions of websites and a site map makes it easy for search engine crawlers to all available information on the pages within a website to find a place. These crawlers or "spybots" from the search engines crawl the web with high speed and through pages to find the required information: the typed search terms or "keywords".
The sitemap is always a wonderful tool. It is also a sort of web development guide that will help your site during construction and afterwards at the SEO work. It can be seen as a sketch of the site and guide you how the site should be built. Additionally, you can organize the site map which pages are most important and the number of pages the site will initially have or will divide.
The Site Map and Google?
Google itself says when asked that Sitemaps are useful as pages within a website difficult to detect the search engine spiders. Often because the typed keywords are not purely from the content out. Think of a website where the content and navigation mainly consists of photographs, flash or other code that was not readable by the search engines crawlers.
Google also says that if a site is newer and few incoming links and descriptive links, the site map useful. Another example, if a site contains an extensive archive that is not or poorly linked to the content.
How to publish the sitemap?
There are two ways to publish sitemaps, either in XML or HTML form. HTML sitemaps can usually find somewhere to live Web site (eg a "Sitemap" link at the bottom of that website). This sitemap helps human website visitors to navigate and the site. An HTML sitemap style is a typical hierarchical organized and displayed. This HTML sitemap so surfing around the site easily on one page.
An XML sitemap can be used to direct the crawlers of the search engines of the structure within a site to notify. The XML format was originally developed by Google. Now, all four major search engines, Google, Yahoo, and Ask Bing using the XML site map. The XML site map style was developed for sites with a large amount of dynamic pages that were accessible only for forms, queries and other mechanized and automated techniques and programs. Besides all the available pages on a site, the XML sitemap is also information. For example how often a site is updated and the most recent changes have been made.
Sitemaps and Search Engine Marketing.
A sitemap is important for search engine optimization campaign, search engines simply because the site allows easy searching and all available pages allows indexing. This maximizes the amount of content and meta data (two important factors in ranking in search engines) available for the search engines to rank web pages in their results.
Within the search engine marketing is content is king. The more content can be indexed and ranked, the better. Use important keywords as anchor text for the links on the sitemap instead of simply listing URLs. Try, if possible, the contents of the page by its specific connection (link) to describe. Sign yourself manually if the XML sitemap to Google and other search engines. When you take your Sitemap as "sitemap.xml" in the root of your website converts, it is automatically included by the search spiders, crawlers and spybots.
The big line with this brief explanation will be clear. Take it to your advantage. Ask questions directly to OMA or below so that we are all the answers and discussion to follow ;-)
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