What is a sitemap?

What is a sitemap?

Why are a sitemaps important?

Sitemap :  

 A sitemap is actually a map of your website, file where you can list the web pages of your site to tell Google and other search engines about the organization of your site content. Search engine web crawlers like Googlebot read this file to more intelligently crawl your site.

A sitemap is a template for your website that helps search engines find, crawl, and index all of the content on your website. 

Sitemap also tell search engines which pages on your site are most important.

A sitemap is either an XML or HTML file that contains all the URLs for the pages in your blog.

While HTML sitemaps help your visitors navigate through your blog, an XML sitemap helps search engines crawl in the same way.

When you submit an XML sitemap in Google Search Console, it helps search engine crawlers find all the URLs on your website and add them to their database.

There are various parts of a sitemap that affect the crawling rate of your website, such as the size of your sitemap, the number of URLs in your sitemap, the priority of the pages on your website, indexing the frequency, and so on.

There are four main types of sitemap:

XML Sitemaps : This is the most common type of sitemap ever. This is usually in the form of an XML sitemap that connect to different  pages of your website.

News Sitemap : This help Google find content on sites that are approved for Google News. 

Video Sitemap : This help Google understand the video content on your page.

Image Sitemap : help Google find all the images on your website.

Important the sitemap :  

 Search engines like Google, Bing, and Yandex use your sitemap to find different pages on your website.

For example, you have many pages in your website Google find all in completely secure in short time in one place. 

Online Sitemap Generator 

 Tool used to create XML sitemap for a given website. Fundamental   parameters of the generation process can be customized by the user.