The Importance of a Sitemap
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A Sitemap is often considered redundant in the process of
building a website, and that is indeed the fact if you made a
Sitemap for the sake of having one. By highlighting the
importance of having a well constructed Sitemap, you will be
able to tailor your own Sitemap to suit your own needs.
1) Navigation purposes
A Sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your
visitors browses your site and gets lost between the thousands
of pages on your site, they can always refer to your Sitemap to
see where they are, and navigate through your pages with the
utmost ease.
2) Conveying your site's theme
When your visitors load up your Sitemap, they will get the gist
of your site within a very short amount of time. There is no
need to get the "big picture" of your site by reading through
each page, and by doing that you will be saving your visitors'
time.
3) Site optimization purposes
When you create a Sitemap, you are actually creating a single
page which contains links to every single page on your site.
Imagine what happens when search engine robots hit this page --
they will follow the links on the Sitemap and naturally every
single page of your site gets indexed by search engines!
It is also for this purpose that a link to the Sitemap has to
be placed prominently on the front page of your website.
4) Organization and relevance
A Sitemap enables you to have a complete bird's eye view of
your site structure, and whenever you need to add new content
or new sections, you will be able to take the existing
hierarchy into consideration just by glancing at the
Sitemap.
As a result, you will have a perfectly organized site with
everything sorted according to their relevance.
From the above reasons, it is most important to implement a
Sitemap for website projects with a considerable size. Through
this way, you will be able to keep your website easily
accessible and neatly organized for everyone.
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