In this post, we explain why a sitemap is important for your website...
What is a sitemap?
A sitemap is a list of your pages within your website. It helps visitors and search engines see the overall structure of the website.
Why are they important?
Search engines such as Google are great for 'crawling' through your website to find your pages (well, as long as the website is designed and built correctly!) but a sitemap gives the search engines a helping hand to find as many pages as possible.
What types of sitemaps are there?
There are normally two types.
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HTML Sitemap - A HTML sitemap is for your human website visitors and for search engines. There is normally a link from your Footer menu to your HTML sitemap. A common URL is yourdomainname/sitemap.html
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XML Sitemap - A XML sitemap is mainly for search engines. It's similar to the HTML sitemap, as in it lists the pages of your website but it uses XML (a language designed to be highly readable by machines). Search engines pick up the XML sitemap (and you can also submit it). A common URL is youdomainname/sitemap.xml
