Why Your Website Needs a Site Map

A sitemap is a page which lists all the pages of your website in an organized fashion. If you have a big website, then you may want to break the site map down into sections or levels. Think about how your users would navigate through your website and break the site down in the same fashion. To get the best results, this site map should display text based links to these pages. This will make it easier for the search engine spiders to crawl these links.


Other reasons to have a site map:

1. Easy Navigation for users to find what they are looking for - If organized properly, this site map will allow the users to find pages that they may not have found otherwise on your website.
2. Provide a full listing of all the pages of your website to the search engine. With larger or dynamically built websites, sometimes some of the deeper pages are not well-linked and the search engine spiders may never find them. With a proper site map, you can make it nice and easy for the search engine spiders to find these pages.
3. You can increase the chances of having your pages indexed by the search engines by providing them with a easy way to find all the pages of your website.

In the end, by having a site map you can increase conversions by giving your users another method of finding the information they need on your website that they may not have found before.


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