Friday, December 12, 2008

Tips - Importance of a Sitemap

By Lara Crevena

A site map is often seen as superfluous in the process of building a website, and this is indeed the fact if you make a sitemap for the sake of having one. In stressing the importance of having a well-constructed plan, you can customize your own site map based on your own needs.

Navigation: a sitemap literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors and navigating your site is lost among the thousands of pages on your site, they can always refer to your site map to see where they are, and navigate through their pages with the greatest ease.

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.

Fins optimization of the site: When you create a new site, you are actually creating a single page that contains links to each page on your site. Imagine what happens when the search engine robots hit this page - they will follow the links on the site and, of course, every page of your site is indexed by search engines! It is also the aim of a link to the site plan must be displayed prominently on the front page of your Web site.

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 accesible and neatly organized for everyone.

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