XML sitemaps useful for SEO
Having XML sitemaps allows search engines to crawl and index a website , and allowing all search engine resues to be notified of the site map by inserting it into the robots.txt file.Sitemaps is useful for SEO and it increases the ranking of a website in search engine results, thus boosting the efforts.
What is Sitemaps?
A sitemap is defined as a simple guide that holds information along with other details on web pages that are available on a website. Search engines will do their job in crawling a sitemap to find XML sitemaps and identify all information that is applicable to a specific search query that has been performed.
There are two types of sitemaps, XML and HTML.
XML Sitemaps
XML sitemaps only used for ave a unique structure and are only used for to inform search engines of : the content of the pages is updated. For users , a sitemap will enhance the navigation capabilities while making the website more friendly.The theme of the website will be more representative, and users will be able to view the all sections and links in one page. It contains all the URL’S of domain and it instruct crawler with frequency ( Time to Crawl)
To check the availability of sitemap
WWW.DOMAIN NAME/SITEMAP.COM
HTML Sitemaps
An HTML sitemap defined in a way to be used by individuals using the internet so that they can find the content they are searching for on the search engine. The sitemaps do not contain all pages of a website, making it easy for all search engines and individual users to find the information that they are looking for.
How to create Sitemap. XML
- Go to the Google, type Sitemap generator.
- Click on the www,xmlfiles.xml
- Paste the URL
- Click on the start button
- Download Sitemap
- Upload the file on web posting.
