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Title: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: kingage21 on June 04, 2011, 10:09:33 AM
Should I add a Site Map to my website? I was told that a site map can help me get better rankings in Google. Is it true?
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: spinxwebdesign on June 29, 2011, 12:52:41 AM
Yes, it is always better to add sitemap into your website.Sitemap helps user for easy navigation and search engine to find your pages more in number.
There are two types of sitemap mainly used by webmaster : textual and xml both are useful.
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: bhatnagar.ashish001 on June 29, 2011, 01:36:43 AM
If you website have 20-30 pages then I think sitemap is important for your website because sitemap help the users in finding your pages.But If your website have only 5-6 pages then sitemap is not really important.
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: M. Rebecca on June 30, 2011, 08:26:25 AM
Yes, most definitely, you should because an HTML sitemap:
- Ensures improved search and navigation by human visitors
- Improves user experience thereby reducing bounce rate
- Helps you distribute links to various pages of the website

In addition to adding an HTML sitemap to your website, you must also submit an XML sitemap to search engines to ensure better visibility and quick crawling.
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: logodesignerss on July 01, 2011, 02:16:07 AM
S. Definitely you get better ranking by adding a sitemap. Add sitemap.html and also sitemap.xml.
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: alanpointing123 on July 01, 2011, 07:38:13 AM
yes , site map is important thing in website for user as well as for crawler.site map help user to find pages in your site.
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: Webhelpforums on July 01, 2011, 09:02:09 AM
You might want to check out this article describing all different sitemap file kinds:
http://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/help/website-sitemap-kinds-comparison/ (http://www.microsystools.com/products/sitemap-generator/help/website-sitemap-kinds-comparison/)
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: SEO Professionals on August 20, 2011, 11:30:11 AM
Site maps are a great tool for making search engines crawl through your website in a much more efficient manner, thus helping index all of your pages faster and getting you more traffic, FASTER! All major websites have them, and when a search engine crawler visits it and sees all the links within that website it gives the search engine the "green light" to start crawling them. Just like a geographical map, a site map helps the user find where they're going.
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: Alis on August 21, 2011, 04:11:56 AM

Always add a site map to you site.
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: evelyn8411 on August 22, 2011, 03:27:47 AM
Sure! You need 2 types of sitmap.
- A sitemap  with clear links for human visitors
- A XML sitemap for crawlers like Googlebot.
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: anandiphone on August 22, 2011, 03:52:31 AM
Site map is again of two types one is sitemap.xml and other is sitemap.html, sitemap.html is used for the user purpose and sitemap.xml is used for search engine purpose, so it doesn't help you in Google ranking but telling that you do have these many pages in your website.
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: ykgforum on October 18, 2011, 07:30:53 AM
You can add html sitemap on your site
Title: Re: Should I add a site Map to my website?
Post by: firstservicesnevda on January 12, 2012, 03:58:03 AM
Yes, it is always better to add sitemap into your website.Sitemap helps user for easy navigation and search engine to find your pages more in number.