SiteMaps-Whats required for successful spidering

A site-map lists the URL´s of a website. It is not necessary to have a site-map within your website, but a site-map will dramatically improve your search engine optimisation results. Why you ask? well a site-map helps a search engine like google, crawl/spider your website and find all the pages and links within.

There are two types of site-maps required for a website to obtain the best results from the search engine spidering process.

1. HTML Sitemap – a basic site-map contained within your website pages and can be seen by clients for easier navigation. This is referred to as the static version.
2. XML Sitemap-  is placed within your root file of the website and contains links to all other pages and makes it easier for a search engine to crawl your website.

In short this is an often over-looked important piece of the SEO puzzle.  We recommend both types of site-maps as this aides navigation for your clients and search engine like google, Bing, and yahoo.

Please as always contact us for any questions for help you may require in regards to Site-maps or any other web design topic.

~ by carito10 on 18/06/2009.