Monday, 31 March 2008

All about - Importance of a Sitemap

By Lara Crevena

A site map is often considered redundant in the process of building a website, and that is, in effect, whether it made a site map for the sake of having one. In stressing the importance of having a well constructed site map, you can design your own map navigation to meet their own needs.

The needs of navigation: a site map, literally acts as a map of your site. If your visitors visit your site and get lost among thousands of pages of your site, they can always refer to your site map to see where they are, and navigate through your 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 these reasons, it is more important to implement a Sitemap to the website projects of a considerable size. Through this course, you will be able to maintain your site easily accessible and well organized for everyone.

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