What is Sitemap in Website? Creation & importance of Sitemap for Website.

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Sitemap of a website

What is sitemap in website? A sitemap is a list of pages of a website. A sitemap make the searching method easy and less time-consuming.

A sitemap is a list of pages of a website. You can see a sitemap in the form of XML, which stands for “extensible markup language”. In a sitemap, there are so many links that are related to each other. In a sitemap, we have three types of tagging which are <loc>, <lastmod>and <priority>. <loc> tag tell us the location, <lastmod>tells last modify date and the last tag which is <priority> tells the priority of the page. Priority is always set greater than 1.

In other words we can say that sitemap tell the Google that which page and files are important in our site because there are so many pages in a site and you have to know that Google Boarts visit our site after a specific time of period. Now a question comes in the mind which is what is Google Boarts then we wants to tell you that Google Boarts  is a program which check  all the webpages in all website and generate a result for us. For exam: Google has a boart named “Spider” which check all the pages of websites and check all the important links.

Now you understand that what is sitemap but now the question comes in your mind which is how to create a sitemap and what is the importance of a sitemap? So here we have a few steps that you can follow to make a sitemap. The steps are given below:

Step 1: Review the structure of your pages.

Step 2: Code your URLs.

Step 3: Validate the code.

Step 4: Add your sitemap to the root and robots.

Step 5: Submit your sitemap.

Alternate Method:

Excluding the above five steps we have an alternate method which is Yoast plugin. Yoast plugin is a powerful tool that can help you to make your site as a search engine friendly. You can install a Yoast plugin to create a sitemap.

Importance of a sitemap or why we need a sitemap:

As all of us know that there are so many pages and links in a website and there are so many website also. Websites contain many information and when we search any information in Google or any type of search engine then that site in which we search the information take some time and after that it’s shows the result regarding our queries. Do you think any time that how it’s done? Now today we tell you that a Google program named “Spider” work on website every time. It’s visits to the all webpages and search the result regarding our query but thinks once if Google Boarts like spider go to the every page of the website that what happen? Yes, you think right, it takes a lot of time to searching. That way we use sitemap, which contain relevant information about the website. With the help of sitemap Google Boarts search anything easily and within relevant time of period. It help us to consuming our time, with the help of sitemap we make searching method easy for the Goolge Boarts. I hope now you understand the importance of sitemap.

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