Importance of Sitemap and Google Places

[bhatnagarashish]

Kindly tell me that what is the importance of sitemap and google places in SEO.

[jamsen]

Today having a sitemap is very important for any website. Your sitemap should be placed on your website’s home page. The home page often has the highest PageRank, so by putting the sitemap there, you’ll ensure that your pages get indexed on google as quickly as possible.

[Roald]

A XML sitemap file gives search engines complete web structure of your website and enable to them to crawl and index webpages in SERP.

More than 70% people on internet like to search local businesses for their day to day requirements. Google places is a tool that enables businesses to be searched quickly with web address, telephone and map location to local searchers. It increases your web visibility and business leads.

[borgninestallon]

Sitemap is of two format.

Sitemap.xml - mainly for search engines.
Sitemap.html - mainly for human beings.

Google places is nothing but promoting our site or listing your business under Google map.